Quality Street.

Posted by: George Fredrik on 26 December 2010

Quality Street.

This year, and seeing as nobody would think to buy me my favourite sweets, I bought large 997 gram tin of Quality Street for myself, and now have two neatly arranged piles of blue and purple uneaten sweets!

Who else is [and or was] so picky as to avoid the unknown [blue] or disliked [purple, and with large nuts under the chocolate] till the end?

Mind you they have filleted the selection since the old days!

ATB from George

PS: The blue are coconut. Can't stand coconut!
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by Julian H
LOL.

There always seems to be insufficient Maltesers in Celebrations too Frown Big Grin

J
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by George Fredrik
Dear Julian

Ten out of ten! Laugh-out-loud-issimo! Could never stand dates either, and they seem to have disappeared!

Happy New Year! G
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by Julian H
Here you go George. A little bit of consumer research. I just happened to have an unopened box of Heroes in the house.



Great if you like plain milk chocolate, not so good if you want the twisted mini creme eggs [unfortunately there are even less than that now! Big Grin].

J
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by shoot6x7
I eat the green triangles and the purple ones first !
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by BigH47
I'll eat any of the Quality Street even the unloved coconut,(blue ones).
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by Stephen Tate
I shall take whether or not i like Roses or Quality street better to the grave! This has been going on for years!

I'll always take both just to be on the safe side though.
It's not so easy to say the same about the two ABBA girls during my youth though, it ended (stale mate) Big Grin

Happy year,
Steve
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by naim_nymph
My favourite was the coffee cream from the Roses selection...

However, they stopped including the coffee creams years ago, so i've stopped buying Roses, and i don't buy Quality Shite all sugar and fat, or Heroes diabetes in a box either.

The coffee cream was the best of all, and now it's gone!

Humbug!

Debs

p.s. (not that i feel bitter and twisted or anything)
Posted on: 26 December 2010 by Cymbiosis
quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
I'll eat any of the Quality Street even the unloved coconut,(blue ones).


Yep, me too Howard!

George, would you like my postcode Big Grin

KR

Peter

P.S. I eat dates too!
Posted on: 27 December 2010 by northpole
New thread required for all contributors to this one:

"My new exercise regime for 2011"!! Big Grin

Peter

[Lindt White Truffles went down a treat this year!]
Posted on: 27 December 2010 by kevj
George,

I bought a tin of Quality Street from the British Shop in Perth - if you've been eating Australian chocolate for a while the British ones taste amazing. I've enjoyed them all. (Australian chocolate is made to a different recipe, I think with extra sugar to raise the melting point - otherwise every chocolate boufght would be a squidgy mess)

A belated merry Christmas to you, and a more timely happy new year.

All the best

Kevin
Posted on: 27 December 2010 by George Fredrik
quote:
Originally posted by northpole:
New thread required for all contributors to this one:

"My new exercise regime for 2011"!! Big Grin

Peter

[Lindt White Truffles went down a treat this year!]


Dear Peter,

As ordered: My new thread here!

Hardy perennial!

quote:
George,

I bought a tin of Quality Street from the British Shop in Perth ...

A belated merry Christmas to you, and a more timely happy new year.

All the best, Kevin


Best wishes for the New Year to you Kevin! ATB from George
Posted on: 28 December 2010 by Whizzkid
You bunch of paupers Quality Street PAH! Roses double PAH! Only the best in this house.



Do many deliveries for Charbonnel et Walker and get to sample often Smile proper chocolate.



Dean...
Posted on: 30 December 2010 by OscillateWildly
Like them all; choosing those others enjoy, then bagging the leftovers.

Happy New Year,
OW
Posted on: 30 December 2010 by naim_nymph
Dear George,

if it's Quality you're after, i would have thought these would be up your Street...


(a belated crimbo prezzy from a colleague friend)

So far i've enjoyed a Bach - Toccata und Fudge (Gianduja),
and a Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (yummi cappuccino & roasted hazelnut).

I see that Mozart's in the Coffee House too! Razz

Debs
Posted on: 31 December 2010 by Martin_C
Re: Quality Street etc

The solution is to do what I organised in the office last year....a chocolate amnesty where everybody brings in the colours they don't like and swaps them with somebody else who invariably likes the opposite (I've considered running this as the ultimate compatibility test for an on-line dating service - I may yet make my fortune!)
Posted on: 31 December 2010 by Mick P
Chaps

Forget Quality Street and similar. Get yourself down to the elcheapo Lidl and buy some 80% cocoa dark chocolate. It is absolutely brilliant.

All the old geezers are nibbling the stuff now a days.

Regards

Mick
Posted on: 31 December 2010 by Stephen Tate
Cheers for the heads up mick!

Happy new year!
Posted on: 03 January 2011 by Salmon Dave
George - please pass your purple ones to me.

I'd recommend Booja-booja choc truffles, described as 'cholesterol-free' and incredibly tasty! http://www.boojabooja.com/chocolate_truffles.asp

On the subject of Lidl, their ground coffee is about half the price of UK supermarket stuff and twice as good.
Posted on: 03 January 2011 by George Fredrik
George - please pass your purple ones to me.

Already gone - yum!
Posted on: 07 January 2011 by Naijeru
I always left the yellow circular caramels for last. They were dreadfully plain, gooey, and not fun to eat unless they were the only candy in the house.