best Sweets at Christmas

fishy fishy

Which would be your favorite to sit and watch a movie


Roses
Quality Street
Celebrations
Heroes
Thorntons
Leonidas
Butlers
Colleen hard candy (the old fashioned box)
Milk Tray



Mine would have to be the colleen hard candy and quality street.

Feel free to add your own.

Deedsie

fishy fishy wrote: »

Which would be your favorite to sit and watch a movie


Roses
Quality Street
Celebrations
Heroes
Thorntons
Leonidas
Butlers
Colleen hard candy (the old fashioned box)
Milk Tray



Mine would have to be the colleen hard candy and quality street.

Feel free to add your own.

Those star shaped tins of Emeralds have been a big hit in our house in recent years.

Loughc

Roses
Quality Street
Celebrations
Heroes

are my fav by a mile, also a big box of After 8's always seem to makes an appearance during Christmas, haha.

Posy

These are my favourites. Nom nom!!

groovygirl5

you can't beat hereos especially the caramel and creme egg ones!!

juan.kerr

No Ferrero Rocher?

Or Terrys Chococate Orange Segments?

travellingbid

Those special celebration maltessers nomnom:D

Toto Wolfcastle

Oh I love the orange ones in Milk Tray.

My favourites at Christmas are After Eights. They're too easy to eat though.

juan.kerr

Tubes of smarties, jelly tots, fruit pastilles etc?

Posy

juan.kerr wrote: »

Tubes of smarties, jelly tots, fruit pastilles etc?

Are you asking or answering?

juan.kerr

Posy wrote: »

Are you asking or answering?

Well if you're offering, don't mind if I do.

clappyhappy

Ferrero rocher, saw them in lidl last week, wanted to buy them but knew I would devour the box of them. Will wait for Christmas

Alicat

I loooove Ferrero Rocher! Nyom nyom! And After Eights...

cookie75

Scots Clans ,Double centres followed by Lemons !!

Loughc

I changed my mind my absolute favourite sweets at Christmas are snowballs the chocolate the cream the coconut. Yum. Yum. I need some now!!

gidget

Roses, Quality Streets, After Eights, Celebrations, Heroes, Ohhh too hard to decide - all of the above, not to mention the tasty cakes, crisps, ice-cream etc that join them

flutegirl

juan.kerr wrote: »

No Ferrero Rocher?

Or Terrys Chococate Orange Segments?

Only buy these at Christmas as well!

Roses is tops in our house, at least 2 tins on the go at any given time over Christmas. Used to be from September in the past :eek:. Also usually buy quality street, celebrations, a box of Thortons and Milk Tray, and always buy a box of the Seashells as well at Christmas :pac:

Charl0tte

I have already bought a tin of Roses, and I will buy a tin of quality street this week. Will probably leave it at that because there is so much rich naughty food over the Christmas period.

FoxyChickaTee

Tin of Roses and its tradition to have a BOX of cheese and onion TAYTOS in the house ;-)

fishy fishy

roses were the top brand in our home for years - kids went mad for them. However over the last two years it has changed to quality street - I have to get 2 - 3 tins in to last. Also the box of tayto and soft drinks - red lemonade to be exact. nostalgia again. Always associated red lemonade with christmas.

clappyhappy

cookie75 wrote: »

Scots Clans ,Double centres followed by Lemons !!

Forgot about scots clan, god i used to love them, have to get some in this year

Charl0tte

I got a bag of King in, and some pringles. I prefer not to put too much naughty stuff out, and prefer to actually make my own snacks. The cheese board has to come out too

Toto Wolfcastle

FoxyChickaTee wrote: »

Tin of Roses and its tradition to have a BOX of cheese and onion TAYTOS in the house ;-)

The Taytos from those boxes always taste way nicer than any other Taytos for some reason.

We always used to have a tin of biscuits from M&S in the house too. The Belgian Chocolate one.

Charl0tte

Scots clan, I haven't seen those since my grandmother was alive I'll have to get some for christmas

Alicat

Charl0tte wrote: »

Scots clan, I haven't seen those since my grandmother was alive I'll have to get some for christmas

A warning about the Scots Clan; they are not the same as they used to be! They've changed the chocolate!

We would get my dad a big box for his birthday and Christmas every single year ( near on 30 years at this stage!) and they just don't taste the same. There was a very distinct change in taste. In fact, he thinks Reisen (sp?) are now the closest thing to the original Scots Clan. We just get him bags of those instead.

Charl0tte

Alicat wrote: »

A warning about the Scots Clan; they are not the same as they used to be! They've changed the chocolate!

We would get my dad a big box for his birthday and Christmas every single year ( near on 30 years at this stage!) and they just don't taste the same. There was a very distinct change in taste. In fact, he thinks Reisen (sp?) are now the closest thing to the original Scots Clan. We just get him bags of those instead.

