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Where have all the chocolate eclairs gone?

26 replies

Nowisthesummerofourdiscontent · 31/01/2023 23:24

The sweets, not the cakes. They just hit the spot, a mix of chocolate and toffee to suck on, but they are nowhere to be found! Neither supermarket or branded. Is there a dire shortage and have people been stockpiling them? Haribos, licquorice or boiled sweets do not cut it.

OP posts:
vicarlady · 31/01/2023 23:30

Available on Amazon - at a price!

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 31/01/2023 23:33

Same Question but Kinder Chocobons where the fuck have they gone?

justasoul · 31/01/2023 23:33

These types, OP? Both Tesco’s own and Cadbury available at my local Tesco, if you need some contraband Grin

Where have all the chocolate eclairs gone?
discobrain · 31/01/2023 23:35

I et them all.

Taq · 31/01/2023 23:41

They’re at all my local supermarkets and petrol stations.
I really hope there’s not a shortage, I have one a day!

lashy · 31/01/2023 23:53

In tubs of Heroes

JamMakingWannaBe · 31/01/2023 23:55

Iceland - the shop not the country.

LemonJuiceFromConcentrate · 31/01/2023 23:55

Still in my local supermarket, I think? Or they were last week, when I bought some for dc and ate most of them myself.

EmmaEmerald · 31/01/2023 23:58

Aldi and Tesco.

Donotgogentle · 01/02/2023 00:00

I’ve had the same issue OP for Cadbury’s. No availability in WHSmiths, Sainsbury's or my corner shop (London).

It’s worrying.

EclairSnaffler · 01/02/2023 00:02

<guiltily reverses out of thread>

Workinghardeveryday · 01/02/2023 00:10

Because they have taken them away to put crickets in them 😱😂

AlwaysLatte · 01/02/2023 00:13

I got some Werther ones in Asda yesterday (my son asked me to go and try and find a fizzy drink he was after)

GettingStuffed · 01/02/2023 00:17

I get sugar free ones from Grapevine not that you'd know it, unless you eat too many

Original poster
Nowisthesummerofourdiscontent · 01/02/2023 07:02

Maybe I’m just being unlucky and fussy. I tried two Aldis (50 miles apart), a Tescos, one big and one small Asda, to no avail. Werthers are hard shell with chocolate inside, aren’t they? I’m looking for the Tesco or Cadbury type.

Appreciate I look very sad/ obsessive in my quest! Good to know they’re out there…. Thank you.

OP posts:
MaryDoll84 · 01/02/2023 07:22

I think home bargains still do them and possibly B&M. And I'm sure I've seen the kinder bon bon things in lidl before.

LuluAskIndia · 01/02/2023 07:53

It'd be far too tempting for ME to have this quantity in my household, but you're probably way more restrained!

www.wholesalesweets.co.uk/cadbury-chocolate-eclairs-jar-1-7kg

LuluAskIndia · 01/02/2023 07:56

@Workinghardeveryday

Crickets?

PrincessHoneysuckle · 01/02/2023 07:58

B&M we got some recently

Taq · 01/02/2023 08:07

Nowisthesummerofourdiscontent · 01/02/2023 07:02

Maybe I’m just being unlucky and fussy. I tried two Aldis (50 miles apart), a Tescos, one big and one small Asda, to no avail. Werthers are hard shell with chocolate inside, aren’t they? I’m looking for the Tesco or Cadbury type.

Appreciate I look very sad/ obsessive in my quest! Good to know they’re out there…. Thank you.

Aldi and Lidl never have them.

Our asda and Tesco do though. And pretty much every petrol station I go to has them - maybe try the ones near you? :)

Livpool · 01/02/2023 08:15

Have you looked in smaller shops? Corner shop opposite my house always has them with the other sweets

LizziesTwin · 01/02/2023 08:16

I’ve got some leftover from Christmas. I don’t like them & they’re on a shelf by my baking ingredients waiting for someone who does.

Workinghardeveryday · 01/02/2023 08:17

LuluAskIndia · 01/02/2023 07:56

@Workinghardeveryday

Crickets?

There was a new law passed earlier this week allowing food manufacturers to use crickets/mealworm in food! Bread, cereal bars and chocolate were the ones I remember 🤮

Galadriel90 · 01/02/2023 08:35

They sell them in M&S. they are addictive and delicious!!

SpacePotato · 01/02/2023 08:46

We still have the leftover ones from the heros tubs from xmas. Along with the creme egg ones that no one here eats.