Cadbury's milk tray - what happened?

[Pemba]

Was given one as a present. A nice thought but ........ Every flavour tastes exactly the same, no fruit flavour in the strawberry etc. Just generic vaguely chocolate-y shapes Filled with the same sweet paste. Well OK the nut ones were slightly crunchy.

It's a travesty of how they used to be - I won't buy them and will try to make sure nobody gives them to me again. Yuck! What a shame they've been ruined.

All went downhill when it was sold to the Americans
I miss lovely Cadbury chocolate😪

Remember those little bars of goodness that came out of the toy vending machine..😋😋

Slightly ashamed to admit that most of what we brought back from our Australian holiday was bars of Cadbury chocolate. It was so good! I won't buy it here.

Lindt and Kinder are now our chocolates of choice.

Honestly, it even used to smell lovely!
Anybody in Canada want to send me some??

Christ have they ruined them as well now?

They should never have been allowed anywhere near Cadbury - it’s treasonous what they’ve done.

Milk Tray are what they’ve always been. Cheap, generic chocolates made for the mass market consumer, most of whom buy on price & don’t actually like real chocolate. They like sugar & vegetable fat which melts in the mouth.

Anyone remember the milk tray chocolate bar?

@Makemydaypunk I really don't remember that Milk Tray Chocolate bar at all!

I was born early 1970s, were these out before that?

50s/60s along with Fry’s cream and five boys!

All grim now. They taste like sickly sweet melty plastic. Not chocolatey at all. And it leaves a fatty film on the roof of my mouth.

Grim. Just grim 🤢🤮

They were available in the early 70’s I think, I remember my parents buying them!

Ah, a bit before my time then.

Hershey's contains butyric acid to help the choc hold up over long haulage distances. Hence the vomity / dog chocolate taste.

❤️

I’d rather treat myself to a small bar of Tony’s than a whole box of cadburys. Really tasty, fair trade and no palm oil.

Oh right. Do they think it's normal over there then? How can they enjoy it, I wonder?

They closed the Cadburys factory in my home town. That's what.

I’m wary of buying M&S chocolate after receiving some “Swiss” chocolates from there. Couldn’t eat them, they were disgusting. Greasy and tasteless. Full of palm oil.
Celebrations all the way at Christmas now!

It's the price of cocoa, massive price hike since 2020. cheap chocolate 🍫 has basically very low cocoa content

or didnt come out !😏

Quality street tubs are awful too. Wrapped in strange paper and they have changed the shape of the beautiful purple one to a boring small round chocolate about half the size. The toffee ones are fine but all the chocolate ones are gross

They sold the company to the Americans and they changed the chocolate to American style chocolate which is vile

@everyone
Let's get a list going of an alternative nice chocolate gift
M&S Florentines

The M&S tins are much bigger too.

More expensive but more chocs than in 2-3 QS tubs AND in a lovely, deep metal tin like the ones years ago.

Had them last year and a definite improvement.

Cadburys is vile now. It is a British tragedy and I don’t know why it’s not making headline news