Cadbury Roses new sweet?

freshpopcorn

Has anybody tried the coffee sweet that has being re-released for Christmas 2013?
I also heard that they might be another new one as well but I'm not sure!

pwurple

No, but very excited now! Coffee ones were my fav!

Dizzyblonde

I love coffee sweets! We'll be buying a tin (or three) of Roses for Christmas

o1s1n

Why did they have to go and change them in the first place?

Glad coffe is back, was shocking that they removed it!

pwurple

Bitterly disappointed, someone had a round tin of roses purchased only yesterday, and while there were loads of orange ones (yummo), zero coffee!

Will these be special edition I wonder?

Amirani

I don't remember a coffee Roses sweet? Perhaps I'm a bit young?

Very much looking forward to its reintroduction in any case.

Layinghen

Oh no. The coffee ones were always the last ones left in the tin in our house. Only eaten when all the Christmas goodies had disappeared in January. Never by me though couldn't stand them. Now the caramels, they were always first to go:)

pwurple

Post them all to me Layinghen!

freshpopcorn

pwurple wrote: »

Bitterly disappointed, someone had a round tin of roses purchased only yesterday, and while there were loads of orange ones (yummo), zero coffee!

Will these be special edition I wonder?

Was it the Christmas tin? It says on the tin that their are new sweats in it. They are for sale in Tesco's!

Layinghen wrote: »

Oh no. The coffee ones were always the last ones left in the tin in our house. Only eaten when all the Christmas goodies had disappeared in January. Never by me though couldn't stand them. Now the caramels, they were always first to go:)

I would eat the odd coffee sweet but I wouldn't love them. My mother isn't looking forward to getting them because she feels the coffee will taint the other sweets in the tin.

Faith

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Was it the Christmas tin? It says on the tin that their are new sweats in it. They are for sale in Tesco's!

I would eat the odd coffee sweat but I wouldn't love them. My mother isn't looking forward to getting them because she feels the coffee will taint the other sweets in the tin.

:eek:

freshpopcorn

Faith wrote: »

:eek:

Corrected!

Layinghen

pwurple wrote: »

Post them all to me Layinghen!

Only if I can have your caramels

whiskeyman

my hundreds of letters to Cadburys HQ must have worked!!
Welcome back my little coffee beauties!

jalan8984

Ah jaysus not again! They'll be left at the bottom of the tin.

spurious

Their new coffee sweet is unremarkable really, but more annoyingly they have changed the texture of their Brazilian dark toffee one and now it's more like fudge.

emeraldstar

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Has anybody tried the coffee sweet that has been re-released for Christmas 2013?
I also heard that there might be another new one as well but I'm not sure!

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

I loved the coffee ones and never understood those heathens among you who thought it was vile.

How I mourned for the post-festive season Roses tins around the country that remained filled with the neglected coffee sweets that were destined never to come my way. The poor, unloved, tasty little things.

I hope the other possible new one is one of the lovely previous ones that they also did away with. Or at least a truffle or praline rather than another crappy creme-filled one. Roses really turned their selection to sh!t several years ago

ebbsy

All the shops were tripping over themselves, selling tins at a fiver etc last year, however did this contribute to a drop in variety ? Methinks it did.

emeraldstar

Variety (and prices) dropped a lot longer than a year ago, to the great detriment of the quality of what was once a long-loved favourite

emeraldstar

spurious wrote: »

Their new coffee sweet is unremarkable really, but more annoyingly they have changed the texture of their Brazilian dark toffee one and now it's more like fudge.

Is it the exact same Coffee Creme that they used to have, or an alternative coffee sweet?

RayM

I just want them to return the Dairy Milk one to its non-chunky former glory.

emeraldstar

emeraldstar wrote: »

Is it the exact same Coffee Creme that they used to have, or an alternative coffee sweet?

Ah, never mind:

Good Old Wikipedia wrote:

Coffee - New for Christmas 2013, Cadbury have re-released the soft coffee centred chocolate

spurious

It's bigger, not the old shape.

They don't actually have a good old fashioned toffee in the box anymore. It's all full of these soft horrible ones.

freshpopcorn

ebbsy wrote: »

All the shops were tripping over themselves, selling tins at a fiver etc last year, however did this contribute to a drop in variety ? Methinks it did.

Coffee was gone for a good few years and I say all the supermarkets will be selling them for about five euro again, just last week they were 6.60 at Tesco!

emeraldstar

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Coffee was gone for a good few years

Well over a decade anyway.

