Christmas selection boxes

branie

Anyone here like these presents when they were kids? yum!

darkdubh

branie wrote: »

Anyone here like these presents when they were kids? yum!

Do you mean those bags that were shaped like a christmass stocking and had different chocolate bars?They always had a curly wurly bar in there.

xzanti

I wouldn't really class selection boxes as 'retro' tbh they're still a big part of Christmas.

Although I haven't really seen the sock versions around for a while.. We used to get them off 'Santy' the day we broke up for Christmas Holidays in Primary School.

gipi

branie wrote: »

Anyone here like these presents when they were kids? yum!

I still do....and I ain't no kid any more!! :P

Niles

Always preferred the Nestle ones (I think they were the ones that came in stockings, but could be mistaken). Give me a Milky Way over a Crunchie any day. And as for Curly Wurlys, bleh...

Scruffles

liked em as a child,because was rarely ever given chocolate like that,but getting older had gotten less of a fan of them because its usualy the stodgy and/or hard type of chocolate in them,eg-mars bar,fudge bar,curly wurly,twix...
still get one off mum/dad every year as a tradition thing but it isnt the same.

wish we were able to customise our own choccies and a proper christmasy selection box of different designs to choose from.
what woud everyone else handpick for their box?
mine woud have a few caramacs [which are still going,if anyone remembers those:cool: ] ,wispa,a small plain aero and a small net full of choccie coins.

WindSock

I used to do the colouring competition on the back of the Cadburys one, but the packaging never took my cheapo crappy markers too well. Not even the fancy Crayola ones.

lord lucan

I think that certainly in my childhood Selection Boxes were seen as a major treat. I wouldn't have gotten chocolate very regularly. Usually it was a treat,the odd weekend or visiting the grandparents. Looking at my nephew who's now 7 years old,he gets bought chocolate regularly/when he wants it and gets inundated with Easter Eggs at Easter. Selection boxes don't mean a whole lot to him,it's just more chocolate.

Harry Blotter

Niles wrote: »

Always preferred the Nestle ones (I think they were the ones that came in stockings, but could be mistaken). Give me a Milky Way over a Crunchie any day. And as for Curly Wurlys, bleh...

pretty sure MilkyWays are made by Mars

Niles

Harry Blotter wrote: »

pretty sure MilkyWays are made by Mars

Must have been a Mars stocking so! Actually now that I think about it the presence of Maltesers in those stockings would add to that theory.

Jordan 199

WindSock wrote: »

I used to do the colouring competition on the back of the Cadburys one, but the packaging never took my cheapo crappy markers too well. Not even the fancy Crayola ones.

There's some kind of coating on the cardboard, so I'd say that's why you couldn't use your markers or crayons on them.

SEPT 23 1989

They seem to be getting smaller