SHOPPERS are racing to major retailers to pick up a favourite Christmas treat that has returned for the season.
Terry’s Chocolates has brought back the popular chocolate-orange and marshmallow ball, spicing up the classic hot chocolate for the silly season.
The original and favourite Terry’s Chocolate Orange[/caption]
Marketed as “the perfect comfort drink”, the brand announced the return of the product on their Facebook page.
“All you need to do is pour over some hot milk and watch the magic happen,” the post read.
“You’ll have delicious orange marshmallows appearing before your eyes before you know it”.
Fans of the chocolate-orange treat were divided in the comments over the hot-drink addition.
One person quipped “woo diabetes in a mug”, while another said “just put an actual chocolate orange in there”.
Other shoppers were keen to give the drink a go.
“We need one of these,” one person said, tagging their friend in the comment.
“How many do you think will fit in the car,” another person commented.
Some people were, however, sceptical.
“I would put in a maximum of three segments, not the whole thing,” one person said.
Others were more keen to see the return of other products, with one woman saying “just bring back the chocolate drinking powder already”.
Another wrote “please please please bring back the ones with popping candy”.
The cosy-weather treat is available for shoppers at Asda, Poundland, B&M stores and other major retailers in the UK.
A keen-eyed shopper spotted the new addition at Asda, for just £1.98, where the product description reads “When life gives you oranges, make hot chocolate”.
The brand also released a chocolate caramel-flavoured egg ahead of the Christmas season, described as “smooth and rich” in flavour.
Other brands are also getting in on the Christmas energy, with Nestle unveiling a brand new confectionery range for the year.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
The new range includes a host of Quality Street changes.
Fans will be able to try a brand new mystery flavour this year, which can be found in limited edition bags of Quality Street sold exclusively at Waitrose and John Lewis.
You can also find the mystery sweet at John Lewis’ pop-up Christmas pick and mix stations, which will return to all stores in October.
If you can’t wait to discover what the new flavour is, you can find out here.
Meanwhile, a fan-favourite Quality Street flavour has made a comeback for a third Christmas – after it was gone from shelves for 20 years.
The limited edition Coffee Creme flavour has returned – and you can get an entire box of them in Waitrose for £6.
Chocolates are a crown pleaser at Christmas time[/caption]
Quality Street chocolates have gotten a makeover this Christmas[/caption]
One excited shopper responded to the news of the comeback with a rave review on the Waitrose website, describing the sweets as “absolutely delicious”.
“Every year I beg the makers of Quality Street to bring coffee creams back to their collection tins and boxes.
“So to discover these is like 40 years of Christmases all coming together.
“They are absolutely delicious, with an intense coffee flavoured hit. I don’t know why QS ever stopped making them. Merry, merry Christmas!”, they wrote.
Fans of the green triangle Quality Street will be happy to know that the brand has launched a new sharing bar inspired by the hazelnut flavour sweet.
The bar was spotted on Asda shelves earlier this year, with Nestle saying they created the bar so fans “don’t have to wait until Christmas to enjoy sharing the taste of one of their favourite Quality Street sweets”.
An 84g bar costs £3.50, and is described as having a “smooth, silky praline filling coated in a milk chocolate shell”.
Meanwhile, Quality Street’s recyclable paper tub is returning this Christmas, the brand said.
They are set to be rolled out across select Tesco stores starting from October.
