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Strawberry Dream is no more ☹️

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AnSionnachGlic · 11/02/2022 19:54

Just after tucking into an early Valentine's gift ( to myself!)....a box of Cadbury Milk Tray, and am absolutely disgusted that the strawberry chocolate is no more!! How can they get away with this....it's been my favourite since I was a child. And even better, no one else ever likes it so was always left to me! AIBU to be so disappointed that I can no longer enjoy my Strawberry Dream!

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AnSionnachGlic · 22/03/2024 19:12

Lurkylurks · 22/03/2024 19:09

@AnSionnachGlic https://grachocolates.com/products/gra-chocolate-box
These are based in Galway and just won an award I think...

Thank you Lurkylurks....these look interesting....I think the Easter Bunny might be bringing these next week...I love Grá😉!

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OneWiseTealFatball · 22/03/2024 16:35

Just another money saving scam shrink flation

DressingGownofDoom · 13/05/2022 11:45

AnSionnachGlic · 11/02/2022 23:49

Am totally open to some replacements for my Milk Tray Strawberry chocolates, but live in West of Ireland, so don't have access to Whitakers or Gilbert's without paying huge excise duties ( Thanks Brexit!).

Don't you like Lily O'Briens? They're my favourites.

Coastalcreeksider · 13/05/2022 11:37

If I was going to buy chocolates for anyone as a present, no way would I buy Black Magic, Dairy Box or Milk Tray or even Thorntons.

The chocolate on all of them is disgusting, shiny and tasteless and has the same sheen as candle wax. Bleugh!!😡

Dairy Box used to be my favourite, especially the log with the hazelnut. 😪

PurplePinecone · 13/05/2022 11:19

Sorry, I realise this is an old thread. But just opened a box of milk tray today and am pretty upset that the strawberry cream has gone! I only liked the strawberry one and before that the Turkish delight. Now both are gone! Will never buy again....well never bought anyway, this was a gift! Dont get how they could get it so wrong!

InexperiencedDogOwner · 14/02/2022 14:46

Wow got these for valentines today and the strawberry cream is BACK in Dairy Box!! At least they are going in the right direction

Strawberry Dream is no more ☹️
Elieza · 12/02/2022 12:55

Nooooooo

That’s sacralige!

How very dare they. Shock

amillionrosepetals · 12/02/2022 12:37

@Iwantmyoldnameback

Another fan of lime barrell. I remember when they actually did a milk tray bar, oh that was a real treat. Didn't have to share that.
Yes, I remember the Milk Tray bar. They also used to do a Milk Tray easter egg but I think they only sold it in Woolworths. Happy days.
Goatinthegarden · 12/02/2022 07:12

I was given a couple of boxes of Cadbury’s Milk Tray at Christmas and just couldn’t eat them. I’m not a chocolate snob and I’ve gladly eaten them in the past. Something has changed. They were sickly sweet and just a bit grim.

I ate half a bag of Cadbury’s mini eggs on the sofa last night and they were totally fine.

SweetPotatoDumpling · 12/02/2022 06:53

This makes me SO HAPPY 🙌🏼 They completely ruin the whole tray OP 🤷‍♀️

LittleMissTake · 12/02/2022 06:27

www.audreyschocolates.co.uk/mobile/default.aspx

Recommended on Mumsnet a while back.

Not cheap (they supply Fortnum & Mason) but totally delicious. They do strawberry, raspberry, orange, coffee, lemon, apricot, lime, nuts, caramel etc.

sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 12/02/2022 00:41

Creme tangerine, montelimar. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.

mustlovegin · 12/02/2022 00:23

I felt the same when they ditched the Turkish delight. It was my favourite

ALDI have a great Turkish delight chocolate

PrancingQueen · 12/02/2022 00:03

YABU to eat Milk Tray.
Cadburys is shit these days, too sweet and full of palm oil 🤢
Used to love the coffee creams though, back in the day!

Iwantmyoldnameback · 12/02/2022 00:00

Another fan of lime barrell. I remember when they actually did a milk tray bar, oh that was a real treat. Didn't have to share that.

Scornedwoman67 · 11/02/2022 23:58

I can't believe I've read this just before bedtime. It has ruined my weekend! Who - literally who, would take out the strawberry cream? It's an outrage!!!

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AnSionnachGlic · 11/02/2022 23:49

Am totally open to some replacements for my Milk Tray Strawberry chocolates, but live in West of Ireland, so don't have access to Whitakers or Gilbert's without paying huge excise duties ( Thanks Brexit!).

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WomanStanleyWoman · 11/02/2022 22:53

@WetLookKnitwear

Wtf?

I loved my calpol themed strawberry sweets. I always got a kick out of being the only one who wanted them too.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks of them as Calpol Cremes!
WomanStanleyWoman · 11/02/2022 22:51

@AnSionnachGlic

Think they replaced it with some raspberry truffle thing , which is NOT a replacement! And while I'm on it...what's with all these truffle/solid chocolates! I loved to bite into a strawberry delight and have lovely , pink liquid oozing out. A close second was the orange fondant/liquid chocolate, which has been replaced by a truffle sort concoction,... followed by runny Caramel barrell. ALL GONE.....Not impressed 😡
I agree entirely. I’m probably remembering through rose-tinted specs (not Cadbury’s Roses), but Milk Tray, Dairy Box etc. seem so bland compared to when I was a child. Everything is a truffle or a praline.

My rule as a child was: toffees/caramels and fruit cremes on Christmas Day, truffly and nutty ones on Boxing Day, nougat and montelimar on 27 December and, if I got desperate on 28 December, I’d pick the chocolate off a coffee cream and squish the filling into an empty wrapper.

fairlygoodmother · 11/02/2022 22:40

@ComtesseDeSpair

I just bought strawberries and cream flavour cheddar from Aldi. That might be your new favourite?
Please let this be a typo?
kizzywizz · 11/02/2022 22:36

I'm still lamenting the loss of the lime barrel from 1970's milk tray, best chocolate ever.

TheLeadbetterLife · 11/02/2022 22:17

All Cadbury chocolate is shite now, as are quality street. Such a shame.

Try Guilbert’s of Bristol. Their assortments are fantastic, just like old style Quality Street / milk tray, but far better quality. They’re expensive by comparison, but worth it. I get them for a Christmas treat.

DelorisVC · 11/02/2022 22:10

@AnSionnachGlic

Think they replaced it with some raspberry truffle thing , which is NOT a replacement! And while I'm on it...what's with all these truffle/solid chocolates! I loved to bite into a strawberry delight and have lovely , pink liquid oozing out. A close second was the orange fondant/liquid chocolate, which has been replaced by a truffle sort concoction,... followed by runny Caramel barrell. ALL GONE.....Not impressed 😡
Nooooooooooo. Not the caramel barrel.
grannysbay · 11/02/2022 22:09

Whitakers are great - love the ginger. Beeches are also good - but the creams rather than the fondants. Link is to milk, but they also do plain

beechsfinechocolates.com/products/150g-milk-coffee-creams?variant=18293545041987

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