Cadbury Roses Reviews
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“ wouldnt have another tin for free.”
Written on: 19/05/2013
Cheap and nasty I suppose you pay for what you get! a tin cost twice as much 10yrs ago but tasted 100% better. (read more)
“Bad What Have They Done where the kfc flavour gone?”
Written on: 03/05/2013 by MrTrollstan
I want the kfc flavour back, why did cadburys get rid of it. back to my black friends house. (read more)
“What a poor show”
Written on: 22/01/2013 by Molyneux (1 review written)
What have you done to the roses I used to love and adore? especially Christmas. All toffees have been replaced by a softer caramel. They taste sickly sweet and the chocolate is now mixed with soya!! Will not be buying these again. I think continental chocolate is the way forward , at least they use more cocoa solids. Shame on you !!!!!!!!! (read more)
“awful!!!!”
Written on: 03/01/2013
What have they done!!they are awful,will not buy again. (read more)
“It's not just me being grumpy! ”
Written on: 03/01/2013 by the_fettler (1 review written)
What have you done? Roses used to be kick ass, but now they're not. My "big business is evil" side says I told you so, but the side of me that loves Roses is crying, real sad broken dreams tears. They don't taste the same as they used to, they're way too sweet. Lots of the wraps were open & sticky. The "menu" has vanished. All the gooey ones seem to taste less like what you would expect & more like sugar. Ahhh well, at least there are less of them in the box! I will definitely not be... (read more)
“Disappointed”
Written on: 31/12/2012
What has happened to these once delicious chocolates. They are bland, tasteless and inedible. The recipe has obviously changed and most of the original chocolates have disappeared. I WILL NOT be buying them again-- Quality Street for me from now on. (read more)
“What has happened to roses chocs?”
Written on: 30/12/2012
This years Roses are dreadful whatever has happened to all the old favourites. The chocs are too big, no selection, and quite tasteless. I will never buy them again. I don't feel they deserve one Starr. 0 in our opinion. (read more)
“Roses are terrible! Bring back the originals!”
Written on: 16/12/2012 by KerryNgav
Looks like I am not the only one who thinks this... and I have purposely searched for a review site so I can bad mouth Roses as after just eating some I am SO disappointed. Where have all the nice flavours gone?? I may as well go and buy a bar of Cadburys caramel!! I used to love Roses... especially at Christmas but definitely do not anymore. Quality street (their biggest rival) will now be my first choice! I really hope someone at cadburys/kraft sees this and seriously thinks about what... (read more)
Juices's Response to KerryNgav's Review
Written on: 23/12/2012
I agree, they taste disgusting - far too sweet, and they've lost their creMt texture. I think it must be because they have been taken over by an American company - they taste as bad as their American counterpart Hershey's.
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Hyak100's Response to KerryNgav's Review
Written on: 24/12/2012
Just what I looked for also, a site to vent my rage! My favourite (and fought over in our youth) was the blue wrapper with red roses hard fudge/caremello. I was aghast that this is no longer in the box!!!!! Rooooooaaaaaarrrrrrrr of disapproval.
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“Poor packaging and chocolates different recipe?”
Written on: 16/12/2012 by VicnBob
Quite a few of the chocolates have fallen out of their wrappers. The taste of some of the fillings lack in flavour (soft centres) but also very very sweet. Although chocolates have been purchased at the special Christmas reduced rate(£5), but it is as if they are actually 'seconds'. Would be very dischuffed if I had paid the suggested full price. (read more)
“So sad !!!!!”
