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The story of Nestlé Quality Street Pouch
The tin that did the rounds
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.