Every family has a rule about the Roses. Nobody can agree what it is, and everybody has broken it by Boxing Day.
Cadbury Roses, in a pouch: those little twisted wrappers, the rustle that brings people in from the other room, and the quiet negotiation over who gets the last good one.
It was always there at a British Christmas, on the coffee table by the telly, slowly turning into a bowl of empty wrappers. The grown-ups pretended not to count. The children counted openly.
If Christmas in Canada has felt like it is missing something, this might be it.
Frequently asked questions about Cadbury Roses Pouch
Q: Is this the UK version of Cadbury Roses?
A: It is. These are the British Cadbury Roses, the ones you remember, and we ship them from within Canada.
Q: How big is the pouch?
A: It is a 270g pouch of individually wrapped chocolates. Enough to fill a bowl on the coffee table, and probably not enough to stop the arguing.
Q: Is it a good Christmas gift for someone who misses home?
A: About as good as they come. It is a small taste of a British Christmas, and nobody has ever been disappointed to unwrap Roses.
More about Cadbury Roses Pouch
Roses sits right in the middle of the great British chocolate tin argument, the one that gets settled every year and then starts again the next. It is Cadbury's answer to the after-dinner sharing question: small chocolates, bright twisted wrappers, one more each and then that really is it.
People in Canada go looking for it because it tastes of a particular afternoon. The film on, the dinner plates still out, someone's uncle asleep in the good chair. Cadbury chocolate is the taste plenty of people grew up with, and Roses is how it turned up at home.
The pouch is the easy version. Every chocolate is individually wrapped, so you can tip the lot into a bowl, share it out, or slip a handful into a stocking. Kept in a cool, dry cupboard it waits patiently, which is more than can be said for the people who know where you hid it.
It tends to go home with the rest of a UK Christmas: a pudding for after dinner, a selection box for the kids, and a few Cadbury bars for whoever loses the Roses argument.
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Christmas afternoon, the telly on, and the Roses come out. Everybody has a favourite and nobody admits it until it has gone. By Boxing Day there is a sad little pile of the ones nobody wanted, and a hunt down the side of the sofa for the ones they did. If that was your British Christmas, these are the same Cadbury Roses, from the firm that started in a Birmingham grocer's shop in 1824. A taste of home at Christmas in Canada, arguments included.
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A grocer with a conscience
John Cadbury opened his shop at 93 Bull Street in Birmingham in 1824, selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate he prepared himself. He was a Quaker, and he promoted drinking chocolate partly as a respectable alternative to alcohol, which is a brave pitch in any British city. From 1831 the business moved into factory production on Bridge Street. In 1861 his sons, Richard and George, took over, and in 1866 they used a Dutch cocoa-pressing method to launch the purer Cocoa Essence.
A village with no pubs
In 1879 the brothers opened a purpose-built factory at Bournville, south-west of Birmingham. George then turned Bournville into a model village for the workers, famous for having no public houses. Their father would have been delighted. Dairy Milk arrived in 1905 and was the best-seller by 1914, and in 1928 came the glass and a half of full-cream milk, which you can probably still picture without trying. Cadbury merged with J. S. Fry & Sons in 1919 and with Schweppes in 1969.
Still Bournville, still arguing
Kraft Foods acquired Cadbury in 2010, and these days it is part of Mondelez International, created when Kraft split in 2012. The chocolate is still made in Britain at the historic Bournville factory in Birmingham, where the brothers set up in 1879. Which brings us back to the coffee table, the Christmas film nobody is really watching, and a hand reaching in for one more. Go on. Nobody is counting. Everybody is counting.
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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.
