Difference in Cost re Cadbury

[IUsedToRuleTheWorld]

I wish there was someway I could find out how much cadbury's (or whoever owns them now) saves by using their current crappy recipe over the old recipe from say the seventies.

I am guessing the saving per bar is not actually that much and I wonder how many of us would be happy to pay the extra for a bar of the original recipe chocolate that used to melt in your mouth. I want it in the purple foil wrapper as well with the paper wrapper on the outside.

I never buy cadbury's anymore and I do wonder if they have noticed a drop off in their sales. I suppose youngsters who have never tasted 'the good stuff' might be perfectly happy with it.

Thankfully Lindt who I switched to a few years back seems to be putting prices up but keeping the chocolate the same. I love the mint dark and it's £3.50 in Tesco for an eight square bar so almost 50p per square.

Anyway I would just love someone from cadbury's to tell me what the price of making an traditional bar is v the money saving rubbish they pump out now.
Whatever the saving is it's not bloody worth it.

Chocolate is meant to be a treat. It's been so enshittified that it's not a treat any more.

Surely people must have stopped buying it in their droves. Where do Cadbury's think they're going with this.

See also - Kit Kat, Toblerone, Penguin etc etc etc

Thankfully Lindt who I switched to a few years back seems to be putting prices up but keeping the chocolate the same. I love the mint dark and it's £3.50 in Tesco for an eight square bar so almost 50p per square.

Are you sure it's 8 squares?
The Lindt bars all look the same size to me and the 90% I buy is 10 squares.
(Which makes it cheaper at 35p/square.)

Cocoa solids have jumped hugely in price compared to, say 2016.

One of the Cadbury family started his own chocolate company (now sold on) using the traditional recipe, called love cocoa. It’s £5 for a 75g bar! Way more expensive than your 50p per square..

Not many people can afford that so, if Cadbury’s had kept the original recipe instead of the crap they now produce, it would have meant a huge drop in sales and, no doubt, a huge number of job losses. I don’t know who is buying it now though, it’s awful, but some people must still be buying it.

@IUsedToRuleTheWorld i would also happily pay double what Cadbury currently charge for their shit chocolate for some proper made from cocoa, full cream milk, with cocoa butter and no palm oil, chocolate from 70-80s when it used to be so delicious and such a treat.

I mean there are still bars of cadburys everywhere you look so someone must be buying it. I suppose if you had never tasted the original you might think the current version is okay and so keep buying it.

I just feel aggrieved that the original was so good and they just stopped making it.

I was kind of hoping that their sales would plummet forcing them to go back to the original recipe. Doesn't seem to be happening.

Kitkats still taste okay to me or at least they did last time I had them. Please don't say they have ruined them too. I used to love chocolate digestives but refuse to buy the mcvities ones after the whole news story about them making the chocolate less. Seriously why are manufacturers doing this.

Like you say these things were a treat and now they are just not!

You might well be right. I hope you are cos like you say that makes it cheaper.

I used to eat the 90% dark and I still have some of that in my kitchen somewhere but I have to admit I do love the mint.

I shall count the squares next time I start a new bar. Go 10 squares!!!

@TeenToTwenties Lindt has changed, I bought some and it tasted weird. Turned out that it has coconut oil added to it now.

wow thanks for the tip. Just had a look at the Love Cocoa website. So it's the grandson of the original cadbury inventer. Is it actually just the same as the original dairy milk then. Oh i am getting very excited!!

"Seriously why are manufacturers doing this."

They say it's because of cocoa harvests failing/prices etc.

Almost certainly in the case of Cadbury and Toblerone it's because they've been bought out by massive USA based organisations who a) want to wring every penny of profit out of it and b) are used to the bilge Americans refer to as chocolate.

Its Mondelez.... they are scummers.

I wish they'd at least sell the OG version as a premium bar akin to lindt bars.

Re cocoa and "love cocao" a bar is 30-35g
Id pay £2.50 in tesco or sainsbury for a decent bar... I think a lot of people would

just placed my first order with love cocoa. Will post again when I have sampled the delights.

Marabou chocolate (Scandinavian) is very close to original dairy milk. It is available in the U.K. from a shop called Scandinavian Kitchen in London - they do online/postage if you’re not in London.

Enshittified. So so true. Milk chocolate is just boring these days. You need the extra bits in it to make it enjoyable.

I agree it would be great to be able to buy premium Cadburys and not have to put up with the sludge.

Cadbury was always my preferred chocolate. I don't really eat chocolate at all now because it's generally so bad. I don't rate Lindt either but having lived in Switzerland, realise that it's budget range chocolate for them. I really used to like the Bendicts small, square, milk choc bars (not bittermint, although I like that too) but don't know if they make them anymore.

I believe Irish Cadburys still use the old recipe. I know of a shop in south London that sells Irish-made Tiffin and Golden Crisp, and those certainly taste like the chocolate I remember.

I live about a mile as the crow flies from the former Cadburys factory in Keynsham. When the wind was from the north you could stand outside and smell chocolate on the air. Goodness knows what you would smell now if the factory was still operating (it now houses the doctors surgery and an old folks home) and using the current recipe.

I prefer aldi and lidl chocolate now over cadbury and galaxy now. Slowly trying various brands to see which I prefer it's quite a happy experiment 😉