Miss Mayhem

I hope they use some of the Australian sweets. A friend brought back a box of Roses from there and most of them were gorgeous! Much nicer than our ones!

ebbsy

spurious wrote: »

It's bigger, not the old shape.

They don't actually have a good old fashioned toffee in the box anymore. It's all full of these soft horrible ones.

That's true my spurious friend. They have those ones in gold wrappers that look like somebody sat on them, too soft as well.

Toffee should be hard !!!!!!

ebbsy

So....what is the tin of choice this year my fruity friends ??????????

Ann22

ebbsy wrote: »

That's true my spurious friend. They have those ones in gold wrappers that look like somebody sat on them, too soft as well.

Toffee should be hard !!!!!!

Are they not in Quality Street? The Toffee Penny?

I too missed the coffee one...glad it's back. I even love the coffee one in Revels. Dairy Box aren't great, nearly all nut ones.

emeraldstar

Ann22 wrote: »

Are they not in Quality Street? The Toffee Penny?

I too missed the coffee one...glad it's back. I even love the coffee one in Revels. Dairy Box aren't great, nearly all nut ones.

That's, like, the nicest Revel.

freshpopcorn

Their is a mini Toblerone in the tins of Heroes now as well!

emeraldstar

ebbsy wrote: »

So....what is the tin of choice this year my fruity friends ??????????

Perhaps Celebrations or Heroes but really I just don't know anymore.

Celebrations upset me when they did away with Galaxy Truffle and also when they changed the shape of their sweets from perfectly oval to a weird flat-bottomed form.

Heroes upset me when they did away with Crunchie Nugget (also Fuse at the time, but I got over that one).

Quality Street has always been sh!te.

emeraldstar

freshpopcorn wrote: »

There is a mini Toblerone in the tins of Heroes now as well!

That's good... perhaps. Does it mean they removed one and if so which one?! :eek:

(Too lazy to go Googling.)

Also, how did that happen, as Toblerone isn't by Cadbury? Is it Kraft perhaps? (Edit: yep, it is.)

Ann22

emeraldstar wrote: »

That's, like, the nicest Revel.

Yeah for sure...I also like the orange ones.... always a bit disappointed to get a Malteser 'cos if I wanted one I'd buy a packet of them. I hate getting a raisin, a toffee is nice enough and the nut one but overall, eating a packet of Revels for me is a coffee and orange treasure hunt (did I dream it or did they recently do away with the coffee ones too?:()

freshpopcorn

emeraldstar wrote: »

That's good... perhaps. Does it mean they removed one and if so which one?! :eek:

(Too lazy to go Googling.)

Also, how did that happen, as Toblerone isn't by Cadbury? Is it Kraft perhaps? (Edit: yep, it is.)

These are this years selection,

Creme Egg Twisted
Dairy Milk
Dairy Milk Caramel
Eclairs
Fudge
Twirl
Toblerone.

So, it might be Bournville!( Not sure how long it's gone)

emeraldstar

Ann22 wrote: »

Yeah for sure...I also like the orange ones.... always a bit disappointed to get a Malteser 'cos if I wanted one I'd buy a packet of them. I hate getting a raisin, a toffee is nice enough and the nut one but overall, eating a packet of Revels for me is a coffee and orange treasure hunt (did I dream it or did they recently do away with the coffee ones too?:confused::()

They had a vote to "evict" one flavour several years ago and coffee was chosen. It was replaced with some manky strawberry thing, but I think the coffee one was rightfully reinstated not long after.

Ann22

I was sorely disappointed when Celebrations did away with Topics, I loved them. Even when I was full, I could squeeze one more in.

emeraldstar

freshpopcorn wrote: »

These are this years selection,

Creme Egg Twisted
Dairy Milk
Dairy Milk Caramel
Eclairs
Fudge
Twirl
Toblerone.

So, it might be Bournville!( Not sure how long it's gone)

Yeah, actually, Heroes are going down the drain

Long gone are the lovely days of Crunchie, Nuts About Caramel, Fuse, Bournville, and even Dream.

emeraldstar

Ann22 wrote: »

I was sorely disappointed when Celebrations did away with Topics, I loved them. Even when I was full, I could squeeze one more in.

Noooo - that was always the sh!t one nobody wanted!

Also, chocolate isn't filling. There's always more room.

leahyl

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yeah, actually, Heroes are going down the drain

Long gone are the lovely days of Crunchie, Nuts About Caramel, Fuse, Bournville, and even Dream.

