This was one of my favourite sweet treats when I was a youngster, I especially liked the taste of the perilous green ones. The pink Quality Street tin on the right also brings back memories, with it’s Victorian images and chocolates double wrapped in foil and cellophane. I used to try and smooth the foil out as flat as possible, hopefully without a single crease and I used to have fun experimenting with the cellophane in front of a camera lens 
So many Christmas memories unfold and roll back into one happy memory. Family, friends, fun, laughter, the occasional tear, frost, snow, school concerts, singing at Ironbridge on Christmas Eve; which reminds me we did the same in the local pubs, hospitals and old peoples homes. So many happy faces over the years…
They even remind me of the class bully at junior school and my inadvertent comment which much later led to the sharing of chocolates.
All those years ago I didn’t appreciate how many memories a box of Mackintosh’s Weekend could hold locked up inside…
Ah, Quality Street … oh, Cadbury … sweet memories, indeed.
Alas poor Cadbury what happened to you…
A pity for all who’d never feel a piece of Cadbury’s melt on their tongue.
Fortunately, someone who anticipated my taste created Hobnobs.
There’s something else I do see in front of my eyes, even do have its 40-years-old taste on my tongue, but I can’t think of the proper name. It’s a selection of different sweets, each containing of liquorice.
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Anyway, as long as you understand what I am trying to say …
A cherry-esque Sunday to you and yours.
I don’t think I know the selection of different sweets containing liquorice…
For the chocolatey taste Green & Blacks has been my favourite for a number of years.
Now for that cherry-esque Sunday, not forgetting that cherry-pie Sunday is coming around very soon
Oops, so it’s not tomorrow … err … today cherry pie Sunday?
Oh well, consoling myself: Isn’t every Sunday a Cherry Pie Sunday?
Anyway: Have a lovely one, you and yours.
The cherry-esque-pie Sunday is the first Sunday in August apparently.
And yes every Sunday (especially with friends) is a CherryPie Sunday
Wishing you a lovely Sunday too
Thank you Cherie. You bring back great memories of my children’s grandparents, in Liverpool, sending to the two little boys they never saw (except in photos), the English sweets their father had enjoyed when growing up. They never forgot them on Birthdays and all Special Days in between. Today, it’s easy to get sweets from every country in shops. But, in those days, it was very special. What a good time those airmail gifts gave to my sons. The dear, dear people…
They sound like fond and happy memories to me. But it also must have been difficult for the grandparents not to see their grandchildren.
It is true that we can get sweets and other things in our shops from all around the globe now, but at what cost…
I remember “Weekend”! Thank you….
I am glad you enjoyed the memory
Quality Street, ah yes, now you’re talking. Weekend though was a strange mixture. I’d forgotten about them.
I wish they would go back to the old mixture of quality street, it was so much better then than now.
I had forgotten Weekend too, I must have like Quality Street best, great photo. Strange to see that tin again, my Mum had one out just like it the other day when I went to visit, it is full of old buttons
I have an old quality street tin full of buttons too
never heard of “weekend” chocolates but of course Christmas would not be Christmas without the Quality street
We always had the Quality Street too