Quality Street (confectionery)
Quality Street is a popular selection of individual sweets, usually contained in tins or boxes, manufactured by Nestlé in England (in Halifax, West Yorkshire).
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History [edit]
Quality Street was launched in 1936 by Halifax confectioner Mackintosh's, the name being inspired by a play of the same name by J. M. Barrie. 'The Major' and 'Miss', two figures inspired by the play's principal characters, appeared on all Quality Street boxes and tins until 2000.
The brand was acquired by Nestlé when they bought Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988.
In recent years, individual larger versions of the more popular chocolates have been manufactured and sold separately, as an extension to the brand, with a bar based on the Purple One made most recently.
In Western Norway, it is called "Shetlandsgodt" or more commonly as "Shetland Snoops" (Shetland Sweets), because it often was brought home by fishermen visiting Shetland. In Iceland it is traditionally known as "Mackintosh."
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The sweets within the box have changed and evolved over the years. As of December 2012, there are 12 flavours[1] of the individually wrapped sweets, all of which are either chocolate or toffee based, as follows:
Current varieties [edit]
- Milk Chocolate Hazelnut with caramel (purple wrapper)
- Chocolate Noisette Pate (Hazelnut Triangle) (green wrapper, triangle)
- Chocolate Toffee Finger (gold wrapper, stick)
- Toffee Penny (gold wrapper)
- Vanilla Fudge (pink wrapper)
- Strawberry Delight (red wrapper, circular)
- Coconut Eclair (blue wrapper)
- Caramel Swirl (yellow wrapper)
- Milk Choc Block (green wrapper)
- Orange Crunch (orange wrapper, octagonal)
- Orange Creme (orange wrapper)
- Toffee Deluxe (brown wrapper)
The Toffee Penny wrapper was a bit of a problem for a number of years because the wrapper would stick to the confection. Following a suggestion by packaging manufacturer William T. Robson O.B.E (Bill), a new material was adopted by the manufacturer to correct the issue.
Discontinued varieties [edit]
- Purple One (the original 'Purple One' with Brazil nut, replaced with hazelnut version)
- Chocolate Strawberry Cream (now replaced with Strawberry Delight)
- Chocolate Toffee Cup (now replaced with Caramel Swirl)
- Hazelnut Cracknell (red wrapper)
- Hazelnut Eclair
- Chocolate Nut Toffee Cream
- Malt Toffee (replaced with toffee deluxe as a "new" flavour)
- Milk Chocolate Round (now replaced with Milk Choc Block in green wrapper)
- Peanut Cracknell (blue wrapper)
- Coffee Cream (brown wrapper, same size and shape as the strawberry cream)
- Gooseberry Cream (green wrapper light green fondant with a touch of Gooseberry Preserve covered in milk chocolate)
- Apricot Delight (blue wrapper, square chunk, apricot flavoured jelly covered in milk chocolate)
- Toffee Square (metallic pink wrapper, a small square of very hard toffee)
- Chocolate Truffle (brown wrapper, square chunk, a soft truffle filling covered in milk chocolate)
- Montelimar Nougat
- Smarties (ordinary cardboard box of Smarties)
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