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AIBU?

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AIBU now they have messed with milk tray !!

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OopsDearyMe · 10/02/2017 14:00

Enough is Enough .... Just bought some milk tray, they changed it all not only are my favs missing, but they taste of nothing!

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RainbowDashian · 10/02/2017 21:33

Twirls and flakes are still acceptable (though not the twirl bites things - they taste like they've gone off). I used to love Dairy Milk.
Co-op chocolate is great and I really like the rich milk chocolate bar from Lidl.

Sunnydaysrock · 10/02/2017 21:36

Noooo BiggerBoat the chunkiness was the essence of Toblerone. It's ruined.

RainbowDashian · 10/02/2017 21:36

Terry's chocolate orange is wank now too. Tastes oily and overly sweet. I'm sure it used to be nicer.
I used to like Roses, Heroes, Celebrations etc but now they all taste shite, don't buy them anymore.

Rainydayspending · 10/02/2017 22:05

Cocoa Runners. It's the only hope.

Vq1970 · 10/02/2017 22:19

Cadbury is still my favourite and I love a box of Milk Tray (got 2 boxes at the moment) but hate the apple crunch. I used to save the Turkish delight chocolate to the end because it was my favourite and now it's gone.

Had some dodgy chocolate buttons recently but hoping that's a one off.

I don't like the little wispa bites, they always taste a bit slimey/greasy.

GladAllOver · 10/02/2017 22:45

Terry's chocolate orange is wank now too.
Of course, it's part of the same empire as the shyte imitation Cadbury's now. Used to be made in York, now in Poland. I haven't checked the recipe but I expect that they've shoved in the same palm oil as Cadbury that gives it the greasy cloying after-taste.
No palm oil in Aldi's Moser Roth.

user1484750550 · 11/02/2017 00:39

I agree that the Cadbury's Milk Tray is a special kind of shit now. Quite bland and tasteless, and every one tastes virtually the same:- even the orange and the strawberry don't taste of much. Also gutted at the turkish delight being binned, and the apple crunch (that has replaced it,) tastes like a nasty bitter medicine. On the whole, they are pretty tasteless, and a bit greasy. Used to be my fave choccies, (a 9 out of 10,) now they barely scrape past a 2.

I have thought this for several years (maybe even 4 years,) as I have failed to enjoy them for that long (maybe longer...) and I seriously thought it was just me, and that I was imagining it, or my sense of taste was going ... Then someone got me a box of Dairy Box, and they were sooooooooo DELICIOUS!!! In addition, over the ensuing months, I found the bars of Cadbury's dairy milk OK still, and the flake and crunchie, so I figured it MUST be the milk tray that was not great.

Then over another few months, a few other people I spoke to said they thought they were shit now too. It was then that I knew the milk tray were substandard now. A neighbour of ours brought us a box round for looking after their cats for 5 days whilst they went away, (in mid January,) and we binned 70% of them... They were mostly vile.

ALSO, I agree that rolos taste crappy too now. Sort of stale and with a borderline mouldy taste; ditto for kit kats. Double Deckers too don't taste great. Haven't tried many more choccie bars as I tend to stick with cadbury's dairy milk which still tastes good thankfully! So I don't know if any other choccie bars are tasting shyte now.

And I do still love the Cadbury's creme egg, and they still taste the same to me, even though they are not made with dairy milk now apparently.

user1484750550 · 11/02/2017 00:42

Just wanted to add that the box of dairy box I had, that were so delicious were NESTLE. And anything I have had by Nestle this past few years has been fine, and as delicious as usual. It's just Cadbury's that has gone downhill.

EmeraldScorn · 11/02/2017 01:00

M&S chocolate anything, Butler's or Lily O'Briens - That's my Easter shopping list sorted!

Beeziekn33ze · 11/02/2017 01:08

Aldi's Moser Roth is great. So many flavours. I usually have just the plain dark bars but at Christmas was given a filled bar, strawberry with chili. I thought 'No!' but it was delicious.

SealSong · 11/02/2017 01:18

Had an aero bar for the first time in ages and was bitterly disappointed, too. They've changed the shape and it doesn't taste anything like it used to. This was the peppermint one. Used to love them.

picklemepopcorn · 11/02/2017 10:37

I don't like dairy box, either.
When I lived in Malaysia, the chocolate there was awful as it had something in it to make it last longer in the heat. You had to look for chocolate made in Australia, for proper tasting chocolate. Could it be that? Have they gone for shelf life in different countries over taste?

Willyoujustbequiet · 11/02/2017 10:47

What cadburys have done to their chocolate is nothing short of a national scandal.

Lindt or galaxy arent bad.

SpongebobRoundPants · 11/02/2017 11:06

Waits for someone to blame Brexit

peppersaunt · 11/02/2017 11:23

M &S chocolate truffles are yum. Don't even get me started on what Milk Tray (and Roses!) have become!!!

JaceLancs · 11/02/2017 12:30

Lindt and hotel chocolat are the only chocolate worth using my syns for

PavlovianLunge · 11/02/2017 14:10

Terry's chocolate orange is wank now too. Tastes oily and overly sweet. I'm sure it used to be nicer.

Yes, yes and yes.

HighDataUsage · 11/02/2017 15:18

Here you go people, a list of palm oil free chocolate suppliers:

www.ethicalconsumer.org/shoppingethically/palmoilfreelist.aspx

TizzyDongue · 11/02/2017 15:50

WTF!! (Just read HighDataUsage)

Pet food has palm oil too!!!

TizzyDongue · 11/02/2017 15:50

(Not sure why I'm that shocked really)

user1484750550 · 11/02/2017 19:47

Here you go people, a list of palm oil free chocolate suppliers: www.ethicalconsumer.org/shoppingethically/palmoilfreelist.aspx

Thank you. But nothing on that link says if Cadbury's or Nestle or Rowntrees or Thornton use it.

Unless I missed something.

What is palm oil anyway? And why do they use it?

Buzzardbird · 11/02/2017 19:53

They use palm oil because it is cheaper than using cocoa butter. It is extremely damaging to the animals that used to live where they have re-planted with their palm trees, it tastes like diesel and the world is a worse place for it's use.

I, for one would be happy to pay 50p more per bar of chocolate or any other product for them not to use it.

Buzzardbird · 11/02/2017 19:56

That is probably an old list user as it only became law that people had to declare palm oil usage recently and Cadbury's denied it until they had to admit it.

user1484750550 · 11/02/2017 19:59

Thanks buzz! Does anyone have a list of people/companies who DO use it?

They need to go back to using cocoa butter, not only for the sake of the environment and animals, but also to get the chocolate tasting like it used to.

Is this why some chocolate tastes like shit now - and oily and greasy? Because they use this palm oil?

I would pay 25% more too, for decent chocolate, and for them to not use it.

MaisieDotes · 11/02/2017 20:07

You know on the ingredients where it says "vegetable fat"? Well, that's the palm oil.

Evil stuff. The pricks

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