Major Quality, inspired by the principal characters from J.M. Barrie's play. They featured on all Quality Street boxes and tins until 2000. The original models for the pair were Tony and Iris Coles, the children of Sydney Coles who designed the advertising campaign that first appeared on a front-page newspaper advertisement in the Daily Mail on 2 May 1936. The brand was acquired by Nestlé when they bought Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988. Individual larger versions of the more popular chocolates are now manufactured and sold separately, as an extension to the brand, such as a bar based on the Purple One. In Western Norway, Quality Street is called "Shetlandsgodt" or more commonly "Shetland Snoops" (Shetland Sweets), because it often was brought home by fishermen visiting Shetland. In Iceland it is traditionally known as "Mackintosh". Quality Street gained the implied endorsement of Saddam Hussein when the Iraqi leader was reported to have offered them to visiting British politician George Galloway in 2002. Nestlé were initially positive, but then chose to backtrack about the connection. Contents The sweets within the box have changed and evolved over the years. As of September 2019, there are 15 flavours (including the Fruit Cremes box exclusive, John Lewis exclusive, and Matchmakers) of the individually wrapped sweets, all of which are either chocolate or toffee based, as follows: Current varieties In tin "The Purple One" (previously known as Hazel in Caramel) – Milk Chocolate filled with hazelnut and caramel (purple wrapper) "The Green Triangle" (previously known as Noisette Triangle) – milk chocolate filled with hazelnut praline (green wrapper, foil) Toffee Finger (gold wrapper, stick) Strawberry Delight (red wrapper, circular) Caramel Swirl (yellow wrapper, circular, foil) Milk Choc Block (green wrapper) Orange Chocolate Crunch (orange wrapper, octagonal, foil) Orange Creme (orange wrapper) Fudge (pink wrapper) Coconut Eclair (blue wrapper) Toffee Penny (gold wrapper, circular) Sold separately Lemon Zing (yellow wrapper, fruit cremes box only or in 2022 Spring Edition pouch) Matchmakers (sold separately as Cool Mint, Zingy Orange, Yummy Honeycomb, Salted Caramel, Gingerbread and Maple & Pecan) Intrigue Truffles sold separately as Praline, Salted Caramel and Orange (Salted Caramel and Praline are sold at both Asda and Morrison's stores, whereas Orange is sold at Asda only) The Toffee Penny wrapper presented a challenge for a number of years because, unlike in the case of the relatively shelf-stable chocolate, the cellophane wrapper would stick to the toffee confection over