Discontinued Roses :-(

brown*eyed*girl · 26-09-2006 9:07am #1

Anyone else miss the sweets that are no longer in the Roses box anymore. They actually discontinued three of my favourite sweets since I was a kid:

Bournville Miniture Bar
Cadbury's Dairymilk Miniture Bar
Nougat in green wrapper

Wish they would bring these back, and I know you can get the bournville and regular dairymilk bars but they're just not the same as the miniture bars!

emeraldstar · 26-09-2006 2:43pm

i hear ya girl!! when i was a kid my parents used to laugh at me coz the first ones i would always go for were the bournville and dairy milk miniatures..mmmm...even though i know there is a mini dairy milk one in them now, it just doesn't seem the same somehow. I also reeeally liked the coffee creme ones, but most people i say that to are of the opinion that they were horrible!! the Nutty Truffle Log was also a favourite...i was sad when i realised they'd taken that away on me too

c - 13 · 26-09-2006 2:49pm

At least now I know i'm not the only person that misses the Coffee Cremes.

JimmNeutron · 26-09-2006 3:46pm

While you're on the subject of discontinued food, does anyone remember the cadbury wispa's??? Or the vice-versa's??? Childhood memories, how i love them.
Cadbury tried to replace the wispa with the bubbly, and failed miserably.

Tree · 26-09-2006 4:31pm

oih man, coffee cremes were the best, i wouldnt eat them til all the other ones were gone coz the only competition for those ones was from the mother, but everyone wanted all the rest.

the new coca cola blak smells like em...

debly · 26-09-2006 5:39pm

wispa gold, top deck!!!!!!!!!!!! smiley bars and cadburys marble bars

memphis · 26-09-2006 8:55pm

debly wrote:

wispa gold, top deck!!!!!!!!!!!! smiley bars and cadburys marble bars

Darn, I just to love those Wispa Gold bars. They were just heaven, shame they are gone.

Anyway, back on topic. I have to say I prefer the new dairy milk in the Roses at the minute than those really small flat type ones they had when I was a kid. the new ones are bigger and you get a double bite. Anyway, thats just my opinion.

Ruu_Old · 26-09-2006 9:00pm

Well as long as they still have the caramel one with hazelnut in the middle, I'll be happy.

emeraldstar · 26-09-2006 9:21pm

memphis wrote:

I have to say I prefer the new dairy milk in the Roses at the minute than those really small flat type ones they had when I was a kid. the new ones are bigger and you get a double bite. Anyway, thats just my opinion.

i think i agree but the other miniature one reminds me so much of when i was a kid that i look on it more fondly...if you get what i mean, hehe

emeraldstar · 26-09-2006 9:22pm

Ruu wrote:

Well as long as they still have the caramel one with hazelnut in the middle, I'll be happy.

ah no worries, they'd never get rid of that one. it's the best!! the most popular too i'd say. they also have it in Milk Tray and Nestle have a cheaper-tasting rip-off in Quality Street...sooo not as good!!

debly · 26-09-2006 10:19pm

I definatley prefer the old wee thin one, the same ones that'd fit into those chocolate machine things. do you remember the little dispenser things you could buy. you'd put 2p in and a little bar would pop out. they were great

brown*eyed*girl · 27-09-2006 8:43am

emeraldstar wrote:

i think i agree but the other miniature one reminds me so much of when i was a kid that i look on it more fondly...if you get what i mean, hehe

I'm the same it was more the novelty that it was miniature bar that made it special. I used to pretend it was a giant bar for my Barbies. Aw the innocence of being a child.

Debly I remember those, never got one though

Ruu the purple wrapper sweet will never be discontinued as like someone else said its probably the most popular and the first sweet to disappear from the box.

I never liked the coffee ones. In my house there were always coffee creams, orange creams and strawberry creams left.

Archeron · 27-09-2006 11:08am

I miss the little shell shaped blue ones that had little nuts in them. I think I'm the only person who actually liked them

Jimoslimos · 27-09-2006 11:25am

The strawberry ones were my favourite until they changed them:mad: Don't try tellin me they're the same

Tree · 27-09-2006 3:52pm

Archeron wrote:

I miss the little shell shaped blue ones that had little nuts in them. I think I'm the only person who actually liked them

they had like praline ni em as well as almond chunks yeah??
i love nuts and parlines

emeraldstar · 27-09-2006 4:40pm

Archeron wrote:

I miss the little shell shaped blue ones that had little nuts in them. I think I'm the only person who actually liked them

oohh!! no i loved these too!! absolutely. that was one of my very favourites from childhood..one of the first i'd go for all the time

Slunk · 27-09-2006 6:37pm

Can you still get regular size bars of Bournville, they are scarce these days, havent seen them in many places. And coffe sweets were always the last resort.Strawberry Creme all the way.

