Incan fucking descent another product ruined

[iskegness]

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?

Rebecca Thank you. I will have to have a hunt. £5 is still cheaper than the expat shops.

What I would give for an old school ‘big’ Dairy Milk, actual squares, purple foil in a paper sleeve. Mmmmmm.

Milka no good here as it contains nuts. ☹️

We have a Tesco with an imports section too, I shall have a look next time I am in!

You're welcome! They have all sorts of weird stuff - I mean - wtf is a "perky nana"??! 😂

I was given a bar of Godiva 72% dark choc for my birthday. The two fats are cocoa butter and butter. It’s utterly gorgeous. No idea of price (doubt its cheap tbh) or where to get it (st Pancras station maybe?) but would happily replace 10 bars of dairy milk with one square of that Godiva chocolate!

This is horrible . I LOVE tunnocks tea cakes

Perky Nanas are rank IMHO! Banana-flavoured blurgh. Whittaker's is lovely though I agree. Those posh ones that they do are gorgeous as well - there is one with Doris plum that is fab. I don't know if you can get them in the UK though. {Plans trip to big Tesco international foods aisle} thanks for the tip Rebecca!

piff - What I would give for an old school ‘big’ Dairy Milk, actual squares, purple foil in a paper sleeve.

I know it's only chocolate but this was so evocative it made me feel a bit sad.

Asda Smartprice milk or plain chocolate. 30p per 100g bar and no palm oil. Both lovely.

I agree, the Godiva bars are nice. They sell them in sainsburys now, so probably easier than St. pancras for most people.
Are they definitely palm free?

It makes dd puke. Palm.oil that is.

crumbs - no worries, although you had got my hopes up - I used to practically live on Dairy Milk at one point.

The issue with 'sustainably sourced' palm products is, or used to be up to very recently, that there is minimal oversight of sub-contractors, and massive corruption issues in the countries in which it's produced, meaning it's very unlikely that all of the palm oil / derivatives claiming to be 'sustainable' actually are.
There was a v.interesting article in the Economist on this a couple of years ago - will see if I can find it to link to.

To whoever said Galaxy - that's changed recently and is now ran, it used to be my go to choc as well. Now I only really eat Lidl's - the one with the hazeluts, or if I can stretch to it anything from chococo www.chococo.co.uk/ - lovely stuff from Dorset, pricey but worth eating less to enjoy it! I find I eat a lot less chocolate nowadays...

*rank, not ran!

EggsonHeads
There are sustainable palm oil plantations these days-does the packaging/website state the source?

Unfortunately whether the palm oil comes from a sustainable source or not doesn't stop it making the products taste like oily shit.

Checking everything I buy to ensure items do not contain palm oil really makes shopping an arduous process, whether in a shop or online but it has to be done - I refuse to buy anything which contains it. It's even in bread now grrr.

You may find this useful: drpongo.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/productpalmoillist2012flexweek.pdf

The palm oil business is rife with corruption.

It's perfectly possible to buy the 'sustainable' certificates for illegal palm oil.

Legal palm oil or 'sustainable' palm oil still batters the local ecology.

I've just ordered some Leonidas chocolates, although they're pricey. I don't think there's any palm oil in them.

Willie's Cacao is beautiful chocolate.

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You can get it in Sainsbury's and Waitrose and Amazon sell it too.

We've all but stopped buying chocolate, everything is ruined, palm oil makes it all greasy and bland. Massive box of thorntons Christmas chocolates as my secret santa, absolutely vile, chucked them in the bin as even the kids wouldn't eat them and the 13yo is a dustbin. RIP tunnocks, my favourite afternoon snack gone to join dairy milk and chocolate oranges in confectionary hell

PhilODox - yes, Godiva definitely P.O. free unless they’re using it and not saying so on the packaging.

I'm pretty sure thountons made a big deal about only using cocoa butter.

Still none the wiser as to why non palm oil chocolate is shit?

Thanks sunny!

Iskegness- Thornton's have been weird and soapy for some years now, even well before companies were flooding everything with palm oil, probably about 7 years or so.

Moonlight I also avoid "sustainable" palm oil- as, yes, there's not much oversight of the industry, and it's still palm oil.

www.palmoilinvestigations.org/names-for-palm-oil.html
Did you know there are over 250 names for palm oil and its derivatives? It's in most toothpastes (as sodium laural sulphate), I know people who have to avoid it as it can cause mouth ulcers.

I also read in a magazine(can't find the actual article right now) that there's a lot of controversy over sustainable palm oil, most of it actually isn't, the company pay "donations" to get on the list.

iskegness it's definitely in the thorntons ones I received, they were grim. The cheapo happy shopper one ds likes doesn't have it in though so may try that.