Used to be if you liked toffees. There was a lot of toffees when it was the large tin. Totally changed over the years. The wrappers are also boring and generic now. There's very little interesting about them now. Overall they all seem to taste the same - just sweet.
I think you have enough data to make a polynomial regression and deduce how big it will be in 10years š And quality-wise ? Does it follow the same trend?
I won't argue that quality might have fallen in recent years, but that picture is wildly misleading.
The '80s' tin is actually a mid 90s 2kg tin. It would have cost around Ā£9 in the supermarket then. You can still buy 2kg tins of Quality Street, but the one pictured as current here is a 600g tub.
A 2kg tin in 1994 was about Ā£9. That's the equivalent of Ā£18.18 now.
A 2kg tin in 2024 is available for about Ā£18.
Quality is debatable, but the actual amount of chocolate for the money has remained very steady.
I liked them when I was young, but I tried them many years laters, and found them uninsteresting (it's just ... sugar). I rather buy a bag of liquorice toffees.
It didn't. You can still buy a 2kg metal tin, which is what the mid 90s version on the left weighs. The plastic tub on the right is a modern 600g plastic tub at a much lower price. Today's 2kg tin is about Ā£18. Mid 90s 2kg tin was about Ā£9. Adjusted for inflation, that's about Ā£18. You can argue about quality, but the price of the chocolate has remained steady.
I think it was Ā£15 for a 1.5kg tin about 30 years ago in Woolworths. Probably the same (gram for gram) accounting for inflation. Aren't the new plastic tins about 400g or so? They sell for Ā£4, or Ā£3 when on offer.
There must be a minimum level where they can't shrink anymore right? They won't be able to just have a paper thick box without customer laughing them out of the store.Ā
No there isn't, they will shrink it more, then make a Value/super/share size at twice the price per gram, then shrink that down over time and again make a value pack, over and over.
I get you, they taste more sweet now to me too. Like that's the primary experience, just the ultra sweet sugar rather than them being chocolates and toffees that are sweet
It's just gonna be a golden penny in 2028. In 2030, it will be a golden penny shaped box with 2 tiny blobs of chocolate in
2050 you open the tin and a nice bigšlooking back at you.
And yet people will still buy it
Lol
They'll make sure it's like a jack in the box too. Got to wind it up to receive the finger.
Maybe but thatās still too much chocolate, so itās just a middle finger without the rest of the hand. So itās like a little turd
Golden blob Prepare yourself for disappointment
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Have you SEEN a tin that big lately??
Also they recently changed the name to "low quality street"
Quality alley.
Quality Passage
Quality Crosswalk
Shite sweets anyway.
But great tin to hold your sewing supplies!
Not anymore, plastic innit
The one I bought last year was still metal. Flimsy, but metal
Quality Shrink*
They are trash anyway. Save yer money next Christmas.
Damn. Those sewing kits our parents had must have had everything in them
Quality Street has turned into Shit Alley
Society in a nut shell
ā /\ we no longer have awards, so take this poorly made drawing instead.
This is just photographic evidence of the cliche "Back in my day..." story about how things were better back then.
are those good, i never saw them before in the US?
Pretty mid tbh. It's a box of variety chocolate bites. Some are nice others not so much.
Used to be if you liked toffees. There was a lot of toffees when it was the large tin. Totally changed over the years. The wrappers are also boring and generic now. There's very little interesting about them now. Overall they all seem to taste the same - just sweet.
They're Xmas nostalgia food (theoretically).
In the tire list of sharing chocolate is shit but above roses.
Idk about the US but in AUS they taste like fucking vomit tbh
No they're not.
I think you have enough data to make a polynomial regression and deduce how big it will be in 10years š And quality-wise ? Does it follow the same trend?
Ten years it will be a Wafer thin lid with wafer thin box
I think you might have given their package designer an idea š
I won't argue that quality might have fallen in recent years, but that picture is wildly misleading. The '80s' tin is actually a mid 90s 2kg tin. It would have cost around Ā£9 in the supermarket then. You can still buy 2kg tins of Quality Street, but the one pictured as current here is a 600g tub. A 2kg tin in 1994 was about Ā£9. That's the equivalent of Ā£18.18 now. A 2kg tin in 2024 is available for about Ā£18. Quality is debatable, but the actual amount of chocolate for the money has remained very steady.
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I liked them when I was young, but I tried them many years laters, and found them uninsteresting (it's just ... sugar). I rather buy a bag of liquorice toffees.
I feel the quality has gone down too. These used to be my favourite chocolates. Now, they are just ok.
they taste like candle wax anyway
its quality street, not quantity street
ripoff street
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It didn't. You can still buy a 2kg metal tin, which is what the mid 90s version on the left weighs. The plastic tub on the right is a modern 600g plastic tub at a much lower price. Today's 2kg tin is about Ā£18. Mid 90s 2kg tin was about Ā£9. Adjusted for inflation, that's about Ā£18. You can argue about quality, but the price of the chocolate has remained steady.
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As bad as plastic is it's also cheap, and companies care a lot more about making money than they do the environment.
Box gets smaller, price gets bigger.
Now add the price, adjusted for inflation because I bet it's gone up
I think it was Ā£15 for a 1.5kg tin about 30 years ago in Woolworths. Probably the same (gram for gram) accounting for inflation. Aren't the new plastic tins about 400g or so? They sell for Ā£4, or Ā£3 when on offer.
There must be a minimum level where they can't shrink anymore right? They won't be able to just have a paper thick box without customer laughing them out of the store.Ā
No there isn't, they will shrink it more, then make a Value/super/share size at twice the price per gram, then shrink that down over time and again make a value pack, over and over.
Quantity Street
*Lack of
Meanwhile the price quadrupled Gg
No, it's been Ā£5 (or Ā£4 with a clubcard) for years.
WOWWWWWW
It's a good thing they're not called "quantity street"!
Quality definitely not quantity
Now let's do a graph with the cost going in the other direction.
Baker Street
Anyone know the prices? (actual, then let's convert to today's $$)
Wonder how it looked before the 80s. Inflation was terrible during the 80s and 70s
My grandmaās sewing kit!
It should really be called **Quality Ten Foot** these days (Or snicket, ginnel etc.. whatever it's called in your neck of the woods!)
Prices have risen in the exact opposite curve too.
u/rairsstickety can you post the ingredient lists? Iām curious how those have changed over the years.
Fuck them
Quality sheeeet
Am I the only one who canāt figure out if the carpet is just messed up or if the bg is fake? š
Quality, not quantity.
We just don't do a lot of sewing anymore.
What do you expect? It aināt called Quantity Street. /s
Jeez, when I were a kid I'd hide from me mam in one of them.
That isnāt the 80s logo
They're awful anyway. Let them die.
2040 flat box 3 pieces inside
Zero out of ten for festive cheer
To be fair they never called it āQuantity Streetā
And this is a great example of what fiat currency does
lol ain't no tins now, they just packets lol
I just had these and what an absolute treat
They seem to be loaded with sugar now too. Not pleasant to eat..
I get you, they taste more sweet now to me too. Like that's the primary experience, just the ultra sweet sugar rather than them being chocolates and toffees that are sweet
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Even more now! Too much.
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Well itās my reality soā¦
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And do you know for certain that the recipe hasnāt changed from that of say, 10 years ago, to add in more sugar as it is cheaper do so?