Written on: 03/12/2012 by Pacino
Someone should be sued !!!!!!! What have they done to our chocolates .? Recipe must have been changed ,chocolate tastes like candlewax (read more)
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“Shocking”
Written on: 25/11/2012 by Jon197878
I won a tin in a raffle and what a load of rubbish, to start with there's no menu anywhere so I have no idea what's what. After tasting a few it's clear the all the good ones are not long in the tin. Someone's head at cadburys should roll. Wasters (read more)
“Bottom of all”
Written on: 08/10/2012 by upstartmillie (1 review written)
When I was young we where bought a tin of roses as a treat at Christmas, the sweets where lovely. I love chocolate and will eat all but I always ask friends not to buy me roses the are probably the worse commercial chocolate in the world Mind you most Cadburys sweets have been getting blander and losing their (I want more flavour for some time) (read more)
“Missing too many classics”
Written on: 04/10/2012 by Calvedav1 (1 review written)
When I was young, we bought a tin of roses as a treat at Christmas, the tin was colourful and large in size, it contained the best tasting chocolates that I had ever tasted. We still buy a tin at Christmas, but the tins aren't colourful or large in size anymore, we paid around £10.00 for the tin 8 - 10 years ago and it was worth it, we now pay £4 for the tin and look at what poor selections we now get. I bet that if Cadbury bought back the classic chocolates and made the selection... (read more)
“Selection used to be so much better”
Written on: 30/09/2012 by zebedee70 (1 review written)
Roses used to be my absolute favourite selection box, but what has happened to the selection? - There is so little flavour choice anymore - far too many caramel varieties. And definitely far more in quantity of my least favourites - the orange and strawberry creams, than my favourites - the dark brazil and hazelnut swirl. It just feels like they are focusing on cheap ingredients rather than quality and variety. Kraft foods has rung the death knell for this British institution. I won't be... (read more)
“What went wrong”
Written on: 20/07/2012 by DisgruntledLucy1480 (1 review written)
Where do I start. I saved my tin of roses bought at xmas for a special occasion, this came today Friday 20th July. First of all the tin was near impossible to open. I gave up flustered and angry, my friend Ali broke a very long nail and my sister Danni had to get out the butchers knife. But at last, we were finally in. And this is where the disappointment began. Praline?? Long gone. Turkish delight. A distant dream. Peppermint cream? Apparently only the Aussies get to sample this pleasure.... (read more)
Kerrykent's Response to DisgruntledLucy1480's Review
Written on: 26/08/2012
Your right..i stopped buying them
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“very disapointing cant beleive these were my favourite”
Written on: 02/06/2012
i bought a tin of roses for my family as a family night treet when opend the tin and got my favouirite nut one i noticed the choclate to be a off colour i took them bk got nowere of the shop so im writing to you as its me me mad that im left felling like this as there my favourite and there were a few more in tin that looked like that. (read more)
“Cadbury roses chocolates”
Written on: 27/05/2012
I bought a box of cadburys' roses chocolates a few years ago, I had not bought this product for quite a while and did so on this occasion as they were on special but they were awful. My memories of them were that they were yummy, the centers of orange and strawberry cream along with the hard centers were favorites. My husband bought me a box of roses for mothers' day, had I known he was going to do this I would have said don't bother. Nothing had changed they were horrible and after eating a... (read more)
“What on earth!”
Written on: 02/05/2012
How can Cadburys alter the taste so dramaticaly of a long term favorite of mine, leaving them with such a pungent aftertaste that I had to wash my mouth out after eating one. I think they should have changed the name when they changed the ingredients, how about "stink bombs" (read more)
“disgusting”
Written on: 08/03/2012 by kimmy4370
what has happenned to cadbury's the chocolate its bitty and disgusting where has the creamy melt in the mouth chocolate of old disappeared to it now has a really cheap nasty taste so i won't be buying any of it again roll out the Galaxy (read more)
“Bring back the old favorites of the eighties. ”
Written on: 26/02/2012 by Upontheruth (1 review written)
Seriously I really miss the old selection which included; Praline Moment - Silver foil wrapped. Chunky Truffle - Shaped like a chocolate brick, wrapped in blue foil. Bournville - Small bar of Bournville Dark Chocolate. Almond Charm - Blue foil-wrapped milk chocolate, with almond nut pieces. Coffee Creme - Coffee flavoured, fondant cream soft centre, covered in dark chocolate. Montelimar - Chewy nougat, encased in milk chocolate; green foil-twist wrapper. Turkish Delight - Rectangular shaped,... (read more)
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“this is more of a complaint”
Written on: 28/01/2012 by hatti1998
in the box of sweets itself i found a choclate in there (obviously) but the packageing was plain so i could not tell what sweet it was and it was oddly miss shaped but open mindedly i opend up the sweet took a bite and the inside of if was rock hard. so overall i was not very happy about this product. (read more)
“love these!”
