15 hours Ago By Alex Evans
It’s an annual Christmas ritual. The tubs of Quality Street, Roses and Heroes come out and everyone digs through the ever smaller selection of chocolates to pick out their favourite and ignore the coconut ones. But many chocolate fans this year might not realise that their favourites are missing - and have been for some time.
Christmas chocolates exist in a state of constant flux, changing every year with some being ditched for new sweets staking their claim to be a new favourite. And even the names have been chopped and changed over the years. Noisette Triangle The Noisette Triangle is dead.
Those of a certain age may remember the original name for what is now known as Quality Street’s Green Triangle. Noisette is a word which means praline and refers to the filling, but in recent years Nestle has ditched the word Noisette and now calls them the somehow less magical but more straightforward ‘Green Triangle’. Caramel Keg This one is Roses’ turn for an identity crisis.
Again, if you’re of a certain vintage, you might remember the Caramel Keg. Maybe keg isn’t a very well known word any more, because that’s been ditched and it’s now known as the Golden Barrel. Malt Toffee The worst thing to ever happen to Quality Street was either the addition of the Malt Toffee, or its removal, depending on who you ask.
The divisive chocolate was a malty tasting rectangular toffee covered in chocolate in a red wrapper, and was absolutely delicious. It was ditched in 2011 for the Toffee Deluxe, a more traditional dark toffee, in a dark brown wrapper, which in turn was binned off a few years later in 2019. Brazilian Darkness Another travesty, but this time for Roses, the Brazilian Darkness was a dark chocolate covered nutty toffee, and it was one of the best Roses ever made.
It was ditched for the frankly much less adventurous Dairy Milk block. Here’s some more Quality Street which have been axed: Honeycomb crunch (ditched in 2018) Chocolate Nut Toffee Cream Peanut Cracknell (blue wrapper) Gooseberry Cream (green wrapper) Fig Fancy (light brown wrapper) Apricot Delight (blue wrapper) Montelimar Nougat Harrogate Toffee Fruits of the Forest Creme (pale purple wrapper) Coffee Cream (brown wrapper, same size and shape as strawberry cream) Mint Fondant (pale green wrapper).
