Quality Street Christmas Teasers – fun facts you may not know

For many of us, it’s not truly Christmas until we’re elbow-deep in a Quality Street tub, hunting for the Purple One before anyone else gets there. But how much do you actually know about Britain’s most iconic Christmas sweet? Here are eight Quality Street fun facts that might surprise you – perfect ammunition for the Christmas dinner table.

We all love foraging through the iconic purple tub at Christmas to find our favourite Quality Street sweet, usually to find they’ve been all gobbled up, but what do we actually know about these delicious treats?

Eight Fun Quality Street Fun Facts: Christmas teasers you may not already know.

• The Purple One is shaped like a Brazil nut shell because it used to contain a Brazil nut, but was replaced with a hazelnut as they became more popular.
• In China, Quality Street is a wedding sweet and is given out at wedding receptions instead of at Christmas.
• The couple on the Quality Street tin are known as The Major and Miss. Their real names are Phoebe Throssel and Valentine Brown, who are characters from a play called Quality Street.
• The socialite and fashion designer Mille Mackintosh is a descendant of Violet Mackintosh, the Quality Street toffee inventor.

  

• Toffee Finger was part of our original assortment, as were Green Triangle, The Purple One, and Caramel Swirl.
• Harold Mackintosh invented Quality Street. He was made a Lord in recognition of his work to raise money for the war effort.
• Quality Street was named after a play of the same name that was written by J.M. Barrie (who also wrote Peter Pan).
• During the Second World War, there was a shortage of paint and Quality Street tins were made with red, black and ochre pictures.
• 🔗 Quality Street Large Tin – Amazon UK

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We all have our favourite chocolates, which seem to disappear as soon as the tin is opened, while the less popular sweets are left lying at the bottom of the tin for weeks.

What Quality Street chocolate variety would be your first choice?

• The Purple One: Milk chocolate filled with hazelnut and caramel (purple wrapper)
• Green Triangle: Hazelnut noisette (green foil wrapper)
• Chocolate Toffee Finger (gold wrapper)
• Strawberry Delight (red wrapper)
• Caramel Swirl (yellow foil wrapper)
• Milk Choc Block (green wrapper)
• Orange Crunch (orange foil wrapper)
• Orange Creme (orange wrapper)
• Fudge (pink wrapper)
• Coconut Eclair (blue wrapper)
• Toffee Penny (gold wrapper)
• Chocolate Caramel Brownie (brown wrapper)

We can’t choose which one we like the best, so we will have to keep trying them all until we decide…

Note: These Quality Street fun facts have been researched from the web.

👉 Love Christmas food facts? See our Christmas Brussels sprouts facts guide for more festive food trivia worth knowing.