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Christmas Forum's Favourite Christmas Sweet - THE FINAL

  • 10-01-2022 9:21am
    #1
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    It's time for our first tournament of the year and while we've done the best tub of sweets, we are now voting for our favourite individual sweet at Christmas.

    Are you a Malteaser Teaster fan from celebrations? Do you go bananas for Bounty? Are you stuck on Toffee Pennies from Quality Street, craving some country fudge from Roses?

    The Rules

    1. Maximum of 5 nominations allowed.
    2. If you don't know the official name of a sweet a description is allowed and we will figure out a name for it so others can nominate it too.
    3. Nominations of 3 plus will be giving priority for the knockouts.
    4. Sweets outside of the usual big 4 tubs will also be considered but must be known for their popularity at Christmas time.


    So there you have it, go forth and nominate!! Nominations will continue for a week or whenever they dry up, whatever comes first haha.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    1. Toffee finger - QS
    2. Fudge (the purple/pink one) - QS
    3. Malteaser - Celebrations
    4. Coconut - QS
    5. Galxy Choc - Celebrations
    Post edited by DvB on
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    A quick guide for Noms, here's what's currently in the tins.

    Quality Street

    • "The Purple One" (previously known as Hazel in Caramel) – Milk Chocolate filled with hazelnut and caramel (purple wrapper)
    • "The Green Triangle" (previously known as Noisette Triangle) – milk chocolate filled with hazelnut praline (green wrapper, foil)
    • Toffee Finger (gold wrapper, stick)
    • Strawberry Delight (red wrapper, circular)
    • Caramel Swirl (yellow wrapper, circular, foil)
    • Milk Choc Block (green wrapper)
    • Orange Chocolate Crunch (orange wrapper, octagonal, foil)
    • Orange Creme (orange wrapper)
    • Fudge (pink wrapper)
    • Coconut Eclair (blue wrapper)
    • Toffee Penny (gold wrapper, circular)

    Heroes

    Roses

    • Golden Barrel - Milk chocolate in the shape of half a barrel, filled with caramel (gold wrapper). Previously named Caramel Keg.
    • Caramel - Cadbury Caramel Toffee piece. Soft toffee encased in Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate (blue wrapper).
    • Country Fudge - Rectangular fudge piece, coated in milk chocolate (light brown wrapper).
    • Hazel in Caramel - Crescent-shaped milk chocolate with hazelnut plant engraving on top, filled with caramel and a hazelnut (purple wrapper). A recent market poll showed that this was the most popular variety in Ireland, by a margin of two-to-one over the next, the Golden Barrel (Caramel Keg).
    • Hazel Whirl - Dome-shaped milk chocolate, patterned with spiral twirl, with hazelnut in centre (purple wrapper with orange edges).
    • Strawberry Dream - Square-shaped milk chocolate with strawberry seed engravings on top, filled with strawberry-flavoured cream fondant (pink wrapper). The same poll which determined that the 'Hazel in Caramel' variety was most popular in Ireland also showed this as being rated the 'worst' variety.
    • Tangy Orange Creme - Square-shaped milk chocolate with orange moulded on top, filled with orange-flavoured creme fondant (orange wrapper).
    • Signature Truffle - New for Christmas 2013, this is a truffle encased in milk chocolate (red wrapper with blue edges).

    Celebrations




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭jellybear


    My votes, in order of preference, are....

    Snickers- Celebrations

    Eclair- Celebrations

    Strawberry Delight- QS

    Orange Creme- QS

    Orange Chocolate Crunch- QS



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Bounty- Celebrations

    Fudge- Heroes

    Caramel- Roses

    Orange Choc crunch- QS


    As you can see I have no brand loyalty 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Mine:

    Bounty - Celebrations

    Toffee Finger - QS

    Eclair - Heroes

    Fudge (Pink Wrapper) - QS

    The Purple One - QS



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Toffee Finger - QS

    Malteasers - Celebrations

    Crunchie - Heroes

    Galaxy - Celebrations

    Toffee Penny - QS

    I'm still annoyed that they got rid of the second chocolate toffee (in the brown wrapper) in QS last year!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,937 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    My top five are:

    1. Toffee finger - Quality Street
    2. Galaxy - Celebrations
    3. Malteasers - Celebrations
    4. The Purple One - Quality Street
    5. Toffee Penny - Quality Street




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭Jude13


    1. Toffee Finger (gold wrapper, stick)
    2. The Purple One
    3. Hazel Whirl
    4. Éclair
    5. Toffee Penny 


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Looks like a lot of us like our toffees!



