Do you consider Celebrations and Heroes as classic Christmas chocolates

[MySillyCrab]

Can you settle a debate, do you consider Celebrations and Heroes classic Christmas chocs?

I don’t , only Roses and Quality Street are imo

Just Roses and (Quality) Street - but the wrappers have spoilt both of them for me. There were some tubs of both at work, today, and looking into them brought no joy at all 😢

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No. Horrible, bland, flabby, third rate. Cheap corn syrup and palm oil. 🤑

When I was twenty Quality Street & Roses were a treat. I would never describe Heroes or Celebrations as a treat.

Since Cadbury was taken over in 2010, quality has plummeted. I buy European chocolates with a higher cocoa content now. I'd rather buy less and get something worth eating.

I started a thread some years ago about how truly disgusting Roses had become. The responses were mixed. One person told me to "Grow up!" 🤔

I agree with PPS on;

Quality Street (of old)
Roses (ditto)
Newberry Fruits
After Eights
Terry's Chocolate Orange

Celebrations were ruined the moment they stopped doing the Galaxy truffles.

I agree OP. Roses and quality street only.

we are a QS family.

Only Quality Street, Roses and chocolate orange. The Thorntons Santa with the red hats used to be amazing until they changed the recipe.

But not the new plastic wrapped nonsense. Proper Quality Street and Roses from the 70s/80s. New ones are awful.

Roses.
Danish butter cookies.

Celebrations and Heroes are just everyday sweets and not special for Christmas just because they are wrapped in more plastic than usual. I haven't eaten either in a couple of years because the full sizes are pretty awful now with palm oil and no flavour so I assume the mini ones are as bad.

Roses have been rubbish for years and I haven't bought Quality Street since they got rid of the shiny wrapping as they look so miserable. Don't sell me a miniscule amount of chocolates in a big thick plastic tub and then pretend the dull paper wrapping is for environmental reasons.

After Eights are still nice (please for the love of god don't ruin those too) but chocolate orange segments are an unsatisfying shape now and so t taste right.

If I could resurrect any of the Christmas sweets it would be Roses. I miss them the most.

Not classic, obviously, but good and appropriate.

Yes. Though Dairy Milk Tray and Thorntons Selection box are classics too. And how could I forget Ferrero Roche??

Thornton's continental selection box was the epitome of class and sophistication. They ruined that too 🙄Bring back the buttery swirly ones!

Quality street and Weekend

It will depend on your age, surely.

Roses, Quality Street, After Eights and Elizabeth Shaw. Bendicks Bittermints and a plain chocolate orange in my stocking. My dad always used to buy my mum a huge box of Terry’s 1767 chocolates which were divine and we were only rarely allowed to choose one.

No because I was an adult when they were invented! (I prefer them to roses and quality street though, actually I just want a tub of snickers!)

I forgot about them. I loved the little choc in their wrappers. Most modern Christmas chocolate is horrible and doesn't deserve the name chocolate.

I think of them as only coming out a few years ago - I'd probably find it was 30 years ago if I checked 😃

We've still got one with bingo chips stored in it! From my Grandparents house and I'm 58. So I'm thinking it's 1960s.

Quality Street are the traditional Christmas chocolates for me. And York Fruits - not chocolate but ALWAYS on the side at Christmas at my Grandparents house. And they were all in their own place in the plastic tray...not individually wrapped and chucked in the box!

Some traditions should be maintained.

Oh wow, I forgot the cookies, those were absolutely yummy. Too moorish though.

@RaininSummer

I don't think I've ever recovered from them being discontinued. I moan about it every Christmas 😁

I'd say QS, Roses, Heroes and Celebrations are classic Xmas chocolates.

I agree with you! Also terry’s chocolate orange,
after eights and matchmakers are classic Christmas chocolates

They are all shit. I bought quality street on adult dd's request but they were so disgusting we binned them