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Dairy Milk tastes just as good to me.

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bluebellforest · 29/04/2019 01:38

Donning my hard hat and flame proof suit.
I have a feeling it is only me 😣
I have been reading threads for a while now about how horrible Cadbury's chocolate is these days.
Every single time I think, god, I can't bloody taste the difference.
What the hell Blush

OP posts:
DesperadoDan · 29/04/2019 12:26

Cadbury’s Easter eggs seem to taste like old Dairy Milk as does the massive chunky 800g bars, the smaller bars and multipacks taste different, less creamy and sweet, more oilySad

whensmynexthol1day · 29/04/2019 14:52

Try the Aldi fruit and nut bar and compare to the Cadbury one- you'll be able to tell the difference! The Aldi one has a good crunch to it which the dairy milk one no longer has.

Order654 · 29/04/2019 16:30

@19lottie82 - just the 1 £1 bar a week? You have got some self control.

I eat 1 multipack bar of chocolate a day and sometimes 2! Wispas, twirls, ripples, mars bar.

Seashell80 · 29/04/2019 17:14

I can't say I've really noticed the difference, however I left a Cadbury Easter egg in the car boot and it melted-completely liquid! I fridged it and the resultant chocolate tasted so much nicer, both myself and DH commented on it 😋

LittleCandle · 29/04/2019 17:19

I prefer the Dark Milk to the dairy milk now. Dairy milk now never gets hard in the fridge, and I love my chocolate cold and hard. It is definitely not the same!

DonkeyHohtay · 29/04/2019 17:32

Agree it's as much the texture as the flavour. There is no "snap" to Dairy Milk any more. It's chewy, and almost like plasticine in texture. That;s the palm oil. Galaxy is the same. In fact, all cheap chocolate is.

I personally think that quality is worth paying for and won't eat anything with palm oil in it. I like Lindt, Aldi Moser Roth and the Divine chocolate bars. Co-Op do a really nice dark chocolate with orange too.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 29/04/2019 17:37

I don't eat much 'ordinary' chocolate and so haven't really taken much notice of all the fuss BUT I can really taste the coconut in any product that now has palm oil. I like coconut, but not in everything.

DH bought home a bar of Galaxy and Dairy Milk last month and they BOTH taste awful. Dairy Milk has a weird mouthfeel and tastes very strange, most unpleasant. Galaxy is grainy and has a definite coconut tinge.

One of the Aldi bars has changed too (or is that Lidl) and a microscope to the ingredients box tells you why - palm oil!

I find the taste so extraordinarily horrible I am amazed that any of it is still being sold. But I have also tasted some Hershey chocolate brought back from America - that was just gross! A staffroom of 12 people and none of us could eat it!

So there are people out there with cast iron taste buds!

LucyAutumn · 29/04/2019 17:40

I'm with you OP, I love it just as much as I always did. Give me a bar any day!

1Wildheartsease · 29/04/2019 17:44

I hope the original recipe for Cadbury's chocolate is still safe somewhere.

However I really do approve of the 'new-improved' version... it has kept me safely away from chocolate eating for long enough to lose plenty of weight.

User12879923378 · 29/04/2019 17:49

Try melting it in a bowl it just sort of sits there in a glob.

That's true but it's not the change in recipe. I made a batch of Dairy Milk brownies on request and thought I must have burned the chocolate and made it seize when I melted it. That was 20 years ago. (They turned out quite nicely in the end, you just whisk the glob into the other ingredients.)

I can't tell the difference either.

DonkeyHohtay · 29/04/2019 17:53

SOme people just generally have very unsophisticated tastes. The inlaws think an Iceland 99p mandarin cheesecake is "gorgeous" and every bit as delicious as a homemade one.

It's clearly an inferior product, mass produced with the cheapest ingredients and with synthetic orange gloop. But they genuinely think it's every bit as good.

MaisondeChats · 29/04/2019 17:58

Its not so much the taste, but it does leave like a greasy mouth feeling afterwards.

ToffeePennie · 29/04/2019 18:01

Not just you op.
Still tastes exactly the same to me! As does galaxy.
Chocolate is chocolate. Apart from Thornton’s which does taste of wax!

AmbitiousHalibut · 29/04/2019 18:02

I don't think you're BU. I love Dairy Milk!

DonkeyHohtay · 29/04/2019 18:08

Chocolate is chocolate.

It's really not.

That's like saying a white shirt is a white shirt, whether it comes from Primark, M&S or is hand stitched by an expert seamstress.

saganorenscarandcoat · 29/04/2019 18:11

I love it too

ToffeePennie · 29/04/2019 18:11

To me chocolate is chocolate. If it gives me the same sense of “pleasure” And tastes the same (which it does) then I’m not too bothered.
And yes a white shirt is just a white shirt regardless of where it is bought from - it’s still a white shirt. To me anyway.

MrsDrudge · 29/04/2019 18:22

The new Dark Milk is nice.
I much prefer it to Thornton’s which I find too sickly.
Neither is a patch on Hotel Chicolate or Prestat though

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 29/04/2019 19:01

It tastes very different to me. I've wondered if it's a Mandela Effect kind of thing - whether the chocolate has stayed the same and it's me getting older, taste buds dying/changing etc.

I remember how amazing and satisfying CDM used to taste, with a delicious aftertaste that lasted quite some time; but now, it's invariably disappointing as soon as I eat it I still never learn, though, like one of Pavlov's dogs

It doesn't sound like anybody actually likes the taste of palm oil and the huge environmental harm it does in obtaining it is very well known. Why do they use it then? Is it just extremely cheap? How come Aldi can make delicious chocolate without using it and sell it for the same or a lower price?

Thornton's is also a disappointment now. I can remember when they were a real luxury and a treat - back when you could only get it from actual Thornton's shops. I still think it tastes nicer than Cadbury's, Mars or Nestle chocolate, but the rot started to set in once they started selling it in Supermarkets - and now you can even get it in Poundland and WH Smith have it on a permanent offer at the tills as an extra impulse buy. It used to occupy the happy middle ground between the mass-market stuff and the artisan delicacy chocolatier stuff. Maybe that's part of it, as well as the perceivable change in taste - its ubiquity probably also detracts from its 'specialness'.

MashedSpud · 29/04/2019 19:06

I still love Cadbury’s.

I don’t like any other chocolate except Terrys choc orange, bendicks and after eights.

SarahBeeney · 29/04/2019 19:16

I bloody love it OP.

I hate M&S chocolate and as for Green and Blacks,hideous!

I like Lindt and naice dark chocolate too but Dairy Milk is very moreish.

Greensleeves · 29/04/2019 19:17

It's definitely not the same. CDM used to have a lovely velvety mouth feel - that's completely gone, it's greasy and claggy now. Galaxy I've always hated the texture of, sort of slippery and fatty.

I had a Wispa recently and it was like cooking oil in the mouth. Vile.

lilabet2 · 29/04/2019 19:21

YABU.

Dairy Milk is becoming more like Hersheys- I think it's still worth eating at the moment but it has definitely changed for the worse.

ChessieFL · 29/04/2019 19:24

I agree Dairy Milk isn’t as nice as it used to be, but I still like it and still eat lots of it!

Hiddenaspie1973 · 29/04/2019 19:27

They've taken somethingout of Cadbury etc.
I used to crave chocolate and when I ate it, felt soothed and calmed and wanted more.
I no longer get that "hit" so rarely eat choc now. I was mainlining the 200g bar with crunchie bits in January but recently found they've reduced the crunchie bits........so that's out too.
It's better for my health and purse. Thanks!