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>> No. 5772 Anonymous
20th March 2011
Sunday 6:01 pm
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What is the king of confectionery boxes?

I used to think it was Cadbury Roses, but I had some lately and they've greatly reduced the variety and quality of chocolates available. I've heard Cadbury have also done the same with Miniature Heroes; taking out Crunchie, Picnic, Time Out and Caramel with a nut in it (can't remember the proper name for this).

Quality Street? Celebrations?
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>> No. 5773 Anonymous
20th March 2011
Sunday 7:32 pm
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>>5772

Cadbury's has gone to shit since the Yanks took over.

But I've always preferred Quality Street to Roses.
>> No. 5774 Anonymous
20th March 2011
Sunday 8:36 pm
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I have a soft spot for Quality Street simply because my dad would always get a tin of them at Christmas. I never even consider trying others, to be honest.
>> No. 5775 Anonymous
20th March 2011
Sunday 10:56 pm
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Quality Street would be brilliant if it had better quality chocolate, but compared to Roses in that regard it's shite. OP's news on Roses is distressing, I will have to buy a box to find out if this is true.
>> No. 5777 Anonymous
20th March 2011
Sunday 11:13 pm
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>>5775
Behold the new Roses. Almost all have the same wrapping, but in differing colours; strawberry, orange, dairy milk and the rest are either fudge, caramel, nutty or a combination from the three.
>> No. 5778 Anonymous
20th March 2011
Sunday 11:31 pm
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Nowhere near enough variety in them for me. I've stopped getting them.
>> No. 5784 Anonymous
21st March 2011
Monday 12:29 pm
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>>5777
Ah I see now, the Wikipedia page has a list of discontinued ones.

* Praline Moment - Silver foil wrapped.
* Chunky Truffle - Shaped like a chocolate brick, wrapped in blue foil.
* Bournville - Small bar of Bournville Dark Chocolate. Moved brand to Cadbury Heroes.
* Almond Charm - Blue foil-wrapped milk chocolate, with almond nut pieces.
* Coffee Creme - Coffee flavoured, fondant cream soft centre, covered in dark chocolate.
* Montelimar - Chewy nougat, encased in milk chocolate; green foil-twist wrapper.
* Turkish Delight - Rectangular shaped, dark purple foil wrapped.
* Orange Crisp - Orange wrapper.
* Chocolate Bite - Pink wrapper.


I can't believe they got rid of Chocolate Bite, that was a great one.
>> No. 5786 Anonymous
21st March 2011
Monday 12:42 pm
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>>5784

That is basically a list of all the ones I liked, damn it.
>> No. 5789 Anonymous
21st March 2011
Monday 3:13 pm
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Quality Street, definitely. Much more variation.

What would be in your ideal tin? Here's mine:
Chewy pennies
The long thin toffee ones
Green triangles
Caramel Cups
Purple caramel and nut ones
Orange crunch
Orange creme
Strawberry Creme (is there one that does a sort of double layered one, half strawberry liquidy stuff, half more moussey?)
Turkish Delight
Bournville.

None of this boring fudge stuff, and definitely nothing like Miniature Heroes. The worst.
>> No. 5793 Anonymous
21st March 2011
Monday 5:30 pm
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>>5789
Mine would be about 80% variations of strawberry/orange fillings and the rest would be made up of fudge, nuts in caramel, solid chocolate and then some chewy pennies thrown in for good measure.
>> No. 5804 Anonymous
22nd March 2011
Tuesday 9:10 pm
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Right, so I bought a box of Roses and started eating, and when I got near the bottom I found a Bournville. The hell? It's not on the list of ones on the box. Factory error do you think? Do they make Heroes and Roses on the same line?
>> No. 5806 Anonymous
22nd March 2011
Tuesday 11:23 pm
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>>5804
They make 'em all round the corner from me, so probably.
>> No. 5824 Anonymous
26th March 2011
Saturday 7:16 am
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Nothing beats the Whizzo Quality Assortment.
>> No. 5825 Anonymous
26th March 2011
Saturday 11:08 am
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If it was up to me I'd get rid of all the shitty toffee ones. I hate how they shove in the same one simply squashed into different shapes. If it is toffee I don't give a damn what shape it is in.
>> No. 5826 Anonymous
26th March 2011
Saturday 1:09 pm
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>>5825
You have a point there.
>> No. 6785 Anonymous
26th September 2011
Monday 2:22 am
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>>5774
My family also gets a tin of Quality Street every year, so personally it's my favourite too. However didn't they used to have a coffee one? Also, my mum found a really old tin from years ago and we compared it to the big tins of them you can get today, they seem to have downsized them a lot. The bastards.
>> No. 6798 Anonymous
27th September 2011
Tuesday 12:39 am
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All the good old boxes have dropped their variety too much. I think celebrations is quite good right now, even though there's the usual dregs towards the end. They too will no doubt die the ignoble death of having their range whittled down to a handful.
>> No. 8540 Anonymous
13th December 2012
Thursday 7:10 pm
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We've got a tin of Roses at work. They're definitely getting worse.
>> No. 8541 Anonymous
13th December 2012
Thursday 7:21 pm
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>>5772
>> No. 8542 Anonymous
14th December 2012
Friday 1:31 pm
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I just buy a bunch of Dark Magic chocolate boxes now. A lot nicer and they're always on deal.
>> No. 8543 Anonymous
14th December 2012
Friday 2:40 pm
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Since this is semi-related, shall we have a moment of silence for all the 'discontinued' confections we loved?

