The ultimate British Christmas chocolate box tier list

[@Retro_Sorcerer]

The ultimate disappointment as a kid was finding a box of Quality Street, opening it, and discovering a sewing kit.

[@ianz9916]

My Mum kept buttons in one. We'd use them for counters in board games when we'd lost the real ones.

[@jonathanwessner3456]

In America those are the Dutch Butter cookie tins

[@eleanorlyndon865]

Or thr biscuits one!

[@MateHall]

yeeesssssss

[@riverstyx7251]

This sounds like a gag gift. Like the equivalent of drawing an eye on a pad of paper and stuffing it into an iPad box

[@kailsar]

I often find myself complaining that there just aren't enough minutes in the day: yet here I am, watching a 30 minute video of an American chap describing the taste of 40 chocolates I have been eating since I was a toddler.

[@madisonary9240]

And then reading the comments to see if anyone had the exact same thought as me…

[@lelnel6242]

It is only 20 minutes long

[@snowy.ethereal]

mood

[@Aurora_Animates]

Me too man, me too

[@nicolawrisdale7364]

HAHA. yes

[@Rosiepedia]

‘I’m gonna use this to store some stuff… I dunno… textiles’ you truly are a British citizen now. So many chocolate tubs of threads and other sewing paraphernalia in my mum and grandma’s houses

[@HopeGardner3amed]

We have this with cookie tins in the US stereotypically

[@Serenity_yt]

Germans use Ice cream boxes, mostly Fürst Pückler? (I think it's written that way least Im not to bothered to Google it rn, but it's strawbery, choclate and vanilla in one tub. Many Brands sell it but Fürst Pückler kinda stuck)

[@Rosiepedia]

@@Serenity_yt yes! Always neopolitan ice cream (strawberry, chocolate, vanilla) or just plain vanilla - we do that too when there’s not a chocolate tin around 😝

[@DavidPaulMorgan]

my Christmas cake is currently marinading in a plastic Heroes 'tin'. My sewing kit is in an old Ferrero Roche box.

[@johnleonard9090]

@@DavidPaulMorgan used to do that, every week feeding the cake with a couple of tablespoons of brandy, a couple of questions when did you make the cake and have you got your sprouts on yet/ 😜

[@Aleer1000]

Eclairs are best if sucked on first. The toffee slowly dissolves leading to the chocolate centre.

[@goopguy548]

I physically can't bring myself to like this video because of the eclair and hero's

[@concordep2504]

Yes exactly I was practically yelling at Evan to do just that as the flavours develop on your tongue then.

[@andrewmorris9946]

Yeah you need to suck on eclairs first or they'll rip your fillings out.

[@florallyclover]

yesss you’re not supposed to chew it until it gets really soft, and then the chocolate middle will be melter

[@annonomous2158]

I love eclairs. They are always the ones left at the bottom of the tub when left out at work dos or family parties. So I get to scoop them all up and add them to my snack pile.

[@04williamsl]

Evan: 2:55 "it's really hard to chew" Every British person: "oh Evan, just you wait til you get to the toffee penny" Evan: 7:00 "Oh, I'm just gunna mark the caramel swirl as the toffee penny and just MISS IT altogether"

[@geekygalaxy4307]

You just gotta wait until the temperature of your mouth warms it up

[@FreddieTotalMinecraft]

Toffee penny's are the best

[@JLO72]

My brother lost a tooth to a penny toffee so it's a sweet way of getting rid of lose teeth

[@clsisman]

@@FreddieTotalMinecraft How dare you. It doesn’t even deserve to be in the same box with the rest of them

[@ruthannkelly]

He also marked the crunchy orange as the cream orange.

[@kieranbrooks10]

If you had any lingering doubts on how you were adapting to the English culture, congrats "I don't like you but i feel obliged to send you a Christmas gift, so I'm sending you a box of roses because I think they're shit" is the most English comment ever!

[@asseyez-vous6492]

Absolutely-bloody-lutely 😂

[@janebaker966]

Send them to me. I'll have them all. I must be the only one here who likes them. The only one with bad taste,lol.

