To enjoy cheap chocolate?

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Just had a Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut chocolate bar 🍫- it was delicious!
I actually much prefer this cheap type of chocolate from the supermarket to ‘posh’ chocolate like Godiva, Leonidas etc.

AIBU for preferring the cheap chocolate and does it mean I have a horrible and cheap taste in chocolate?

I still love Cadbury's and Galaxy.
Sometimes people give me posh easter eggs or chocolate for birthdays and I don't like to say I'd rather have a Cadbury's egg or a box of heroes.

Another chocolate I really like which is more expensive is a fair trade one that I can only find in Oxfam. The milk chocolate one is lovely. I can't remember it's name though.

Oh it's called Divine! It's great because they do a milk chocolate with orange, I hate dark chocolate.

@Cadent

I think Godiva etc is wasted on me as I like the cheap stuff too.

However, I did enjoy Tony’s Chocolonely which is 100% slave free.

Cadbury’s isn’t slave free.

My understanding is that Tony’s Chocoloney ISN’T slave free. It cunningly says ‘working towards 100% slave free chocolate’.

There was a big ho-ha about it a few months ago.

I can't stand Cadbury's anymore. The taste was so off and I had to examine the wrapper and discovered they got sold to an American company and is manufactured in Eastern Europe. I love Lidl's Chocolate bar with whole hazelnuts.

I'll happily eat cheap chocolates. Advent calendars, chocolate coins, those little wrapped chocolate footballs. Cheap or expensive, no inbetween for me. Definitely no Cadbury!

@lazylinguist

It's got nothing to do with cheapness. Aldi's chocolate is cheap but excellent because it's not full of palm oil and soy or whatever shit Cadbury put in theirs!

Yes, it's Cadbury's chocolate that's awful, nothing about the price!

@MrsMiddleMother

Nope I still love Cadburys! To some it's an 'oily mess' but to me it tastes like chocolate and is nice. I can't eat 'fancy' choc like hotel Chocolat it just doesn't tastes very nice to me

I think it's just something people say to try and appear posh, that or their taste buss have changed with age. The chocolate hasn't changed, it's the same as its always been, other than the size of it, some bars are smaller than they used to be.

I don't like lindt. It has a funny taste to it, can't quite get what it is, but I've never liked it.

Buds not buss.

I found Cadbury marble in B&M and I’m over the moon. It was my favourite chocolate as a child but disappeared suddenly when I was about 10/11 and I was gutted! It’s so delicious, did not disappoint.

Only on Mumsnet does everyone think Cadbury’s taste awful. In real life,everyone I know loves it, including me. Wispa gold 😍😍

Well I went and had some Roses on the back of this thread which are widely maligned, called disgusting and oily and inedible, and all I can say is, send them to me, I’ll eat them! It is a shame the centres aren’t as nice or varied but the chocolate tastes fine to me.

Cadbury's is awful :/

@ScarlettDarling

Only on Mumsnet does everyone think Cadbury’s taste awful. In real life,everyone I know loves it, including me. Wispa gold 😍😍

Well if my 15 year old DS won't eat it then it must be awful. He will happily eat Galaxy or Aldi.

@ScarlettDarling

Only on Mumsnet does everyone think Cadbury’s taste awful. In real life,everyone I know loves it, including me. Wispa gold 😍😍

I don't know anyone IRL who buys Cadbury's anymore.

I used to LOVE a good Dairy Milk but it leaves such an awful aftertaste now and tastes really greasy

No Tonys isn't 100%, but better to be working on it (and it's to do with renting resources from other chocolate companies that are slavers).
There probably are some but small companies don't get stocked locally. I just skip chocolate.

@ScarlettDarling

Only on Mumsnet does everyone think Cadbury’s taste awful. In real life,everyone I know loves it, including me. Wispa gold 😍😍

I agree. Load of bandwagon jumping!

Asda Smart Price chocolate is actually quite nice !

Eat whatever chocolate you enjoy?!
For what it’s worth I much prefer Cadbury’s to Green & Blacks or Hotel chocolat etc
If that makes me a classless oik then so be it

Can't believe people are calling Cadburys cheap. I thought you were going to say a 30p own bar or something. Cadbury's is inexpensive but I wouldnt call it 'cheap'.

Standard price for a 4-pack of most Cadbury chocolate bars is £1 at most supermarkets, so it is actually cheap chocolate for a good reason.

I'd heard that about the Irish Cadbury chocolate, too. I'd love to try some of that. I think there are people from NI who sell it on eBay - might be worth an investment!

Oh, and a warning to the person who first dictated that delicious caramel should be ruined with the addition of salt - if you happen to be on MN, may your every thread be adjudged a YABU and your every poo a (salty chocolate) hedgehog

Chocolate is such a minefield for me now, so many including lots of Cadbury's are may contain for gluten 😫. I used to love whole nut. Most cheap brands are also no go. Though the really cheap dark chocolate from Tesco was ok when I last bought it.

I love a Twirl. Tbh I like most Chocolate.

I think it's just something people say to try and appear posh.

If that were the case, loads of them (like me) wouldn't be saying that Aldi chocolate was better! I have no idea whether Cadbury really changed their chocolate recipes. I ate Cadbury's as a child and still do if it's all that's on offer. But it is and always was inferior to lots of other chocolate brands (regardless of poshness or price) imo.

I agree with lazylinguist

I think the problem with Cadbury is the same as for almost all big brands, where they make a name for themselves - whether through genuinely being (at least originally) the best or just through aggressive marketing, advertising and branding.

Perfumes are probably the most overt example of this, where they never feel the need to tell you anything whatsoever about the smell or consistency of it - there's just some celeb randomly jumping off a pier or a woman wearing a shimmery gold gown in a luxury spa and then the name; but there are loads of other brands and products that do the same.

I think the tide is turning for them now, as they've pushed profit over quality just too far, but Cadbury have always traded on the fact that you're buying CADBURY chocolate, which they like to suggest is the best.

Aldi and Lidl know full well that their brands, purely as brands, are not fashionable - and I don't think they care about that at all. You're buying some chocolate that you like and consider good quality that happens to come from Aldi - you aren't buying it because Aldi have spent decades trying to convince you that it's the best and only chocolate you could ever want, and having spent many years complacent in their widespread success in doing so.

It's not the price which is the defining factor, it's what they use to make it.

Cadburys is palm oil, chewy, waxy,

Lindt, Aldi Moser Roth, Lidl Fin Carre, Ritter Alpine in the blue pack - not any more expensive, no palm oil.

The Moser Roth is my favourite. Snaps beautifully, melts in the mouth and isn't chewy.

*I think it's just something people say to try and appear posh, that or their taste buss have changed with age.

If people were trying to be "posh" why would they be posting about how good ASDA smart price chocolate is?

I used to LOVE Cadbury's and I wish it still tasted as good as it did when I was a kid. My "time of the month" treat off my mum was always a HUGE bar of Dairy Milk - last time I bought it, I genuinely couldn't finish it. It was so greasy and tasteless :(