Quality Street brings back long gone fan-favourite flavour for second Christmas after decades off shelves
NESTLE is bringing back a Quality Street fan-favourite for the second Christmas in a row.
The coffee creme flavour chocolate was last seen in Quality Street tubs over 20 years ago, until the chocolatier reintroduced it last year.
Nestle has confirmed that the sweet treat will be available once again this Christmas.
However, fans won’t find the iconic flavour in the usual Quality Street tubs.
Instead, the coffee-flavour fondant wrapped in dark chocolate will join the 11 other Quality Street sweets at pick and mix stations across selected John Lewis stores in the UK.
The first pick and mix station opened today (September 25) at John Lewis’s flagship store on Oxford Street.
Other participating stores will begin rolling out the sections throughout October.
However, if you don’t live near a John Lewis, you can still get your hands on Quality Street’s coffee creme chocolates.
They will also be available in a limited-edition cracker at Waitrose and John Lewis stores for £5.50.
Shoppers can also buy a bag of coffee creme chocolates to add to their current Quality Street tins for £4.50.
Emily Grimbley, brand manager for Quality Street, said: “It’s a pleasure to share the news that coffee creme will be returning for Christmas 2024.
“This is an absolute fan favourite, and we are delighted to have it on shop shelves for Quality Street fans nationwide.
“We know how passionately Quality Street fans feel about their favourite sweets, so the pick and mix stations at John Lewis are people’s chance to fill up their own bespoke mix with just the sweets that they and their friends and family love.”
Fans of the discontinued chocolate will be delighted to hear it is making a comeback.
LOCATIONS OF JOHN LEWIS' PICK & MIX
SHOPPERS can create their own bespoke collection of Quality Street favourites to take home, or gift, this Christmas at the pick and mix stations.
These will be located at the following John Lewis stores from September 25:
- Bluewater
- Cambridge
- Cardiff
- Cheadle
- Cribbs Causeway
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- High Wycombe
- Kingston
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Milton Keynes
- Newcastle
- Nottingham
- Oxford Street
- Peter Jones (Sloane Square)
- Solihull
- Southampton
- Trafford
NEW TINS FOR 2024
Nestlé, has launched a new version of its 813g Quality Street tin for sweet-toothed customers this winter.
The £12 tub features all the usual classic flavours and plays on Quality Street’s Halifax heritage – where it was first manufactured in 1936 and still is.
The 813g Quality Street tin is available now across a host of retailers nationwide including Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, B&M and Sainsbury’s.
This is the full list of chains you can get it from:
- Asda
- Co-op
- B&M
- Morrisons
- Nisa
- Ocado
- Sainsbury’s
- Booths
- Spar
- Waitrose
But despite the shiny nature of the new tub, which contains 471 calories per 100 grams, plenty have been left saying one thing in particular – how they want the old wrappers back.
It comes after the chocolatier scrapped its old packaging in October 2022 and replaced it with eco-friendly waxed paper wrappers.
Commenting on the Nestlé post, one shopper said: “Yesterday I bought a box and I was surprised.
“Plastic and the paper (packaging) is so ugly and cheap.”
Another commented: “Please can we also have the old wrappers back. Those ones from last year were truly awful.”
A third added: “Nice tin but sadly the sweets and wrappers are dreadful now.”
But not all shoppers are downbeat about the new tin.
One said “I love the more traditional look” while another added “beautiful tin. Would love one”.
Meanwhile, a third piped up: “Love it!”
Shoppers can pick up the new 813g tin for £12, £1.48 per 100g, which can obviously be reused after all the chocolates have been eaten.
However, if you’re not fussed about the nostalgic tin, you’ll pay less going for a different tub or packet.
Shoppers can pick up a plastic 600g tub from Tesco for £4.50 – 75p per 100g – if you’ve got a Clubcard.
You can also pick up a 357g sharing bag of Quality Street from B&M for just £4 – £1.12 per 100g.
The launch of Quality Street’s new tin comes after a number of other retailers started stocking Christmas bits.
Tesco shoppers have been rushing to get their hands on Celebration tubs with just one iconic flavour in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, customers have been left in shock after B&M launched its new Christmas range.
SAVE MONEY AT THE SUPERMARKET
THERE are plenty of ways to save on your grocery shop.
You can look out for yellow or red stickers on products, which show when they’ve been reduced.
If the food is fresh, you’ll have to eat it quickly or freeze it for another time.
Making a list should also save you money, as you’ll be less likely to make any rash purchases when you get to the supermarket.
Going own brand can be one easy way to save hundreds of pounds a year on your food bills too.
This means ditching “finest” or “luxury” products and instead going for “own” or value” type of lines.
Plenty of supermarkets run wonky veg and fruit schemes where you can get cheap prices if they’re misshapen or imperfect.
For example, Lidl runs its Waste Not scheme, offering boxes of 5kg of fruit and vegetables for just £1.50.
If you’re on a low income and a parent, you may be able to get up to £442 a year in Healthy Start vouchers to use at the supermarket too.
Plus, many councils offer supermarket vouchers as part of the Household Support Fund.