[@louisedurell9612]

@@janebaker966 ditto- I love roses- the only box where nothing gets left over- between us me and mum like them all ❤

[@Aurora_Animates]

Actually… i bought roses 2 days ago for someone… because i knew id get jealous-

[@zahidshabir4038]

My worst is actually Quality Street only because their caramel sucks ass AND no one eats the toffee pennies unless its a last resort but besides that Quality Street is OK and I will eat the rest without any problems I still eat the caramel but just comparing the caramel to Cadbury's and to Mars Chocolate company there is a noticeable difference and my favourite caramel chocolate is probably Cadbury Dairy Milk or the Golden Barrel in Roses which is just the same thing but rebranded and reshaped. When it comes to Bounty though I DO like coconut with my chocolate Bounty is my FAVOURITE coconut chocolate and probably one of my top 3 favourite chocolates of all time. I cannot understand why Bounty is being removed as I don't know anyone who hates coconut with chocolate or specifically Bounty and sure it may not be the first choice for the people I know (It is my first choice) but they still like Bounty and will still eat it.

[@rachealbrown2166]

The purple one and the green triangle used to have different names but there are now so infamous that they've now acknowledged what everyone had been calling them for years.

[@ianz9916]

I seem to recall the green triangle used to be called Noisette.

[@elaineb7065]

And the purple one IS God tier & always disappears first!!!

[@ddlee84]

@@ianz9916 You're right!! I knew it was something like that, but couldnt remember. The Purple one was the descriptive....Hazlenut in Caramel....Naming department must have had a day off on that one.

[@captainkenzie6873]

Those are the best ones by far.

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

@@elaineb7065 You'd love sharing a box with me then, because I don't like them.

[@Sarah-nd2gy]

Roses used to be really good. We always had them at Christmas when I was little. They were wrapped in these really pretty foil wrappers and they tasted completely different. When Cadbury got bought out, the quality if all their products dropped to some degree, but some products suffered more than others. Roses suffered immeasurably. Most of the Roses tin now is largely inedible as far as I am concerned. So sad considering how good they used to be. They just taste synthetic now

[@mckamy4711]

there are also far less per box and they've gotten smaller :(

[@garygcrook]

As a child my family bought a tin of Roses and of Quality Street and then stuck cotton loops to the back of them so they could be hung on the Christmas tree. We all used to hunt for the Brazil Nut in Caramel which is now The Purple One. Usually found one or two as we took down the tree (it was plastic, yet not the usual type).

[@CraftyWitch1990]

Cadburys have tasted awful since they added palm oil a couple of years ago. Rest of the world is fighting to use less but they think its fine cos it protects their profits. Pisses me off to no end as it's not Christmas without a tin of sweeties but i can't bring myself to contribute to that when I have the choice not to

[@simonorourke4465]

Yeah I'm in my late 30s and roses used to be my absolute favourite when I was a kid I loved the coffee creme one but they were all pretty good. Nowadays though I would take pretty much any other brand of sweet treat over roses.

[@Arcane2080x]

Roses were the best! Now I definitely prefer Heroes.

[@martinsear5470]

My wife still uses a Quality Street tin from the 80's for her sowing stuff, its 3 times as big as the modern ones, and they used to be basically full up too :0

[@jmurray1110]

It’s like they design the boxes for sewing supplies Also shortbread boxes they even out the BBF date on the sellotape so you can put stuff in without mistaking it

[@Pixiedust8399]

They brought back the 2KG tins, I bought a couple last year and it was like I was 5 years old again 🤣.

[@gillianrimmer7733]

I have one that I bought the first year of my marriage in 1973. Yes, the tins were a lot bigger then, but they were much more expensive (comparatively) I paid for mine weekly as part of the 'Christmas Club' I joined at the corner shop because I just wouldn't have been able to afford to buy a tin out of the weekly housekeeping.

[@MultiMidden]

Assuming it's the 1.3kg tin once the adjusted for inflation they're something like £15. For that money you could get 3 normal 600g tins and still have change.

[@oakstrong1]

I miss the bigger tins, too, you could store bigger sized objects in them.

[@indreduobaite13]

I love the green triangle because it's hazelnut. In Europe, hazelnut is such a popular flavour in chocolate but Americans are usually not familiar with it at all so maybe that's why you didn't like it

[@jmurray1110]

They literally had to change Nutella’s name because the Americans couldn’t comprehend a nut product not using peanuts

[@jennyvdwesthuizen2478]

Green one is also our favorite 😊

[@hannahbee567]

This...makes so much sense

[@medicusv61]

Its my second favourite.

