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About Cadbury's chocolate

12 replies

siblingrevelryagain · 04/12/2016 07:47

Made a chocolate sponge tray bake last night, wanted to use up random bags and bars of Cadbury choc in the house, so emptied cadbury buttons, twirl bites and dairy milk bar into double boiler.

After an interminable time the buttons still hadn't fully melted down and choc was in danger of over heating so I just used it with it's lumpy texture-AIBU or mistaken in thinking that the Cadbury stuff doesn't melt well due to the lack of butter and the increase in palm oil people have mentioned on here?

I have weaned myself off chocolate as much as I can in the last year (weight loss/healthy eating); I have to say cadburys are making it much easier with the way their stuff now tastes (I perhaps notice more because I no longer have it all the time, but even a chocolate whore like me-who would often eat the cheap Easter eggs no one else wanted-finds it fairly unpalatable).

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allegretto · 04/12/2016 07:48

Unfortunately Cadbury's chocolate is just not good now. Such a shame as the company had such a great history.

Squeegle · 04/12/2016 07:55

YANBU. Cadburys chocolate is just not nice now. Very disappointing. Aldis chocolate is good, also Lindt. It upsets me greatly what has happened to cadburys and also to rowntrees.

Squeegle · 04/12/2016 07:56

Hotel chocolat have their factory in the U.K. All proper and ethical. I think we've got to fight back against the ruination of our chocolate!

siblingrevelryagain · 04/12/2016 07:56

As a child of the 70's I feel ridiculously nostalgic for xmas's past where we over-indulged on Cadbury selection boxes, large boxes of cadbury chocolates; it all tasted so good, even until recently. It makes me slightly sad that such a quality product has been ruined.

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Squeegle · 04/12/2016 08:00

Me too sibling. Such a heritage. We went to the chocolate tour in York, rowntrees was such a good company, like cadburys run by quakers. Cared about employees as well as quality. It feels like that care is being lost today. And the chocolate is horrible too!!

RubyGoat · 04/12/2016 08:01

Cadbury chocolate is pointless now. Tastes like crap & doesn't melt, so not good for cooking. Galaxy still melts ok, & many supermarket own brands, Aldi, etc are fine for cooking. I haven't eaten Cadbury in years, it's horrid now.

YokoUhOh · 04/12/2016 08:02

Twirls are made in Ireland - the'old' recipe apparently - and they taste much better than the other stuff!

DinosaursRoar · 04/12/2016 08:27

Agree Lindt is the best for melting/cooking with. It also tastes better.

Agree it's sad what kraft have done to such a good old brand, all they had to do was keep it ticking over. Instead they've ruined it and the "heritage" status can be lost quickly if they aren't careful.

DeleteOrDecay · 04/12/2016 08:46

Twirls are made in Ireland - the'old' recipe apparently - and they taste much better than the other stuff!

I thought this might be the case. Twirls are so much nicer than any other cadburys chocolate, they taste just like cadburys used to. I hope they never change it.

previously1474907171 · 04/12/2016 11:31

Lindt also has palm oil now though.

Cadburys is disgusting and is not really chocolate any more.

If I buy any chocolate at all it is from Lidl and I read he ingredients list first.

hooliodancer · 04/12/2016 11:36

Oh my god! I have been wondering for ages why I adore Twirls. Now I know...

I really do love them. But other than them I think Green and Blacks milk is the best. Also love Lindor.

Temporaryname137 · 04/12/2016 12:36

I won't buy cadbury's chocolate now, and it used to be my favourite. Someone had a tin of roses at work (sorry, a bag, in the horrible new wrappers) and the stupid round dairy milk pieces really gave me the rage. And don't get me started on the failure to pay tax and closing factories.... Mondelez can fuck off to the far side of fuck and take their skanky greasy inedible unethical shit with them.

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