Nestle Quality Street

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Produced by Nestle in 1936 they came out in pretty boxes costing around 2 shilling and in the 50's moved on to the tins which I think was the best and will remain the best packaging for Quality Street.
Quality Street is exported to over 70 worldwide countries and remains one of the most exciting chocolate varieties you can buy. They were no1 bestseller for twist wrap assortment in 2005, 06 and 07 proving they still have ...
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You can buy Quality Street in 480g and 275g cartons, 1.2kg tins and 900g jars; all the tins and boxes are brightly designed in trademark purple with
But even with all of those different packaging you still get the same selection of sweets 12 mouth watering chocolates all individually wrapped in brightly coloured foil wrapping. Enclosed in every box and tin which I think is brilliant is the little piece of paper with pictures ... more

This is my special Christmas review I don't normally eat this many chocolates in a row (honest) but for ciao I will make an exception.

THE START OF QUALITY STREET
Quality Street have been around forever haven't they? Along with Roses I think they were invented with Adam and Eve, that wasn't leaves covering their modesty it was the green triangle!
Produced by Nestle in 1936 they came out in pretty boxes costing around 2 shilling and in the 50's moved on to the tins which I think was the best and will remain the best packaging for Quality Street.
Quality Street is exported to over 70 worldwide countries and remains one of the most exciting chocolate varieties you can buy. They were no1 bestseller for twist wrap assortment in 2005, 06 and 07 proving they still have what it takes to please people's taste buds.

PACKAGING
You can buy Quality Street in 480g and 275g cartons, 1.2kg tins and 900g jars; all the tins and boxes are brightly designed in trademark purple with
But even with all of those different packaging you still get the same selection of sweets 12 mouth watering chocolates all individually wrapped in brightly coloured foil wrapping. Enclosed in every box and tin which I think is brilliant is the little piece of paper with pictures of all the chocolates so you can decide what you are going to eat instead of chewing on a few and deciding you hate them!

DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS
Toffee Deluxe
The toffee deluxe is not one of my favourite its such a chore to eat wrapped in a dark brown wrapper (don't worry its not the dreaded coffee cream back for revenge) you get an oblong shaped sweet which consists of milk chocolate wrapped around some very hard set toffee. If you put the whole thing in your mouth you can guarantee being shut up for at least 30mins whilst you break it down enough to digest, on the other hand you can sit and bite bits off but its pretty hard going for very little reward. The toffee is ok especially being covered in a nice creamy chocolate but it doesn't leave a particularly nice after taste.

Milk Choc Block
The milk chocolate block is just too boring for words. Ok I know people like just plain chocolate but this isn't even overly nice chocolate. I don't know why it tasted any different to the chocolate on the other sweets but it does. Wrapped in a very dark green foil wrapping you are expecting something a bit special but as soon as you start to melt the chocolate in your mouth it tastes bland and very sugary. Not one for me at all.

Coconut Éclair
This is probably my second favourite in the tin its delicious. Wrapped in a dark blue foil you slowly unwrap to a sweet smelling coco nutty aroma once you have bitten or sucked off the chocolate you get an infusion of coconut and chocolate mixed together so tightly that once broken apart you get a real taste sensation. If you don't like coconut then don't bother with this one as you get a real strong taste of it I find these really Moorish and could eat them all day.

Toffee Penny
This is the one I have always been told to avoid and from a young age I realised why. Attractive as it looks in its golden wrapper looking like a big shiny coin beneath lurks the tooth wrencher! This appears to be an innocent looking toffee with a nice toffee aroma. Once you put this in your mouth and start chewing you are overcome with the lovely toffee taste so much so you don't realise it has actually got to your back teeth and attached itself to all of your fillings. As nice as these taste I would avoid well that's unless you would like your back teeth detaching.

The Purple One
I don't know why everyone raves about this one so much its my mums favourite and she eats them all anyway so I don't get a look in anyway which I am not to bothered about after sampling anyway. They are neatly wrapped in a bright purple wrapper. As soon as you bite into this sweet chocolate smelling sensation you are met with lovely oozing caramel that slides down your throat and then urgh a big fat nut! Yuck why do they have to spoil it with a big nut in the middle! Not one for me I'm afraid.

Orange Chocolate Crunch
These are my third favourite and they aren't too sickly they are a hexagonal shape wrapped tightly in orange foil. I like to bite the chocolate in half and suck it and chew the other half. Its really nice because as soon as you bite into the pure chocolate your get to suck these little tiny pieces of orange that explode with orange flavourings so your taste buds are going bad trying to suck up the orange taste.

