What the fuck has happened to roses??

[DaanSaaf]

'D'h brought some home for me. They're vile
The dairy milk are disgusting and the caramel bite tastes like petrol.

Why?? Fuckers

Roses were always my favourite of the big cheaper tins. I agree that are utterly revolting now. I wonder how badly their sales have dropped?

I buy the Waitrose own brand version now. Unfortunately they only seem to be available at Christmas but tbh, that’s probably a good thing. Save me from myself.

It’s all bendy, waxy, sweet shit.

Look at the ingredients, pay more, buy less.

I’ll inky buy celebrations in a tin for Christmas now. Roses are rubbish. No Cadbury in this house.
I like green and blacks.

I feel for my childeren they’ll think this is what chocolate is not the good stuff.

sorry we had them on the run here in NZ but they have now stopped making chocolate here and closed the factory, so they win the palm oil battle.... for now

I looked at the Waitrose "roses" last year but the online reviews were offputting.

Aldi and Lidl both have lovely chocolate (I've banned myself from buying chocolate buttons from either shop, as I just hoover them up, they taste like Cadbury's and Milky Bar buttons of old, but without nasty palm oil.)
Hotel Chocolat are fabulous, my favourites being the 50% milk chocolate and the supermilk bars, and they're truffles are divine. Expensive, but worth it.
Montezumas are excellent, and I've had a few other brands recommended to me that I've yet to try!
I used to love Green & Black's, but although the ingredients haven't changed it doesn't taste as nice as it used to.

Palm oil. That's what happened to them. Leaves a horrid aftertaste coating in my mouth.

Kraft were taken over by Mondelez.

They are cunts.

Round the West Midlands, they make a huge thing about the history of Cadbury's and Bournville.

Prostituting the good name of a respected company they bought and gutted.

Utter, utter cunts.

Responding to criticism to the speculation over the use of Palm oil in the bars’ ingredients, the spokeswoman added: “We have not introduced palm oil as a new ingredient in our products; we have been using vegetable fats including palm oil since the 1950s and its inclusion in this recipe is not a new addition

Apparently palm oil has been used since the 50s. Perhaps in smaller quantities?

There is a good list of palm oil free chocolates here (scroll down a bit until you get to the chocolate section)
www.ethicalconsumer.org/palm-oil-free-list

Quality street now just 'street'
What??
Quality street without the quality

I managed to steer my dad away from buying tubs of Roses and Quality Street this week, I told him they were absolutely awful. I certainly don't buy them and haven't for many years now., waxy, shiny, tasteless shite.

I buy chocolates from Lidl or Aldi, most of their milk chocolate contains about 32% cocoa solids. Much nicer tasting chocolate than Cadbury's or any of the other well known brands we used to buy.

Has anyone tasted Lucozade recently? Absolutely bloody vile.

Quality street without the quality

Ah, I get it now

I think the change to kitkats was an improvement though

Its the aspartame mission

Ooh. Lovecocoa gives free shipping when you put "mumsnet" into the discount box at checkout. That was a nice surprise :)

I thought this thread was going to be about roses as in the flowers

I just discovered Be Chocolat. Amazing!
www.bechocolatbrighton.com

Montezuma’s and Hotel Chocolat also good.

Best bet is a crunchie. Hardly any chocolate, lots of honeycomb.

Double Decker likewise. The inside still tastes the same and only a thin coating of wax chocolate.

Palm oil, sugar and chemicals. Impossible to make a nice taste out of that combination.

I thought this thread was going to be about roses as in the flowers Me too, actually. I was given a bunch of them last week, and despite them being kept in a cool room they are already drooping.

Bought some bounty today at iceland they where so sickly horride nasty waxy ..decided to share the pack at work ...lol

I had some quality street recently and they were awful.

Morrisons have 400g pouches of Roses, Quality Street, Celebrations and Heroes for £2 each..... bought some Roses tonight. Have just tested a few and they are so vile that I am taking the unopened pscks back to the shop tomorrow. Agree with OP, Caramel Bite tastes as if it has been contaminated by something. Like a punishment to eat them!

Lindt is gorgeous....as is Hotel Chocolat and Godiva.

So many things that used to be a guilty treat, but which I genuinely have no desire to eat any more.

Maybe it's all part of some cunning government conspiracy to reduce obesity by gradually changing the recipes to make them more and more revolting.

I can just see them now in the lab: "What, they're STILL buying this shite?! Shove in another scoop of aspartame, some K-Y jelly and half a Pritt Stick. That'll slow the fuckers down a bit."