I was addicted to Cadbury's Astros as a young 'un and was heartbroken when they stopped selling them. From what I can tell they're only sold in South Africa these days.
>> No. 8544 Anonymous
14th December 2012
Friday 3:25 pm
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>>6785
Aye, they had downsized them a great deal. However, this year they've been selling the original sized tins at Sainsbury's.
>> No. 8545 Anonymous
15th December 2012
Saturday 1:11 am
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I definitely prefer Celebrations. The Malteser and Galaxy Truffle ones are delicious. Quality street are ok too, but there's far too many average ones in there.
>> No. 8546 Anonymous
15th December 2012
Saturday 11:45 pm
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>>8543
Fuck me, I'd forgotten I even casually ate these and now I suddenly miss them. I can't even remember what they were made of or tasted like and yet I want some.
>> No. 8556 Anonymous
18th December 2012
Tuesday 7:21 pm
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>>8540 here again.

There aren't any coconut ones. Didn't Roses use to have coconut ones?
>> No. 8557 Anonymous
19th December 2012
Wednesday 5:27 am
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>>8556
I don't think so. I can't recollect ever tasting Dairy Milk and coconut together. Sure you're not thinking of Quality Street? It's always had the blue coconut one.
>> No. 8559 Anonymous
23rd December 2012
Sunday 6:52 pm
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Malteaser celebrations are the master race of all confectionery box sweeties.
>> No. 8570 Anonymous
30th December 2012
Sunday 2:28 am
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>>8545 here.

They got rid of the galaxy truffles, the fuckers.
>> No. 11825 Anonymous
12th October 2015
Monday 1:20 pm
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I've only just discovered these. It's such a shame that the lemon ones are shite.
>> No. 11826 Anonymous
12th October 2015
Monday 1:55 pm
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>>11825
355g in what is presumably the old 500g box. The kilo tins went below 800g last year and will probably be closer to 700g this year. It's like they're stealing Christmas half a dozen sweets at a time.
>> No. 11827 Anonymous
12th October 2015
Monday 8:42 pm
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>>11825
>Fruit mixed with chocolate.

What a utterly vile concept. I wouldn't buy this shite for my worst enemies.
>> No. 11828 Anonymous
12th October 2015
Monday 8:48 pm
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>>11826
The boxes I got at the weekend were 344g.
>> No. 11829 Anonymous
12th October 2015
Monday 9:36 pm
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>>11825
Where are you buying them? Last time I saw them they were limited edition and some cheeky fucker had stocked up and was charging £14 per box on Amazon. I really want more of them.
>> No. 11896 Anonymous
24th December 2015
Thursday 7:40 pm
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>>11826
Inflation, innit. It's the price of a tin, usually £3 or £5, that stays constant and not the weight of the chocolates inside so they stay affordable. If the weight stayed constant and they kept bumping up the price instead then there'd be an outcry. Society as we know it would most likely collapse.
>> No. 11901 Anonymous
24th December 2015
Thursday 11:24 pm
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I can't stand Quality Street. I'd take Celebrations but haven't had them for years.
>> No. 11911 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 1:24 pm
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Heroes and it isn't even close. Quality Street is proper shithouse (and yet my fam still bought it...)
>> No. 11912 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 1:54 pm
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I ate a penny toffee for the first time after getting my tongue pierced the other day it was terrible. The sweet had an adhesive quality to the plastic end piece which meant it was impossible to swallow and the more I tried to swallow it, the more surface area it covered. Ended up having to dismantle the thing and peal it off. It's not easy being beautiful.
>> No. 11913 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 3:31 pm
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Roses are the best now. They actually still have strawberry, orange, AND coffee chocolates. Unlike the others which took away at least one of those.
>> No. 11914 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 3:35 pm
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>>11913

M7, coffee chocolates are enjoyed only by paedos.
>> No. 11915 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 5:13 pm
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>>11912
>getting my tongue pierced

Why, lad?
>> No. 11916 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 5:15 pm
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>>11915

Cock.
>> No. 11917 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 5:18 pm
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>>11915

