…to think that Cadbury's chocolate has gone a bit shit??

[ForTheSakeOfFuck]

Deeply unimportant thread klaxon.

I don't eat chocolate much these days but we have a ton left over from Christmas and as I'm feeling rotten, I thought I'd shovel down a crafty Dairy Milk after dinner today whilst hiding behind the cross-trainer in the spare room. Classy me.

BLURGH! Why did it taste like sugary brown goop?!? This isn't at all how I remember Cadbury's tasting. Is it me or did something happen to the recipe??

I like to eat my chocolate melted with a spoon to prolong the deliciousness, and the supposedly dairly milk eggs don't melt anymore! They go crumbly but refuse to melt. It's horrible. Had to throw the rest of the egg away.

YANBU. I always loved Cadbury's for its slightly bitter edge but now it's just like all the rest. Quite like Green and Black's original milk chocolate. Not the new 'creamy' one, the other.

Tastes of sugary fat. And they keep putting their horrible American Oreo cookies into EVERYTHING.
A lot of Cadbury's appeal was that it was a British chocolate company. Now it has American recipe and American ingredients. And it's bleughhhhhh.
Try some nice 39% cocoa solids- lovely chocolatey tasting milk chocolate- Belgian or even Italian, or some of the nice British chocolate makers.

American chocolate is technically not 'chocolate', whatever shite they make it with, so it's lumped in with 'candy'. They use off milk (can't remember the proper terms) to make it so that it keeps for longer and also tastes like puke.

Cadburys was bought by the company responsible for aerosol spray 'cheese', so of course they're currently fucking the company into the ground, weakly protesting that surveys show people love chocolate that tastes like hot arseholes.
Lidl chocolate, Lindt, Milkybar are all viable options now in the bleak wasteland of 2017.

I still buy Green & Black's, but even though it's owned by Mondelez now they don't put palm oil in it. Aldi and Lidl both have nice chocolate, Aldi choceur milk chocolate remind me of old school galaxy without the palm oil and Lidl do a milk chocolate with 48% cocoa. Then you have Hotel Chocolat supermilk, which is to die for. I live just down the road from the factory shop.

Palm oil production is responsible for even more ravaging of what few rainforests are left, and orangutans are now almost extinct. Yay, humans.

Former Terry's Chocolate Orange lovers, try Montezuma's milk chocolate bar with orange. Might I say, even better than an original chocolate orange????

Another vote for Hotel Chocolat, I love their Eton mess and carrot cake chocs!! Yes, what happened to Thorntons?! Awful now

Palm oil production is responsible for even more ravaging of what few rainforests are left, and orangutans are now almost extinct. Yay, humans.

I'm on a palm oil boycott, it's in so much food it's shocking. Finding bread without it was the most difficult part. Waitrose came up with the goods though. (Our Waitrose is closing in September. )
I'd rather they use butter and animal suet, I know some people wouldn't like that, but using vegetable suet in the dumplings in beef stew seems utterly pointless!

Cadbury used to be the go to brand in NZ. They absolutely screwed themselves a few years ago by replacing the milk with palm oil. Now Whittakers has taken over. It tastes like Dairy Milk used to.

I boycotted them when they changed the creme eggs.
I pop over onto the Facebook page every now and again to hurl abuse.

I was bought a daim dairy milk yesterday - it was rank. Deeply unimpressed cadburys and won't be buying your choc again.

Would just like to say I'm holding you all personally responsible for the fact I've gone back to my online order and added some proper chocolate to it. You know, for experiment's sake

Now Whittakers has taken over. It tastes like Dairy Milk used to.

Yes, yay for Whittakers - proper chocolate!

What I'm struggling with is that OP still has Christmas choc left in April. Wtf?!

Hotel Chocolat now for me.

I find Lindt a bit greasy too, and Thorntons has always been too sweet.

Irish Cadbury's was still good the last time I tried it, but I expect it's only a matter of time.

Cadbury's has a really interesting history and was founded as an ethical company - so sad that it has sold out and gone rubbish to boot! I buy locally produced chocolate and tend to avoid big names now.

Koala Try Haigh's!

Montezuma isn't bad, bit pricy though. You can get it on Ocado.

I eat Galaxy now.

YANBU to think it's only gone "a bit" shit! Fuck off kraft, you have ruined it and sacked lots of people and refused to pay tax whilst you're at it 😡

They tried to buy marmite but Unilever rejected them. I don't even like marmite but cheered that one.

To be fair, it was always rubbish. They've made it worse by cost engineering of course, but it was never good chocolate.

I stick with Green & Blacks for everyday, Valrhona for special.

Kraft/mondelez owns green and blacks too though :(

Flakes don't melt either, it is the weirdest thing.

SuperBeagle, I've had Haigh's and Whittakers and for me Whittakers wins- 72% Dark Ghana- yum!

Cadbury's has been shit for years, it was still lovely when I was pregnant with my youngest but then started getting dodgy not long after he was born. I thought it was me until the threads on here saying the same.

Twirls and crunchies are the only things that taste okay and I will buy. I used to love the 'clean' taste of dairy milk as opposed to the creamy galaxy (which was still nice). Now it's claggy and tasteless.

Galaxy is still okay, as is and of the kinder chocolate and Lindt which was always my treat as it's more expensive.

Aldi do a pack of 6 mini chocolate bars for £1.30 which are divine. Most Lidl chocolate is lovely too,or used to be, I haven't been there for a while due to distance.