Written on: 23/01/2012 by helenmichelle (10 reviews written)
I was always quality street but am now converted. Reason being quality street always had a few left over unwanted like toffee pennies and too many dark ones! New roses probably has too many caramel filled ones but at least the strawberry/orange creams are edible! (read more)
“Shrinking Tins”
Written on: 19/12/2011 by korvanica
Tins are getting smaller and smaller every year. In 2006, they were roughly 1.5kg, now, you only get ~850g. This is not on. Cadburys do the same thing with the creme egg, its gets slightly smaller every year. While the price stays the same/goes up. I will never buy another Cadburys product again. (read more)
Samacora's Response to korvanica's Review
Written on: 19/12/2011
here here!
second this
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“Cadburys Roses-Less in tin every year!”
Written on: 18/12/2011 by taffyal (1 review written)
Do Cadburys think we are so stupid that we don't notice that the contents of their tins get less each year?? I have tins from some years ago that are much larger than this years which itself is smaller than last year!! ONLY SOLUTION- DON'T BUY FROM THESE ROGUES! (read more)
“Poor Show on the New Cadburys Roses”
Written on: 08/12/2011 by jmorris77 (2 reviews written)
Bring back the old chocolates! Got given a tin before christmas and in a moment of weakness opened them before christmas. I'm glad i did as i won't be buying them again to put out with my christmas decorations. They've taken away all the lovely old favourites and the ones that have survived have changed. Bad chocolate, minimal amounts of nuts and poor centers. Not happy cadburys, bring on the Quality Street!! (read more)
“What have they done.......”
Written on: 01/10/2011 by MrC_V4 (2 reviews written)
lost a lot of the original chocolates and what is with that horrible bitter after taste that you now get? I have an old roses tin in the loft from a few years back the weight of the chocolates is 1.5kg the price is £12.00 the weight now is less than 1kg (about 850 grams) and the price varies from **£10.00** reduced to..... anything from £6.99 to £4.99. I think someone is using an old marketing ploy to make us feel like we are getting something for nothing.What idiot decided to sell... (read more)
Guest's Response to MrC_V4's Review
Written on: 06/10/2011
I think that bitter aftertaste is....chocolate. Real chocolate, as opposed to (gasp) milk chocolate.
Green & Blacks stand head and shoulders above this oversweetened wax.
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“Where has all the nuts gone? There's like a quarter of...”
Written on: 18/05/2011
Where has all the nuts gone? There's like a quarter of a nut in the hazelnut swirls and purple caramels, and there used to be a whole nut. Bad darts Carburys, bad darts. *Also peeved the Brazilian caramel has gone too* (read more)
“ok But rather expensive and not as nice as quality...”
Written on: 19/02/2011
ok But rather expensive and not as nice as quality streets but yum ilike most choclates.but its good because you can put it in the middle and just dig in (read more)
“Love the new roses as I ADORE the caramel with the...”
Written on: 07/02/2011
Love the new roses as I ADORE the caramel with the hazelnuts inside in the purple wrapper. Plenty of creams if you like them yummy, not all that cheap and nasty praline stuff that everyone else seems to put in their boxes of chocolates !!!!!!!!!! I'll be buying them always and I have found they do the purple wrapper caramel and hazelnut centre in the Cadbury's shops, fantastic now I can buy exactly what I want and love. (read more)
Guest's Comment
Written on: 01/01/2012
Do you work for cadburys ??? Roses are the biggest rip off in the chocolate world , no variety , poor fillings , no nuts smaller tins at a cut price so we think we are getting a bargain but in reality we get nothing. Go back to the old bigger tin with some decent chocolate in and people might even buy cadbury again. Oh and should have never sold off to the bloody yanks who can't make chocolate
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“I cant believe they're coated in Cadburys chocolate....”
