The Official Roses/Heroes/Quality Street/Celebrations et al Thread

Got me the TIN of Quality Street there in SV for €8 today
Happy out

Roses 729g €4.99 in Aldi on Thursday 10th.

Anybody know were to get the best value selection boxes and tins of biscuits? Have to get loads for the nephews/nieces /in-laws etc.
My local costcutter has 3 medium selection boxes for €5 and a 300g box of Victoria biscuits for €3. Seems decent value.

Yes, I presume selection boxes/biscuits come under the "et al" bit......... Excuse me if I'm wrong but didn't want to start a new thread. I figured posters here could advise......

Amy33 wrote: »

Tins of Celebrations, Roses, Heroes and Quality Street are €8 or 2 for €12.

Is this actual metal tins (about 1.3kg) or the plastic tubs?

I'm living in Germany at the mo, popped into the British shop to get some mince pies and christmas treats, saw a tub of roses for..... 20. Euro!!!!

Tesco have the tins/drums of Roses, Quality Street, Celebrations Heroes etc for €4.99 each. Picked one up today, they were available in Tesco and the extra stores.

DubDJ wrote: »

Tesco have the tins/drums of Roses, Quality Street, Celebrations Heroes etc for €4.99 each. Picked one up today, they were available in Tesco and the extra stores.

Not a single tin of Roses was to be had in Tesco in Athlone yesterday evening!

snubbleste wrote: »

For those who think they are getting a bargain..
From left; late 1990s, both the 2000s, 2014/2015

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

matchthis wrote: »

A few years back, telco did "the big tin" of roses. It was either 3 or 2 for €10. That was something like a 2.2kg tin

If it was a few years ago it should be easy enough to find in a search. I did find a few cheap ones in old threads when I searched a year or so ago (as this topic comes up every year), but any really cheap ones invariably very limited, i.e. feck all people got them at that price, it was a gimmick to get people in the shop.

EDIT: here is one, with no comments about how everyone was complaining as so few people got them. it was also up north.

gurramok wrote: »

25-11-2005
Think it was 0.67, but then again i paid by cc.
Dunnes are giving a rate of 0.70 to the euro, which is best i reckon.
Last time i was in Sainsbury's, i got the following according to the receipt
24 Kronenberg bottles for £11.66
24 Grolsch for £12.99
20 Bud for £10.99
2 Cadburys Heroes for £6, also same for Quality St, Celebrations
Roses 2.2kg tin for £10
Also Miller 24pk for £13, 6 Heineken for £6.49(all bottles), 8x500ml Bulmers cans for £9.49 in Dunnes.

So 2.2kg roses was £10 and he got 0.67 rate so it was 14.92euro.

Current roses is 748g for a fiver. so that sainsbury tin would be 5.07euro for 748g.

Here is a thread from 2007 with 2.2kg tins for 6.44euro , but the comments were as I expected
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055164593

Davy wrote: »

ye true, there HUGE tins 2.2kg,,, dont know if you could get your hands on any though seen a pallet gone in a few mins

spurious wrote: »

This was so funny to watch this morning in Artaine Castle. I was having a cup of coffee before shopping and could see them all coming out with the tins of Roses. One man was running to his car with one set while on the phone to his mate telling him about it. He then kept running back and forward to retrieve other pairs of tins from his kids. You'd think the world was ending. It was a right frenzy.

I still think the 'two for the price of one' tins of the posh biscuits was a better deal.

ScouseMouse wrote: »

Just been in Tesco Tallaght and i saw two staff walking in the store with two tins each. I asked them where they were and was told there was none left.

The two boys had two each for themselves.

Vain wrote: »

they dont last 2mins once people see them there for that price they all start taking them

vibrant wrote: »

Oh my goodness, that explains a lot!!

I was in my local Tesco earlier and noticed that there were LOADS of people loitering about - as in groups of about 3/4 women every couple of aisles, none of them were chatting away as you'd expect in a supermarket, instead they were looking around them really sketchily.

I was doing my shopping as per usual, and I noticed that one group were standing around an older lady - who was telling them that "they had a delivery at 2, the next one is at 4 - my husband and I managed to get 12 tins at home.... "

Madness! If you have to hang around the shop for hours in order to get the bargain in the first place... well that's not much of a bargain to me

TireeTerror wrote: »

Rubadub you have a lot of spare time on your hands eh!

My thoughts too!! But we appreciate your research

SmallTeapot wrote: »

Anywhere I could get 1 box/tub for €4.99? Think I read a few posts back that the aldi have the tub on offer for around a fiver..... Is that offer still on?

I have a €5.00 clubcard voucher for dunnes......how much are their tubs? I'm trying to avoid the 2 for €10 offer in Supervalu, as don't need to get that much chocolate.

Cheers

I think a few have started to drop prices. My local centra have them 2 for €10 now. Tesco had them for €5 each last time I checked, on Thursday I think. Last I seen Dunnes were €6 but think somebody might have said to me they had dropped, not sure though.

Is there anyone else here that thinks Quality Street are barely a level above the cheap pound shop chocolate.
I find them absolutely awful.
Miniature hero's all the way for me.