Let's start with Cadburys roses , recently in the news for scrapping this traditional 'twist' wrapping in favour of the fresh seal packaging in order to 'prevent stronger flavours from contaminating other chocolates' or words of that effect. Cadburys roses currently include : 
- NEW this year-Almond caramel bite -chewy caramel and almond pieces Coates in milk chocolate
- Brazilian Darkness - A chewy toffee square with pieces of Brazil nuts, coated in dark chocolate (red plastic-foil twist-wrapper with gold twists).
- Golden Barrel - Milk chocolate in the shape of half a barrel, filled with caramel (was formerly wrapped in gold foil, now in gold plastic-foil twist-wrapper). Previously named Caramel Keg.
- Caramel - Hard toffee encased in Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate (wrapped in blue plastic-foil).
- Country Fudge - Rectangular fudge piece, coated in milk chocolate (wrapped in light brown plastic-foil).
- Hazel in Caramel - Crescent-shaped milk chocolate with hazelnut plant engraving on top, filled with caramel and a hazelnut (purple plastic-foil twist-wrapper). A recent market poll showed that this was the most popular variety in Ireland, by a margin of two-to-one over the next contender, the Golden Barrel (Caramel Keg).
- Hazel Whirl - Dome-shaped milk chocolate, patterned with spiral twirl, with hazelnut in centre (purple plastic-foil twist-wrapper with orange twists).
- Strawberry Dream - Square-shaped milk chocolate with strawberry seed engravings on top, filled with strawberry-flavoured cream fondant (pink plastic-foil twist-wrapper). The same poll which determined that the 'Hazel in Caramel' variety was most popular in Ireland also showed this as being rated the 'worst' variety.
- Tangy Orange Creme - Square-shaped milk chocolate with orange engraving on top, filled with orange-flavoured creme fondant (wrapped in orange plastic-foil twist-wrapper).
- Coffee Escape - New for Christmas 2013, Cadbury have re-released the soft coffee centred chocolate (wrapped in green plastic-foil twist-wrapper).
- Signature Truffle - New for Christmas 2013, this is a truffle encased in milk chocolate (wrapped in red plastic-foil twist-wrapper with blue twists).
- The dairy milk chunk is no longer present *cry* but FEAR NOT it now features in the heros selection instead ... Phew !
It's been yeeeeears since I had any of these but if I had to choose my favourite would probably be te signature truffle or the golden barrel ! Mmmm runny caramel ! I'm not a massive fan of hard toffee so the solid caramel would be a no from me ! I'm also a fan of strawberry cream (mmmm sugar) and orange creams as orange and chocolate is always a good combo (think Cadburys chocolate orange hot chocolate and of course , good old Terry's !)
Then there's the heros selection ! The combinations of these chocolates tend to change most years, sometimes they features a mini toblerone , or bournville (dearly missed!) or crunchies . 
As far as I'm aware the current line up is
The best of these would have to be the caramel or the pure solid goodness of the original dairy milk ! To be honest, they're not the same without the toblerone or bournville which were always my favourite and I've never tried the Creme egg twisted but from what I remember I quite liked the gooey middle of the generic creme egg albeit very sickly (not that thats always a bad thing !) and believe it or not I've never tried wispa so I can't pass commet! I do know there is a gold wispa caramel bar though so I've got that on my bucket list ;) once again , unless it's proper rich sticky clotted cream toffee I'm not a fan of hard toffee so the tooth cracking relatively bland hard caramel featured in the eclair would have to be my last go to chocolate (if you can even call it that?)
Then there's celebrations , which are basically the Mars version of heroes (just like quality street is the nestle version of roses) like heroes . 
This selection box also features mini versions of well known bars , but this time featuring Mars chocolates minis such as
- Mars
- Bounty
- Snickers
- Dove / Galaxy
- Dove caramel / Galaxy Caramel
- Twix (replacement of the galaxy truffle, which should NEVER have left - I don't even like twix!)
- Maltesers Teaser
- Milky Way
Out if these is have to favour the Galaxy caramel , the teaser or the Milky Way ! I've always found Mars abit bland even if it looks yum and snickers is okay too but I have to be in the mood for nuttyness !
Finally we have the Quality street selection from Nestle . I wonder why nestle don't do a Mini bar selection box like Cadburys and Mars ? To be honest , I only want one so I could indulge in an array of mini aeros as there is no such creation on the market ! They could do a
•Aero chocolate,
•Mint Aero
• KITKAT (why has no one thought of this already ?! Oh wait , you can get Kitkat bites but still ...)
•Caramac or Milky bar (we need something to replace the white chocolates goodness of the Dream chocolate after cadburys rudely removed it from the celebrations box and now from our lives completely)
•Lion bar
• Toffee crisp
•Yorkie
•maybe even an enlarged Munchie or a Rolo ?! Well , you couldn't expect me to the whole list without some form of caramel did you ?!
•oooooh and a mini box of smarties !
Anyways, back to quality street . Their varietys include :
- The Purple One (Hazelnut With caramel) (purple wrapper)
- Chocolate Green Triangle (Noisette Pate- basically hazelnut paste) (green wrapper, triangular, foil)
- Chocolate Toffee Finger (gold wrapper, stick)
- Toffee Penny (gold wrapper, circular)
- Strawberry Delight (red wrapper, circular)
- Caramel Swirl (yellow wrapper, circular, foil)
- Milk Choc Block (green wrapper)
- Orange Crunch (orange wrapper, octagonal, foil)
- Orange Creme (orange wrapper)
- Toffee Deluxe (brown wrapper)
- Vanilla Fudge (pink wrapper)
- Coconut Eclair (blue wrapper)
To me it seems silly that there is a toffee deluxe , toffee penny , toffee finger and ca caramel chocolate AND a fudge chocolate too , I mean toffee , caramel and fudge all in the sandbox is but much but having 3. Varieties of toffee on top ? The toffee deluxe and the toffee finger are the same chocolate exact one is long and one isn't ! How silly , I mean look ! 
This said , I've just seen this on tescos website ?
I guess nestle are proud of the fact that they're boring us all to death with an overdose of bland chewiness , and it doesn't even include the caramel swirl (basically a rip off of the Cadburys golden barrel!) come to think of it , both roses and quality street both feature similar chocolates
Quality street have orange cream- roses have orange creme
Quality street have strawberry delight - roses offer strawberry creme
Quality street have caramel swirl - roses present the golden barrel
Quality street have the purple one - roses have the hazelnut in caramel and also the hazelnut whirl
Quality street have the fudge - so do roses
Quality street have the toffee deluxe and the toffee finger , which is nestles answer to Cadburys hard Caramel.
So there you have it , the full ins and outs of each big name selection boxes ! If I had to choose , I'd pick celebrations or roses and live off the golden barrels , fruity themed creams , signature truffles and Galaxy and Galaxy caramels , with a few milkyways and the occasional snickers thrown in for good measure !
Mmmmmmm
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