Best selection tin of chocolates?

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We have a family tradition of filling an ancient old decorative glass bowl with chocolates to sit on the coffee table throughout Christmas. It was my grandmother's bowl, that I have now inherited.

When I was a child, it was always filled with a mix of Roses and Terry's Neapolitans.
But Roses are a bit rubbish now, and Neapolitans don't exist.

I usually do a Lindt pick and mix, but with lockdown I can't get to the shop . I've looked at Lindt selections in the shops locally but there aren't all the interesting flavours we like.

I want the chocolates to have the wow factor they had in my childhood.

The packaging is VERY important to me - I like the crinkly noise and bright colours as you rifle through, so they have to be colourful.

Has anyone seen any good selections? (Ideally something that has all the flavours of Cadbury's Roses of the 1980s).
Quality Street are the obvious ones, but I just feel they aren't that great.

It looks like you can hose which flavours to have on this Lindt online shop for lindor chocolates: lindor pick ‘n’ mix

Yes, I saw that a bit too late - you had to have ordered before Monday for delivery before Christmas.

I'll have to get something from the supermarket.

I think Sainsburys and M&S both do own brand tins of chocolates that are supposed to be nicer that Roses/QS and are in the bright wrappers.

I want Terry's Neopolitans now. I'd forgotten all about them!

These are the sainsburys ones
www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/boxed-chocolate/sainsburys-chocolate-treats-tub-650g-7918846-p-44

Terry's Neapolitans we're the best 70s chocolates!
Cafe au lait... mmmmm

That’s a pain - sorry. Amazon seem to have a tin of six types of lindor chocolates available as well as some Lindt Neapolitans - if that helps?

the-chocolate-emporium.com/

Saw this website on another thread. They have all the Lindt flavours and other chocolate brands.

Don’t know if they will do Xmas delivery... it wanted me to place an order before I could see the shipping method.

I second the Sainsbury’s ones. I bought roses for the Emma bridgewater tin and plan to
Refill it with those.

None of these chocolates taste as they used to- they all have palm oil, soya etc in them, not proper good chocolate as they used to be

Forgot to say the sainsos ones are good flavours and festive wrappers. Not like the roses which were in very disappointing wrappers and all tasted the same.

Wow, that chocolate emporium website looks amazing!

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01DQUV9JQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_xAn2Fb5EW473C?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Some Sainsbury's stores have a Lindt picnmix

M&S have a nice chocolate box with bright crinkly packaging and a good variety of flavours, plus they do their own neapolitans too.

Ditto what @TheTeenageYears said.

Chocolate emporium was £4.99 postage for about £14 worth of chocolates

I just buy Heroes and Celebrations. Not top quality but we like them and none of us are keen on toffees or strawberry or orange creams, which rules out a few selections

Ages ago someone recommended Audrey chocltier in Brighton.. They make the fortum and mason chockates. Ready made boxes or choose your own boxes... Different weights and sizes.. No crinkly paper but handmade chocs for fortum... Special I'm sure they are?

These are lovely....
Different to the normal Thorntons but really nice and the packaging is so colourful

Ooh yes, Neopolitans and liqueurs were my fave.

There is a programme on Channel 5 on demand about the battle of the brands between Quality Street and Roses, covering the history and rivalry, marketing etc.
Some of the Victoria precursors to selection boxes, the decorative boxes, were beautiful.

@PassataQueenofBritain

Terry's Neapolitans we're the best 70s chocolates! Cafe au lait... mmmmm

Agreed! Does anybody know of any alternatives? The Lindt Neapolitan are £15!

We had the Thornton Christmas collection which was nice but not individually wrapped. More of a traditional box of chocolates

Sainsbury’s larger stores have Lindt pick and mix and also available online direct from Lidnt

A few years ago we were gifted a tub of Morrison’s sweets and they were lovely too.

Just an FYI: M&S do their own version of Neapolitans!

I put an pick and mix order in my basket for the Chocolate emporium, and it turned out over £50, which DH (after he recovered the power of speech) has vetoed, as he thinks the Thornton cream ones would be just as good.

I'm very interested with the M&S Neapolitans too, I had no idea, so I think I will go to M&S for them, and have them mixed in with the Thorntons fruit creams, and then one or two small boxes of Lindt.