[@DTQueen90]

@@jmurray1110 Not true at all

[@almason6864]

When i was younger, in the roses tin, the cadbury and bournville plain chocolate were wrapped in individual foil with paper sleeves. They were so cute!

[@SuperGourmetguy]

i loved those! Also had one of those money-box dispensers for them that cost more to fill than you could save :)

[@suzysnewlife]

Yes! Like little mini bars ❤️

[@franklingoodwin]

When I was younger they came in tiny cardboard boxes without foil. Yes, I'm old

[@Deadlock320]

They had teeny tiny 1pt writing

[@lisafernley3810]

​@@SuperGourmetguy mini Cadbury chocolate in the same tin

[@BellePullman]

I think perhaps Roses suffered from coming last after THAT MUCH CHOCOLATE! But yeah, Quality Street is definitely christmassy where Celebration and Heroes are perfect halloween treats. Roses used to be fantastic before Mondelez bought out Cadbury, now it's completely unrecognisable. RIP Cadbury! The problem with these tins of chocolates (they used to come in tins not plastic) is they're so good for storing christmas decorations, and they end up kicking around empty just as you're packing things away... so you get to see the Shrinkflation in practice. The tins used to be 2kg! They've been steadily getting smaller and smaller - for the same price on offer, but who buys them not on offer - and most households have the evidence stacked away holding christmas stuff. It's amazing the companies try to sell it as the same product.

[@jessackroyd1990]

Yeah I definitely think Roses suffered by going last 😅

[@BobSmith-fu1nn]

I'm in Canada and Christmas isn't Christmas without a tin of Quality Street (and a box of After Eight). Quality Street still comes in a metal tin and includes a guide and they are easily available (there was a mountain of them in Walmart the other day)

[@ianz9916]

Quality Street comes in a metal tin in the UK too if you are prepared to pay 50% more for it. Not surprisingly, it doesn't sell as well. The plastic tub costs £3.50 which equates to $5.66 in Canadian money. That's a 600g tub. I think you get ripped off for prices in Canada. I looked it up and it's 3 times the price!

[@JLO72]

Yes definitely after eights or matchsticks

[@LiqdPT]

After Eight, yes. I don't think I've ever seen Quality Street

[@asseyez-vous6492]

@@ianz9916 I get the metal tin one when it’s on offer. My bf keeps his nuts and bolts in them.

[@nadeansimmons226]

After Eights are a must. Pretty hard to come by here in NZ this Xmas

[@isacurry8280]

I would say that the quality streets and the roses are more traditionally eaten during Christmas, the heroes and celebrations are newer editions 👍

[@garygcrook]

People actually buy them for Halloween and give out the chocolates to Trick-Or-Treaters.

[@louisa1514]

Also you get smaller boxes that are often given as gifts, and they're also taken into work for birthdays and leaving-do's. They're more of a year-round "celebration" box rather than an exclusive Christmas box like roses and quality street.

[@Vanda-il9ul]

8 minutes in and I feel unwell just watching Evan eating so many sweets I like. You must be suffering but so far no complaining. Great guy!

[@eattherich9215]

I'm thinking that a visit to a dentist is on the cards.

[@lizhart81]

Every communal area in a workplace in January features the box of disappointment = box of Quality Street with just the toffee pennies left.

[@glagy]

Toffee pennies are the best ones along with the long chewy stick one

[@jmurray1110]

Even as someone who really likes toffee and caramel yeah they are the these take too long sweets Bounties on the other hand is one of my favourites (particularly a bounty Rex the dark chocolate works so well)

[@leobeboop4944]

The toffee pennies and toffee stick ones are the best in there!!!!

[@LuvNickynGina4ever]

Toffee pennies are always the 1st to be gone and everybody fights over them, at least in my house

[@Ghostaroni]

what r u on ab the toffee pennies are the BEST ones

[@BrokenString15]

It's amazing how someone rating chocolates can hurt your feelings so much

[@simonorourke4465]

Yup I was not pleased when he ranked the Cadburys fudge as poor lol 😆

[@danielleedwards1008]

Genuinely outraged by his take on the Green Triangle

[@sroberts605]

lol

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

He’s hurting my teeth 😮

[@bobosmodernlife]

I like that people hate Bounty. It means more for me 😂

[@Immhotep]

Quality street is always our goto, but i miss the metal tins. They were so useful.

[@asseyez-vous6492]

I bought a metal tin just last year. You have to look around for them.