Totally agree - that new list above is shocking! I actually don't know what tin to but this year now - will prob be celebrations - there was a time when we'd get all 3 - celebrations, heroes and roses but they're gone to pot so they are :-(

whiskeyman

Just tried the new 'Coffee Escape' sweet.
It's not a patch on the old coffee rose sweet.
This is shaped like a square of caramel bar, and the coffee is a paste / praline and not cream
Coffee creams were awesome!!

emeraldstar

whiskeyman wrote: »

Just tried the new 'Coffee Escape' sweet.
It's not a patch on the old coffee rose sweet.
This is shaped like a square of caramel bar, and the coffee is a paste / praline and not cream
Coffee creams were awesome!!

Praline? Woot!

rainbow kirby

whiskeyman wrote: »

Just tried the new 'Coffee Escape' sweet.
It's not a patch on the old coffee rose sweet.
This is shaped like a square of caramel bar, and the coffee is a paste / praline and not cream
Coffee creams were awesome!!

Crushing disappointment, I really wanted the old coffee cream one back!

FionnOh

emeraldstar wrote: »

That's good... perhaps. Does it mean they removed one and if so which one?! :eek:

(Too lazy to go Googling.)

Also, how did that happen, as Toblerone isn't by Cadbury? Is it Kraft perhaps? (Edit: yep, it is.)

Yeah, you know Kraft owns Cadbury? (and everything else)
That'll be why it's there....

Also, praline sounds promising! Hate the sickly 'cream' stuff

emeraldstar

FionnOh wrote: »

Yeah, you know Kraft owns Cadbury? (and everything else)
That'll be why it's there....

Eh, yeah, that's what I said

FionnOh

emeraldstar wrote: »

Eh, yeah, that's what I said

Ah fair enough, sorry.

Gonzo

I dunno is it me but are the tins of quality street & roses in the supermarkets at the moment gone smaller than the ones last Christmas while charging more?

no doubt about it the quality of both roses and quality street have been on a downwards slope since 1980s/early 90s.

rubadub

Gonzo wrote: »

I dunno is it me but are the tins of quality street & roses in the supermarkets at the moment gone smaller than the ones last Christmas while charging more?

Questions like this come up every year!, you can simply search old threads in bargain alerts which will have previous years prices, and very often quote the weights.

leahyl

This sums it up I think...

hoodwinked

i am so annoyed though, Dairy milks were the only Roses sweets i liked, now they replaced them with this coffee one

coinflip13

Is it a general consensus that Roses aren't as nice as they were 10 or more years ago? Every year they taste less like I expect chocolate to taste and more like a really sweet lump of lard. Back in the 90s I can remember they had a lovely cocoa-powdery taste of the chocolate. Then again, this seems to have happened to all chocolate and chocolate-flavour breakfast cereals in particular.

So manufacturers have removed all the delicious stuff like e-numbers that made sweets taste incredible, takeaways don't put in delicious msg into food and chocolate has become a shadow of it's former self. Got a box of fruit loops in Tesco and they tasted like cardboard with a feint smell of fruit loops - about 7 years ago I got fruit loops while in the US and they were lovely, frosted, e-number laden gorgeousness, and it 100% wasn't because I was 7 years younger either. Even plain breakfast cereals like shreddies and cheerios used to taste delicious in the 90s but now seem really tasteless!

Also, my instinct tells me that the chocolate nowadays is more fattening or has more sugar than in the 90s, so it's obviously a cost thing where they are bulking the chocolate up with vegetable fat or something and reducing the cocoa mass. Just looking at that 2006 v 08 v 13 picture someone posted - I can remember them tasting better out of that tin than the current one, although I have one at home from like the 90s and although the fact I was a child might be a big factor I can definitely remember them tasting better! It might also just be that chocolate consumption is, or can be, an almost everyday thing now for people whereas back 20 years ago it was more of a treat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqfW19Rg7B0 the roses ad from 0:35 reminds me of when roses tasted better ... they even look better here!

pl4ichjgy17zwd

coinflip13 wrote: »

Got a box of fruit loops in Tesco and they tasted like cardboard with a feint smell of fruit loops - about 7 years ago I got fruit loops while in the US and they were lovely, frosted, e-number laden gorgeousness, and it 100% wasn't because I was 7 years younger either. Even plain breakfast cereals like shreddies and cheerios used to taste delicious in the 90s but now seem really tasteless!

The UK version is "made with natural colours and flavours" using fruit and vegetable extracts, I believe - nothing like the US version at all (agree with it tasting like cardboard - bought a box a few months ago and it's still in my cupboard, one bowl less). If you import the US version, it's the same as it was years ago (I get them from amazon, you can get them with marshmallows too!)