Proper British snack chat, taste tests and sweet nostalgia.
Every Christmas tin has a hierarchy, and every family has a negotiator. We blind-tasted Roses, Quality Street and Heroes, then ran a proper draft to see which sweets get picked first in 2026 – and which are still rattling around in February.
Pink custard, chocolate concrete and jam roly-poly were never posh, but they were memorable. We made the school-dinner classics at home and put them against 2026’s fanciest chilled supermarket desserts – here’s what deserves a comeback and what should stay in the dinner hall.
We took a crisp £5 note to three very different sweet counters to see what it actually buys in 2026. Expect paper bags, plastic tongs, a letterbox pouch and one deeply serious family taste test.
We polled readers, convened a family panel and ranked the UK's most divisive crisp sandwich fillings. From cheese-and-onion classics to leftover roast dinner, this is the lunchbox debate that refuses to go quiet.
We bought twelve chocolate advent calendars from UK shops, stripped off the branding and let a family panel argue over every door. Here is the 2026 ranking, from waxy disappointments to a clear best buy.
Glass jars, brass scoops and paper bags still survive in independent corner shops across the UK in 2026. We went looking for nine old-school sweets, and found a delicious slice of British retail stubbornness.