[@ghostyhype_btw4303]

they still have them they are just slightly more expensive than the normal ones

[@hooniesdiamond]

The purple one was initially called a purple brazil nut I believe bc it's shaped like one and has Brazil nut and caramel inside! They're by far one of the most popular and get wiped out of the tin so fast that they got their own special name haha

[@elaineb7065]

Exactly this!!!

[@junebillings9450]

Its always been a hazelnut.

[@830927mjki]

I think the roses had a brazil nut hard caramel

[@aidanwilliams8996]

My least Fav

[@mckamy4711]

does anyone remember the green coffee flavoured roses? they were actually good I miss them, but they were probably taken out since I doubt they were a big hit with kids

[@suzysnewlife]

They were originally brown! And always left in the tub 🤣

[@ShandorDavies]

Honestly my favourite ones! So disappointed they aren't there anymore.

[@Redsince66]

My first exposure to coffee flavor was one of those sweets. It made me an exclusive tea drinker, put me off coffee for life! I was about seven or eight at the time.

[@simonorourke4465]

The coffee creme roses were my favourite ones when I was a child and roses were actually good, I love coffee flavoured stuff and I'm pretty sure it's all a result of those roses back when I was little.

[@mckamy4711]

@@simonorourke4465 I only really started liking them like two or three years before they took them out, I don't even drink coffee but I still enjoy the flavour and it was subtle enough not to be overbearing. At least they added in the truffle ones around the same time cause they're pretty good imo

[@amandahodgin9316]

There’s a store in Canada called Bulk Barn where you can buy loads of different foods by weight. I was in there last week and they had a big bin of “the purple ones” so you can just get those ones if they are your favourites!

[@ianz9916]

They sell bags of just the purple ones in the UK. They cost about the same as a tub but only weigh in at 344g compared to the 600g in the tubs.

[@richard-riku]

Some stores in the UK let you fill your own tin of Quality Street, choosing the ones you like and ignoring the others. It's only about 30% more expensive per kg than a pre-filled tin.

[@ianz9916]

@@richard-riku But the majority just sell the pre packed ones and that's what will be available to most people.

[@janebaker966]

That's cheating!

[@slavecek]

A like for the last 20 seconds of this 20-minute video. And for Evan's endurance and determination to get through all of them. I almost got a hyperglycemic attack just from watching.

[@PurpleNurpleSPN]

I think if you started with the Roses they'd be ranked a bit higher. The hazelnut in caramel IS the purple one - practically the same as the Quality Street Purple One lol. Also Celebrations - there's a little tearing thing in the middle that makes them easier to open. I LOVE the cream chocolate ones - the strawberry and orange creams - both from Quality Streets and Roses, but I think I prefer the Quality Street ones.

[@LabradorIndependent]

roses strawberry cream is honestly my favourite one by a mile

[@andyjdhurley]

I tend to pinch all the strawberry creams out of the quality street as they are the only ones I really like, the rest are meh at best but that is why they exist, we are all different.

[@tonycasey3183]

As a retired nurse, I can't bring myself to buy Roses chocolates. Every couple of days, grateful patients or relatives would buy the nurses a box of Roses chocolates and it didn't take long to get utterly pig sick of them - though the hazelnut swirl would still be in my top tier of bog standard choccies.

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

Good to know, If I ever have to stay in Hospital I'll get the nurses something different. Pringles or something.

[@all4wandy]

I too think the purple one is the best and that’s why it now has its own mini box. Might I also add that I love your songs at the end. Always leaves me with a smile. Thank you.

[@lucyj8204]

Yes, you can buy a bag of just purple ones. I think that needs to be on Evan's next shopping list!

[@rripley86]

Just to be clear, these aren't exclusive to Christmas though. If you work in a hospital, you'll be find them at every nurses station year round (with dozens of nurses stuffing their faces, whilst complaining that they're meant to be on a diet! 😄)

[@lilyns99]

You can buy entire boxes full of The Purple One now and it’s honestly the saviour of Christmas

[@ianz9916]

But they are twice the price per 100g more or less.

[@matteymat]

​@@ianz9916 but think of the money you're saving by not haveing to replace your fillings that got pulled out by a toffee penny.

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

@@ianz9916 But it's worth it to not have the icky chocolates. If they did a golden barrel one I'd be all over it.