Coz the bitches love it! I get bare gash, my dick is red raw from shagging.
>> No. 11918 Anonymous
27th December 2015
Sunday 8:28 pm
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>>11916
Keep your knickers on, lad. It was merely a question. If I was being snarky then I'd have saged.
>> No. 11920 Anonymous
28th December 2015
Monday 6:53 am
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>>11918

I was answering your question, you muppet.
>> No. 13158 Anonymous
27th December 2019
Friday 6:26 pm
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I have decided that Cadbury Heroes are the winner of confectionery box 2019.
>> No. 13159 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 12:42 am
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>>8543
I absolutely loved those as a kid. I'm tempted to see if I can get them imported.
>> No. 13160 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 7:48 pm
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>>5789

How come none of them have a special projects division, with a (shit, inevitably) webpage where you can choose to have a tin stuffed with your choice and ratio. All it needs is a webform, a decent markup and a couple of Latvian lasses with boxes of the individual sweets.
Fuck it, no real need to interfere with the existing production lines - make them strip and sort regular boxes, and send the unpopular ones that nobody ever chooses to orphans or summat.
>> No. 13162 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 8:18 pm
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>>13160
https://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/pick-n-mix/postal/view/id/2
>> No. 13163 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 9:09 pm
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>>13160

Because the only reason these boxes exist at all is for the companies to shift the shit ones nobody likes by mixing them with the good ones people do like.

Don't fall for Big Chocolate and their schemes lad.
>> No. 13916 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 5:32 pm
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>Cadbury has reduced the size of its selection box Fudge bars by 12 per cent in a bid to tackle childhood obesity.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/fudge-bars-shrink-size-selection-box-obesity-b1634992.html

BROKEN BRITAIN
>> No. 13917 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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>>13916
>bid to tackle childhood obesity

And it just so happens that Cadbury already tried to get rid of Fudge a couple years back. Fucking bullshit, it's been a death spiral ever since the Americans bought it.
>> No. 13918 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 6:04 pm
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>>13917
It's since the Kraft takeover that all these additional party flavours came out. 'Fruit and chopped nuts' are just the last grains from the bottom of the barrel, as are the crossover varieties which ingredients failed to pass quality control for the main products. It's good to reduce waste and all but to sell it as a new product at full price? disgraceful.
I rarely buy Cadburies nowadays. Kraft can suck a dick.
>> No. 13919 Anonymous
10th November 2020
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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>>13916
a box of roses by any other name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
>> No. 14029 Anonymous
29th December 2020
Tuesday 8:13 pm
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These are proper shit.
>> No. 14795 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 8:02 pm
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This is what an 800g tin of Quality Street has inside.
>> No. 14796 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 8:02 pm
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This is what an 800g tin of Roses has inside.
>> No. 14797 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 8:46 pm
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>>14795>>14796
I have to be honest and say I think they are both overly sweet and quite sickly anyway. I think I'm going completely off sweets altogether though, so I'm not laying this down as law.
>> No. 14799 Anonymous
28th November 2021
Sunday 9:39 am
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>>14795
Who even fucking likes the toffee coins. No one. And they put more in that anything else.

This picture says a lot anyway. Toffee fudge and caramel chocolates are pretty much just all pure sugar so they're cheap which is why the tin is stuffed with them. Prailine, chocolate, nuts, are the more expensive ingredients so that's why there's so few of those on the right.
>> No. 15337 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 1:16 pm
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I would ask what the hell this is, but it appears to be a very clever marketing stunt.
>> No. 15338 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 3:02 pm
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>>14797
This thing that I said about going off sweets was complete horseshit in case you couldn't tell at the time.

>>15337
Yeah, that's why, despite liking Bounty bars, I haven't engaged at all. All marketing departments should be liquidated, and not in the nice way.
>> No. 15339 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 3:54 pm
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I don't know why people don't like Bounty. It's not like its divisive coffee flavour or orange, most people have no issue with coconut.
>> No. 15340 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 4:03 pm
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>>15339
I think it's more to do with the texture than the taste, although milk chocolate and coconut is nowhere near as nice as dark chocolate and coconut.

🍫 🥥
>> No. 15341 Anonymous
5th November 2022
Saturday 5:14 pm
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>>15340

The texture of a Bounty isn't even comparable to other types of coconut though, that's the bit that puzzles me. It's an idealised version of coconut, much better than that nasty gritty shit they sprinkle on buns or what have you.

The best use of coconut is for Malibu to mix into various types of alcoholic drink on a hot summer evening, though.
>> No. 15342 Anonymous
7th November 2022
Monday 10:26 am
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>>15337
If someone gives me one of these for Christmas there will be mutiny.
>> No. 15344 Anonymous
8th November 2022
Tuesday 10:08 am
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>>15342
I appreciate you ladm9.

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