Boycotting Cadbury's Roses

emeraldstar

It was bad enough last year when they removed my very very favourite - the Truffle Chunk - but I see now that they've also got rid of the Praline Moment (silver wrapper), Chocolate Bite (pink wrapper) and, while it was never a favourite, the orange crispy one which was at least chocolatey. What's left is a crap collection of gooey and toffee ones with hardly any of the nice kind: the truffles and pralines.

Roses were always my favourite chocolate selection, now they've just lost a fan. Celebrations has taken their place.

Cadbury's Miniature Heroes are still alright, but I shall never forgive them for taking out the nicest one - the Crunchie Bite. Sad sad day.

Cadbury Bastards :mad:

SuperWoody101

So that's why they are 5euro a tin!!

emeraldstar

Yeah. Cheap but sh1t

Jay P

Didn't they get rid of the Picnics from Miniature heros? And the Topics from Celebrations?
Heresy.

WindSock

Each Christmas for the last few Christmasses I have had increasing disappointment with Roses. It all started to go downhill when they changed the wrappers. I think this year I will source my festive chocolate gorging from elsewhere.

star-pants

Yeah I thought things were different!! and the brazilian toffees are really soft??
Quality Street used to be our good one till they went and removed the gooey and made them semi hard.
Just like Milk Tray went down the tubes removing gooey orange, and putting in a COFFEE one... damn them....

moonflower

When they got rid of the silver one I knew I was never going to buy Roses again

RacoonQueen

Pffft roses are amazing, I love all the gooeyness.

emeraldstar

star-pants wrote: »

Yeah I thought things were different!! and the brazilian toffees are really soft??
Quality Street used to be our good one till they went and removed the gooey and made them semi hard.
Just like Milk Tray went down the tubes removing gooey orange, and putting in a COFFEE one... damn them....

A coffee sweet is worth a hundred thousand gooey orange ones!

eclectichoney

moonflower wrote: »

When they got rid of the silver one I knew I was never going to buy Roses again

Respect for the Praline Moment

inkyky

emeraldstar wrote: »

It was bad enough last year when they removed my very very favourite - the Truffle Chunk - but I see now that they've also got rid of the Praline Moment (silver wrapper), Chocolate Bite (pink wrapper) and, while it was never a favourite, the orange crispy one which was at least chocolatey.

I now live abroad but used to love getting a box of Roses (even wrapped you knew what you were getting !!) ... it's obviously been a LONG time since anyone bought me a box though cos I don't recognise any of these colours or descriptions !!!

ToniTuddle

Roses definitely changed the strawberry flavour inside the well...chocolate strawberry one!
Plus I was raged when they made the mini cadbury bar a hell of alot smaller. It use to be a good proper chunk of a thing. Now it's not even worth picking out of the box:mad:
Stopped buying roses after those things occured.
Buy big bars of chocolate that I like instead:D

phasers

My house is a Quality Street house now :mad:

Praline ftw!

sashafierce

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Jay P

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Dare I say it?.....


Must......resist.....temptation.............



:pac:

sashafierce

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ha-ya-said-what

Ugghh we got a tin saturday for the sake of it incase we got any tricker treater brats, due to the rain we didn't we started into it ourselves. Now is it just me or for some reason is the chocolate on the roses manky?? I had 4 sweets out of the tin and felt like I was gonna be sick and the mini dairy milks taste nothing like an actualy dairy milk! They taste like the crappy chocolate you'd get in the UK!

Plowman

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ellejay

ha-ya-said-what wrote: »

Ugghh we got a tin saturday for the sake of it incase we got any tricker treater brats, due to the rain we didn't we started into it ourselves. Now is it just me or for some reason is the chocolate on the roses manky?? I had 4 sweets out of the tin and felt like I was gonna be sick and the mini dairy milks taste nothing like an actualy dairy milk! They taste like the crappy chocolate you'd get in the UK!

i'm a boardsie lurker but couldn't resist replying!
I'm sooooo glad you posted that, I've gone off roses for ages now bcause of the chocolate, it's dreadful!! I thought I was going mad as my family still love them.
if they were free, never mind a fiver, i wouldn't eat them now.