[@ianz9916]

@@MonkeyButtMovies1 But one person's icky chocolate is another person's favourite. They did used to advertise them with the slogan, made for sharing.

[@ismaeljagne]

Love your videos, you've adapted to our british life style so quickly.

[@gerardacronin334]

10 years later…..

[@jameslewis2635]

The Roses and Quality Street boxes are very old-hat in that they have been around (seemingly) forever. They always seemed to end up with a bunch of orange/strawberry cream, or coffee (the latter I think may have been deleted due to very few people liking them) left over with the empty wrappers that someone was too lazy to throw in the bin like a functioning member of society. Both Heroes and Celebrations are more modern alternatives and I think they are generally more popular with younger people.

[@eloisemaloney7350]

Firstly, glad to see you ranked them in the correct order. Secondly, I'm really loving the jingles you do at the end of videos now!! Have a good week :)

[@stuartbeck1960s]

Currently sat next to 2 empty Roses boxes severely offended by this video.

[@pixelisedsquid]

Stay strong brother

[@lotusflower474]

Write a strongly worded letter

[@FoodReviewUK]

YES! I'm glad people are using this tier list (I made it) feels great seeing it being used! You made the right choice :p

[@okaykatieokay]

you need to try roses again when you haven't had so much chocolate. having so much has defo made you feel a bit sick cause roses are really not that bad

[@jaydemorton9814]

I just really loved watching Evan discover the 2 safe boxes and the 2 variety ones. Also just watching him comment on the variety of chocolates in a box designed to appeal to everyone at least a little.

[@04williamsl]

Eclairs to me are "Nanna sweets". They were the ones always in a bowl in the coffee table in the front room that you'd have a couple of whilst visiting. So, for nostalgia purposes to me these are amazing, especially when you get to the centre but I can understand why many may not like them with how. chewy they are

[@RebeccaSigsworth]

Don’t know why they are left in they are god awful

[@BillCameronWC]

It’s funny how tastes are different. Even as a child I always liked Roses the most and still do, followed by Quality Street (yes, the toffee ‘pennies’ were always the ones left in the tin).

[@Zadster]

I didn't think I would agree with you at the start of this, but I think it is pretty much spot on! As you say, Celebrations and Heroes are just small versions of ones you can buy anyway, can't really go wrong there. Quality Street has such a nostalgic Christmas vibe for me, especially a huge 1960s Quality Street tin (a real tin, not plastic) my grandma used to have, and put the contents of 2 new tins in. I was going to make a defence for Roses, but then realised I hadn't eaten one in maybe 10 years, which probably says it all.

[@WooShell]

When I flew to the UK a few years ago, I was surprised how cheap and available Quality Street was there.. I flew home with half my suitcase stuffed with those boxes.

[@sroberts605]

"When I flew to the UK" .... from where?

[@Rambling-Thomas]

Wispa is fluffy and safe 💖 nothing wrong with fluffy and safe in these hard times.

[@5ashll303]

You said it

[@Rambling-Thomas]

@@5ashll303 I will also say there is no Roses fandom, I forgot they were even a thing.

[@ConstanzeWeber]

Underrated comment!

[@lucymclelland9682]

The fact that he’s just throwing the whole thing in his mouth rather than biting it and sussing out the fillings and textures (and then sometimes describing them wrong e.g the purple one) is stressing me out so much

[@AlfieMcSloy]

THE GREEN TRIANGLE SLANDER IS PREPOSTEROUS!!! 😡

[@lotusflower474]

As soon as he opened the box I immediately thought: green triangle green triangle green triangle. How did he not like it? It’s literally one of the only good ones in that box (alongside purple)

[@JhericFury]

"ooh, i like roses. Ooh, i like quality street too. And heroes. And celebrations. Maybe i just like sugar and chocolate"

[@FullaEels]

we watch him going from excited to eat a bunch of chocolate to regretting eating a bunch of chocolate

[@snoballuk]

It was like watching a regular Christmas on fast-forward.

[@IAmKaitHearMeRoar]

The atrocity of the green triangle being put in awful instead of god tier.

[@holly1184]

Alas, you don't get to experience the glorious few years when there were mini toblerones in the heroes box. Take me back!

[@claire778]

And even better, fuses. And the nuts about caramel were great too.

