What's your favourite? (Nestle Quality Street)

Member Name: aylawarner

Product:	Nestle Quality Street
Date:	25/06/09 (125 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Delicious selection pack

Disadvantages: A few that I can't eat

Quality Street has been a popular selection box of chocolates in the UK since its launch in 1936. Originally created by the confectioner Mackintosh's, the name came from the play 'Quality Street' by J. M. Barrie, who created the stage performance of Peter Pan. The two main characters from the play 'Quality Street' appeared on all Quality Street boxes and tins from 1936 until recently in 2000. In 1988, Nestle bought Quality Street and have made it into the even more popular brand that it is today, now also being sold worldwide.

For those hermits out there or for those who don't like chocolate and sweets, Quality Street is a selection box filled with an assortment of 12 milk and plain chocolates and toffees and there's bound to be at least one in the pack which everyone likes.

The choices are:
Toffee deluxe - rich buttery toffee wrapped in milk chocolate
Milk choc block - smooth and creamy milk chocolate
Toffee finger - a soft toffee finger dipped in milk chocolate
Orange creme - tangy orange flavoured fondant covered in plain chocolate
Orange chocolate crunch - orange flavoured truffle with orange crunchy pieces
The green triangle - hazelnut noisette in milk chocolate
The purple one - hazelnut and caramel in a milk chocolate shell
Vanilla fudge - milk chocolate filled with creamy soft vanilla fudge
Coconut eclair - rich coconut covered in milk chocolate
Toffee penny - a hard and chewy toffee penny covered in milk chocolate
Caramel swirl - soft and sticky caramel covered in a milk chocolate circle
Strawberry delight - sweet strawberry fondant in plain chocolate

My favourites have to be the strawberry delight and vanilla fudge which are both so gorgeous. There are always fights over who gets the strawberry ones in my family as these tend to be most people's favourites. The orange creme one is also nice but I do find the orange flavour a bit tangy. I tend to steer clear of the hard toffee ones, especially the toffee penny, as they really can pull your teeth out! I can't comment on what the green triangle or the purple one taste like as these both contain nuts which I'm allergic to so haven't tried them. I've tried the coconut eclair one a few times and each time it's given me a reaction so there must be a trace of nuts in this one so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with nut allergies. The packaging does state that all sweets may contain traces of nuts but I haven't had reactions with any of the others.

Each individual sweet is covered in a foil wrapper and then a coloured plastic wrapper. This, as well as the different shapes, allows you to easily identify which sweet you want.

Quality Street can be bought in a variety of packs - a 1.2kg tin, 275g box or 480g box. The boxes are best for a gift to a single person whereas the huge tins are the perfect thing to have at big celebrations such as Christmas. But be careful that you don't end up with all your favourites gone before you even get a look in!

I actually prefer the strawberry sweet in the Cadbury's Roses selection pack as the strawberry is a pink colour and is thinner and sweeter. Many of the other sweets are much the same though but if I had to choose, I'd go for Roses because of the strawberry and because I prefer Cadbury's gorgeous milk chocolate. However, Quality Street are actually more popular than Roses are still a great delicious selection pack.

Summary: So, what's your favourite?