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Better get my own in;

    1. Strawberry Delight - QS
    2. Caramel Swirl -QS
    3. Strawberry Dream - Roses
    4. country fudge - Roses
    5. Bounty - Celebrations


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Strawberry Delight 🤢 You've gone down in my estimation, @Loughc 😜



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Looks like CL and I will be sharing the Bounties on a forum get together!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Strawberry delight and caramel swirl sitting in my rejects tub!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I actually prefer the QS coconut to the bounty in celebrations, there's more coconut in the QS one... nom nom!!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    20 Unique sweet nominations in.... any more takers?



  • Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Mutleyboo


    Oh forgot this!

    1. Toffee finger

    2. Toffee penny

    3. Scots clan (if allowed)

    4. Emmerald toffees ( if allowed)

    5 Raffaello


    Possibly need a trip to the dentist soon!



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Oh, thought we were limited to the tubs, Scots clan would be up there for me big time.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Rule 4. Sweets outside of the usual big 4 tubs will also be considered but must be known for their popularity at Christmas time.

    😉

    i’ll allow more noms even if you voted if you want to vote for outside the big 4.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Scots clan for me for sure!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Scots Clan here too

    Do Ferrero Rocher count?



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    A vote for Ferrero Rocher too so. Even though I'm not an ambassador 😉



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    You’re really spoiling us with this nomination ambassador 😉



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Which one? Theres the dark ones, white ones & normal ones in the variety boxes 😉

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    • Strawberry Dream ( Roses)
    • Tangy Orange Creme (Roses)
    • Galaxy Caramel ( Celebrations)
    • Maltesers Teaser ( Celebrations)
    • Golden Barrel ( Roses)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Only the original ones, the rest are manky 😂 White "chocolate" is a crime against humanity!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Agree on the white chocolate... its positively offensive to my taste buds, but I disagree on the dark ones, I love Dark chocolate, easily my favourite chocolate type.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Same, dark choc all the way.

    Is good for you :)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Guinness & Dark choc, the only 2 treats that are actually good for you... or so I keep telling myself anyway 😂

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Oh I do like dark chocolate but not with nuts. Interesting that nobody has mentioned those vile Lindor that are inexplicably loved by many. Yes I've very stong opinions about confectionery 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Love the lindor dark balls.... with tea or coffee... heavenly.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Ferrero Rocher

    Lindor 😂

    Caramel barrel (Roses)

    The purple one (QS)

    The green triangle (QS)



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Get out.....

    Lindor is gods gift to us humans!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,023 ✭✭✭sporina


    1. Dairymilk (Hereos/Roses)
    2. Wispa (Heroes)
    3. Twix (Celebrations)
    4. Snickers (Celebrations)
    5. Galaxy Caramel (Celebrations)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭CheerLouth


    Those Lindt balls....literally Manna from heaven 🤤



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Right the healthy eating might have to take a hit tonight, all this talk to choc is giving me a graving for a few choccy biscuits!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭Caranica




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Went out to the shed to grab a couple of cans of guinness and found an aero peppermint bar and a large bar of Cadbury s dairymilk in.the fridge...

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,023 ✭✭✭sporina


    oh I love Lindt Lindor.. wow - never met anyone who didn't like em.. wow..

    but hey, each to their own..

    I lovvvve the hazelnut variant hmmm



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,682 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Omg the hazelnut ones, mmmmm. 😋



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭snowgal


    1 orange creams Roses

    2 wispa heroes

    3 Devon toffee seasons greeetings

    4 crème egg Heroes

    5 WHITE ferraros yum!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Do After Eights count? Are they a chocolate/sweet or a biscuit? Love them anyway.

    My favs - Strawberry Delight, Orange Creme (QS) and Wispa, Twirl and Dairymilk (Heroes) Snickers from Celebrations.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    The purple one

    Malteser

    Tunnocks Tea Cake

    Hazel Whirl

    Ferrero Rochet original one



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Think classifying a tunnock tea cake as a sweet might be a stretch (we'll leave that to the mods, thats why they're paid the big bucks afterall 😉)... they are so tasty though they kinda do deserve a mention.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Yea as much as I love them, they're defo more on the cakey side of things....



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Going to close off the nom nom noms today and start with eliminators/round 1 tomorrow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Am I to late too late to vote 🧑‍🎄

    I would have voted for

    1. Toffee finger QS
    2. Galaxy Caramel Celebrations
    3. Scots Clan
    4. Maltesers
    5. Cadburys Caramel Heroes


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Not too late. Should be able to start the knockouts tomorrow. Work pending. 😜



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