Just opened a box of Heroes..

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.........ate my favourite choc, a Twirl. It tasted not right at all! Very disappointing.
DCs agreed.
So far, the Creme Egg and Wispa ones taste the same.

What the bejeebers is going on?

Milka and Galaxy are the only ones I really eat anymore, the rest all tastes either oily or too sweet.

Yes they do because I checked but the mint crisp does taste really good .

I remember growing up when a tin of roses and quality street would last us a good few days at Christmas. Had some celebrations the other day they taste vile

Lindt still taste good to me, haven't opened any heroes yet and not in any rush to do so after reading this thread !

One thing worth remembering is that the price of the big tins of chocolates has dropped considerably. Those big tins that we used to get in the 80s were the equivalent of £20. Now a big tin of Quality Street is £8. For half the price it won’t be the same thing.
However, I’m willing to bet that if they brought out ‘old fashioned Quality Street’ without palm oil etc then I don’t think people would be willing to pay £20 in enough numbers to make it worth while.

If you want good chocolate then go you your local Polish shop. Wawel chocolate is lovely.

@Namechanged131 normal Irish Cadburys tastes the same as the UK one. It's just those small 8 square bars, that you find at the tills usually, that taste good.

We live in NI and always pick some up when we go over the border.

You can get Irish cadbury from Amazon. I bought some in lockdown.

Yep. Ditto Waitrose - I’ve bought really nice big boxes of traditional Christmas wrapped chocolates from there the last couple of years. Nothing this year.

Tesco own brand has no palm oil. Only cocoa butter

Tesco

@RhubarbStrawberry - which ones are you looking at? I found these which looked promising, but they list palm oil as an ingredient: www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/297061490

This. A couple of years ago I melted some down to make rocky road and thought it smelled and tasted like cadbury used to taste. Not tried it recently but it doesn't contain palm oil

@Tuichi it's the Tesco own brand bars of chocolate that don't contain palm oil.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300794925

Ha x-post.

Bought DS some chocolate robots from chococo last year, no Palm oil and delicious. Spendy though.
As a student I worked for Thornton's and they were so proud of cocoa butter only , no hydrogenated vegetable fats, god forbid palm oil. Traceability of all ingredients such as nuts, mint, roses/violets etc to one location. Lovely hand selected boxes from the servery. Then the senior management changed and was taken over by people with supermarket experience and that was that. Stack it high, sell it cheap, get rid of all the bespoke customer service elements, sell through supermarkets and B&M. Now it's gone, and the free products left in supermarkets are full of shite. That's such a place in the market for high quality, family brand chocolate in the UK and they blew it.
Ferrero bought them out, but mainly for the chocolate factory in Alfreton.

Roses are genuinely disgusting now, they all taste shittily similar 🤮
Quality St aren't the same as they were, but nowhere near as bad as Roses.

Please do this someone, I would buy it

Someone upthread said Love Cocoa is that brand. Set up by a cadbury family descendant

Thank you, can see myself ordering some gifts for family members who are missing the old Cadbury’s dairy milk.

Love Cocoa

I also crave old-style Cadburys, and my current fave is the milk chocolate bar from Oban Chocolate Company. I have started bulk-ordering so I always have some in. Obviously not supermarket cheap, but not bank-balance-busting pricey either.

I was eating some yesterday and mine were fine. Perhaps there is a bad batch?

I remember one year I had some roses and every single one tasted of coffee.

Love Cocoa is ok but it's still nothing like the old Cadbury's.

Am enjoying Cadburys caramilk at the moment. The thinner bars not the chunky one