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?

green and blacks

Owned by Mondelēz and

www.greenandblacks.co.uk/faq/contact#product

appears to be silent as to "Do your products contain palm oil ?"

Dairy milk is just rank. Does anyone know if any of Cadbury products use the old recipe? I’m sure I read on here somewhere which products it was but can’t remember

I had a Freddo frog the other day and I’m sure it tasted like the old stuff but I might be mistaken.

I’ve started buying Ritter Sport from Lidl or Lidl’s own.

Laughing at that ad! I bet every single person who enters the competition will win a box as I'm sure they can't sell the horrible things anymore!!! Urgh!

Green and blacks used to be made with cocoa butter but now that everyone is reeled in, the have started adding palm oil !

I had some Bournville buttons last year and they have me the shits

Ahh bournville is a huge weakness of mine. I still like those..don't think they are cadbury though? Can't eat much of it at a time, as its sickly after a while..but this just means I cannot be greedy and scoff the whole bag!

I wondered why I’d gone off Cadbury’s chocolate - now I know! I thought I’d just ruined myself by eating so many chabbonel et walker truffles!

Kraft (Mondelez ) bought Green and Blacks so it has gone the same way as the old Cadbury’s- there is no integrity about the company or its products sadly.

For mid-priced decent chocolate I’ve found the own brand co-op chocolate bars are good, and are still made with cocoa butter.
They also come in small sizes which is great for me as I have to finish a bar once I’ve started it!

But looking at the sheer quantity of utterly crap cheap chocolate filling supermarket shelves, someone must like it, or maybe they are just after the serotonin/dopamine hit it triggers.

Bournville chocolate is definitely Cadbury’s-it was named after the village the original Cadbury’s family set up for their workers. They must be turning in their graves, especially for the way Kraft treated the workers after they bought the company- all very sad.

I stopped eating dairy milk and it used to be my favourite, I couldn't resist it - now it's waxy and sickly. I miss the taste it had, which almost had a slight tang to it when it was in foil with paper round it back in the day. Mini eggs stayed ok for a bit longer but they're horrible now. I used to love the Cadbury fingers and I don't eat them any more either

@BatShite Bournville is Cadburys so let's hope they don't go the same way as everything else if you still like them!

I think I'd had about 5 buttons before experiencing the unfortunate consequences so I'd dread to think what would have happened if I'd eaten the whole bag

I read on here about it tasting horrible but until recently still enjoyed it, thought it was years of having been a smoker affecting my tastebuds. But now I also find it horrible. Tried to bake with it and it crystallised.

Yep the palm oil but also they increased sugar and reduced cocoa and it all tastes shit, has done for years now. Only chocolate thing I still love is a Fry's Cream.

Green and Blacks was never nice, even without the palm oil, it tasted like cardboard.

I buy Tony's Chocolonely, it is actually chocolate and much nicer than the Lidl/Aldi stuff.

Does anyone know if any of Cadbury products use the old recipe?
People used to say that Irish Cadburys was palm oil free, but I saw a post later on saying it had also turned into shit.

Cadbury is horrible now.

The closest thing to the taste is Tony Chocolonley chocolate. It tastes like the old dairy milk. You can only get it in Waitrose and Selfridge's though. It's also a lot more expensive, but so worth it

Tony’s is sold in my Sainsburys (in a dull uninteresting town)

You can get Tony's Chocoloney in Sainsburys. I had two bars on Saturday . I did not regret it

I bought a chunky (200 gram?) bar of Lidl whole hazelnut chocolate and it was seriously good.
Haven’t tried Cadbury’s dairy milk since it was taken over by Kraft, and definitely won’t now. Is Flake still the same or has it also been traduced?

Cadbury's is horrible now. It breaks my heart as my family has a long history with the Cadbury factory, and we used to live on the Bournville Village Trust. Mr. Cadbury would be heart broken to see what has happened to his company.

The best reasonably priced chocolate I buy now is Divine. They stock it in Oxfam shops and it's made by a co-operative of cocoa farmers in Ghana. It's made with 100% cocoa butter.

The only bars of chocolate that I like now are Co-op Fair Trade.. It tastes like proper chocolate if that makes sense!

I've seen Tony Chocolonely in Sainsbury's - I will give it go, thanks for the tip!

www.aldi.co.uk/milk-chocolate/p/080491186843600

Aldi chocolate. It's amazing. I won't have anything else now. Their caramel one is divine too.

It tastes like it's literally rancid. I feel sorry for young people today who think chocolate is meant to taste like that.

The great great grandson of the owner of Cadbury's was on Dragon's Den, he's set up his own chocolate business. It's called Love Cocoa. My problem with most new chocolate brands is that they seem to want to emphasize the cocoa content! I want fat and sugar, I'm not in it for the bitterness richness of the chocolate

Question: "When did Cadbury start using palm oil?"

"In mid-2009, Cadbury replaced some of the cocoa butter in their non-UK chocolate products with palm oil."

Are Cadbury still Fairtrade?

News that the UK's best known chocolate brand, Cadbury, is abandoning its Fairtrade certification has caused some concern in the food industry. Parent company Mondelez says it plans to bring all Cadbury lines under its existing in-house fair trade scheme, Cocoa Life.28 Nov 2016

Does Hershey chocolate have wax in it?

In the US Cadburys chocolate is manufactured by Hershey under the Cadburys label and edible wax is added to prevent a melt-down. All well and good… unless you are a British chocolate lover like me – you won't notice that the added wax completely changes the mouth-feel and flavo(ur) of the product.30 Jan 2015

www.independent.co.uk/voices/cadbury-drops-fairtrade-scandal-business-i-watched-ethical-decline-from-inside-a7451906.html

DS has been working for a marketing company doing market research on the new recipes and given the feedback he is amazed they are going ahead. They just don't give a shit and think we'll all forget.

I rather think that, instead of hoping that we oldies forget, they're now just concentrating on the children's market. Kids aren't very discerning and thus have a very high tolerance for cheapo, sickly, sticky confectionery; and, as they're too young to have ever tasted the proper old Cadbury's, they'll just grow up thinking that the modern muck IS proper Cadbury's.

However much their parents and grandparents insist that Cadbury's chocolate used to be so much nicer, they'll just roll their eyes and think "Yeah, but YOU think that sprouts taste nice!"