[@bethanyroche8927]

This is my perspective as a Brit: Quality street is always #1. Usually quality streets and celebrations would be bought together to have over Xmas in my family. We would be least likely to buy heroes. In my family the most popular chocolates are the creams (strawberry and orange). In the celebrations it's maltesers. The least popular would be the hard caramels or toffees and solid chocolates. At the end of the celebrations we would usually leave the mars, snickers and bounties.

[@lucybastian9492]

this is perfect, i newley moved to the UK for university and was going to bring some of these home for Christmas presents for younger siblings. i haven't been able to try them all yet, so this will be my totally unbiased research and review so I know what to get

[@NicholasJH96]

Don’t forget Lindor chocolate tin it’s available in Tesco

[@rinag598]

QUALITY STREET is an English Classic that’s been around since 1936 ☺️,

[@janebaker966]

Evan is WRONG about Roses, it's due to him being American. Poor guy.

[@TheOriginalDalamanza]

Your bafflement at trying an eclair for the first time gave me pure joy

[@geo24793]

Knowing I didn't like mint chocolate, my brother told me for years that the green triangle was mint chocolate so he could always have them 😭 didn't find out the truth until my teens

[@Noname-xu2mu]

I appreciate you doing this from a non bias background not growing up with these and it's just your true ops

[@jemsjemski533]

The fight over the green triangle and the purple one! It was almost a Christmas must, just to argue as a fam over who ate the best ones!! I have to say in 2022 our fam loves celebrations!… and I argue it’s everyone about who ate the snickers 😂 Now if it was a posh Christmas you got after eights and Ferraro Roche 🎉 Also bloody love a choc eclair… you’re supposed to suck the toffee until it’s chewable!

[@Nilen96]

I'm Danish, and we always have Quality Street for Christmas, although the packing is different. Ours come in a tall, plastic jar/tube, so you can see inside.

[@meredith1313]

I’m learning that Evan and I have almost the exact opposite taste in chocolate 😂

[@Adina5]

Fr

[@Dogandtoddlermum]

How in 10 years have you only had one of these once?!!!

[@benjones1917]

UK native here, totally agree with your ranking. Roses are too sickly sweet, heroes and celebrations are just normal chocolate bars shrunk down a bit, nothing special about that, meh. But Quality street is king 👌👌

[@tonytheriault1186]

You got a like from me as soon as I saw that one of the choices was Quality Street. My mom likes it so much, there are three metal tins of them on my dad's dresser right now, just waiting for December. This time of year is when they're cheapest in Canada, but if it's ever on sale during the year, she always wants one. It's not the holidays around here without an open tin of Quality Street.

[@teresagreen1385]

Quality Street and Roses sums up my childhood Christmas.

[@zkpl1]

As soon as I saw you put that whole toffee finger in your mouth, I exhaled in dismay. I knew you would have a hard time. And couldn’t contain my laughter at the next shot of you trying to chew it. Brilliant.

[@CirclesHaveEnds]

I looove roses! Can't believe how hard they got slated :'D And Quality Street is literally the box you give to people you don't like for us 🤣

[@vimp6260]

Couldn't agree with you more quality street is soo crap

[@danh4698]

Genuinely getting second hand chocolate sickness watching this, that cloying feeling in the back of your throat when you have just had too many.

[@Scotter4536]

I just watched Gavin & Stacey a few months ago for the first time. As an American, I didn't get the scene where Nessa gives everyone one individual piece of candy from the Celebrations Box. I just assumed that this would have been the equivalent of someone giving Americans a "Fun" size candy bar. I didn't realize these boxes existed and where so popular in the UK for Christmas. I posted the clip from Gavin & Stacey on my channel if anyone is interested in seeing it. The mention the ranking system and like you, they had Bounty as the worst of the Celebrations candies.

[@NicholasJH96]

One he hasn’t tried is lindor chocolate tin which was new out this year, supermarkets don’t have there own tins yet for there chocolate but will at some point

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

@@NicholasJH96 And the Freddo Faces, I love Freddo Faces

[@minikipp8549]

The reason it is just called the purple one is because of how you reacted when you ate it. It doesn't have explanation its just so good.

[@lucyj8204]

Roses are nicer than you experienced, but you're absolutely right that there is literally no reason to buy them when the others are all available (assuming you don't boycott Nestle).

[@mwmheps]

Fun video! I think my personal favourite is Heroes as I quite like the basic flavours and I find them the most consistent, but I’m curious to look out for the purple one next time I come across Quality Street - I may have been to scared to try it!

