To tell you about Galaxy Ripples

[HildaZelda]

Grrr! Galaxy Ripples seemed to be one of few remaining chocolate bars that hadn't changed and been ruined. Until today. I bought one to have with a cuppa at lunchtime and what's happened? It's turned into some sort of disgusting waxy shit. It was like cheap cooking chocolate. I actually threw half of it in the bin. Obviously the palm oil has 'got it'.

RIP Galaxy Ripple

Mackies chocolate is good!

www.mackies.co.uk/chocolate/traditional-chocolate.html

Tesco, Sainsburys etc all sell it around here, not sure how widespread outside Scotland it is though.

I saw some Facebook pop-up ad thingy for Cadbury the other day - can't even remember exactly what it was about, it might have been a competition for concocting a new flavour or something but anyway the 100s of comments were almost all complaints about the changed Dairy Milk recipe and do you know what ? …. Cadburys replied insisting that they had NOT changed the recipe. FFS.

Can 1000s of people all be collectively wrong about the change in flavour and texture?! Yet they were most insistent we must be. It's fucking insulting to blatantly lie like that. At the very least their manufacturing process must have changed if not the ingredients … ^something* must have happened. We can't all have fallen foul of chocolate related mass hysteria.

I've barely bought Cadbury chocolate for around 5 or 6 years now because it's so vile. With the exception of stocking up on Irish produced bars which still taste more or less like the 'old' recipe and giant buttons, which I believe were (not sure if they still are?) produced in Dublin and still had that slightly 'rough' mouth feel. It would appear loads of us are boycotting them but to no obvious effect so just who is buying their stuff? Is it all teens and children who simply don't know any different and can't make the comparison?

Oh - and the other day I regret to report that Maltesers also appear to have sold out. I had a bag the other day and the whole 'mouth feel' was disappointingly oily and wrong, ditto the flavour … it was just 'nothing', except this unpleasant greasy texture, not like actual chocolate at all.

I am sick and tired of being treated with disdain by these manufacturers. I understand in any business that continual improvement and tweaks take place to make a product as attractive as possible to as many consumers as possible but at least be bloody upfront and honest about it when you do this so we can choose - or not - whether to risk wasting our money on something we may not like. There are so many complaints about mass produced chocolate generally nowadays - I refuse to accept it's anything to do with customer satisfaction and all to do with maximising profit by using the cheapest ingredients possible. Surely something will have to give sooner or later when more and more refuse to buy it - chocolate is something which appeals to all age groups, not just those young enough to be ignorant of what it used to be like.

Mondelez (Cadbury) now own Milka and Green & Black too so it won't be too long before they taste as bad.

Mondelez just sent me an automated email saying that they read all feedback.

Yes they read it and throw it in the bin. I think we should all stand up together and really be heard. They might make a film about us.

I think it’s appalling to lie about this. If Guinness changed this recipe there would be complete uproar as it’s a national tradition. How has this be allowed. It’s not like changing one item, this is CHOCOLATE. It’s really important!!!

I do love a ripple but my loyalty remains with a Twirl

Ritter sport rum and rasin is still amazing, no Palm oil and real rum in it too!

Bought a bag of the mini Twirls - we couldn't eat them, they had almost a perfumy taste. Rank. And I say that as someone so chocolate deprived that I'd eat any on offer..... It was galling to put them in the bin. Bleuch.

Co-Op own brand or Lindt.

Don't buy Cadbury or Mars chocolate any more, it's awful. Far better to pay a bit more and get decent stuff.

Come to report that I saw a massive bar of Dairy Milk today for £12 in retro packaging

I wasn't willing to buy it to find out if they've actually done as believed

hopingforhappiness
In Spain we have a version of Nutella called Nocilla which doesn't have palm oil. Don't know whether it's sold in the U.K.

Hi webuilt! Yes curly wurlys... They aren't the same now either thinner and just don't taste like they used to. Twix has changed too Didn't know that about pigs and curly wurly though.

@Paranoidorno they've got the Feuilltine bar in my Waitrose I just bought it thanks to your rec, not tried it yet

Aldi dark chocolate is VERY good

Sorry if I confused you there, Philomena - I was just, erm, surmising about the link between Curly Wurlies and pigs.

