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Original poster

Incan fucking descent another product ruined

104 replies

iskegness · 24/01/2018 13:05

After chatting about Scotland this morning I've been fancying some Tunnocks tea cakes. Managed to get some at lunch time for a treat.

However they've only gone and fucking added palm oil. I'm sure they never used to do this.

Is there no chocolate product that hasn't been ruined?

Aibu to think palm oil products should have a warning?

OP posts:
lidoshuffle · 24/01/2018 17:24

So much "high street" chocolate is horrible now. I hardly eat it now. Quality Street at Christmas were really foul.

CillitBangYouCompleteMe · 24/01/2018 17:25

Noooooooo! Not Tunnock's Tea Cakes as well! Angry

PixieMiss · 24/01/2018 20:17

Excuse my ignorance but I keep seeing "palm oil" mentioned on MN as an added ingredient. Someone mentioned Creme Eggs earlier in the week and Cadbury in general has been mentioned before. What is palm oil? What does it add or whats its purpose?

OhBuggerandArse · 24/01/2018 20:20

Pixie, here are some of the issues. It's an environmental emergency: www.saynotopalmoil.com

WeeMadArthur · 24/01/2018 20:21

Palm oil is cheap, that’s why they add it, but imho really changes the taste and feel of the chocolate. I used to love Cadbury’s, it really hit the spot and now there is something missing. I can’t find any (reasonably priced) chocolate that I really enjoy now, well pissed off.

Fairenuff · 24/01/2018 20:24

Took me ages to work out your thread title OP. I thought it might be something to do with the Incan Empire, or descendants thereof.

NotAgainYoda · 24/01/2018 20:26

It makes chocolate taste like greasy plastic

And it's bad for the environment

Shalva1970 · 24/01/2018 20:28

NOOOoooo!!! Gutted if it’s changed the taste.

BlueThesaurusRex · 24/01/2018 20:29

@fairenuff me too!

Timelass · 24/01/2018 20:31

Palm oil plantations are impacting on the orangutan habitat so much so that the orangutan is now on the endangered listAngrySad

maddiemookins16mum · 24/01/2018 20:32

Nooo....I love Tunnocks tea cakes (and snowballs).
I have a box of blue ones in my cupboard at this precise moment.

user187656748 · 24/01/2018 20:33

All chocolate is rubbish now.

We have three boxes of hotel chocolat chocolates sitting around from christmas. Nobody is eating them. Theyre just not very nice. The roses were only finished because I gave them to DM.

I just want an old fashioned bar of dairy milk that tastes the way it should.

Original poster
iskegness · 24/01/2018 20:34

Sorry I should have been clearer, that's what you get for having a LD and being so upset over a ruined product Angry

I could tell they were ruined seconds into it, I felt so let down

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HoarseMackerel · 24/01/2018 20:35

Chocolate tastes so waxy these days!
I also thought Quality Street were vile this year. Really sweet with no chocolate taste.
I'm already worried about what to buy for next year!!!!! Confused
I would post on Tunnock's Facebook page if they have one. I don't like people doing this for one off complaints but for irresponsible recipe changes, it's fine!

Original poster
iskegness · 24/01/2018 20:35

Hotel c doesn't use palm oil does it? There must be another reason if it doesn't taste good?

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PoorYorick · 24/01/2018 20:35

Ugh I hear you. I've been trying to go palm oil free for years. It's not cheap, it's not convenient and I'm starting to think it's not entirely possible. I really do want to buy as ethically as possible but given I'm really not capable of producing all my own food, I despair sometimes.

At the very least, I think I will make a serious effort to go vegan.

PiecesOfHate · 24/01/2018 20:36

Oh no, that's awful. I was going to knit some Tunnocks Tea Cakes (yes I have a pattern!) but this has put me off Sad

user187656748 · 24/01/2018 20:37

I don't think hotel chocolat does use palm oil but the chocolates are still just not very nice.

Just a slab of old recipe dairy milk. That's all I want from life. I'd happily pay poncy hotel chocolat prices for it.

absencequery · 24/01/2018 20:39

Pieces, I'm sorry, but that made me giggle. It was an unexpected contribution and sounds a great idea Grin

Palm oil is cack. I would rather pay twice the price and have a decent bar of dairy milk. On the upside, it's made it a lot easier to kick the habit.

Maverick66 · 24/01/2018 20:39

So that's why any chocolate I ate over Christmas tasted weird!
I thought it was my hormones Blush

Rebeccaslicker · 24/01/2018 20:39

User - you can get dairy milk slabs from NZ or Australia in Tesco - they taste like dairy milk used to, to me. Plus they have all sorts of flavours!

LoveProsecco · 24/01/2018 20:39

What chocolate doesn't have palm oil? I want to avoid it for moral reasons but wasn't aware it's in chocolate

ArchchancellorsHat · 24/01/2018 20:40

The Aldi chocolate (dairyfine) is the nearest I've found to proper old Dairy Milk. It's not the same but it's not a waxy horror. They subbed in butter fat instead of palm oil as far as I can see. It's very tasty.

WeAllHaveWings · 24/01/2018 20:40

Petition to ask Tunnock to stop using Palm Oil

user187656748 · 24/01/2018 20:40

NZ dairymilk in tesco! I will be investigating!!