[@somethingrio]

I've literally seen shelves cleared of the celebrations and others but the Rosie's ones are still fully stocked, it's basically the bounty egg of the world...

[@jmurray1110]

I love that people leave them I actively go out next day for discounted eggs and I love bounties

[@quintuscrinis]

I think Roses and Quality Street rely on everyone having their favourite, Orange cream or Strawberry dream for me. But if you want a good selection that everyone can share Heroes (or Celebrations) work better for mass appeal.

[@sophieirwin3497]

The purple one in the quality street is amazing! Usually the first to go in an open box so have to get in there straight away

[@frostyw]

Watching this is making me crave chocolate even though I had a satisfying meal about two hours ago. XD

[@GeorgeFoot]

The Bounty thing is just a marketing campaign, they haven't really removed it except in special boxes in a couple of locations. It got people talking about their brand.

[@skratakh]

its amazing how everyones tastes are different, you made some really odd choices on this but i suppose thats the reason for having variety so everyone will have something they like/dislike. For me roses is always the winner, strawberry and orange creams are the best and the rest i woud put in meh. roses definitely has more hits than missess unlike the rest of them.

[@danielward4868]

For me it's 4: Roses 3: Quality Street 2: Celebrations 1: Heroes

[@albireo2990]

There’s a pattern - Oldies like Roses and QS more, but newer generations like Celebrations and Heroes.

[@RomySews]

You should watch the Celebrations scene from the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special. That tells you everything you need to know about them 😆 I wish Celebrations hadn’t got rid of the truffle, then it would be a top tier tub. I think these always seemed so exciting as a kid when they were in a proper tin and were a lot fuller with nice shiny wrappers, but like most chocolate now they’re less exciting

[@maisiemoo_x]

everyone in britain gasped when u said the green triangle was awful

[@Coolpix7000]

I’ve never enjoyed watching someone eat chocolate so much 🤣🤣

[@RushfanUK]

Quality Street and After Eights have been a staple of our Christmas ever since I was a kid over 50 years ago.

[@lotusflower474]

Strawberry and orange creams are like brussel sprouts - you are convinced that nobody could possibly like them. Pretty much everyone you know hates them. And yet there’s always that one person..

[@d_dave7200]

That's weird. In our family everyone loved them. They were the first ones to go.

[@hignman]

JUSTICE FOR THE GREEN TRIANGLE

[@tiggerwood8899]

Celebrations, imo, are the best. I love the bounty. When you've recovered from eating all that chocolate try a bounty and a snickers at the same time. The bountyless tubs are a limited edition that are or were only available in a few stores. It was fun watching you eat your way to diabetes, 😂

[@benedictdawkins]

I think that each of these have different occasions Quality street: Christmas Roses: Valentine's day Celebrations: General eating Heroes: Birthday

[@charlierayed]

Without having them infront of me, I'd say that Quality Street and Roses are my faves then Celebration then Heroes last. But that's just me, especially since he strawberry and orange creme filled ones are my overall favourites 😊

[@jimmehsullivan123]

Watching you eat all those chocolates gave me flashbacks to why I prefer savoury over sweet. One year at Christmas a box of Roses was left unattended (usually my parents would restrict how much I would eat, because you know - I was 6 years old and didn’t understand what “too much” meant.) I sat and ate one too many and was violently sick for the entire day. Since that day, I’ve not been much of a sweet tooth 😂. You definitely ate way more than I did back then, so I am praying for your stomach lol

[@pixelisedsquid]

eating so many chocolates destroyed your taste buds, roses are as goated as the rest.

[@jessackroyd1990]

Yeah I feel like Roses suffered going last 😂

[@craigevans6156]

The green triangular ones in quality street are the best

[@MarketingMovies1337]

As an Australian, its the same thing. the Cadbury "heroes" is here called "Favourites" and have many types. Also Celebrations is the best. Roses I feel like they changed the flavour to it, use to be better.

[@MarketingMovies1337]

Also watching your video, there is a few changes in all of these compared to the Australian versions.

