Dispatches investigates.... Cadburys!!

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Those krafty bastards! The taste has changed!!! You knew it MN. My partner is so not interested in this shocking development that I had to come and talk about it here. I knew my childhood memories had not been created.

So AIBU or have they really ruined it?

And don't get me started on the apple crunch....

I don't have a sainsbury nearby but Aldi choc is fab and cheap. Cadburys is rank.

This is actually very sad.........kind of worse than I thought😥

Well I'm going to be inspecting my chocolate more carefully now.

Yep Zero hours contracts too Whod have thunk it

I'm watsfbtk;mihtez/LFM:B f

I'm staggered by how Kraft have got away with this.
Amused that the first advert in the break is for Galaxy though!

Loved the Galaxy advert in the interval!

Yeah Galaxy didnt miss a trick there.

I loved Cadbury, but now would not touch it with a barge pole. It taste just odd, not creamy and moreish just sickly.i have bought my kids Montezuma Easter eggs, more expensive but soon delicious and nothing like Cadbury!

So sad, they see Cadburys as an ingredient not a brand.

That's why they add Ritz biscuits as that is a Mondalez brand.

The Fair Trade claims are dodgy. I didn't know there was a such a loop hole.

I remember Cadburys on watchdog about the fair trade/ not fairtrade thing.

So they close our factories, hundreds of people lose their jobs and they don't pay their tax?

Why have they not been chased?

They're bastards! I propose a boycott. It tastes like shit now anyway.

this all stiiiiiiinks

what's worse is- we all sort of knew Kraft were lying before the takeover

and nothing has really happened

so what sort of precedent does that set?

Pretty damming report.

But the thing is...we all love Cadburys and if they brought back the old recipe and purple foil packaging... I know I'd buy it again.

If we all stopped buying it they'd have to listen or go bankrupt. As the jobs are all in Poland anyway would we notice.

No mention of the new recipes.
No mention that the pensioners' Christmas chocolate has been stopped.

I haven't bought it for a few years. Since it went oily and rank.

Well well well - over a hundred subsidiary companies all moving money about and the upshot being that they are able to avoid paying Corporation Tax in the UK

Oh what a surprise. Not.

If we don't buy any of their products they won't have any money to move around. We won't get any more tax but they won't have a business or profits either.

I was mystified that the people they were speaking to in the programme couldn't taste the difference between the old and the new Cadbury's Creme Egg - even if (for some bizzare reason) you liked the taste of the new one, it definitely does not taste anything like they used to.

By coincidence, I had a creme egg today (a freebie - I wouldn't buy one now!) - The chocolate was vile - It was even worse than I remembered

I feel slightly bad that during the programme addressing very worthwhile issues about workers' rights , fair trade, tax avoidance etc, in the back of my mind I was thinking 'but what about ruining my beloved creme eggs? why aren't you addressing that issue!!'

Interesting programme - I think the half hour format with adverts limits what they can cover. It's a shame because Dispatches was an hour for many years. They didn't touch on the fall in profits or the changed recipes much. I guess taste is very subjective but the profit nosedive must indicate they are doing something wrong.

I hadn't realised just how many crappy versions of Dairy milk are around with various Kraft products shoehorned in - Ritz crackers, Oreos and various biscuits I'd never heard of.

I think the Fair Trade thing is a big scandal but really is the fault of the FairTrade logo for allowing their mark to be so devalued.

helena sainsburys came out well here:

www.richinflavour.co.uk/milk-chocolate-taste-test.html

That test was 2.5 years ago. It would be interesting to have it repeated with current recipes and ingredients.