Everybody has a strategy for Quality Street. Yours probably involves getting to the purple ones before your brother does.
Nestlé Quality Street is the wrapped chocolate assortment that did the rounds of every British living room at Christmas, the coloured foils slowly piling up beside the sofa like evidence. This pouch holds the same sweets, minus the tin you would only have kept for buttons anyway.
Tip it into a bowl and watch who starts hovering. By Boxing Day there are three left in the bottom, and nobody will admit to leaving them.
Frequently asked questions about Nestlé Quality Street Pouch
Q: Is this the UK Quality Street?
A: It is, the British one with the wrappers you remember, and it ships to you from within Canada.
Q: How much is in the pouch?
A: It is a 300g pouch of individually wrapped sweets. Enough to go round the family once politely, and then the gloves come off.
Q: Does it make a good gift?
A: Very much so. For someone who misses home at Christmas, a bag of Quality Street says more than a card ever will.
More about Nestlé Quality Street Pouch
In Britain, Quality Street is less a box of chocolates and more a fixture of the season. It comes out after the dinner plates are cleared, it gets passed round during the film, and it is still being picked at days later when everyone claims to be off chocolate.
Here, people go looking for it because the wrappers are the memory. The colours, the rustle, the mild argument over who had the last good one: that is a British Christmas in Canada sorted, or at least the part that happens on the sofa.
The 300g pouch is the easy way to have it about the house. Every sweet is wrapped, so it keeps happily in a cool cupboard once opened. Pour it into a bowl for visitors, split it between a few stockings, or decant it into an old tin and let everyone assume it is the real thing.
It tends to go in the basket with the rest of the British Christmas food: a selection box for each child, a pudding for after the turkey, and something for the cheese board that nobody has room for.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
Christmas afternoon, the telly on, somebody's dad asleep in the good chair, and the Quality Street going round the room. You know the rules. You take your favourite, you act as if you were going to take that one anyway, and you pass it on. By Boxing Day the only ones left are the ones nobody will admit to liking. This pouch is that same assortment, the one Mackintosh's of Halifax started, and it starts exactly the same arguments.
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Named after a play, fittingly
Quality Street was launched in 1936 by Mackintosh's of Halifax, West Yorkshire, as an assortment of wrapped toffees and chocolates in a tin. The name was taken from a J. M. Barrie play of the same name. So the thing your family squabbles over every Christmas started out with a name from the theatre, which feels about right. Bear it in mind the next time somebody makes a scene over the last one in the bowl.
A Yorkshire family tree
In 1969 Mackintosh's merged with Rowntree's, the York firm that traces its roots to a cocoa and chocolate business Henry Isaac Rowntree bought in York in 1862. Together they became Rowntree Mackintosh, and in 1988 Nestlé bought the lot, bringing Kit Kat, Quality Street, Smarties, Rolo and Aero into its British portfolio. Nestlé itself goes back to Henri Nestlé, a German-born pharmacist in Vevey, Switzerland, and his infant food, Farine Lactée, in 1867. Quite a journey for a toffee.
The tactical pouch
The tin gets all the fame, but the pouch has one thing going for it: nobody finds it in March full of buttons and a sewing kit. It slips into a stocking, it travels to whoever is hosting, and it makes a fine Christmas gift for someone who misses home. Tip it into a bowl if you want the ceremony. Just know that the first time round is polite. The second time round, manners are off.
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Christmas is on its way
The Christmas range lands from the UK in early November.
The day it arrives we unpack it, pack your order and send it on its way. Advent calendars go first, and everything reaches you within a few days wherever you are in Canada.
Order now and it has your name on it. The favourites go early every year. The people who leave it until December are the ones who miss out.
