Quality Street brings back long gone fan-favourite flavour for second Christmas after decades off shelves

NESTLE is bringing backmost a Quality Street fan-favourite for the 2nd Christmas successful a row.

The java creme flavour cocoa was past seen successful Quality Street tubs implicit 20 years ago, until the chocolatier reintroduced it past year.

Nestle has confirmed that the saccharine dainty volition beryllium disposable erstwhile again this Christmas.

However, fans won't find the iconic flavour successful the accustomed Quality Street tubs.

Instead, the coffee-flavour fondant wrapped successful acheronian cocoa volition articulation the 11 different Quality Street sweets astatine prime and premix stations crossed selected John Lewis stores successful the UK.

The archetypal prime and premix presumption opened contiguous (September 25) astatine John Lewis's flagship store connected Oxford Street.

Other participating stores volition statesman rolling retired the sections passim October.

However, if you don't unrecorded adjacent a John Lewis, you tin inactive get your hands connected Quality Street's java creme chocolates.

They volition besides beryllium disposable successful a limited-edition cracker astatine Waitrose and John Lewis stores for £5.50.

Shoppers tin besides bargain a container of java creme chocolates to adhd to their existent Quality Street tins for £4.50.

Emily Grimbley, marque manager for Quality Street, said: "It's a pleasance to stock the news that java creme volition beryllium returning for Christmas 2024.

"This is an implicit instrumentality favourite, and we are delighted to person it connected store shelves for Quality Street fans nationwide.  

"We cognize however passionately Quality Street fans consciousness astir their favourite sweets, truthful the prime and premix stations astatine John Lewis are people’s accidental to capable up their ain bespoke premix with conscionable the sweets that they and their friends and household love."

Fans of the discontinued cocoa volition beryllium delighted to perceive it is making a comeback.

NEW TINS FOR 2024

Nestlé, has launched a caller mentation of its 813g Quality Street tin for sweet-toothed customers this winter.

The £12 tub features each the accustomed classical flavours and plays connected Quality Street's Halifax practice - wherever it was archetypal manufactured successful 1936 and inactive is.

The 813g Quality Street tin is disposable present crossed a big of retailers nationwide including Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, B&M and Sainsbury's.

This is the afloat database of chains you tin get it from:

• Asda
• Co-op
• B&M
• Morrisons
• Nisa
• Ocado
• Sainsbury's
• Booths
• Spar
• Waitrose

But contempt the shiny quality of the caller tub, which contains 471 calories per 100 grams, plentifulness person been near saying 1 happening successful peculiar - however they privation the aged wrappers back.

It comes aft the chocolatier scrapped its aged packaging successful October 2022 and replaced it with eco-friendly waxed insubstantial wrappers.

Commenting connected the Nestlé post, 1 shopper said: "Yesterday I bought a container and I was surprised.

"Plastic and the insubstantial (packaging) is truthful disfigured and cheap."

Another commented: "Please tin we besides person the aged wrappers back. Those ones from past twelvemonth were genuinely awful."

A 3rd added: "Nice tin but sadly the sweets and wrappers are dreadful now."

But not each shoppers are downbeat astir the caller tin.

One said "I emotion the much accepted look" portion different added "beautiful tin. Would emotion one".

Meanwhile, a 3rd piped up: "Love it!"

Shoppers tin prime up the caller 813g tin for £12, £1.48 per 100g, which tin evidently beryllium reused aft each the chocolates person been eaten.

However, if you're not fussed astir the nostalgic tin, you'll wage little going for a antithetic tub oregon packet.

Shoppers tin prime up a integrative 600g tub from Tesco for £4.50 - 75p per 100g - if you've got a Clubcard.

You tin besides prime up a 357g sharing container of Quality Street from B&M for conscionable £4 - £1.12 per 100g.

The motorboat of Quality Street's caller tin comes aft a fig of different retailers started stocking Christmas bits.

Tesco shoppers person been rushing to get their hands connected Celebration tubs with conscionable 1 iconic flavour successful caller weeks.

Meanwhile, customers person been near successful shock after B&M launched its caller Christmas range.