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To think this is not the best chocolate in Britain

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Shakirawannabe · 06/01/2019 19:59

How has dairy milk won Britain best chocolate? Most people I know boycotted it ages ago because it tasted like wax
What is going on!

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twocats335 · 06/01/2019 22:45

M&S chocolate as already mentioned above. Nicer than any of the brands by a long shot.

Gth1234 · 06/01/2019 22:52

Cadburys is not a patch on the little Lindt chocolate truffle balls.
I prefer Dairyfine to Cadbury's, and choceur is a step up!

Letsmoveondude · 06/01/2019 23:02

the lindt white chocolate bar, ive no idea what the squishy is in the middle but my god its gorgeous....
oh and Milka bars. yes please.

longwayoff · 06/01/2019 23:02

Gift of Maxim's macaroon chocolates. Ridiculously expensive and would have swapped them for practically any chocolate you could name. Really. Don't bother.

ginghamstarfish · 06/01/2019 23:09

Prefer Lidl and Aldi chic these days especially the Rich Milk which is between milk and dark.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/01/2019 03:38

My favourite is Milka.

Now owned by Mondelez (i.e. under the Cadbury's banner) and absolutely nowhere as nice as it used to be. Shame: it used to be delicious.

BartonHollow · 07/01/2019 03:53

Another vote for Montezuma

Expensive as fuck though

WhirlieGigg · 07/01/2019 03:54

Yuck, it does taste like wax! Still better than the stuff they use to make Creme Eggs nowadays!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/01/2019 04:13

The problem is that massive companies know exactly what to do to stay massive.

They have endless advertising and make sure that their products are for sale everywhere (undercutting the competition or cutting 'special exclusive deals' with retailers if necessary) - to the extent that most people either don't really think about there being an alternative or stay in the mindset that this is 'normal' chocolate and the expensive stuff (invariably from independents or very small specialist companies) is a rare treat - rather than thinking that maybe chocolate should be a treat and savoured rather than being shovelled down (not judging at all - I need to grasp this lesson as much as everybody else).

I'll never for the life of me understand why huge companies spend so much money on blanket advertising rather than just spending the same money on making much better products and gaining lifelong happy customers.

However, this is precisely the MO of big companies nowadays (with a very few notable exceptions): they rely on people's inertia and couldn't care less how happy you are with them as long as you never get unhappy enough to leave them. In fact, if they knew that their customers were utterly delighted instead of just grudgingly willing to stay clinging on, they'd probably assume that they must be spending too much money somewhere that could be cut back to boost their profits even further.

They'll outright boast on high about having a 90% customer 'satisfaction' rating (i.e. people aren't brave enough to leave them or don't understand that there are much better alternatives as 'bigger must be better', right?)

Even if that 'satisfaction' rating wasn't just an inertia thing and genuinely represented true delight (which it really doesn't) - if I owned a company with those ratings, I'd be horrified that 1 customer in every 10 wasn't happy with my products. You'll always get a tiny minority of people who moan about anything and expect the Moon on a stick for a pound - but 10% unhappy customers is appalling - not something to boast about!!

Take broadband providers for example. How many people grumble about shocking reliability and customer service and yet keep switching between 4 or 5 big providers (and keep grumbling). Look at ISPReview.com (which, of course, is subject to bias and reviewers are self-selecting, but which should in theory cover people knowledgeable and interested enough to actually seek out the site in the first place), and see the 50 best rated ISPs. Apart from possibly Zen (currently at 12), the first provider that the vast majority of people would ever even have heard of is rated the 20th best - yet they have probably 20% or so of the entire UK customer base, as do those at positions 30, 32 & 34.

The exact same is true of the handful of 'big boy' gas and electricity providers.

Sadly, most of us are happy to be gaslighted into believing that what we're told is the best (by the huge brands selling it) must actually be the best and/or are too scared to give anybody else a look in - and we all have a tendency to follow the crowd blindly. At least, that's the only reason I can possibly think of why Subway is still in business in towns that have nearby independent sandwich shops with much greater quality and far lower prices.

Sorry - bit of a rant there!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/01/2019 04:18

I blame Phil Collins.

