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Quality Street
Quality Street is a popular selection of individual sweets, usually contained in tins or boxes, manufactured in Halifax, in the United Kingdom by Nestlé.
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History
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's 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.
In Western Norway, it is called "Shetlandsgodt" (Shetland Sweets), because it often was brought home by fishermen visiting Shetland. In Iceland it is traditionally known as "Mackintosh."
Contents
The sweets within the box have changed and evolved over the years. As of December 2010, there are 12 flavours[1] of the individually wrapped sweets, all of which are either chocolate or toffee based, as follows:
Current varieties
- Milk Chocolate Hazelnut with caramel (the 'Purple One')
- Chocolate Noisette Pate (the 'Green Triangle')
- Chocolate Toffee Finger (gold wrapped stick)
- Toffee Penny (gold wrapper)
- Vanilla Fudge (pink wrapper)
- Strawberry Delight (red circular wrapper)
- Coconut Eclair (blue wrapper)
- Caramel Swirl (yellow frustum)
- Milk Choc Block (green wrapper)
- Orange Crunch (octagonal orange wrapper)
- Orange Creme (orange circular wrapper)
- Toffee Deluxe (Brown wrapper)
Discontinued varieties
- 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)
See also
References
External links
Categories:- Rowntree's brands
- Yorkshire cuisine
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