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

No. Heroes and Celebrations became more popular as Christmas tin chocolates in the 21st Century. They were only released as Christmas tree tins of chocolates in the late 1990s... Only someone born after 1997/1998 would think they are traditional, or 'classic' Christmas tin chocolates.

I grew up with tins of Quality Street - MASSIVE tins, and occasionally we would get a tin of Roses too. (1970s and 1980s.) They were wrapped in tinfoil and cellulose too, not paper! They just feel so 'wrong' wrapped in paper! And as has been said, nothing tastes the same as it used to.

Also, my dad used to have neopoliton chocolates. Diddy little bars wrapped in foil. And little sugary oranges and lemons, after eights, and dates, and figs... Oh and a toffee slab with a hammer to smash it up into small pieces. You can actually still get all of these though!

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I was only thinking this the other day! No, they're not traditional to me. I guess it's whatever you grew up with, although Roses and Quality Street have changed too much for my liking!

The only classics are Roses and Quality Streets.

For me it’s old quality street and roses

My Nan had the huge tin from the 80s with small decorations in until she passed in 2022.

my Christmas choc must haves are
Ferrero Rocher
Guylain (seashells only the “new” assortment)
Match makers orange

only purchased at Christmas although I do usually end up with a couple of boxes of guylians for my birthday in Jan!

Neapolitans
Thorntons ( before they sold out - are now awful sadly)
After Eights

And my Dad used to enjoy a bar of Old Jamaica at Christmas.

I've never liked those things in round plastic boxes. I think they taste disgusting.

Mulberry fruits!

Newberryfruits . Doh
Terry's chocolate orange

Quality Street are simply sad now. It used to be like opening a treasure chest to see the green foil triangles, the golden pennies, the dark purple shiny ones, the different foiled creams...it was a big treat at Christmas, and now they're just dull and awful. I don't buy them any more.

Klaxon! For those missing real Quality Street, my stepson bought me a box of Big Mix from m&s, and, while they don’t have the cellophane or the cigar bands, they do have coffee creams and orange creams that are as good as I remember. Enjoy!

Quality Street, Neopolitans and Roses as communal classic Christmas chocolates.

Toblerone and Terry's Chocolate Orange as personal Christmas chocolates.

They used to be nice, and classic. The packaging changed and the taste changed. I don't buy them anymore.

None of them taste nice any more. Chocolate in this country has been completely ruined! I wish someone could get the old Cadbury recipe and make that again.

We has some Ferraro rocher, Lindt balls and after eights.

We tried those a few years ago and all thought they were horrible…. Artificial tasting flavoured paste covered in greasy chocolate.

Nope. Chocolate liqueurs for the adults, tiny bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk in a little red dispenser that took 2p coins for the children, everything else is a modern pretender.

Haha we only ever do Celebrations and Heroes. It used to be just Celebrations but I added Heroes maybe 10 years ago. They are the best! I didn't grow up in the UK but have been here 20 years and I've never had Quality Street (I don't buy Nestlé but Celebrations are better anyway). 😁

No. I can remember before both went on the market.

Celebrations yes, heros no.

Heros were more of a birthday party thing for me growing up so I associate them more with that.

Roses and quality street have become so awful I’ve refused to buy them in the past two years

Quality Street and Roses but in a proper tin and with proper foil wrappings, from before the big food companies replaced the chocolate with “20-25% cocoa solids” and glucose syrup/palm oil as the top two ingredients. The taste and texture are not recognisable as chocolate.

The QS wrappings change seems also to affect the flavour of all the chocolates. I don’t know why but my assumption is the foil was better at isolating strong flavours . This year’s crop all seemed to taste of orange and since none of us like the strawberry/orange creams I was quite glad I hadn’t bought them.

Okay. We liked them.