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To tell you about Galaxy Ripples

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HildaZelda · 19/07/2018 21:57

Grrr! Galaxy Ripples seemed to be one of few remaining chocolate bars that hadn't changed and been ruined. Until today. I bought one to have with a cuppa at lunchtime and what's happened? It's turned into some sort of disgusting waxy shit. It was like cheap cooking chocolate. I actually threw half of it in the bin. Obviously the palm oil has 'got it'.

RIP Galaxy Ripple Angry

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jigsawpiece · 20/07/2018 00:00

My port in this storm of crap chocolate has been Co-ops own Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Himalayan Salt. It is delish :-)

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 19/07/2018 23:47

Yes, Philomena - I am definitely going to do that when I'm tempted to buy any! I'm half-minded to find a blown-up close-up pic of some actual earwax and stick it on the fridge door. But that would most probably then just put me and the whole family off eating ANYTHING from the fridge (or within view of it)....

Stormy76 · 19/07/2018 23:46

Lindt ......delish

PhilomenaFogg · 19/07/2018 23:44

I saw Dawn French buying choc digestives in Sainsburys once.

PhilomenaFogg · 19/07/2018 23:42

mrstarkGrin can't eat my freddo now just as well as need to lose a few poundettes think 'earwax earwax.....

Tartyflette · 19/07/2018 23:42

This is a good, chocolate-y milk chocolate. No palm oil, high cocoa content.
www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-1-intense-milk-chocolate/814123-287765-287766

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 19/07/2018 23:41

@Slightlyjaded - I can just hear a whimpering Dawn French now sobbing "Don't tap it: Bin it".

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 19/07/2018 23:38

Caramac are still nice but Caramac buttons taste like earwax

PhilomenaFogg · 19/07/2018 23:37

Omg oli don't tell me that now! Our local Iceland is closed for refurbishment!! kate yes! Milky bars are shit now aren't they? Actually just remembered Freddos! Nips down to fridge on way also remembers likes fingers of fudge.

jaimebravo · 19/07/2018 23:36

Cadburys, Terrys and Galaxy are all destroyed now, the waxy after taste is vile. Lindt and Aldi chocolate are still nice.
My fear is that over time they will morph into the vomit tasting American Hershey's chocolate, if Mondelez have their way.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 19/07/2018 23:36

Ooh, Tinkobell - old mint Viscounts! And the orange ones, too! And right next to them on the shelf, old-sized, old-taste Wagon Wheels - that you used both hands to hold (TBF, that might partly have been because we were kids, with smaller hands - but they have massively shrunk, though).

At least that is the one consolation among those of us who might possibly just be a tiny bit heavier than we should be.... Whenever you see it in the shops, keep repeating to yourself (not out loud!) that it isn't actually going to be nice like it used to, and it might just help in your quest to trim the pounds.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 19/07/2018 23:35

Still see caramac in poundshop,they’re v much still on the go

Tinkobell · 19/07/2018 23:34

Anyone remember Caramac bars? Not choc, not caramel....somewhere in between....

Slightlyjaded · 19/07/2018 23:31

Whoever mentioned Terry's Chocolate Orange upthread is correct that they are the most 'ruined of all'. Little segments of waxy nothing.

gillybeanz · 19/07/2018 23:30

Those were the days Sad

Slightlyjaded · 19/07/2018 23:30

@PurpleArmy
Twirls are not safe. I repeat, step away from the Twirl.

PhilomenaFogg · 19/07/2018 23:29

There used to be claims that there was something in Dairy Milk that was addictive that made you keep eating it gilly but I'm sure thats just being chocolate?! You're right thou why do we keep buying it? My previous vice was biscuits but I don't want to go there unless I just lick the chocolate off them. Bet the gits will start putting palm oil in then then.! Sad wish I had a crying emoji on this phone...

Fatbelliedgirl · 19/07/2018 23:29

Bring back Terry's Neapolitans!

kateandme · 19/07/2018 23:27

even non chocolate milky bars have been ruined to us.
how are frys chocolate creams and other darker chocs?
thorntons went along time ago
smarties died when they took the blue then the colour!out
milka changed.you have to go to france to get the proper stuff.
Norwegian chocolates seem ok
and after 8 mints.
can we all please go back to when we were kids,decades ago when one you ate chocolate without guilt and all this no sugar crap.and two chocolate tasted good!

Fatbelliedgirl · 19/07/2018 23:27

Aldi have a really nice chocolate - think it's called Moser Roth.
Lindt/Lindor is always good.
Love Ferraro Rocher and Toffifee too, especially when it's been in the freezer! Grin
Really hope Galaxy hasn't gone the same way as Cadburys 🙁

Olinguito · 19/07/2018 23:26

Much to my surprise I discovered that Iceland do some really nice palm oil free 'luxury' chocolate - the dark chocolate mint, dark orange and milk chocolate ones are lovely and good value too.

PurpleArmy · 19/07/2018 23:26

Sainsbury fair trade is palm oil free. I think c0-op likewise.

Are Twirls safe?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 19/07/2018 23:25

Could a small company not approach them and ask to buy their old recipes from them? It's clearly not like they value it any more, so they surely couldn't want much for it. Then they could make the old chocolate in the old-size bars (we realise that you wouldn't get four of them for £1).

But even if they did, what's the betting that they'd get massive, scare the big boys, who would forcibly buy them out to shut them down and it would be downhill business as usual....

Tinkobell · 19/07/2018 23:23

I've always enjoyed nibbling the choc from around the edge of a mint club biscuit. Years ago, when the manufacturing was crapper, you'd occasionally get a solid choc club. Mint viscounts also nice.
Good fun also to rip the large shards of choc from off a Magnum ice cream .. ..
Bloody hell this is killing me ...been dieting since April, I've really missed this shit.

Bunnyfuller · 19/07/2018 23:22

I had a gala the other day - I now realise why did dint get my usual instant high. FFS is nothing sacred?