To tell you about Galaxy Ripples

Bought a bag of the mini Twirls - we couldn't eat them, they had almost a perfumy taste. Rank. And I say that as someone so chocolate deprived that I'd eat any on offer..... It was galling to put them in the bin. Bleuch.

Ritter sport rum and rasin is still amazing, no Palm oil and real rum in it too!

I do love a ripple but my loyalty remains with a Twirl

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

Yes they read it and throw it in the bin. I think we should all stand up together and really be heard. They might make a film about us.

I think it’s appalling to lie about this. If Guinness changed this recipe there would be complete uproar as it’s a national tradition. How has this be allowed. It’s not like changing one item, this is CHOCOLATE. It’s really important!!!

I saw some Facebook pop-up ad thingy for Cadbury the other day - can't even remember exactly what it was about, it might have been a competition for concocting a new flavour or something but anyway the 100s of comments were almost all complaints about the changed Dairy Milk recipe and do you know what ? …. Cadburys replied insisting that they had NOT changed the recipe. FFS.

Can 1000s of people all be collectively wrong about the change in flavour and texture?! Yet they were most insistent we must be. It's fucking insulting to blatantly lie like that. At the very least their manufacturing process must have changed if not the ingredients … ^something* must have happened. We can't all have fallen foul of chocolate related mass hysteria.

I've barely bought Cadbury chocolate for around 5 or 6 years now because it's so vile. With the exception of stocking up on Irish produced bars which still taste more or less like the 'old' recipe and giant buttons, which I believe were (not sure if they still are?) produced in Dublin and still had that slightly 'rough' mouth feel. It would appear loads of us are boycotting them but to no obvious effect so just who is buying their stuff? Is it all teens and children who simply don't know any different and can't make the comparison?

Oh - and the other day I regret to report that Maltesers also appear to have sold out. I had a bag the other day and the whole 'mouth feel' was disappointingly oily and wrong, ditto the flavour … it was just 'nothing', except this unpleasant greasy texture, not like actual chocolate at all.

I am sick and tired of being treated with disdain by these manufacturers. I understand in any business that continual improvement and tweaks take place to make a product as attractive as possible to as many consumers as possible but at least be bloody upfront and honest about it when you do this so we can choose - or not - whether to risk wasting our money on something we may not like. There are so many complaints about mass produced chocolate generally nowadays - I refuse to accept it's anything to do with customer satisfaction and all to do with maximising profit by using the cheapest ingredients possible. Surely something will have to give sooner or later when more and more refuse to buy it - chocolate is something which appeals to all age groups, not just those young enough to be ignorant of what it used to be like.

Mackies chocolate is good!

www.mackies.co.uk/chocolate/traditional-chocolate.html

Tesco, Sainsburys etc all sell it around here, not sure how widespread outside Scotland it is though.

Oh no

I couldn't finish a bag of Maltesers recently as they were absolutely vile. Cheap, waxy, tasteless.

Why are they doing this!?

Another chocoholic coming to mourn the total lack of decent chocolate now available. Palm oil is the most disgusting addition to chocolate, it makes it taste all slimy and weird. Aldi chocolate is lovely. It’s about the only one I can eat now. Someone got me a box of Milk Tray last Christmas and I swear this used to be one of my Favourite Things Ever but I had 2 then I binned the lot because they were so disgusting

Ok so I have emailed Cadbury.

I asked them to just add my name to the pile of complaints. How can they ignore us all.

I had a Green and Blacks this week though and I really didn't think it tasted the same

It’s just so sad. I used to love chocolate so much and now it’s absolutely horrible. All of it.

Actually I still love chocolate, it’s just now unavailable. This new stuff that has taken over is something else and should have another name.

It’s just so sad. I would love a dairy milk or a galaxy or a chocolate orange but they don’t exist anymore.

The only way these companies will make any changes is by boycotting all products containing palm oil - hit them where it hurts - in their profits. It's time consuming when shopping but worth it IMO.

You may think a loaf of white bread would be ok - nope - contains palm oil, as do supermarket made and other cornish pasties, cakes, doughnuts, pies, Tunnocks - both products, the list is endless. Lindt chocolate is palm free - Lindor truffles are not. Green & Blacks is thankfully palm free.

Iceland Supermarkets have banned palm oil in their own products which is great and I wish some of the others would follow their lead.

For those asking what's bad about it (apart from turning our favourite products into inedible crap) this may be of interest: saynotopalmoil.com/Whats_the_issue.php

Can confirm that all cadbury’s tastes awful and waxy, also a bit baby-vomit-y?

Is the palm oil addition the reason why the roof of my mouth always stings/tingles if I eat chocolate? Am I allergic?

Willie’s Cacoa is an Exeter-based company that does very good chocolate.
It’s expensive, but worth it as a very special treat.

I can’t touch the palm-oil stuff: it makes me ill.

www.whittakers.co.nz/en_WW/products/
wrong link

Cadbury didnt get away with the palm oil in NZ, they were forced to back down and not use it, they went from the number one trusted brand to barely even on this list,
a lot moved from Cadbury to Whitakers chocolate,
who wont ever use palm oil ( we would boycott as we did with Cadburys)
www.whitakerschocolates.com/chocolate-exports/
i would hope its the same over there as it is in NZ, i know my tongue doesnt get that greasy feeling like it does with cadburys and it doesnt have that harsh almost burning feeling in my throat like Cadburys either
They bring Nigella out do do their commercials in NZ

Re Nutella.
Costco's own choc hazelnut spread appears to be palm oil free. I will double check.
DC think it is nicer.

We have a lovely little independent chocolate shop in our town. Expensive but wonderful, palm oil free, chocolateyness.

I hope more independent chocolatiers see a gap in the market - people want quality!!!

It's a fair assumption to make, Critter - why are so many chocolate bars and makers named after celestial objects? Mars (and Aldi's 'tribute' Titan), Galaxy, Milky Way, Star Bar. Apart from Curly Wurly, which is named in honour of part of a pig.

I read the title and thought it was going to be someone telling us how the planet is ending ASAP because the galaxy was rippling

We were driving through France a couple of years ago and randomly found a Lindt factory. I can highly recommend the Lindt factory shop!

They’re like fingers of brown lard..

yes philomenafogg milky bar now taste of nothing.where has the goosebumpy feeling it used to give.
mum saiad carmacs are still lovely
the world ended more so for us when biscuits started to become flavourless.those pink wafer biscuits granny used to bring out.pscht now little stacks of carboard.
we should have all knows the worst was coming when xmas selction boxes began taking away the goodens.

Yeah webuilt think of the money you'd save "packet of earwax anyone?"