Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband no longer allowed to be called chocolate

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x7q325p3o

MNers have been talking about how chocolate has been ruined for years, looks like it’s official

I used to bloody love a Toffee Crisp the chocolate was so thick, I loved the yoghurts as well

Ugh, more "chocolate flavour" treats.

Same as Penguins and Club bars.

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit don't join their club.

Now I want a toffee crisp. Leading me astray @EineReiseDurchDieZeit 😡😂

I want one too but I want one in 1999!

So true. Chocolate just isn't the same since Cadbury's sold out 😭

I had a blue ribband last week and tbf it shouldn’t be allowed to be called edible. It’s how I imagine eating ashes feels and they probably taste better too.

Sensory tested my big fat arse

What chocolate is actual chocolate then?

@alpenguin they were my least favourite as a child, if they were cardboardy then god knows how horrible I would find one now

If it has enough cocoa solids and milk solids in

This. This is lush https://www.cocochemistry.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOooNwRIXzPu6TNTfBPDaTnmkZibF0UyfVZm6mxcWEBTb7M7l_rqn sadly not priced at the level of blue ribband but they're grim. Toffee crisp though 😋

Just make your way to northern France @DarkForces where you can buy a 'superzeep' from the Chat Bleu which is to die for.

I loved Toffee Crisp.

Aldi own brand version taste like Nestle sec to.

Sorry but they were 20% cocoa solids,now less. That's not chocolate, they tasted shite and no matter how much Nestle say they were"carefully developed and sensory tested" they are still shite.

70s club biscuits were a two for one for us 70s kids.
Nibble all the thick chocolate off first
Then left to munch the uncovered biscuit.

Toffee Crisps are already only half the width that they used to be and now this?! 😭

Blue Riband were terrible in the 70's and 80's I had no idea they still made them. My Nan used to have her biscuit tin full of them along with Breakaways sometimes a Trio and wondered why we were not delighted to have one! Now a Penguin or a Club were luxury. Our other Nan had the better biscuits and did home made cake all the time so loved going there and pigging out. We didn't have biscuits of any kind at home unless it was Christmas or we had 'company' round- we always got told fruit or yoghurt for something 'sweet' Toffee Crisps used to be a top tier chocolate bar back then too- they all were. Sometimes for a treat I used to get 1/2 a Mars or Marathon - never a whole one as it was so big it was too much for 1 If we had friends round (other kids) it would be cut into slices so 4 kids 4 slices .

@mrsfollowill and you darent take a biscuit before the adults and still ask ..may i have a biscuit please especially with company visiting.

I now have a new life goal

@Brendahollowayjustlookwhatyouhavedone I know!! biscuits on a plate with a doily we got one the extra couple were for company only- we would jump on them as the visitors left that's if my mum hadn't persuaded them to have a 2nd. Very different times now. As the 'chocolate' is very different too- gave up on Roses and Quality street years ago. Get posh boxes of mostly Belgian these days for Xmas indulgence.

The bigger question in all of this is..do you say Blue Rib-AND or Blue Rib-UND? This has caused endless arguments in my family over the years. The song was something about '..those Blue Riband blues'...

RibUND I think @Trampoline

@DarkForces what a shame that chock you linked looks wonderful but the cherry bar at least has palm oil in it.

Very sad that most British so-called chocolate is now just a nasty mix of vegetable fat and sugar with scant cocoa solids. Revolting stuff.

Agree. I want a chocolate bar from my 90s childhood, not sugary grease. Very sad.