To think Christmas has been ruined - ruined I tell you! (Lighthearted)

[NeedMoreSleepOrSugar]

I usually don't eat much chocolate, but really enjoy nibbling demolishing the tubs of chocolates that come out at Christmas. But now they're all swimming in Palm oil

[MrsMoastyToasty]

Most of Cadburys production moved to Poland when Kraft bought them causing the loss of several hundred jobs in Keynsham (near Bristol ). I used to be able to smell chocolate on the air if I stood outside my house.
It's pretty horrible stuff now that coats the tongue.

[HidingBehindTheWallpaper]

They are idiots as well, because if they used the original recipe and flavours, along with the larger tins, they'd make so much more profit over xmas.

And here is the problem.
Every year people complain that the tins are getting smaller and the quality less but they don’t realise that a big tin of quality street back in the mid 80s cost the equivalent of £20 in today’s money.
No one would be willing to pay that much today so they have to compromise something. Therefore the tins get smaller and the quality poorer so the price doesn’t go up.

[Nyancat]

Cadburys in Ireland is far superior to the stuff in the UK. It's the first thing that we always bring back home when we cross the border, there is nothing that beats an Irish golden crisp! Brexit better not impact on us importing armfuls of the stuff into the north!!

[CantChoose]

glueandstick completely agree about the chocolate oranges. So sad. I find the mini segments better now, no idea if that's just psychological though.

Leonidas say they don't use palm oil - unless this is old... www.leonidas.com/uploads/press_corporate/Dossier_Presse_EN_09_14.pdf

[glueandstick]

Terry’s chocolate orange is so bad now. Greasy, shiny, thin, shit. I could inhale one previously and we had to count out segments to get a fair share. I handed mine over after one bite. Vile.

Still, it’ll make losing some weight easier.

[MoonlightandMusic]

YANBU! Apart from Aldi & Lidl, TK Maxx of all places often has palm free chocolates/fudge etc.
Also fairly much any M&S item I pick up (biscuits, cake, chocolates, pork pies etc,..) has palm oil or fats in now too. Lindt is a mixed bag, some of their products have it, some not.
On a positive note though, to whoever asked upthread - Toblerone is definitely palm free

[ADishBestEatenCold]

"I thought I'd read that they were still made in Cadbury's Irish factory."

Perhaps they're made in both, so still worth looking.

[ILostItInTheEarlyNineties]

I'm no chocolate connoisseur but I'm not getting the vile slime thing when I eat chocolate. I mainly eat kitkats though or chocolate digestives so I suppose the biscuit is disguising it.

Chocolate sales can't have dipped much otherwise they'd change the recipe wouldn't they? My conclusion is that people are still buying it even though they don't enjoy it

[toffee1000]

I can’t tell the difference, but then I rarely eat just Dairy Milk type chocolate ie nothing else in it. Mostly I have Maltesers/Crunchie/Snickers that kind of thing. And not that often either.

[drspouse]

Apparently some Green and Blacks has palm oil but mainly in things like the butterscotch bits rather than the chocolate.

[Didiusfalco]

From the list posted on the link up thread I think Montezumas are pretty nice. Had some Leonidas recently and some of those were horrid. Following advice from a thread on here a while back tried Chocolate Gourmet in Ludlow and theirs are lovely but no idea who the supplier is.

[BitOutOfPractice]

I'm

[Lilyhatesjaz]

I have just checked the ingredients on my bar of Dr Oetker cooking chocolate which I often eat instead of cooking with and that seems not to have palm oil.
I am also going to make rum truffles for Christmas much nicer than any in the shops

[Parsleyisntfood]

Thank goodness, I thought it was me. I even thought I might be pregnant (which would have been up there with Jesus conception) because 4 chocolates in to the tin and my mouth felt “bleuch”. I’m no chocolate snob but Cadbury’s is done for me. What a shame. A company with a long rich history throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Do Lidl advertise which bars are oil free? Or is it all of them.

[MrsPear]

Sorry divine bloody phone

[MrsPear]

Can I just say Devine chocolate is exactly that! Also h picked up some Swiss chocolate on his travels and that is too.

[SistersOfPercy]

All year I crave snow bites. I finally succumbed to a bag and the bastards have changed them too.
BASTARDS!

[NeedMoreSleepOrSugar]

Apparently lidl do chocolate bars that are Palm oil free, so that might be an alternative. I'm in Ireland so no waitrose or aldi unfortunately, but glad there are alternatives, even if I can't get them!

I'd love to know if anyone actually prefers the Palm oil muck, or is it just some very strange, with no taste buds people can't tell the difference or don't care? I'd happily pay more for proper chocolate!

[BiddyPop]

(Unfortunately, only Leonidas is available here.....and I have no more trips to Brussels before Christmas as 1 got cancelled)

[BiddyPop]

Sorry paap I totally agree - except when you haven't eaten for 6 hours and are about to run to the airport where you will run for the plane and not get a chance for anything except a bar from the vending machine for another 2-3 hours.

Luckily, I usually have time to go to the Leonidas in the train station. And occasionally treat myself to some Neuhaus. There was one trip we had to Louvain, so the 2 hours free time day 1 was spent quality control checking each chocolate shop all the way up and down the main street - so know which one(s) to go back to on day 3 for supplies to bring home.. I think I put on a half a stone on that trip!! (And I was not the instigator of that idea, but merely a happy to oblige colleague!!)

[gillybeanz]

LaBelle

Thank you very much. I've just sent the link to my dh

[Mrscaindingle]

Finding this thread has been a revelation, I am off work sick and people have been bringing me boxes of chocolates and I thought it was because I've been feeling ill that they're all still mostly full, although even the DC haven't snaffled very many of them.
And now that I think about it I haven't eaten very much chocolate for a while, mostly haven't enjoyed it when I have and I used to be a massive chocoholic.
Oh well as others have pointed out it will help me lose the stone I've been wanting to get rid of a bit more easily now.

[IdaDown]

I’d rather spend £ on good choc etc... and actually enjoy it.

Palm oil is in everything now - wtf is it doing in bread?

[FuzzyCustard]

Celebrations are known as "Commiserations" in our household, they are so disappointing.

[LaBelleSausage]

@gillybeanz Beech's still do traditional fruit creams, either in a mixed box or separately
www.beechsfinechocolates.com/fruit-creams/