Which is the best/worst Tin for Christmas?

magick

Chocolates or Biscuits, which one changed the most for the worst/best?
I always loved the Roses and McVities Victoria. Then pass out on the couch while Die Hard is on.

fussyonion

Quality Street.

colm_mcm

Roses are muck compared to Quality Street

Heroes and celebrations can shag off too.

An Ri rua

Beans. They're so weekday.

endacl

Lizzy.

colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Roses are muck compared to Quality Street

Heroes and celebrations can shag off too.

Quality Street should be done by the advertising standards authority. Pure cooking chocolate crap.


Anything from Lindt- especially the white ones

Montage of Feck

They've all gone to crap. It's quantity over quality now, German own brand stuff is everybit as good as the mainstream brand names.

Mad_maxx

colm_mcm wrote: »

Roses are muck compared to Quality Street

Heroes and celebrations can shag off too.

neither are much cop these days

we go into M+S once per year and get proper belgian or swiss boxes of sweets , sure we dont get as much but its quality unlike Quality Street

Quantum Erasure

USA! USA! USA!

Wanderer2010

Heroes, absolutely everything you need.

Worst- Roses.

trashcan

Lemons sweets, but you can’t bloody get them anywhere.

Oh, and Foxes for bisquits.

Mcvities moments biscuits.....may not be able to eat for rest of this year after having too many today





Worst: celebrations,its like a selection box,except worse

Zebra3

Montage of Feck wrote: »

They've all gone to crap. It's quantity over quality now, German own brand stuff is everybit as good as the mainstream brand names.

Yeh, better off just going into Aldi and buying those bars that are split in to five (I think it is) and putting them into a box. Especially the white chocolate one.

YellowLead

Quality street have a new sweet this year that is actually amazing - it’s called caramel brownie or something like that. There was only one of them though!
Lemons sweets were always rank I think - esp the jellies.

Wanderer2010

Any 80s babies remember the selectoon boxes from back in the day, when the Curly Wurly bars were at least a metre long! Now i wouldnt give the current selection boxes to my dog.

Montage of Feck

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Any 80s babies remember the selectoon boxes from back in the day, when the Curly Wurly bars were at least a metre long! Now i wouldnt give the current selection boxes to my dog.

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, isn't it? Just as well so.

Degag

Ordinarily i'd say whichever tin the biscuits with the jelly came in.

There wasn't enough outrage when they were removed. We should really have been protesting in the streets at that travesty of a decision.

trashcan

YellowLead wrote: »

Lemons sweets were always rank I think - esp the jellies.

:eek: Sacrilege. I don’t think there were jellies in the box I’m thinking of. They were mostly toffees. Yum.

whisky_galore

The sickly sweet muck from that US conglomerate Mondelez.

YellowLead

trashcan wrote: »

:eek: Sacrilege. I don’t think there were jellies in the box I’m thinking of. They were mostly toffees. Yum.

There were - see them on the top right of the box picture...they were vile. But some of the toffees were good you are right, think there was a licquorice one.
https://www.planetcandy.ie/lemons-seasons-greetings-750g

YellowLead

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Any 80s babies remember the selectoon boxes from back in the day, when the Curly Wurly bars were at least a metre long! Now i wouldnt give the current selection boxes to my dog.

I remember one year in the early 90s they came with tapes of Christmas songs, I think it was the Rowntree one not the Cadbury one.

DJIMI TRARORE

U can't beat a big box of Emeralds, can't over eat them bcoz u get tired chewing

fonecrusher1

Fox's chocolate biscuit tin is jolly nice.

buried

The tins aren't tins anymore. They are round tubs of plastic and everything inside them is terrible tack.

km991148

fussyonion wrote: »

Quality Street.

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Quality Street should be done by the advertising standards authority. Pure cooking chocolate crap.


Anything from Lindt- especially the white ones

I would always have went QS in the past. As Roses went to **** years ago. Had some QS this year and yep - they went the same way too.

All the MST (Mainstream Tins) of chocolate are sh!te these days.

km991148

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Any 80s babies remember the selectoon boxes from back in the day, when the Curly Wurly bars were at least a metre long! Now i wouldnt give the current selection boxes to my dog.

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, isn't it? Just as well so.

yep - so the dog would be perfectly safe these days.

magick

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Fox's chocolate biscuit tin is jolly nice.

That would be my runner up

Graces7

All welcomed here...

trashcan

YellowLead wrote: »

There were - see them on the top right of the box picture...they were vile. But some of the toffees were good you are right, think there was a licquorice one.
https://www.planetcandy.ie/lemons-seasons-greetings-750g

Honestly have no memory of jellies in the box. Just remember the toffees and the hard sweets. I likes a nice toffee

Foxes biscuits and Heroes for sweets. Unless you’re going fancier, by which you can go to near any levels you want, but they’re the best of the normal ones.

Genghis

They have been devalued to death. Once was a time when each house had one tin of sweets. They were a rare treat, well made and loved.

Now because the half filled box retails at about €3, every fecker picks up half a dozen boxes, each one filled with low grade chocolates, and they get gifted around until everyone ends up with the six they bought back. No one enjoys them, they induce nausea just looking at them and they become a chore to finish.

Would've been better if they made the sweets higher quality, even at higher price so you could still enjoy them as a rare treat.

Haven't eaten one and likely won't eat one this year.

Genghis

Genghis wrote: »

They have been devalued to death. Once was a time when each house had one tin of sweets. They were a rare treat, well made and loved.

Now because the half filled box retails at about €3, every fecker picks up half a dozen boxes, each one filled with low grade chocolates, and they get gifted around until everyone ends up with the six they bought back. No one enjoys them, they induce nausea just looking at them and they become a chore to finish.

Would've been better if they made the sweets higher quality, even at higher price so you could still enjoy them as a rare treat.

Haven't eaten one and likely won't eat one this year.

I’d rather have a good few at Christmas than a “rare treat”.

.anon.

Danish Butter Cookies have always been a favourite of mine. The ones in the blue tin. Great for dunking in tea. When I was younger, nobody else in my house was arsed with them, so I'd pretty much hoover them up.

cj maxx

colm_mcm wrote: »

Roses are muck compared to Quality Street

Heroes and celebrations can shag off too.

I have to agree re Rose's v Quality St. Roses have really gone down in recent years
+1 on the Victoria

StevenToast

I bought a box of roses for old times sake....

Like an ex girlfriend...dont go back to go forward...

How can I explain to my kids how much of a treat they once were...

We would even use the tins for feeding sheep a few nuts...

PMBC

Ive switched to Kimberly biscuits this yer as I discovered recently the jam in the Mikados had been reduced in size.
For sweets I have a box of Cadbury's Eclairs and a box of Scots Clan which no one else like.
:D

Sick fnck of celebrations and quality street at work for last few days :pac:
Lindt is the job, someone brought them in also

trashcan

PMBC wrote: »

Ive switched to Kimberly biscuits this yer as I discovered recently the jam in the Mikados had been reduced in size.
For sweets I have a box of Cadbury's Eclairs and a box of Scots Clan which no one else like.
:D

Scots Clan. Eclairs too. Can’t go wrong there. Yummy.

Leg End Reject

trashcan wrote: »

Scots Clan. Eclairs too. Can’t go wrong there. Yummy.

Until you've ne'er a tooth or filling left!

iamstop

An Ri rua wrote: »

Beans. They're so weekday.

Fresh beans will make your whole day!

Old beans will make your hole weak!

magick

I wish leonidas chocolates did a tin