[@samalam98]

The Green Triangle is god tier imo

[@DrWhoFanJ]

If you do ever try these boxes again, take time to bite each one in two to see how they’re done inside; it’s very different between each set. (Oh, and I’d always deliberately leave the coconut ones for last so I could actually get a decent spread of the rest before gorging myself on the ones that only I would eat! 🤣)

[@elaineb7065]

When choosing with others coconut is my go-to because I'm one of those who likes it. Not a fan of nougat or the strawberry-flavoured ones & can't stand Milky Way

[@danh4698]

Same! No-one in my family likes coconut or nut, so I'd go with all the other ones I like first knowing I'd still get all the bounties and snickers anyway at the end 😅😅

[@archie9246]

Yeees Evan! I would have not accepted an answer that was not Quality streets. Like you said celebrations are great but they are just smaller bits of the chocolates brits eat all year. That being said I think many would agree that the Malteser is the best overall and was the first to go in all the families I know. Great video!!!

[@giorgia.m]

Individually trying each chocolate 😅 I really hope you don’t get sick

[@AmbientWhispersASMR]

Roses have been done a huge disservice here. You were just sick of chocolate by the time you started them. Back in the day they were neck and neck with QS

[@evan]

No they’re just bad

[@AmbientWhispersASMR]

@@evan Cadbury Chocolate > Nestle filth

[@BestBoyPatrick]

I have been and always will be a quality Street guy. I find the whole “small versions of regular bars” thing boring, I can have them but better whenever. Quality street (and roses too) are more special to, they feel like Christmas.

[@alclewley9309]

"Merry Christmas, you filthy animal." Lol. Quality (street) content. And yes, The Purple One is king!

[@danowen79]

It’s Roses vs Quality Street. The other two are young upstarts shrinking existing chocolate bars. Roses are the best, but they’ve gone down a tier since making each sweet’s wrapper uniform. They used to be more like QS, which now looks the best. I tend to associate QS with older people - weirdly.

[@joelgarf]

The tubs are not single use. The British have multiple uses from cake tin to button tin.

[@torreyskidd]

THE GREEN TRIANGLE HATE???? unacceptable

[@kivzzzz]

I love Bounty! If this box was in front of me, I'd eat all the Bounty pieces. :D

[@SigmaLongshot]

Nestle goes in "monster" tier for being king of the bastards. Cadbury USED to be the king, but after selling out to the Americans the chocolate is like candle wax now. Major disappointment at how far they've fallen - it's like pure cheap vegetable oil now, which is why it melts so fast (into a greasy slop).

[@martineyles]

Quality Street was Mackintosh before merging with Rowntrees and then later being bought out by Nestle.

[@janebaker966]

That description is exactly right. The chocolate is awful now. If it doesn't actually taste horrible it's got no taste at all.

[@SigmaLongshot]

@@martineyles Rowntree was excellent! Wasn't Kit Kat also Rowntree originally?

[@SigmaLongshot]

@@janebaker966 pretty much just vegetable oil and sugar now!

[@DerekHarkness]

When I was young, back in the late 70's and early 80's, Quality Street came in a metal tin. Never ever thrown out. Everybody reuses them. Roses back then came only in a tall blue box. The only other choices for adults were Milk Tray, Thorntons, and After Eights. The children would get a selection box either of Cadburys or Rowantree chocolates that would contain one of each full sized bar from that brand.

[@kathrynabbott5032]

The tins were a lot bigger in the 70’s and 80’s, but then Christmas seemed to last longer then.

[@SuperGourmetguy]

Too much plastic waste, they used to be metal tins. Would be good if they wrapped the chocolates in greaseproof paper too

[@lewislc2714]

Why aren’t they in metal anymore?

[@TheAlmightyPinch]

@@lewislc2714 imagine it’s cause plastic is cheaper and easier to manufacture. Always preferred the metal tins.

[@GCAbleism158]

They still do metal tins...for £8. Yeah, plastic "tin" about £5, metal about £8.

[@JennaGetsCreative]

I imagine they would go stale in the paper wrappers faster.

[@joebonaiuto5554]

Yumm, Rose's and Quality Street were family favorites since 1985. A friend from college, exchange student from Danmark, started sending them every Christmas and we fell in love with those. Of course all we had here was Brachs or Russell Stover to compare.

[@robertbrookes2000]

As a Brit with a sweet tooth, you have my undivided attention. Be careful with any opinions on coconut though. (personally I love it)

[@jmurray1110]

Blue or red bounty

[@stephfh]

You are adapting to the European way now “I really don't like you, but Christmas is forcing me to be nice, so here, have a box of Roses.“