Vanilla Fudge
This has to be my overall favourite but this is biased because I am a huge lover of fudge that and marzipan are the sweetest tasting things ever! The sweet s an oblong shape with 3 lines running down the middle wrapped in my favourite colour wrapping pink! Once you have either sucked or bitten the milk chocolate apart you are faced with beautifully tasting vanilla fudge it is delicious and those seconds of tasting that fudge are bliss because it is soon gone. Once you have eaten the sweet you are left with a lovely after taste.

Strawberry Delight
This is my all time favourite because I absolutely lurve strawberry! When you unwrap the dark red wrapper you are faced with a nice rounded sweet once you pop it into your mouth you have an infusion of dark chocolate and sweet gooey strawberry filling that really attacks your taste buds. Every time I eat one of these I salvanate just at the thought of putting it in mouth yummy.

Orange Cream
The orange cream is very similar to the strawberry delight but has some what changed to how it used to be which was exactly liked the strawberry delight because although it shows on the sweet list as been rounded it is in fact oblong with the trademark orange wrapper but the inside is less gooey it is more of a fondant filling which is very strong but can be a little bit sickly, I don't like to eat many of these I prefer the orange crunch if I am going to go for an orange option.

Caramel Swirl
The caramel swirl for me is a perfect all rounder everyone must love the caramel swirl, as it is so inoffensive. Wrapped in a golden wrapper you can smell the sweet smelling chocolate and caramel mix outside of the wrapper. You have a nice rounded chocolate shaped a lot like a rolo. You can suck these but I prefer to bite the top off and let the beautiful creamy caramel pour out. This is such a plain sweet with so much taste it doesn't need over the top flavours to make this taste divine.

The Green Triangle
This is one of the chocolates I always avoid from the tin yet a lot of my family enjoy it, I cant stand the horrible triangular shaped chocolate all spruced up in its green foil looking all xmasy! Once the wrapper is off (make sure you don't do what I do and get the foil in your mouth ouch!) you have to admit looking at the chocolate is like pure perfection a beautifully formed sensation or so you would think. As soon as I have bitten off the top of the milk chocolate triangle I chew away at the chocolate fondant neatly squeezed inside to me its like eating a cheap Belgium chocolate the inner chocolate tastes nutty and leaves a nasty after taste its not one that got my taste buds dancing that's for sure.

Toffee Finger
The Toffee finger is nice but not ideal if you're looking for a nice an easy to eat sweet. The toffee finger named obviously because of the shape of the chocolate is wrapped in a yellowy gold wrapper twisted at both ends very tightly. Once you have twizzled the wrapper off you cant just suck the chocolate you have to bite it because its made from a nice smooth milk chocolate but the caramel is hard and you have to bite into but this one doesn't stick to your teeth too much as you can bite it down into little cubes. Ideally you should have these soaked in a nice cup of tea uuuummmm.

Now you can also get extra large versions of the purple one, the green triangle and the caramel swirl from most shops because they are classed as the 3 favourites. There not particularly my favourites but the strawberry delight and orange cream would be a bit sickly in large I suppose.

PRICES
When I was a kid I always remember Quality Street being super expensive we only had a tin at Christmas and it had to be roses or quality street never both because they were about £10 a tin but now days with the price wars you can pick them up for around £5.00 or even £4.50 if you buy 2 at the same time! The tins have been up and down in price for years but the boxes and jars have stayed very much static at around £3.00 for 480g and £5.00 for a 900g jar.

STOCKISTS
You can pick up Quality Street from almost anywhere these days Tescos, Sainsburys, Marko, Morrisons, your local shop and I even noticed they were selling them in my local petrol station. The list is endless it seems you can pick up a box or tin from anywhere these days.

MY OVERALL THOUGHTS
I absolutely love Quality Street because there are so many different chocolates to choose from you would be hard pushed to moan that there wasn't one you liked just a little bit. I think the reusable tin they come in is great for keeping mice pies in or if you're like my family the Xmas baubles. There isn't anyone I know that wouldn't indulge in a Quality Street now and again. I wouldn't purchase them throughout the year as I think it would spoil them but certainly for rounding off your Christmas dinner these are great. Especially my favourites Vanilla fudge, strawberry delight and orange cream. I know these are probably hated by most but if we all liked the same there would be none left at the bottom to feed to the dog. I think you get really good value for money from the tins and I know there is now a lot of competition but Quality Street have been going for this long I think they have got a lot longer to go yet. Whether your buying Quality Street for yourself or as a gift you will always be satisfied I am sure.
Quality street have been going for over 70 years and they have just got better and better in my opinion so I will look forward to seeing what they look and taste like in another 70 years. 

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