To have only just noticed this about Cadbury chocolate??

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I have seen a lot on Mumsnet previously about Cadbury chocolate changing and not being nice, but I still thought it was nice up until literally now!

Last week I bought a creme egg, which was seriously horrible, but put it down to a bad batch maybe? Just opened a bag of mini eggs and they are foul! They even smell strange.

So have they changed the recipe yet again?

They used to use dairy milk chocolate for creme eggs but then changed it to bog standard crap stuff. Don't know about mini eggs

I was the same, I didn't notice any difference at all then my daughter got a bar of dairy milk with her name on it for Christmas and gave me a bit and it tasted absolutely foul! The texture was really odd too. She hasn't asked to have any more of it and it's gone in the bin. She normally loves dairy milk and so do I.

@dementedpixie oh that makes sense! Cause it honestly tasted NOTHING like dairy milk at all! Creme eggs were my all time favourite, but I honestly don't think I'll ever buy one again!

Cadburys has been vile for years. They may have tampered with the recipe again, it barely tastes like chocolate any more & good luck getting the stuff to melt!

YABU about the creme egg though. They were always horrible.

I’ve noticed this too, I’ve gone off chocolate because of it tbh

It feels sort of grainy now...the recipe can’t be the same for any of their products anymore as none of it is the same

It's since the company was bought by Kraft Foods. American chocolate is vile.

Yanbu! Cadbury can lie and swear until they are blue in the face they have changed the recipe its disgusting! I even remember enjoying bournville as a child and recently trying it again it was greasy discusting sugary waterd down shit! Its definitely not how I remember it, my mum used to love bournville and also tasted it recently with discust. They have ruined everything! If Cadbury turned around and said it will make the cost go up to go back to the original recipe then so be it, Cadbury used to be a luxury a Christmas treat so I'm happy to pay over the odds to get back my beloved, my childhood memories of tucking into Cadbury out of my selection box as a child . Bastards Cadbury are!!!!

When I make chocolate recipes (biscuit cake, peanut buttercups, sauce, etc) I use 50/50 85% chocolate and milk chocolate (usually Aldi's). It gives a better taste.

I miss Cadburys of old

Had a creme egg today and it was fine. I had kept it in the fridge to harden it up, so don’t know what room temperature would have revealed.

Otherwise I’m with you. It’s rank and a poor excuse for proper glass and a half dairy milk.

I've always, always hated Cadbury's chocolate. So I can't comment if they've changed the recipe - it's always been rank in my eyes

do the ingredients include palm oil, OP?

I couldn't tell the difference until one day I could. I can't go back to cadbury's now. My friend loves it though, but she's not from the UK and can't tell the difference!

You were very lucky to find any chocolate at all in the wrapper! Cannot believe the reduced size of their bars these days.

Take recipe.

1. find most costly ingredient
2. invest vast amounts of time and effort into find a cheaper alternative
3. substitute into recipe
4. run a massive marketing campaign
5. goto (1)

The answer, sadly, is to simply give up chocolate. Or make your own. At my age and weight, it was easier to give up .

Love Cocoa is a brand made by James Cadbury using more traditional recipes. They are so much nicer than regular Cadbury's now although obviously way more expensive and not on supermarket shelves

Have to admit I dont like cream eggs, sickly, but I did read a few months ago, that Cadbury were reducing the ugar content.

Give up chocolate? I don't think so. Save up and buy some decent chocolate as an occasional treat instead, if you're lucky enough to be able to visit a good chocolatier. I'm with Otter, and never liked Cadbury's chocolate much in the first place.

It's so shit that Cadbury sold out to Kraft - and I agree that the recipe has changed again - for the worse.

Cadbury used to be genuinely nice, good value chocolate. It's not even chocolate any more -powdery, Hershey-like crud.

And Hershey are stupid to change the recipe. Even if the glass and a half cost more than their poor excuse for chocolate, they'd make it up in customer retention. The whole of the UK should write to Kraft and demand the old recipe back.

I noticed that the mini eggs changed a couple of years ago. It's a tragedy because they used to be special and now they are utterly ordinary. I certainly won't be eating Cadbury chocolate again.

Oddly Cadbury mini eggs in the US are nicer than here now.

Derailing a bit here, but I are a Bounty for the first time in a couple of years. We’re they always so sickly sweet?

I've noticed this about mini eggs this year, they taste awful!

Cadbury's is a very poor imitation of the chocolate we all grew up with. Kraft have turned it into shite.

Lindt bars are still good, the Aldi Moser Roth and I recently discovered a "whole nut" bar from Lidl in a green wrapper which is nice too. Cheap chocolate is just disgusting.

I think it's the palm oil. Philadelphia is the same - disgusting these days. I remember years ago it would come in a foil wrapper and was really firm. These days it's just this horrible sloppy mess.

Oh and Ritter Sport is decent too.