Written on: 31/01/2011
I cant believe they're coated in Cadburys chocolate. It tastes hard and cheap and the melt in the mouth of cadburys is missing. The centres are very samey, loads have runny toffee, and the hard toffee ones no longer seem to taste of much. Really dull selection, so even if they tasted better nobody would want one of these boring chocs. No wonder they sell so cheaply, will never ever buy again, what was once a big treat is now unwanted and will end up in the bin. I may buy a little bar of... (read more)
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“RUBBISH! We get bought cadburys roses every year off...”
Written on: 19/01/2011
RUBBISH! We get bought cadburys roses every year off our employer because they are cheap, but next year we will be requesting mini heroes or celebrations, but definitely not roses. Once the hazelnut whirl, mini chocolate block,& the brazillian darkness have gone we can't give them away or get rid of them fast enough we've even had to resort to sharing them with visitors just to get rid of them, they're rotten. PLEASE bring back the old selection, do you really need three runny caramels which... (read more)
“Having enjoyed Roses all my life it is astonishing how...”
Written on: 18/01/2011
Having enjoyed Roses all my life it is astonishing how a company can buy-out a traditional chocolate and utterly ruin it. Never again will I buy Cadbury chocolates. (read more)
“I have had Roses chocolates since as long as i can...”
Written on: 14/01/2011
I have had Roses chocolates since as long as i can remember and i'm almost 50 years old. This christmas as always i bought a box........NEVER AGAIN!!! they're gross. Cheap and nasty is all i can say Come Easter and Christmas this coming year and any after i will purchase Quality Street. (read more)
“Can I give no stars? Roses chocolates are now so...”
Written on: 08/01/2011
Can I give no stars? Roses chocolates are now so appalling they should be withdrawn... They are such poor quality with many decent chocolates missing like bourneville and praline crisp. The chocolate outer coating is very cheap and nasty containing a soya derivitive. For all of those that have a problem with soya and its affects having some rose's chocolates may well put you of chocolate for life.
Summary: Poor quality chocolate, poor quality fillings all chemicals and sugar, poor taste,...
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“I will never buy Cadbury Roses again, they taste...”
Written on: 04/01/2011
I will never buy Cadbury Roses again, they taste dreadful now. I would rate them as zero stars if I could. In fact I intend to steer clear of all Cadbury chocolate from now on. We bought some Herseys chocolate in New York and it was horrible, Cabbury's now tastes as bad. (read more)
“Very disappointed with these sweets this year - used...”
Written on: 01/01/2011
Very disappointed with these sweets this year - used enjoy them - will not be bought again - majority of orange and strawberry creams - disappointing selection.
Sile Hayden
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“I have two 400g boxes and 975g tin of roses and my...”
Written on: 31/12/2010
I have two 400g boxes and 975g tin of roses and my favourite brazilian darkness was not in either. I think there should have been at least one in each box! I'm VERY DISSAPIONTED (read more)
“Awful, i used to like roses above all other chocolates...”
Written on: 28/12/2010
Awful, i used to like roses above all other chocolates and now all i get is gritty sugary rubbish. It tastes like a cheap copy. I wish there was one thing i could like but i cant find a single thing. Totally disapointed, i wont get them again if i am bought them they will go in the bin. (read more)
“ I never thought I would see that day when I extolled...”
Written on: 26/12/2010
I never thought I would see that day when I extolled Quality Street over Roses but that day is here. 'Got a tin of these from a workmate at Xmas. Exteriorly the tin look ok. But just don't open it and keep thinking nothing has changed. It has. Sickly. Un-subtle flavours .. in fact most taste the same as each other ... the texture, the chocolates themselves are mere shadows of what used to be the best of the 'bulk choccies' ... now.. you must buy in following order and NEVER ... I repeat... (read more)
“I thought I was lucky when I was able to purchase...”
