To tell you about Galaxy Ripples

And here was me thinking this was a thread about the universe and science perhaps discovering how we may be able to fold space time one day. They don't come about that often. The last one was the Fermi Paradox and feels like a year ago now.

I can't begin to tell you how gutted I am, I was totally addicted to ripples bought packets of four and had at least one a day.
Today I had my last ripple because after tasting one to day I never want to eat another one it was disgusting that bad it kept a horrible after taste in my mouth. I'm sick and tied if being mugged of by these companies not only are their products half the size at double the cost they now use cheap horrible ingredients

@MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood

they've got the Feuilltine bar in my Waitrose I just bought it thanks to your rec, not tried it yet

I envy your purchase. They haven't had the awesome Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt and feuilletine in my Waitrose for a while. The bar code thing is there but the shelf is empty. Thieving purchasers!!

koko No I don't think Cadbury has sunk quite to Hershey standard yet. It has deteriorated in a different way. Hershey has always tasted (to me) like dried out chocolate that you find in a cupboard and try (even though it's 10 years old and been through 9 hot summers) and immediately spit out for being tasteless, dry and slightly rancid. Feels like it has zero milk in it.

Old Cadbury was creamy and the very opposite of this.

New Cadbury is waxy and tasteless.

8 think ripples did change over the years. In the 90s they still crumbled but had a slight crunch as you but them. They tasted much nicer too.

I wish they'd bring the old flavours back, even if only for a limited time.

Mondelez just sent me an automated email saying that they read all feedback.

Yes they read it and throw it in the bin.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44910195

Toblerone is returning to its former shape, presumably a victory for the consumer through lost sales? - so perhaps Mondelez DO listen?

Beech's does not list palm oil in the ingredients. £1.99 for 60g bar.

That's the problem isn't it, the cost of real chocolate. Mind you, means we buy less and value the quality.

Ripples have always been waxy and claggy to me. Even worse now then?

The Lindt I am currently eating has no palm oil! 47% cocoa with salt flakes just out of the fridge... very nice!

Is it the Lindt milk chocolate that has palm oil in it?

I agree palm oil is horrid, have renounced many former favourites! Such a shame about Galaxy, I always preferred it over Cadbury's anyway

Marks and Spencer milk chocolate is really good

Koko (which is probably what Cadbury use instead of real cocoa or something!!) - funny you mention not melting, as several months ago, a friend of mine had some twirl bites in my car. My car then sat in the garage for a couple months as we had a baby and I couldn’t drive it for a while.

When it got sunny in June, I used it to take my dad out. He sat in the seat for about half an hour. The car then sat in the sun for about 2 hours. When we got back to it, we spotted that a rogue twirl bite was sitting at the back of the passenger seat, which my friend must have dropped months before.... and it hadn’t melted! Just what the hell are they putting in it these days? My car upholstery may be grateful, but my mouth is not

It’s so deeply depressing. I bloody hate Mondelez for what it’s done to Cadbury.

I buy Lindt or M&S, or order Whitaker’s from a NZ import website (cannot recommend whitaker’s enough!) chocolate these days, as the sort of rubbish waxy finish on Cadbury stuff is horrid.

I wasn't willing to buy it to find out if they've actually done as believed

No, don't fall for the retro trick. They did that with a "retro" selection box over Easter. You're literally paying for the old packaging wrapped around the same new "not changed nope not changed at all what do you mean it's never melted well we haven't changed a thing honestly" inferior ingredients.

My fear is that over time they will morph into the vomit tasting American Hershey's chocolate, if Mondelez have their way.

You don't think Cadbury's tastes like Hershey's? They are very similar. Cadbury's has that vanilla hint, but they both have the greasy bile aftertaste thing going on.

If Galaxy is going the same way, I'm about to eat a lot less chocolate. I like Godiva, but I can't justify spending £2-3 on one bar of chocolate

Thanks for the link, LockedOut - very interesting - and sad too.

I think the most pathetic thing of all is stopping the annual free chocolates to their retired employees. In the scheme of things, just how much money did this save them? Then again, the decision might have been about more than just money.

How wise would it be to give thousands of tins of the new tasteless, waxy chocolates to the very people who had spent years making and sampling the proper old ones? If thousands of people who could verify for a fact that they'd changed for the very worst, in spite of head office-level protestations to the general public to the contrary, mentioned this fact to their friends and family each year, that could lead to a lot of very bad publicity and ill-feeling.

Or maybe they were just deeply embarrassed to continue doing it - it'd be like buying a 'remastered original' Wagner opera CD and, upon playing it, discovering that it was actually Nick Knowles or the Cheeky Girls.

3luckystars - Ooh, yes, those tiny little wrapped bars of proper old Dairy Milk!! They did boxes of 20 of them that were intended for refilling those little toy machines you could buy that would dispense them one at a time for 2p a go. I never actually had one of those machines, though.... All these years on, now you've mentioned them, I can remember exactly how delicious they tasted, which brings a happy memory, but followed by a sad one that I'll never be able to buy them again and that my DS will never be able to taste them. Sad, eh? It's only chocolate, but still....

It’s just so sad! I feel like something lovely has been stolen from us all and they are just lying to us all!

Remember the tiny miniature dairy milks that were wrapped in purple foil and then had a tiny dairy milk wrapper over them. The detail. I didn’t even pick them first because there were so many other beautiful chocolates to choose from, the barrel, the hazelnut whirl (that was piped). It’s too late, it’s gone. We didn’t even know until it was too late, we couldn’t store it, we only have it in our memories now.

Article about recent changes to Cadbury's products.

Sorry if I confused you there, Philomena - I was just, erm, surmising about the link between Curly Wurlies and pigs.

So now we've had it officially confirmed that Cadbury's haven't changed their recipe at all for a hundred years. Oh, no - it's exactly the same as it always was and we many thousands of complainers are all simply mistaken, all together.

In other news: Elvis isn't dead - I heard him on the radio....

Aldi dark chocolate is VERY good

@Paranoidorno they've got the Feuilltine bar in my Waitrose I just bought it thanks to your rec, not tried it yet

Hi webuilt! Yes curly wurlys... They aren't the same now either thinner and just don't taste like they used to. Twix has changed too Didn't know that about pigs and curly wurly though.

hopingforhappiness
In Spain we have a version of Nutella called Nocilla which doesn't have palm oil. Don't know whether it's sold in the U.K.

Come to report that I saw a massive bar of Dairy Milk today for £12 in retro packaging

I wasn't willing to buy it to find out if they've actually done as believed

Co-Op own brand or Lindt.

Don't buy Cadbury or Mars chocolate any more, it's awful. Far better to pay a bit more and get decent stuff.