Cadbury's Roses Tins

danjo-xx

2 for a €10 Dunnes
€7 each Tesco

vicwatson

https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057317092/showthread.php?t=2057317092

danjo-xx

vicwatson wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/b/thread/2057317092/showthread.php?t=2057317092

I searched every where for this thread but only old ones came up:D

Wont let me post on that thread for some reason.

rubadub

OK, I'll go first then

-in my day the tins were 25kilos and they paid you to take them, and the chocolate tasted so heavenly you would cry

Skerries

vicwatson

danjo-xx wrote: »

I searched every where for this thread but only old ones came up:D

Wont let me post on that thread for some reason.

Don't know why as it's still open !

bromley52

Skerries wrote: »

Yes but a tin was about £15 back in the day.

slave1

Size may have come down but so has the price per kilo, if you're near the border Tesco have two for £7 at the minute

mojesius

They cram the strawberry and coffee creams and fudges into Roses tins nowadays.

mojesius

mojesius wrote: »

They cram the strawberry and coffee creams and fudges into Roses tins nowadays.

Coffee creams are back in the roses tins? Darn, am buying then tomorrow. I stopped buying them after the coffee sweets were stopped.

rubadub

bromley52 wrote: »

Yes but a tin was about £15 back in the day.

bigger tins can still be got too, expect to pay a lot more per kilo. Smaller tins were also out years ago, people llke to forget though, ruins the rant.

This was a post of mine in the other thread

To be a fair comparison I would like to see the price per kilo of them back then, and the price per kilo of other bars back then too -or maybe just compare with inflation taken into account.

I remember in the 80s & early 90s roses & quality street were far more expensive per kilo than bars. I think I can recall really big tins of quality street being £12 in the 80s, you might see old irish christmas ads on youtube.

Celebrations 4.99 tubs are 750g (excluding wrappers), if you take an average bar as being 50g (many have gone lighter than that in recent years) then that is 15bars for a fiver, or 3 for a euro. Even comparing that to the best mulitpack deals it is pretty cheap. Many seemingly good mulitpack deals have smaller bars under 40g.

EDIT: found an ad in a dungarvan paper from december 13th 1991, a lb (454g) of quality street was £2.75 which is 3.75euro, so it would be 6.19euro to buy a 750g tub

another issue of the paper nov 1991 had a 5lb box of quality street at £10.39 so 13.20 euro
http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/enewspapers/dungarvan_leader/1991/Dungarvan_Leader_12_Dec_13.pdf

that is 2268g, so roughly 3 x 750g tubs, which can be got for 15euro now. So people are probably right to consider it a bargain, especially as I would expect price per kilo to go down and I am giving the benefit of the doubt that those old weights included wrappers. A pint of guinness was showing as 2 euro back in 1991 on the guinness price index.
http://www.finfacts.ie/Private/bestprice/guinnessindex.htm

foggy_lad

Not sweets but boxes of biscuits, the 1kg boxes of Jacobs Kimberly Mikado and coconut creams are usually between €10 and €12 but the 300gram packets are always available for €2 around Christmas so the box should cost about €7 but because it's Christmas people think the box is cheaper @€;10+

kn

Skerries wrote: »

They are not smaller, they are just further away......to quote Ted.....

RobbingBandit

foggy_lad wrote: »

Not sweets but boxes of biscuits, the 1kg boxes of Jacobs Kimberly Mikado and coconut creams are usually between €10 and €12 but the 300gram packets are always available for €2 around Christmas so the box should cost about €7 but because it's Christmas people think the box is cheaper @€;10+

It's not the size it's the presentation.

kn

So I got the 2 for a tenner in Dunnes. I'm not mad about them TBH.

mansize

I got 2 for ten, first I got in the new wrappers, at least it means they won't be loose

mansize

RobbingBandit wrote: »

It's not the size it's the presentation.

Giving a few packets isn't quite the same as a tin

newacc2015

rubadub wrote: »

bigger tins can still be got too, expect to pay a lot more per kilo. Smaller tins were also out years ago, people llke to forget though, ruins the rant.

This was a post of mine in the other thread

Plus if adjust for inflation and the fact wages were horrific in the 1990s, these sweets were really expensive. People buy tons of these boxes at Christmas. This would have been unheard of in the early 1990s, as they would have been so unaffordable.

Glen_Quagmire

It's not Christmas already is it

Walter2016

I'd love to see an ingredient comparison between today's tubs of chocolates and the tins from 20+ years ago.

There'd be a lot more cocoa I would guess, a lot less glucose frutose syrup and generally a better quality and more flavoursome chocolate.

Personally, I'd rather spend €7 on a 200g pouch of skellig chocolates.