AIBU to think that 'Ripple' chocolate bars

[BrightonBollock]

...taste like brown lard!

Palm fat..

I’m not enjoying chocolate at all either recently. Even finding stuff with no palm fat in tastes rank.

I’m assuming that my tastes are changing as well as chocolate becoming foul.

I’m liking sports mixture at the moment.

Proper chocolate snob geek here.
The best chocolate you will ever eat is proper bean-to-bar stuff. It is to supermarket chocolate/overpriced high end stuff what single malt is to Famous Grouse.

Personally I love a Peruvian chocolate at around the 60% mark, raw chocolate at around the 72% mark or a Congolese chocolate called Femmes de Virunga (as a bonus it helps support female cacao growers).

My all time favourite is a high percentage milk chocolate made of beans from Papua New Guinea - they dry the beans over a fire instead of in the sun like elsewhere and it means the chocolate has an amazing smoky taste.
Unfortunately the yield is low so it's bloody expensive.

I like Lily O'Briens. Cadbury's used to be nicer but it isn't as disgusting as some people make out

It's palm fat. Most are putting it in even hotel chocolat (check ingredients on website) and Lindt, would just love to be able to trust one without having to read ingredients first!!
Couldn't give a flying fuck if the palm fat is sustainable, it tastes like arse.

I taste no difference in any of these chocolates compared to how they've previously been

How old are you though? My DS can't detect the candle wax texture and bile aftertaste in New Cadbury's because it's all he's known. He doesn't know how divine it used to be. (And the bile aftertaste is because - as with Hershey's which Mondelez own too - they literally use a compound found in vomit in their chocolate. Delish!)

Are there other terms for palm fat? Here are the ingredients of my new find, tell me if it's dodgy?

Sugar, cocoa butter, almonds, hazelnuts, whey powder, caramelized whole milk powder, butter, maltodextrin, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavourings.

Always been a chocoholic and have completely gone off all normal chocolate brands recently - like you say, tastes of oil and sugar. Hotel Chocolat - Illegal Gianduja is the very best chocolate I have found (have had to survey quite widely!)

www.ethicalconsumer.org/shoppingethically/palmoilfreelist.aspx

List of palm oil free products. Bit misleading though as some companies use palm oil in some products and not others - Lindt state that they don't use it in chocolate but do in fillings, so don't make the list. But if you buy their bars you're not eating palm oil.

www.lindt-spruengli.com/palmoil/

Divine chocolate is good, fairtrade and Oxfam stock it. I also like the Waitrose own brand chocolate. I boycott Nestle and have done for years, I suspect Co-Op own brand chocoalte is palm free but not sure.

I thought I was the only one that thought Hersheys smelled like vomit!!

I love ripples!

Just had sonme Green & Blacks organic 85%, gorgeous.....

BrendasUmbrella I'm in my early thirties.