Oh no! don't say that. Childhood memory ruined! Thanks for the advice though

BobMc

I've found the chocolate in the roses last two years tobe gone brutal, not keen on them at all anymore, love the terrrys segsations though !!

Loughc

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

The Taytos from those boxes always taste way nicer than any other Taytos for some reason.

+1 for this! They always taste way nicer than the individual ones.

fishy fishy

BobMc wrote: »

I've found the chocolate in the roses last two years tobe gone brutal, not keen on them at all anymore, love the terrrys segsations though !!

yes I was very disappointed in them a couple of years ago also, hence the move to quality street. there was a definite change in the roses. not as rich and creamy and luxurious.

fishy fishy

cannot forget the old sentimentally selection boxes.

ZombieMed

I like gooey fondant sweets in chocolate and found that "Surprises" from either Aldi or Lidl (I think Aldi) are the nicest for this taste.

cookie75

fishy fishy wrote: »

cannot forget the old sentimentally selection boxes.

Curly Wurlys deffo a Christmas thing

FoxyChickaTee

lockie1983 wrote: »

+1 for this! They always taste way nicer than the individual ones.

A few years ago my mam bought the big bag of taytos instead of the box and there was uproar haha

coolgal52

I love yorkshire jellies at xmas, they are so sugary the best!

Posy

I'm not allowed yorkshire jellies. I'm like an alcoholic- I can't stop at one box.

flutegirl

BobMc wrote: »

I've found the chocolate in the roses last two years tobe gone brutal, not keen on them at all anymore, love the terrrys segsations though !!

I used to like the small round ones that nobody ever ate and were always left in the tin, usually creamy ones, and then they got rid of them, or changed their shape, could always bank on them being left in the tin when desperate for a sweet January 6th or 7th!!

efb

Season's Greetings - but only for the tin- the sweets were yuck!

lazy girl

you can beat a tin of roses can u, or after eights!

ladypip

You people are crazy what about Kinder Schoko bon?

Posy

ladypip wrote: »

You people are crazy what about Kinder Schoko bon?

Never heard of them!

okfine

oh sweets,I love you all equally....Except for the Pink,Orange,Brown and golden wrapped ones in the Quality Street selection.:p

fussyonion

I alternate between Roses and Quality Street but after getting Roses last Christmas, I was disappointed in the selection and the chocolate didn't taste as nice, so I think we'll stick to Quality Street.
Also love Butler's and Ferrero Rocher.

Posy

fussyonion wrote: »

I alternate between Roses and Quality Street but after getting Roses last Christmas, I was disappointed in the selection and the chocolate didn't taste as nice, so I think we'll stick to Quality Street.

Just get them both!
It's Christmas.

leahyl

Roses
Heroes
Celebrations

Of recent years (well in the last year!) Roisins lemon supremes and chocolate truffles from Aldi are DIVINE!

We always get boxes of sour cream and onion pringles (I know not really sweets but I love them!) and a terrys chocolate orange each (nom nom!)

I do like the odd mince pie too :pac: but not too many cos they are quite heavy!

And of course the obligatory sherry trifle for after dinner:pac:

leahyl

flutegirl wrote: »

I used to like the small round ones that nobody ever ate and were always left in the tin, usually creamy ones, and then they got rid of them, or changed their shape, could always bank on them being left in the tin when desperate for a sweet January 6th or 7th!!

I loved the chocolate bite and the orange bite but they did away with them :eek::mad: There's far less of a selection in the roses now but we still get them anyway - it's tradition:pac:

s_carnage

A yard of Jaffa cakes please...

xzanti

Don't get me started on the Roses tins.. whoever messed with the selection should be shot.. and the chocolate is horrible, watered down with Soya or some crap :mad:

I love Galaxy chocolate, my Mother still gets me the selection box every year

Although I'm really more of a savory person.. Tayto/Pringles/Dry roasted peanuts... all good!!!!

leahyl

xzanti wrote: »

I love Galaxy chocolate, my Mother still gets me the selection box every year

MMMM I love Galaxy too!! :pac:

And the previous poster about the Jaffa Cakes - OM NOM NOM! Could eat that whole pack of Jaffa Cakes myself and still want more:pac:

Loughc

leahyl wrote: »

And the previous poster about the Jaffa Cakes - OM NOM NOM! Could eat that whole pack of Jaffa Cakes myself and still want more:pac:

I really want Jaffa Cakes now

Posy

lockie1983 wrote: »

I really want Jaffa Cakes now

Me too. And I don't normally even eat Jaffa cakes.

Loughc

lockie1983 wrote: »

I changed my mind my absolute favourite sweets at Christmas are snowballs the chocolate the cream the coconut. Yum. Yum. I need some now!!

I came home from work Friday to find my amazing girlfriend had bought be a box of snowballs! Thank you boards!