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

delboysskinandblister · 07/01/2019 23:09

@Bartonhollow - YY to Montezuma especially Dark chocolate buttons! and also the geranium and orange block

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 07/01/2019 23:20

Cadburys Twirl still taste like "proper" Cadburys chocolate for some reason

Pernickity1 · 07/01/2019 23:27

Kinder kinder kinder 🤤

AnnabelleLecter · 07/01/2019 23:35

Yes to Montezuma's chocolate buttons
Hotel Chocolat
Godiva
Divine
M&S
Absolutely no awful Cadbury crap here anymore. Yes it's cheaper but you get what you pay for.

DaysOfCurlySpencer · 07/01/2019 23:49

I won't buy any chocolate that has palm oil in. Sadly that includes the Lindt balls which I only ever bought once and will not buy again unless they make them without it.

I sometimes buy Lidl chocolate but find it very sweet, some of the ones they sell do have palm oil so have to read the labels.

Green & Black, no, not only is it owned by Cadbury/Kraft but it also resembles sweet cardboard in flavour, as does Thorntons which is disgusting.

Have just binned a large box of Charbonnel & Walker which were suprisingly foul and similar in non taste to Thorntons.

The other thing to watch is the 'chocolate' coating on ice creams which contains palm oil, very few are proper chocolate.

I have resorted to dark chocolate in an emergency but really miss proper milk chocolate. I liked Ritter but last time I looked there was palm oil.

LegoPiecesEverywhere · 08/01/2019 00:14

Galaxy is the winner

Storybarn · 08/01/2019 01:12

I find Divine chocolate too sweet

Racecardriver · 08/01/2019 01:14

The British are renowned for their poor taste. I would be surprised if your average Brit thought that. You lot go for the quality street like seagulls go for chips.

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 08/01/2019 07:09

Quality Street used to be nicer - we buy them in the expectation that they will be like they were when we were kids. It's the triumph of hope over experience.
Anyway, my American sil bulk buys Crunchiest when she is here, so it can't all be bad.

SilverySurfer · 08/01/2019 12:37

Racecardriver
The British are renowned for their poor taste. I would be surprised if your average Brit thought that. You lot go for the quality street like seagulls go for chips.

What utter rubbish, we have some of the best food in the world. What we also now have are companies like Cadburys being taken over and being stuffed with palm oil which makes it inedible.

Polarbearflavour · 08/01/2019 13:09

I like Dairy Milk - but only in the thin form like the kids mini bars, Freddos or Easter eggs - it tastes so much better!

I only like two Thornton’s chocolates. The Alpini and Viennese one.

I like Hotel Chocolat. Mmmmmmmm.

TheViceOfReason · 08/01/2019 13:15

I'm less keen on Hotel Chocolat - i think as they've got bigger and gone into more mass production the quality has dropped. They are still nice, just not amazing.

I do like cadbury dairy milk, and the mint oreo bar. And the one with jelly beans and popping candy.

Galaxy and lindt i find claggy and greasy.

Lidl Bellarom white chocolate is lovely.

G&Bare generally pretty good.

Choc-Affair bars are lovely - i love the raspberry and rose one.

Charbonnel et Walker truffles are gorgeous, but super expensive. They also do other chocolate discs / bars which are good.

I got a small box of holdsworth chocolates at xmas - not bad at all - on a par or thereabouts with hotel chocolat.

I once got given a box of Godiva chocs - wasn't keen at all, found them quite powdery and tasteless.

LoudBatPerson · 08/01/2019 13:15

Another Montezuma fan here. I cannot stand a lot of so-called chocolate now. The Montezuma chilli and lime is a particular favourite of mine, as are the dark buttons.

At least buying the more expensive ones means I am eating less of it now!

lifecouldbeadream · 08/01/2019 13:33

@thevice. I was just popping on to say exactly that... I think Hotel Chocolat have changed their recipe. I used to drool over it, but having been bought some for Christmas -it all tastes very waxy/soft and not at all pleasant... sob!

MamaDane · 08/01/2019 13:37

British chocolate is terrible. Too sweet and waxy.

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