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Faizel Patel \u2013 08\/12\/2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We all have our favourite Quality Street sweets, what is yours?<\/p>\n

A journalist at Business Insider South Africa audited\u2019 5 kilograms of Quality Streets, a popular confectionary brand in South Africa – especially towards the end of the year and the results were surprising.<\/p>\n

Andrew Thompson was speaking to Radio Islam on Monday about Quality Street which has become synonymous among South Africans which has piqued there sweet tooth for generations with some even cherishing the nostalgic containers the sweets are packaged in as memento\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Quality Street, a brand founded in England in the 1930\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Thompson says the results of the Quality Street audit was surprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people whose job it is to determine which variety of sweet goes into which sorted bag. The expert I spoke to on the topic who\u2019s an industrial engineer told me that they consider various factors when they are making up the bag, there is a slightly random element to it. But the consistency of the sweet type to me shows it\u2019s much more considered than we realise.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what is everyone\u2019s favourite Quality Street sweet?<\/p>\n

\u201cAndecdotally the most popular one is that purple one with a bit of toffee and hazelnut in the middle. But I suppose the beauty of it is that everyone\u2019s got their favourite and everyone\u2019s got their worse. If you tend to be a family where you have a big bowl on a table, it\u2019s quite interesting to look at which ones tend to sit right until the end and so you have no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson says Nestle, who now manufactures Quality Street around the world, sold more than 300,000 kilograms of the assorted individually wrapped toffees and chocolates in the last quarter of 2020, in South Africa alone.<\/p>\n

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Listen to the interview with Andrew Thompson\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n