Big tins of Quality Street & Roses - What to do with all the rubbish ones left at the end?

[dizzyblonde]

for the OP....

You get people putting in empty wrappers?, my oh my you are lucky you ain't got a tin full of them already

or even a tin with unwrapped sweets in?, hey you can put the ones that came without in the loose wrappers,

I hate Quality Street, bloody see far too many tins a year. Boring horrid vile sweets they are. I got a free tin off them for xmas..its still sat in the cupboard, much prefer Roses or Celebrations,
ANYONE, dare buy me quality street is asking for trouble

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

They're useful if you can find a use for them

Really?!

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

for the OP....

You get people putting in empty wrappers?, my oh my you are lucky you ain't got a tin full of them already

or even a tin with unwrapped sweets in?, hey you can put the ones that came without in the loose wrappers,

I hate Quality Street, bloody see far too many tins a year. Boring horrid vile sweets they are. I got a free tin off them for xmas..its still sat in the cupboard, much prefer Roses or Celebrations,
ANYONE, dare buy me quality street is asking for trouble

Well as you asked so nicely..



#runs#

So what do you know about these toffee pennies with foil in the middle Dizz?

[dizzyblonde]

hmmm Toffee pennies go in their millions, down a belt whilst warm then get flung through at warp speed through the wrapping machines. Are you sure that there is foil inside, or is he foil tucked into the penny. As what usually happens whilst they are soft the wrapper gets tucked in, usually in a line down the centre of the flat edge


Anything else????? I'm sure Im Indoors could tell you a thing or two about chocolate tempering or indeed why some orange ones are round and some oval.
Want to know how many tins we produce on a weekend in a 24 hr period?
On average 55000, we smashed that before xmas with some 64000..

The machine that wraps the penny is probably gripping or stamping the foil in a bit hard for the softness of the still warm sweet .

[dizzyblonde]

Yup. Thing is the factory itself is as old as the hills and they are stingy buggers and won't buy new maachinery. So they get alsorts of probs with them. I've run the wrapping machines myself and they are a pain in the butt, Im Indoors has been running ones that do the fudge, orange and strawberry, they are built for pigmies...or is that oompa loompahs

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Are you sure that there is foil inside, or is he foil tucked into the penny. As what usually happens whilst they are soft the wrapper gets tucked in, usually in a line down the centre of the flat edge

Aye that sounds like it, it was Mr Speirs who started off the query. Either way Quality Streets are naaaasty.

LOL . I used to be a fitter in the food and dairy industry , I know all about these infernal machines , some engineers come around and say things like "I remember this thing when it was installed at so and so`s , it were an evil bugger then and that was in 1964"

[Paul the 6th]

i tell you what, i'd have been thrilled if we'd gotten a small £3 box of celebrations or a small tray of ferrero roche's, but nope, we got 2 massive tins - one mediocre street and the other roses.

Might go bin raiding like the christian woman off wife swap from the other week, see if it's not too late to get some nice chocs