Over the years, many variations of our favorite holiday food have appeared

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Anyone who has been to the supermarket recently will not miss the large number of chocolate boxes and cans stacked in the aisle before the Christmas craze.

Roses and Quality Street, as well as new varieties of Heroes and Celebration constitute the "Big Four." The wide variety of snacks has caused many families to debate which is the best chocolate in each can.

However, this does not mean that they all remain unchanged.

As Surrey reported on the spot, as time was here to be kind to ourselves, we decided to go back in time and remember all the discontinued chocolates we once found under the lid of these holiday favorites.

Perhaps one of your past choices will be included below, and you will be happy to trade with one of the current candy choices, which have either stood the test of time or were launched recently.

Therefore, without further ado, let us enjoy these lost but not forgotten chocolates.

We started with Quality Street, which was founded in 1936 and named after JM Barrie's play of the same name.

During its creation, only the wealthy could afford to buy boxed chocolates made from exotic ingredients from all over the world, beautifully packaged, and usually as high as the cost of the chocolate itself.

Inventor Harold Mackintosh (Harold Mackintosh) set out to produce boxed chocolates that could be sold at reasonable prices, so that they could be used by working-class families.

His idea is to cover different toffees with chocolate and then pack them in low-cost but attractive boxes.

Mackintosh decided to package each piece individually in colored paper and then put it in a decorative tin instead of putting each piece individually in a box, which would require more expensive packaging.

He also introduced a new technology, the world's first winding packaging machine, to wrap each piece of chocolate in a unique wrapping paper.

By using cans instead of cardboard boxes, Mackintosh ensures that the aroma of chocolate is emitted immediately after opening, and the different texture, color, shape and size of the candies make opening the can and eating its contents a noisy and vibrant experience The whole family can enjoy it.

The brand was acquired when Nestlé acquired Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988.

If you buy a can this year, the chocolates you will find are as follows:

Purple Number One; Green Triangle Area; Toffee Fingers; Strawberry Delight; Caramel Swirls; Milk Chocolate Chunks; Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies; Orange Cream; Do Fools; Coconut Cakes; Toffee Pennies and Chocolate Caramel Brownies.

Unsurprisingly, given that the brand has been around for most of its 85 years, many flavors must be sacrificed to make way for the current crop.

It is worth noting that many of them have undergone minor changes, while others have been completely abandoned.

Purple One (formerly'Purple One' with Brazil nuts, replaced with hazelnut version)

Chocolate Strawberry Cream (now replaced by Strawberry Delight)

Chocolate toffee cups (now replaced with caramel swirls)

Honeycomb crunch (discontinued in 2018 to relaunch Toffee Deluxe)

Malt Toffee (replaced with Deluxe Toffee as the "new" flavor)

Milk chocolate circle (now replaced by milk chocolate chunks in green packaging)

Almond octagon (purple wrapping paper, replaced by vanilla octagon, but the latter is now discontinued)

Currant cream (green wrapping paper, light green fudge, add a little currant candied fruit, covered with milk chocolate)

Fig Fancy (light brown wrapping paper)

Apricot Delight (blue wrapping paper, square block, apricot jelly wrapped in milk chocolate)

Toffee Square (metal pink wrapping paper, a small piece of very hard toffee)

Chocolate truffles (a brown square block, a soft truffle filling wrapped in milk chocolate)

Forest Butter Fruit (Lavender Wrapping Paper)

Smarties (normal cardboard boxes from Smarties, only for the 2004 promotion)

Coffee cream (brown wrapping paper, the same size and shape as strawberry cream)

Mint Fondant (light green wrapping paper, same as strawberry cream but with mint cream filling)

Toffee Deluxe (replaced by Honeycomb Crunch, relaunched, and then replaced by Chocolate Caramel Brownie)

Crispy Truffle Bite (John Lewis store only, black and gold recyclable foil)

Of course, the existence of heroes is far less than Cadbury's other options, even though they now feel that they have existed for a long time.

This boxed candy was originally called a miniature hero and was launched in September 1999 as a response to a competitor’s celebration of Mars (more on that later). Of course, the box contains various small versions of Cadbury's chocolate bars.

The chocolates currently representing Cadbury in its selection box are:

Do Stupid; Milk Caramel; Dairy Products; Wispa (added in 2015); Twist; Creme Egg Twisted (added in 2009); Eclair (added in 2008); Double Decker (known as "Dinky Decker", in 2019) Added in 2016) and Crunchie (formerly known as Crunchie Bite, removed in 2008, but re-added as Crunchie Bits in 2019).

As for brands that have disappeared, this number is surprising considering that these options have only existed for more than 20 years.

Bourneville (added in 2008, removed in 2013)

Dairy Milk Whole Nut (added in 2002, deleted in 2008)

Fuse (removed in the mid-2000s)

Toblerone (added on Christmas 2013, 2014 and 2015)

Nuts About Caramel (Cadbury caramel with hazelnuts in the middle, removed in the mid-2000s)

Enter the box that led to the development of the hero-the celebration was launched two years before the Cadbury equivalent.

Like Heroes, they consist of miniature versions of the chocolate brand owned by the manufacturer Mars.

The slogan of the celebration is "Share the Joy" and it is one of the first mixed chocolate boxes in the UK to put together candies that have already been released in a box or jar, rather than being introduced exclusively for the UK market by a major producer.

This may be the most controversial choice between the Bounty and Snickers inclusion families, which are often debated among chocolate lovers.

The full list of chocolates offered is:

Maltesers Trailer; Mars; Bounty; Milky Way; Snickers; Galaxy; Galaxy Caramel and Twix (1997–2006, 2011–).

The list of discontinued brands is far less extensive than its three competitors, and only two brands have lost their positions over the years.

We ended with one of the "first two", Rose, which was launched in 1938-two years after Quality Street first entered the market.

Regarding the brand name, there are two possible origin stories; initially, it was thought that they were named after the British packaging equipment company "Rose Brothers" in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, which manufactured and supplied machines for packaging chocolate.

However, by 2020, alternative sources are given in the text panel printed on the side of the bathtub; it says they are named after the company’s director and famous botanist Dorothy Cadbury’s favorite flowers, which grow in Bernville In the garden of the original factory.

In order to illustrate the difference between the selection boxes of the two eras, compared with the later celebrations and Heroes which used the existing brands, like Quality Street, Roses' flavor is specially made and wrapped in colored foil.

They currently contain nine different types of chocolate, namely:

Golden bucket (gold packaging, formerly called caramel bucket); caramel (blue wrapping paper); Country Fudge (light brown wrapping paper); caramel hazelnut (purple wrapping paper); Hazel Whirl (purple with orange rim Wrapping paper); Strawberry Dream (pink wrapping paper); rich orange cream (orange wrapping paper); iconic truffles (red wrapping paper with blue edges) and Cadbury milk (the only wrapping paper in the selection without The chocolate with the "Cadbury Rose" logo was initially discarded after being transferred to the hero and returned to the box in 2020)).

Once again, just like Quality Street, because Cadbury can use a blank canvas when making flavors, and it has been available for nearly a century, many things have been shelved:

Brazilian Dark (a chewy toffee cube coated with dark chocolate and red wrapping paper with golden edges)

Bourneville (moving brand to hero)

Montelimar (chewy nougat wrapped in milk chocolate, wrapped in green foil)

Turkish Delight (Dark Purple Wrapping Paper)

Nut Truffle Log (Emerald Green Aluminum Foil Wrapping Paper)

Noisette Whirl (green transparent wrapping paper)

Black cherry cream (pink/purple wrapping paper)

Almond Caramel Bites (light brown wrapping paper with purple twist)