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What is the closest chocolate to (the old) Dairy Milk?

111 replies

Jaggerdagger · 03/04/2022 11:05

It's just not the same any more, and hardly surprising considering what has happened to the Cadbury company over the last decade.

Dairy Milk used to be my favourite! I'm in the search for something as close to it as possible. Any ideas?

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Bluebellbike · 03/04/2022 16:46

My favourite chocolate is currently Milka.No palm oil. I love it.

BonnesVacances · 03/04/2022 16:47

@BellaTheDarkOverlord

Second Aldi's. Tastes great.

Yes this one. I'm happy to eat that as much as I used to eat CDM back in the day. It makes me mourn its loss a bit less.

LaurieFairyCake · 03/04/2022 17:12

I hate Lindt too - horribly sweet and greasy

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purpleme12 · 03/04/2022 17:14

Yes it's definitely to do with texture

Badbadbunny · 03/04/2022 17:17

Some of Cadbury's bars still taste like the old stuff, i.e. Twirl, Flake, and the cheap kiddies bar (Freddo)

Marmite27 · 03/04/2022 17:37

@LubaLuca

Kinnerton makes a lot of M&S's chocolate range (they certainly did do very recently at least, I assume they still do), so they're not the cheap crap some people think they are.

I like Tony's, it's definitely more chocolatey and less waxy than Dairy Milk.

I honestly don’t mind Kinnerton, we have it often because it’s nut free.

But I’ll be buggered if I’m paying Tony’s Chocolonely prices for it!

I’m also quite fond of the chocolate lollies Aldi and Lidl do at Easter/Christmas/Halloween.

blobby10 · 03/04/2022 17:38

James Cadburys great great great grandson has started his own chocolate factory which uses the original Cadbury recipe - haven’t ordered anything yet but am Hoping to sample soon 😁😁

Isobelslider · 03/04/2022 17:40

@Newyearnewme2022

If you buy the massive bar of Dairy Milk it tastes just like old Dairy Milk, chunky squares that melt in your mouth. The little multi pack bars taste of plastic.
Agree with this. Even with caramel.
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Jaggerdagger · 03/04/2022 18:46

200g bar, buttons and twirl. Noted! Thanks gang. ❤️

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DaisyWaldron · 03/04/2022 18:49

Aldi Choceur, or whatever the mid range chocolate is called.

Eyedropeyeflop · 03/04/2022 19:27

@DaisyWaldron

I prefer just the aldi chocolate. The choceur in my opinion is sickly sweet.

Georgieporgie29 · 03/04/2022 20:51

I had some of the Aussie Cadbury chocolate from B&M bargains after a similar thread on here. It has no palm oil and was very nice.

JungleRed · 03/04/2022 20:59

One of the problems is it's no longer wrapped in foil, I think. That's why Easter eggs often taste better. I'd also kill for an old school Mars Bar

AFingerofFudge · 03/04/2022 21:03

Twirls and Flakes are still made in Ireland. That's why they taste better.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 03/04/2022 21:17

We used to go to France a lot, and I found the Super U supermarket own brand to be excellent.

PaperTyger · 03/04/2022 21:21

I think I saw an advert for the program dispatches a sort of panorama program I think Chanel 4.

It seemed to be implying that they use child Labour, Cadbury

DobbyTheHouseElk · 03/04/2022 21:26

@blobby10

James Cadburys great great great grandson has started his own chocolate factory which uses the original Cadbury recipe - haven’t ordered anything yet but am Hoping to sample soon 😁😁
It doesn’t taste like the old recipe. It’s meant to be close, but it’s not. I ordered some with huge hope, but it wasn’t the same, thin and not really dairy milk.
Perfectlystill · 03/04/2022 21:29

Tony's is vile. Clever marketing as lots of people think it's nice.

Lidl and Aldi pretty grim too.

I only like Twirls or expensive specialist bars from Cocoa Runners - I rate the Femmes de Virunga 55%milk.

I hardly eat much choc now as it's all so crap, which is a shame.

Shunter350 · 03/04/2022 21:31

Lindt !

Daisychainsandglitter · 03/04/2022 21:33

I've really gone off Cadbury's since they've changed their recipe but I agree with PP's that humble Freddo still tastes good.

HalfBrick · 03/04/2022 21:34

Agree with PPs saying the huge bars of dairy milk taste most like cadburys should, like Buttons Easter eggs. There just isn't anything remotely similar.
The small bars definitely taste different (worse).
I also think Tony's tastes cheap.
Ritter biscuit is nice, salty.

OldEnoughandUglyEnough · 03/04/2022 21:46

These theories that twirls/flakes/larger bars of Dairy Milk taste more like the old recipe are very interesting. I’ve had a look at the listed ingredients on the Sainsbury’s app and they all appear to have the exact same ingredients, in the same order, I don’t have any bars to hand though to compare. I’m a fan of Tony’s and the ingredients list for that is much shorter with less crap, but a lot of it is also the chunky size and texture

gogohm · 03/04/2022 21:55

Aldi or Lidl are good

anotherneutralname · 03/04/2022 22:44

Another vote for Karl Fazer, Finnish milk chocolate.

DrWhoNowww · 04/04/2022 02:24

Tony’s is rancid shite. Anything that has to invest that heavily on influencer advertising should be swerved, if your lucky enough to have never tried it, please don’t, it might ruin chocolate for ever for you.

The 30% reduced sugar dairy milk tastes like dairy milk used to - no claggy sickly taste like the full sugar version has these days. It’s a thinner bar though so snaps rather than chunks off (if that makes sense, you know the satisfying thunk you’d get when snapping a few squares of the bars in the olden days?)

Also, as above, Twirls still taste like old recipe Cadbury.