Cadbury's Roses

tangey · 9 Dec 2025 at 10:58

Pho said:
Also just a reminder the huge 2.4KG Celebrations boxes are on offer on Amazon at the moment

Amazon.co.uk

a quick calculation on the "Nutrition summary" gives me 12000 calories and 1.3KG of sugar in that box !

200sols · 9 Dec 2025 at 11:00

Firestar_3x said:
Roses are rubbish, Quality Street are miles better.

Both are awful...

Pho · 9 Dec 2025 at 11:02

tangey said:
a quick calculation on the "Nutrition summary" gives me 12000 calories and 1.3KG of sugar in that box !

Oh wow. I think had a box of these to myself last Christmas too

Ayahuasca · 9 Dec 2025 at 11:06

Pho said:
Also just a reminder the huge 2.4KG Celebrations boxes are on offer on Amazon at the moment

Amazon.co.uk

500g tubs can be had for like £4 at some of the bargain bin stores, so you can get 2500g for £20...

Bubo · 9 Dec 2025 at 11:23

413x said:
Ferrero Rocher are clearly top tier.

I hate Ferrero Rocher. With me it's not so much "Ambassador, with these Ferrero Rocher you are really spoiling us!", and more like "Ambassasdor, you can stick these Ferrero Rochers up your ****, which I am sure you will enjoy anyway. Goodnight!"

Resident · 9 Dec 2025 at 11:57

Uther said:
Why are you buying those tubs of overpriced ****...

I haven't.

It's somewhat of a family tradition in our family for the grandparents to buy a sweet tub for the grandkids on the run up to Christmas. My mother bought the Roses for my kids as part of that tradition

I think the kids of today are very short changed

1992 vs 2018

And the tubs are even smaller now !

413x · 9 Dec 2025 at 12:30

Bubo said:
I hate Ferrero Rocher. With me it's not so much "Ambassador, with these Ferrero Rocher you are really spoiling us!", and more like "Ambassasdor, you can stick these Ferrero Rochers up your ****, which I am sure you will enjoy anyway. Goodnight!"

You're nuts!

McManicMan · 9 Dec 2025 at 13:14

Lyndt chocolate is the only one I can eat these days

Mint8 · 9 Dec 2025 at 15:01

Weirdl

Resident said:
I haven't.

It's somewhat of a family tradition in our family for the grandparents to buy a sweet tub for the grandkids on the run up to Christmas. My mother bought the Roses for my kids as part of that tradition

I think the kids of today are very short changed

1992 vs 2018

And the tubs are even smaller now !

Weirdly though the general size of people now compared to then is probably the opposite....

Maybe we should all go on a Roses diet.

loftie · 9 Dec 2025 at 15:41

Resident said:
I haven't.

It's somewhat of a family tradition in our family for the grandparents to buy a sweet tub for the grandkids on the run up to Christmas. My mother bought the Roses for my kids as part of that tradition

I think the kids of today are very short changed

1992 vs 2018

And the tubs are even smaller now !

What are was the weights?

Haggisman · 9 Dec 2025 at 15:59

McManicMan said:
Lyndt chocolate is the only one I can eat these days

Is that "fancy" Swiss chocolate from Temu?

I'm not happy with Lindt tbh, I ordered 4 advent calendars from them (one each for the kids, one for the other half, one for me), they only sent 3, so guess who has to go without... :mad:

koolpc · 9 Dec 2025 at 16:57

When i was younger, the tins of Roses etc were a LOT bigger!!!

Kelt · 9 Dec 2025 at 17:49

Haggisman said:
Is that "fancy" Swiss chocolate from Temu?

I'm not happy with Lindt tbh, I ordered 4 advent calendars from them (one each for the kids, one for the other half, one for me), they only sent 3, so guess who has to go without...

One of the kids, of course.

Haggisman · 9 Dec 2025 at 18:58

Kelt said:
One of the kids, of course.

Sadly no...

Timing of this thread is quite fortuitous actually, neighbours popped round a tub of roses earlier, and one of the kids won a box of quality street at the school Christmas fayre, so have both sat in front of us just now.

They're definitely both a lot worse than I remember, and they were never that great to start with!

matgsi · 9 Dec 2025 at 19:16

Haggisman said:
Roses are rubbish,
Quality Street taste rank,
Instead of a tub of chocolate,
I'd rather have a...

...bacon sandwich

Get your mind out of the gutter!

Scort · 9 Dec 2025 at 19:32

Can't do Cadbury any more - it's tastes rank these days

Uther · 9 Dec 2025 at 19:34

Aren't they basically just little lumps of palm oil now.

Tykey · 9 Dec 2025 at 21:01

Can't beat Thorntons chocolates imo.

Darkpilgrim · 9 Dec 2025 at 21:06

Cadburys "chocolate" And I call it that loosely is pretty disgusting nowadays.

Rocky-Roader · 9 Dec 2025 at 21:20

Tom_ed1987 said:
Related but why can't you buy the Celebrarions Maltesers as a standalone.

My favourite in Celebrations was the Galaxy truffle but they stopped it a few years ago, second dsv is the Malteser, also used to love the coffee in the Roses/Quality Street till the buggers pulled them too.