Namlub

ha-ya-said-what wrote: »

Ugghh we got a tin saturday for the sake of it incase we got any tricker treater brats, due to the rain we didn't we started into it ourselves. Now is it just me or for some reason is the chocolate on the roses manky?? I had 4 sweets out of the tin and felt like I was gonna be sick and the mini dairy milks taste nothing like an actualy dairy milk! They taste like the crappy chocolate you'd get in the UK!

There's a difference between Irish and UK chocolate??
I heartily recommend converting to Celebrations, nyom

emeraldstar

Namlub wrote: »

I heartily recommend converting to Celebrations, nyom

Yup, I've already made the decision that Celebrations is the chocolate selection of choice for me this year - at least they've remained pretty decent! The Topic was taken out but that's always been the least favourite in our house anyway

leahyl

Ah come on - when it comes down to it we're still all goin to be stuffing our faces with them come Christmas!:D I know i will even though i too am annoyed that they took away my precious chocolate bite....sniff...;)

JoeFitz89

I wonder why did they change the whole selection of sweets in roses tins?
Destroyed roses just arent the same now

ha-ya-said-what

ellejay wrote: »

i'm a boardsie lurker but couldn't resist replying!
I'm sooooo glad you posted that, I've gone off roses for ages now bcause of the chocolate, it's dreadful!! I thought I was going mad as my family still love them.
if they were free, never mind a fiver, i wouldn't eat them now.

PMSL & I thought I was going mad cos everyone else still scoffs em like there is no tomorrow!! It's celebrations for me, Anymore Cadbury's roses I get I shall put in the sling shot and fire at the kids on the garden wall!!

triple-M

people musnt mind the withdrawals because at my place of work the roses sell upto 50% better than the heroes celebrations or quality street tins which are all priced the same at 5.95

jaybee747

ha-ya-said-what wrote: »

Ugghh we got a tin saturday for the sake of it incase we got any tricker treater brats, due to the rain we didn't we started into it ourselves. Now is it just me or for some reason is the chocolate on the roses manky?? I had 4 sweets out of the tin and felt like I was gonna be sick and the mini dairy milks taste nothing like an actualy dairy milk! They taste like the crappy chocolate you'd get in the UK!

Yep,They taste crap as they are made in the UK,not like our tasty irish Dairymilk.
And a side note, the boycott isnt going to well,Cadburys will sell in ireland close to 900k tins of roses this year (not including whats imported from the north).

ha-ya-said-what

Yeah I discovered the other day they are the horrible cr**** UK cadbury's........ I actually thought to pick up the tin & look lol Def the last time I let a tin of them into this house!! Rather buy a multi-pack of dairy milks!

sold

emeraldstar wrote: »

It was bad enough last year when they removed my very very favourite - the Truffle Chunk - but I see now that they've also got rid of the Praline Moment (silver wrapper), Chocolate Bite (pink wrapper) and, while it was never a favourite, the orange crispy one which was at least chocolatey. What's left is a crap collection of gooey and toffee ones with hardly any of the nice kind: the truffles and pralines.

Roses were always my favourite chocolate selection, now they've just lost a fan. Celebrations has taken their place.

Cadbury's Miniature Heroes are still alright, but I shall never forgive them for taking out the nicest one - the Crunchie Bite. Sad sad day.

Cadbury Bastards :mad:

NO WAY!!!, Sorry to dramatise, but if you are right then they have hit rock bottom!!. its like coke changing the formula, its simply not the REAL THING!. I won't be boycotting, I just won't be buying. Real shame, the should know the value of their brand.

phasers

triple-M wrote: »

people musnt mind the withdrawals because at my place of work the roses sell upto 50% better than the heroes celebrations or quality street tins which are all priced the same at 5.95

I can't find Quality Street anywhere! I've been looking to buy some but all I can find is mountains of stupid Roses :mad:

Redpunto

oh dear:D where had the topic gone from the celebrations

eclectichoney

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yup, I've already made the decision that Celebrations is the chocolate selection of choice for me this year - at least they've remained pretty decent! The Topic was taken out but that's always been the least favourite in our house anyway

Yup another Celebrations convert. The choice in Cadbury heroes is ridiculous now as well.

ha-ya-said-what

phasers wrote: »

I can't find Quality Street anywhere! I've been looking to buy some but all I can find is mountains of stupid Roses :mad:

Dunnes stores, army of all tins €5.95 ....... not roses lol they seem to have sold out, so they only have "nice" tins left





I just had a thought lol I wonder will this go the papers like the "bulmers pear cider" did lol

_Kooli_

Im sick of them now too.
Im not buying roses again.
They used to be great, but all the nice ones are gone now.

LostPigeonCoo

Do they still have the purple one in Roses tin?

emeraldstar

LostPigeonCoo wrote: »

Do they still have the purple one in Roses tin?

The hazelnut caramel one? Of course! I imagine that'll never change... it couldn't or there'd be war :eek:

we'llallhavetea_old

who the hell likes pralines? they're wrong.

emeraldstar

You're wrong.

we'llallhavetea_old

no. you're wrong *whacks you on the shoulder* NO RETURN!

emeraldstar

Oooh, that told me

we'llallhavetea_old

some people just need telling.

Any key?

emeraldstar wrote: »

It was bad enough last year when they removed my very very favourite - the Truffle Chunk - but I see now that they've also got rid of the Praline Moment (silver wrapper), Chocolate Bite (pink wrapper) and, while it was never a favourite, the orange crispy one which was at least chocolatey. What's left is a crap collection of gooey and toffee ones with hardly any of the nice kind: the truffles and pralines.

Roses were always my favourite chocolate selection, now they've just lost a fan. Celebrations has taken their place.

Cadbury's Miniature Heroes are still alright, but I shall never forgive them for taking out the nicest one - the Crunchie Bite. Sad sad day.

Cadbury Bastards :mad:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
:(:(:(:eek:

emeraldstar

Sadly, yes

DigiGal

QUALITY ST FTW!!!

I used to love the coffee ones years ago
It was deadly cuz everyone else hated them

All for me

Rob113

Once they removed the bournville from the roses tin the game was up.

congress3

Hmmm .... Malteaser celebrations ftw

emeraldstar

Deleted User wrote: »

I used to love the coffee ones years ago
It was deadly cuz everyone else hated them

All for me

I know, me too, was great while it lasted

Rob113 wrote: »

Once they removed the bournville from the roses tin the game was up.

They're in Miniature Heroes now though! Yums.

congress3 wrote: »

Hmmm .... Malteaser celebrations ftw

Totally! I only wish they had never changed the Celebrations shape.

JDxtra

Unaware of the changes, I cracked open my first tin of the year at the weekend.

Nice new matt finish to the tin, but it's the contents that matter and that's just a real let down. They just don't taste the same as before and the wrappers are changed. The toffee one also now seems to be more like caramel.

Shame on Cadburys. That's the last tin I'll buy...

r3nu4l

They should bring out a 'Roses retro' version that contains all the sweets from 20 years ago, with the old wrappers and all. I'll bet that would sell far more than these newer versions of 'roses'. It seems that every year, they do something else to ruin this once glorious tin of chocolatey brilliance. :mad:

d4v1d

for all of the reasons mentioned above, i've bought my last tin of roses. the standards have plummeted at speeds to make downhill mountain bikers envious.

from now on i'm going to treat myself something rotten at christmas. the lindt minibar selection. these just arrived into the house about an hour ago and these are the future!!!

eclectichoney

d4v1d wrote: »

for all of the reasons mentioned above, i've bought my last tin of roses. the standards have plummeted at speeds to make downhill mountain bikers envious.

from now on i'm going to treat myself something rotten at christmas. the lindt minibar selection. these just arrived into the house about an hour ago and these are the future!!!

Lindt minibar selection??? Link please. Love Lindt stuff, but have never heard of these, where can you get them?