We counted every chocolate in Quality Street, Roses, Celebrations and Miniature Heroes tubs and we felt fobbed off by one

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It’s a tale as old as time. As the end of the year inches closer, families, friends, partners and colleagues all over the country will battle it out amongst each other to ensure they don’t end up with the last Bounty or the Toffee Penny in the festive chocolate tin.

With a mixed bag of choices, there’s a reason why the likes of Quality Street, Celebrations, Roses and Miniature Heroes remain firm favourites each Christmas - and we all have our favourites, whether it’s the Wispa, the Purple One, Mars, or the Strawberry Dream.

But each and every year, many of us will come up with our own theories as to how the famed tubs are divided up and whether the Maltesers Teasers are really as scarce as we are led to believe… READ MORE: Tesco launches FREE Santa's grotto in stores and has to pause online bookings because of demand READ MORE: Winter market to be held under Manchester arches with craft beer bar and Christmas tree shop To settle the impending disputes and with my 14-year-old and six-year-old nephew and niece helping me, I decided to see how many chocolates were in each of the four big tins - and which flavours are the most and least found in each one.

How you ultimately decide to divide them up is totally up to you (and we won’t be held responsible if things turn nasty) but this is what we got when we dived into each of the tins.