So now we've had it officially confirmed that Cadbury's haven't changed their recipe at all for a hundred years. Oh, no - it's exactly the same as it always was and we many thousands of complainers are all simply mistaken, all together.

In other news: Elvis isn't dead - I heard him on the radio....

Article about recent changes to Cadbury's products.

It’s just so sad! I feel like something lovely has been stolen from us all and they are just lying to us all!

Remember the tiny miniature dairy milks that were wrapped in purple foil and then had a tiny dairy milk wrapper over them. The detail. I didn’t even pick them first because there were so many other beautiful chocolates to choose from, the barrel, the hazelnut whirl (that was piped). It’s too late, it’s gone. We didn’t even know until it was too late, we couldn’t store it, we only have it in our memories now.

3luckystars - Ooh, yes, those tiny little wrapped bars of proper old Dairy Milk!! They did boxes of 20 of them that were intended for refilling those little toy machines you could buy that would dispense them one at a time for 2p a go. I never actually had one of those machines, though.... All these years on, now you've mentioned them, I can remember exactly how delicious they tasted, which brings a happy memory, but followed by a sad one that I'll never be able to buy them again and that my DS will never be able to taste them. Sad, eh? It's only chocolate, but still....

Thanks for the link, LockedOut - very interesting - and sad too.

I think the most pathetic thing of all is stopping the annual free chocolates to their retired employees. In the scheme of things, just how much money did this save them? Then again, the decision might have been about more than just money.

How wise would it be to give thousands of tins of the new tasteless, waxy chocolates to the very people who had spent years making and sampling the proper old ones? If thousands of people who could verify for a fact that they'd changed for the very worst, in spite of head office-level protestations to the general public to the contrary, mentioned this fact to their friends and family each year, that could lead to a lot of very bad publicity and ill-feeling.

Or maybe they were just deeply embarrassed to continue doing it - it'd be like buying a 'remastered original' Wagner opera CD and, upon playing it, discovering that it was actually Nick Knowles or the Cheeky Girls.

My fear is that over time they will morph into the vomit tasting American Hershey's chocolate, if Mondelez have their way.

You don't think Cadbury's tastes like Hershey's? They are very similar. Cadbury's has that vanilla hint, but they both have the greasy bile aftertaste thing going on.

If Galaxy is going the same way, I'm about to eat a lot less chocolate. I like Godiva, but I can't justify spending £2-3 on one bar of chocolate

I wasn't willing to buy it to find out if they've actually done as believed

No, don't fall for the retro trick. They did that with a "retro" selection box over Easter. You're literally paying for the old packaging wrapped around the same new "not changed nope not changed at all what do you mean it's never melted well we haven't changed a thing honestly" inferior ingredients.

It’s so deeply depressing. I bloody hate Mondelez for what it’s done to Cadbury.

I buy Lindt or M&S, or order Whitaker’s from a NZ import website (cannot recommend whitaker’s enough!) chocolate these days, as the sort of rubbish waxy finish on Cadbury stuff is horrid.

Koko (which is probably what Cadbury use instead of real cocoa or something!!) - funny you mention not melting, as several months ago, a friend of mine had some twirl bites in my car. My car then sat in the garage for a couple months as we had a baby and I couldn’t drive it for a while.

When it got sunny in June, I used it to take my dad out. He sat in the seat for about half an hour. The car then sat in the sun for about 2 hours. When we got back to it, we spotted that a rogue twirl bite was sitting at the back of the passenger seat, which my friend must have dropped months before.... and it hadn’t melted! Just what the hell are they putting in it these days? My car upholstery may be grateful, but my mouth is not

Marks and Spencer milk chocolate is really good

The Lindt I am currently eating has no palm oil! 47% cocoa with salt flakes just out of the fridge... very nice!

Is it the Lindt milk chocolate that has palm oil in it?

I agree palm oil is horrid, have renounced many former favourites! Such a shame about Galaxy, I always preferred it over Cadbury's anyway

Ripples have always been waxy and claggy to me. Even worse now then?