Quality Street shock

Kisathecat, QS not being to your taste doesn't make them crap (your word). They have no more additives than other mainstream chocolates, and don't actually contain "cheap soy".

Sorry to have added to the gloom, ann, I'm afraid it really is impossible to have a lighthearted thread on GN these days.

There is still a big factory at Bournville, are you sure they don't make any chocolate there?

Apologies, should have said R&D (Research and Development) takes place in UK.

Although Cadbury's R&R dept is still based in UK, the actual manufacture takes place in Poland. I can remember a time when we thought chocolates bought on the Continent were rubbish compared with Cadbury's. Anyone else remember that?

Caley’s Marching Chocolate! What an intriguing name! Is it the chocolate equivalent of Kendal Mint Cake, Nfk?

Disaster! Dismay! I just googled Caley's Marching Chocolate to see if a supermarket chain stocked it and everywhere seems to be out of stock or no longer available! Looks like they've gone out of business! I admit I haven't eaten much chocolate lately due to excess weight.

That's it. We must all rally and eat good quality chocolates. Eat it or loose it!

Sounds as if I am not alone in boycotting Nestle after all. Thanks Petra and Ruth

We won a box of Quality Street in a raffle last week and I just opened it to cheer a miserable afternoon. Fudged around for my favourite purple and it does seem to be smaller. Perhaps my eye has grown.

If you can get them Caleys are nice. Opened in Norwich after the chocolate factory was closed down and the management bought them out. Still using the old proper recipe.

Maggimaybe you really can’t expect people to support a brand that sells crap in pretty wrappers. The chocolates are full of additives and cheap ingredients, for one lots of manufacturers now use cheap soy instead of cocoa butter in chocolate. I’ll be putting my money in brands with a little more respect for the bottom line in future. Quality street have probably only survived this long on tradition and when that’s gone, it’s gone.

nonnie
It was only yesterday that I was educating my daughter about Nestle. I used the same words as you: terrible company

absolutely agree, appalling record. We too boycott their products.

I used to love the coffee creams, colleagues used to save theirs for me -happy days
I wish Ferrero Rocher would do a whole box of plain choc ones.

... And now that the chocolate is Cadbury's it is horrid. I don't buy Quality Street any more. Such a shame because we always had a tin of it at Christmas.

I'm with you IngeJones - really sad the all the coffee creams have vanished. I have bought a bag of Thornton's to try (not impressed by the cappuccino flavoured ones as they don't have enough flavour, so hoping these are better!).

I think you can buy a pack of green triangles on their own and also, I believe, a very large green triangle like a bar of chocolate. Anyone else seen those?

I have vague memories of collecting the wrappers when I was at secondary school, late '40s.
We competed to see who had the best collection.

the chocolate is crap because they've changed to the american taste, rumour has it that sales have plummeted so they are changing back. Aldi's . or is it Lidl's Moser & Roth are much nicer and a decent price

The chocolate in Quality Street and Roses is awful now. Greasy, tasteless and claggy. Yuk!

Apparently, hazelnut whirls are in Roses.

Hundreds of Yorkshire jobs rely on Quality Street, so please don't boycott it. They were developed in Halifax in the 1930s and are still made there. When the wind's in the right direction, you're enveloped in that chocolate smell when you're waiting for your train at Halifax station. Heaven!

They don't taste any different to me these days, though Cadbury's does. The green triangles have always been my favourite, and certainly haven't gone - in fact, you can buy boxes with just them in now, just in case your DH gets there first!

well I'm never buying quality street again then

I normally like QS but we opened the box last night and they were horrible all tasting the same. I thought they were off.

Bars of Milk Tray and when Cadbury's milk chocolate was made in Bournville not another far off country.?
As Maurice Chevalier would sing 'Oh yes I remember it well'

What? They were the best two!!

Just had a sneaky look at a tin of celebrations No Galaxy Truffles