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

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  • #62
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I just got handed a box of Leonidas this morning. Really must open them


  • #63
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Vincent Vega wrote: »
    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?

    Nope, they replaced the green caramel chocolate with a caramel chocolate and coffee truffle.

    Actually, I don't know, did their last coffee have caramel too?

    ____
    The Roses, have gotten pretty bad lately, trying to keep the same cost, so they've had to lower quality. ):

    ___
    I love ferror rocher, but they seem to have come down in quality too.
    Either that or the shop is selling old stock.


  • #64
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    This thread has made me long for a super sized jumbo Toblerone


  • #65
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    This thread has made me long for a super sized jumbo Toblerone

    Noooooooo... they're Summer Holiday fodder!!!

    Nothing Christmassy about Toblerones.


  • #66
    Marcus Halberstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Marcus Halberstram


    Roses have gone to ****e, the chocolate they use has noticeably changed for the worse.

    Thorntons taste like what Roses used to be like.


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  • #67
    Putin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    Not a big chocolate eater but Roses would be my first choice.


  • #68
    GoldenLight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    I was really disappointed that Heros had a Toberrone (never a fan since I gave myself a mental image of clipped toenails trapped inside a chocalate bar) I use to love Roses and Quality Street, but if I was going to vote for one it would be Heros, (mind you I wouldn't mind trying some of the Milka bars suggested here yum, yum tuc and chocalate):)


  • #69
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    xzanti wrote: »
    Noooooooo... they're Summer Holiday fodder!!!

    Nothing Christmassy about Toblerones.

    Chocolate in the Summer?! :eek:

    You're doing it wrong


  • #70
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Roses can go and get f*cked. B*stards ruined them.


  • #71
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,602 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    xzanti wrote: »
    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!!
    They are insipidly sweet compared to what they used to be, and Nestle chocolate isn't as nice as the old Rowntree Mackintosh stuff.


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  • #72
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Once they took out the Bourneville's it was all downhill for Roses.


  • #73
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Are Quality Street the glass sweets ones? If so they're not that bad


  • #74
    mobby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭mobby


    No chocolate but my child hood memories are a Big Box of Lemons toffees, made in the now long gone factory in drumcondra. Keep ye going for a day or two them toffies :D


  • #75
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Are Quality Street the glass sweets ones? If so they're not that bad

    No that's crystal meth. Quality street are better than Roses now because Nestle isn't on a suicide mission like Cadburys is.


  • #76
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    No that's crystal meth.


    Im always getting those two mixed up


  • #77
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Nom nom I finally got a jumbo super sized Toblerone as a present ... Nom nom gluttony nom


  • #78
    Days 298
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Days 298


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Nom nom I finally got a jumbo super sized Toblerone as a present ... Nom nom gluttony nom

    Sponsored by diabeetus :P


  • #79
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I actually didn't have chocolates this Christmas. Went through a biccie box instead.


  • #80
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    cream cracker with grated cheese and black pepper on top ...fed up with sweet stuff.


  • #81
    Chefrio
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 120 ✭✭Chefrio


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Nom nom I finally got a jumbo super sized Toblerone as a present ... Nom nom gluttony nom

    Nom can fukc off.


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  • #82
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Days 298 wrote: »
    Sponsored by diabeetus :P

    Im only bold with chocolate at Christmas, hopefully Im safe enough ;)


  • #83
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    A box of Lemons sweets makes a nice change from all the chocolate.


  • #84
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Some evil person just dropped these Marks & Spencers chocolates upto the house.

    Must.

    Resist.


  • #85
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Black Magic.

    I fooking love them. All of them. They got rid of the coffee one though, not happy.


  • #86
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Oh God I would have bought 10 boxes of these if I knew they existed!
    http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=279715096


  • #87
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Nom nom I finally got a jumbo super sized Toblerone as a present ... Nom nom gluttony nom

    I make a toblerone sauce and put it over ice cream strawberries soaked in cointreau.

    Its amazing and gets you surprisingly pissed :D


  • #88
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Zubes Christmas selection. Mmmmm, clear head passages.

    This is actually the first year ever we got no tins of sweets at all. Roses used to be the main treat for about Christmas time, but recent years they really are just cheap ****e. I remember when i was a kd my mum used to pay near twenty pounds for a tin of roses, was pure luxury that one time a year. There was about 1.5 kilos in them then. There were soft green coconut ones and the little blue shell ones that only I liked and mini bourneville and ones in red orange wrappers that tasted like they had bits of tasty sweet glass in them. I have not heard the word Montellimar in a long long time.

    Since they became a 5.99 special in petrol stations, they are just gak. Yuk, yak, gak and yok.


  • #89
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    mauzo! wrote: »
    I make a toblerone sauce and put it over ice cream strawberries soaked in cointreau.

    Its amazing and gets you surprisingly pissed :D

    Niiice ;)


  • #90
    DB83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭DB83


    Celebrations marginally ahead of heroes... Would be streets ahead of all competition except for the bounty.

    Quality street are gank & don't even deserve a mention


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  • #91
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Roses have been all homogenous and boring, can't tell one from another. Quality Street has far exceeded them in quality


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