Written on: 26/12/2010
I thought I was lucky when I was able to purchase probably one of the last tins of Roses in Northampton. Well, I thought wrong. What a disaster. This is the first tin of Roses I've bought for years but it will certainly be the last. I agree with all the previous comments: the standards have not just dropped; they have disappeared entirely. The quality of these chocolates - I am not actually sure if they deserve to be called chocolates - is appalling. The person or people responsible for... (read more)
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“rubbish they have taken the best ones out and now have...”
Written on: 24/12/2010
rubbish they have taken the best ones out and now have 1/3 toffees, boring mix now not worth the money, why change it (read more)
“The poor quality is what happens when a company is...”
Written on: 23/12/2010
The poor quality is what happens when a company is bought out by another. The new owners not only want their money back but a profit as well. I am now buying much tastier chocolates from the largest British chocolate firm.
The one star is only because you cannot give none.
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“Roses always wins the Roses Vs Quality Street choice...”
Written on: 22/12/2010
Roses always wins the Roses Vs Quality Street choice in my household... NOT ANYMORE!!!
1) Only 4 Hazel Nut whirls in the whole tin (and very little nuts in those too)
2) Unacceptable number of opened chocolates in the tin
3) Lack of variety with 3 different types of caramel centres!
4) Brazilian Darkness and Caramel (blue wrapper) used to be a chunky square chocolate and is still shown as being so, on the tin, but are only half the size!!
5) No old favorites such as coconut, bournville and...
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“So dissapointed. Bought a 'cheap' £5 tin and to be...”
Written on: 22/12/2010
So dissapointed. Bought a 'cheap' £5 tin and to be honest the contents do not even deserve the word cheap, disgusting is more the word. Gone are the Coffee Creams, Bournville, Coconut and Praline, replaced with garbage caramel that tastes of nothing but molten sugar. No difference in taste between the orange and strawberry creams, hazelnut whirl with no nuts and just a nasty after taste with all. Portions are bigger but more sickly and just taste wrong.
The only thing 'Cadburys' about this...
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“I Have just purchased a tin of Rose, I am very...”
Written on: 16/12/2010
I Have just purchased a tin of Rose, I am very dissapointed!!! all of the old favorites have gone. Why have cadburys changed these firm favourites. There's mostly the same centres and taste very sickly. I would rather pay a bit more and have quality and not the cheap nasty sweet veraity they have now. I most definitely wouldn't recomend roses to anyone. (read more)
“Really disappointed, all my favourites have gone. They...”
Written on: 08/12/2010
Really disappointed, all my favourites have gone. They all taste the same, glad I didn't buy them and would never recommend them to anyone or buy any myself. REALLY AWFUL, BRING BACK THE OLD FAVOURITES. Much prefer quality street etc. CAN'T GIVE THEM AWAY! (read more)
“Absolutely terrible. Chocolate doesn't taste like...”
Written on: 07/12/2010
Absolutely terrible. Chocolate doesn't taste like Cadbury's chocolate any more. Mainly sugar - less cocoa content. Quality street tasted better. (read more)
“Roses are RUBBISH this year. I can't believe they've...”
Written on: 07/12/2010
Roses are RUBBISH this year. I can't believe they've taken away so many of the best ones. I used to be firmly in the Roses camp in the annual Roses v Quality Street battle, but there won't be any more blue tins in our house this year! ...a massive decline in quality/variety. (read more)
“Just bought my first tin of Roses for just over a...”
Written on: 25/11/2010
Just bought my first tin of Roses for just over a year. Very disappointed!! What have 'Cadburys' done? I used to love Roses....but not now. Won't be buying them again, and will be going to another brand :( Too much of the 'same old same old', not enough variety and ditching of the old favourites. I'm glad the tin I bought was 'on offer', because I'd have hated to have paid full price for this dross!! (read more)
“Very dissapointing. Whatever happened to the nice...”
Written on: 25/11/2010
Very dissapointing. Whatever happened to the nice balanced selection? Everything about Roses choclate in a tin has changed for the worse
Have the selection in a carton gone the same way. We will never buy again.
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Sadpanda's Response to KerryNgav's Review
Written on: 20/12/2012
I completely agree. 50 shades of average! I like caramels, but not a whole tin full! Not like I remember them at all, they have gone downhill fast.