Another sad loss in 2016

[Bagnaj97]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...mers-complain/

One of the toffees in Quality Street is being replaced, ostensibly due to feedback that there were too many toffee varieties. I think we all know the real reason:
"The boxes will also 30g lighter in weight due to the inclusion of the lighter honeycomb sweet"


You will be missed.

[virtuo]

The Toffee Deluxe was the only thing to slow me down piling through a tub of Quality Street at Christmas. My gluttony will be optimised by the change.

[ik9000]

The Toffee Deluxe was the only thing to slow me down piling through a tub of Quality Street at Christmas. My gluttony will be optimised by the change.

these were preferable to some of the others. Get rid of the manky orange fondant.

[opel80uk]

these were preferable to some of the others. Get rid of the manky orange fondant.

With comments like that, you and I are going to fall out!

[Phage]

It always the toffee pennies that are left at the bottom of ours

[jag272]

It always the toffee pennies that are left at the bottom of ours

Agreed, while not a fan of either toffee, I wouldve much rather seen the pennies go. I consider them the worse of the 2 evils.

[Zarvay]

these were preferable to some of the others. Get rid of the manky orange fondant.

The orange fondant was my favourite Why you say this?

[GoNz0]

It is my favorite, will never buy a tin for this house again.

[ik9000]

With comments like that, you and I are going to fall out!

You like orange fondants? Are you a lady?

[OilSheikh]

Did the honeycomb replace the blue brick one ?

[kalniel]

To be fair, the truffle-honeycomb replacement sounds much nicer.

[Jonj1611]

As if 2016 wasn't bad enough.

[SeriousSam]

I think we all know the real reason: "The boxes will also 30g lighter in weight due to the inclusion of the lighter honeycomb sweet" You will be missed.

Weight is somewhat of an irrelevance in terms of price for these products, as they are costed based on numbers of units per flavour. So if they had a non-toffee product which was both heavier and cheaper then they would quite happily use that. All that happens is that the packaging has to reflect the new average weight, nutritional changes etc.

The most likely explanation is that this particular unit (or part of it) is the only one made on an old line which they would like to get rid of and either replace with a more modern one with better functionality / efficiency or do away with all together. So they rigged up a test to see if people would be that bothered if they removed it and swapped in something else. They then spin it as "too many toffee flavours".

In companies this size plant efficiency savings more often than not dwarf product savings by several orders of magnitude.

[ik9000]

Those toffees kept me going on my building site a few years ago. Found a stash of them left over from Christmas (cos they're not exactly first pick) and stuck them in my site jacket. Great things, last for ages. I'd have ditched the chocolate finger if it did have to be one of the toffees.

[Bagnaj97]

The most likely explanation is that this particular unit (or part of it) is the only one made on an old line which they would like to get rid of and either replace with a more modern one with better functionality / efficiency or do away with all together. So they rigged up a test to see if people would be that bothered if they removed it and swapped in something else. They then spin it as "too many toffee flavours".

Except they're still making them, just removing them from Quality Street. "A spokesman from Nestle said it would continue to sell the Toffee Deluxe as part of the special toffee packs."

[opel80uk]

You like orange fondants? Are you a lady?

Only at the weekends...... Although I was upset when they removed Coffee Fondants from Roses too.

Although the worst, I mean the absolute worst sweet nab was when they removed the Galaxy Truffle from Celebrations. Wasn't much celebrating going on in my house when I realised that had happened, I can tell you.