Heroes Vs Roses Vs Quality Street; who's the king of the Christmas confectionery?

27-12-2013 12:47AM

I could eat my own bodyweight in those white Fererro Rocher Raffaello.

wretcheddomain · 27-12-2013 12:52AM

Supervalu Assorted Biscuits

Ruu · 27-12-2013 12:58AM

Took a liking to Emerald Irish Toffees over the Christmas!

27-12-2013 01:35AM

bop1977 wrote: »

Which came first milks or cadburys?

http://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/Jelly-Popping-Candy-Shells-3760?p=3760

It is always hard to tell. The Philidelphia cheese mixed with cadburys came out at the same time as the same cheese mixed with milka.

There is obviously some corporate nepotism going on there.

But overall I think Milka win given they did this:

http://images4.mysupermarket.co.uk/Products_1000/94/132694.jpg?v=2

And this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zXmWrHd6U4o/UAnelogZ_5I/AAAAAAAAFJc/wlQq4Zikja0/s1600/DSCF8277.JPG

And then - weirdest of all - this:

http://www.fdbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/MondelezMilkaTuc.png

Daqster · 27-12-2013 01:44AM

Anything made by Caffrey's are like the crack cocaine of the confectionery world.

marshbaboon · 27-12-2013 01:48AM

Butlers. Take your peasant chocolate with you on your way out the door.

FunLover18 · 27-12-2013 01:49AM

Another vote for Celebrations

gammygils · 27-12-2013 01:52AM

Black Magic
Double Centres
Sensations (Aldi)
Thornton's
Dairy Box

lau1247 · 27-12-2013 01:53AM

Has anyone had marks and spencer's belgian chocolate dust coated truffles??

OMG, they are so friggin nice!!!!

TeddyTedson · 27-12-2013 02:04AM

Does chocolate make anyone else cough if they eat it? I'm not mad about it anyway but if I bother to eat a sweet I'll be coughing with it....?

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 27-12-2013 02:09AM

Heroes or celebrations

Chareth Cutestory · 27-12-2013 02:16AM

I used to be mad about Roses but they've changed man, they've changed. The chocolate they use is a lot sweeter than that used for dairy milk and the likes.

Has to be heroes or celebrations, or Lindt lindor if I'm feeling especially fancy.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-12-2013 02:49AM

At this stage I'm so looking forward to a slice of fresh bread with real butter.

Vincent Vega · 27-12-2013 03:57AM

Was gonna slate Roses & Quality St for having discontinued the flavours i liked.... but I see that Roses has brought back some sort of Coffee Creme variety.
Can anybody confirm whether it is the same as before?

Vito Corleone · 27-12-2013 06:53AM

Quality Streets have to be the most disgusting sweets ever.

dobman88 · 27-12-2013 06:59AM

Galaxy selection box

Hooked · 27-12-2013 10:24AM

Daqster wrote: »

Anything made by Caffrey's are like the crack cocaine of the confectionery world.

Right on! Snowballs FTW. Haven't changed in years!!!

Roses lost the dairy-milk to heroes. Remember when roses had miniature dairy-milk and bourneville bars? And the chocolate actually tasted like cadburys chocolate?

Heroes have toblerones in, which ain't even cadburys, are they? Confusing... The creme egg sweets aren't a cousin to a creme egg! Celebrations are 'daycent' but those malteasers are a joke. Same as the creme egg 'sweet'. No relation.

My missus bought me a box of 'just' the dairy milk sweets (formerly roses tin, now in with the heroes). This box was in the shape of a milk carton. I ate the lot. In one sitting.

Thank you dairy milk, for saving Christmas!

xzanti · 27-12-2013 10:47AM

Quality Streets

They are the only ones who haven't changed their recipe or shuffled around the wrappers etc down through the years.. they are the same now as they were when I was a kid.. or pretty close anyway!

I know where I stand with those badboys!!

I actually boycotted Roses this year.. to my disgust I only got 4 toffees in an entire tin of Roses last year and I swore I wouldn't buy into their bullsh1t ever again.

Also, they dressed the caramel keg up to look like a yellow toffee.

Dirty.

[-0-] · 27-12-2013 12:32PM

hfallada wrote: »

**** all that ****. Lindt is the ultimate chocolate. It's fairly expensive but worth it.

Agreed.

super_furry · 27-12-2013 12:33PM

Roses have become vile little lumps of sugary ****e.

padd b1975 · 27-12-2013 12:34PM

Milk Tray.

Roses have jumped the shark.

Lyn256 · 27-12-2013 12:40PM

Mmm Roses orange creams

Its great coz they're always left at the end of the tin when we go visiting

Happy Days for me

mosi · 27-12-2013 02:28PM

Celebrations, followed by Heroes.
Roses have gotten rid of most of the good ones, while Quality Street have always been vile.

27-12-2013 02:37PM

Candie wrote: »

I could eat my own bodyweight in those white Fererro Rocher Raffaello.

Oooooooh you just reminded me that me mammy bought me a box of them. mmmmmmm.

Out of the "tinned" sweets selection, definitely Quality Street. Loads of toffees, yum. Roses are gone to shyte - hey ruined their brazilian toffee by making it smaller and softer. The got rid of the picnics out of heroes and added feckin mini toblerones - and cream eggs? they're for easter, not christmas. Celebrations are alright too but they got rid of the topics.

I didn't buy any this year.

IvaBigWun · 27-12-2013 03:22PM

Whoopsie; any chance you could add Celebrations to the poll?

27-12-2013 03:25PM

Sure but it's not going to matter now :P

IvaBigWun · 27-12-2013 03:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Sure but it's not going to matter now :P

Ya never know

Cheers

Liamalone · 27-12-2013 03:34PM

Celebrations all the way here.

Quality Street are the worst.

Five boxes of stuff came into our house, all Quality Street

Earthhorse · 27-12-2013 03:48PM

Can't believe the hate for Quality Street on here. I used to be a Roses and Milk Tray man but they are both so sickly sweet now that I'm no longer interested. A lot of people are saying Heroes or Celebrations but they're both very bland IMO. Just miniature versions of bars with hardly any variety and the lack of orange and strawberry fondants is another mark against them. Give me a selection box above any of that nonsense please.

Someone mentioned Butlers there and they are good. Leonidas too, provided there are no liqueurs.

27-12-2013 03:54PM

Earthhorse wrote: »

Leonidas too, provided there are no liqueurs.

Leonidas are awesome. They're very rich but that doesn't stop me shoving more in me gob. Om nom nom. I should be about 15 stone at this stage :pac:

Heroes Vs Roses Vs Quality Street; who's the king of the Christmas confectionery?

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