Kolodny · 28-09-2006 12:15pm

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

Ruu the purple wrapper sweet will never be discontinued as like someone else said its probably the most popular and the first sweet to disappear from the box.

I hope the same applies to hazelnut whirls. I would boycott Roses forever if they were discontinued!

Tree · 28-09-2006 8:54pm

them really popular ones liek teh hazelnut whirls, hazelnut in caramel and teh caramel kegs were released as packets of them only there for a while

emeraldstar · 29-09-2006 4:18pm

Slunk wrote:

Can you still get regular size bars of Bournville, they are scarce these days, havent seen them in many places. And coffe sweets were always the last resort.Strawberry Creme all the way.

yep you can still get em alright. I wouldn't have thought they're scarce, I see them in most shops!! Which reminds me, I have one in the press right now...nyom nyom

Gary ITR · 30-09-2006 7:19pm

Slunk wrote:

Can you still get regular size bars of Bournville, they are scarce these days, havent seen them in many places.
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I'm a cadbury rep and they are in every shop i service but thats only cos i'm great!

Siogfinsceal · 03-10-2006 11:54am

do you remember that time they took out the strawberry and orange ones (they have since out them back in as people complained). My mates mum was one of the people that complained at the time and they sent her a free box

the purple ones were fab at one point they had giant ones of the purple ones and the green triangles and the toffee sticks mmmmmm havent seen thme in ages the giant purple ones were lovely

Tree · 03-10-2006 3:19pm

the giant ones wehre a quality street thing

tc20 · 03-10-2006 4:02pm

Guys a slight threadjack here, but along the same lines.
im hoping that this choccie bar did exist, or else im going slightly mad.
I remember my dad would bring us some chocs on his way home from work (were talking early/mid 70s here) and the bar im thinking of was called either "2 by 2" or "2 plus 2", which seems a bit mad cos i reckon it had 9 squares, thereby making it a 3 by 3

It was about the size of a squared off 4finger kitkat, and the wrapper was red, caramel color, and brown stripes (very 70s man). I think each line of squares had a different filling, hence the 2 by 2 (or 3 by 3 ) moniker.

Am i going mad, or does anyone even vaguely remember these?

Tony

Ruu_Old · 03-10-2006 11:40pm

Onkle51 wrote:

I'm a cadbury rep and they are in every shop i service but thats only cos i'm great!

My new best friend.

Slunk · 04-10-2006 4:59pm

Probably never noticed them cause I wasnt exactly looking for them but Ive since found them most places seen as this thread reminded of how delicious they are.

emeraldstar · 04-10-2006 8:08pm

Siogfinsceal wrote:

the purple ones were fab at one point they had giant ones of the purple ones and the green triangles and the toffee sticks mmmmmm havent seen thme in ages the giant purple ones were lovely

you're talking about Quality Street!!

oblivious · 05-10-2006 12:11pm

I miss the Bournville / Cadbury's Dairymilk miniature bar, when you held them in your hand you felt like a giant! Although I can now get the same feeling for those miniature whiskey bottles you can get

c - 13 · 05-10-2006 12:17pm

tc20 wrote:

Guys a slight threadjack here, but along the same lines.
im hoping that this choccie bar did exist, or else im going slightly mad.
I remember my dad would bring us some chocs on his way home from work (were talking early/mid 70s here) and the bar im thinking of was called either "2 by 2" or "2 plus 2", which seems a bit mad cos i reckon it had 9 squares, thereby making it a 3 by 3
It was about the size of a squared off 4finger kitkat, and the wrapper was red, caramel color, and brown stripes (very 70s man). I think each line of squares had a different filling, hence the 2 by 2 (or 3 by 3 ) moniker.

Am i going mad, or does anyone even vaguely remember these?

Tony

Oh it existed - I dont know the name but I can certainly remember the bar. Flavours included mint, orange, stawberry etc. A bit of an odd combo.