Quality Street bins the Toffee Deluxe... and brings in the Honeycomb Crunch

Quality Street is replacing the Toffee Deluxe in its tins of sweets, changing Christmas forever.

The brown-wrappered toffee is being replaced by a new choice, the Honeycomb Crunch.

"We wanted to celebrate Quality Street's 80th birthday by introducing the first new sweet for nearly a decade," says Nestle.

"We did extensive research and found that the Honeycomb Crunch was the most popular option."

People thought there were "enough toffee based sweets" in the collection, the firm told Newsbeat.

However, it's not being withdrawn totally. It will still be available in the special "toffee and fudge pack" and in limited edition tins.

"Those who also want to try the Honeycomb Crunch can find both sweets in a limited edition tin exclusive to Tesco stores."

In 1890 John Mackintosh opened a shop in Halifax where a new kind of sweet was created by mixing hard toffee with runny caramel.

They were so successful that in 1898 the operation was expanded, becoming the world's first toffee factory.

In the 1930s, Mackintosh set out to produce boxes of chocolates that could be sold to working families as well as the wealthy.

This led to the brightly coloured tins of chocolates - Quality Street or its Cadbury rival Roses - which most of us associate with Christmas.

It's estimated that 15 million tins of Quality Street are sold each year, enough sweets to stretch to the moon and back when placed end to end.

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