To be fed up of Mondelez ruining British Chocolate

[TetraTetris]

Now mini eggs....they just don't even smell the same let alone taste the same!

All still tastes the same to me.

It's certainly an interesting business decision: to invest a fortune in buying something that millions of people love and then deliberately going out of your way to make sure they stop loving it - even liking it, in fact.

I don't know what the going rate is for an original Da Vinci, but if I had that kind of money, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't buy one and then take a knife to the canvas.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll I've just bought some Irish Dairy Milk off Ebay thanks to your post!

I'm going to be very excited (and fat) if it turns out to taste like it used to!

If only there were other brands of chocolate as readily available and similarly priced. Oh wait....

Cadbury's has always been shit. Just buy something else.

I think some of it does still taste the same. I noticed the bars in the selection boxes over Christmas tasted like cheap imitation chocolate but when you buy them individual or in a multipack they taste normal. The larger Cadbury easter eggs last year tasted waxy and the smaller ones tasted good. I looked on the back and the ingredients were different. It's a money saving thing for them. It's not just Cadburys though because Kitkats have gone crap too.

I've stopped buying it. Luckily I live near a chocolatiers shop but my chocolate bill does appear to have increased since I've replaced cadburys with hand made delicacies

@Bratnews

Tony’s Chocolonely is really nice, though they don’t do mini eggs, but as Cadbury’s avoidance it’s great!

We get Tony's too. It's sooo much better than Cadburys!

(and no plastic or palm oil!)

Just buy better chocolate. Tbh Cadbury's wasn't great to begin with.

Lidl, Aldi and even the Coop all sell chocolate that doesn't have palm oil or butyric acid.

Cheaper too.

Cadburys tastes good to me. 😋 But then I'm on a diet at the moment and I'd eat a truck if someone put sugar on it or baked it in a cake.

Lydll whole nut chocolate is my favourite. Knocks spots off Cadburys as it is now.

I had a milky bar the other day...tasted disgusting 😔

Its a glass and a half of shite now.

Apparently Twirls are all made in Ireland and thus still nice but I'm not sure if this is correct.

I don't like Tonys but I do like most of the cheap Lidl and Aldi choc so all is not lost. Otherwise I get sweets instead - Aldi candy kittens knock offs are really nice!

@ScruffGin

I used to love mini eggs, but now they're awful. Same with creme eggs

I haven't had a Creme Egg for years because the last one I had was so horrible. Someone said that some Yank firm had taken them over and changed the recipe and now this has confirmed it. Why, oh why did they have to make rubbish of our chocolate instead of making their chocolate more like ours used to be? Palm oil? PLASTIC?? WHY???

Still tastes as shite as it ever did

@OfstedOffred

Yanbu. There should be rules about the extent to which America can sell us vile poor quality food

Oh wait

Errrm. Has everybody forgotten the point, pre-Brexit, when the EU actually had to modify the definition of chocolate because the UK and Sweden wanted to accommodate products with a lower cocoa content than was up to that point accepted in any other member state?

OP is being entirely U - doesn't seem there ever was a golden age of the sort she is talking about (ducks and runs).

(and no plastic or palm oil!)

Just a bit of associated child slavery

I've only ever tried Tony's Chocolonely once & I wasn't that impressed TBH, what's that about child slavery @OneTC?

I looked up the ingredients of Irish cadbury and it's got palm oil in it too

They sell themselves as being ethical but then

"We have never found a case of modern slavery in our supply chain. But we do find instances of illegal child labour occurring on the cocoa farms where we source our beans."

Straight out of oatlys "all wow, no cow except the bones " marketing strategy

@belimoo

Let's hope the rumours are true! I'm guessing there must be something to it, otherwise the sellers wouldn't specifically label it as 'IRISH Dairy Milk'; nor would people go to the faff of paying extra (including postage) to order online when they could just pop to their local shop to get some instantly.

If only there were other brands of chocolate as readily available and similarly priced. Oh wait....

Cadbury's has always been shit. Just buy something else.

There are other brands, but it doesn't help that Cadbury's/Mondelez is buying a lot of them up and homogenising them all to their new 'standards' - including my beloved Milka Cream. I bought some Polish chocolate from the supermarket the other day, as that always used to be distinctively different and tasty, but even that has been taken over by guess who now.

Nestle and Mars have also changed their recipes for the worse - although not as much as Cadbury's - but it's infuriating when you spend a bit more to buy something a bit 'special' and find that it's now just Cadbury's in a fancier wrapper. A lot of Aldi and Lidl's stuff is good, though, and very reasonably priced.

Maybe it was just me, as I was a child then with sickly-biased/undemanding taste buds and relied on somebody to else to buy chocolate for me as a treat - but I disagree that Cadbury's has always been bad. It used to be a really delicious, special thing.

I'd be interested to know the ages of the people who declare that Cadbury's used to be great or has always been rubbish and correlate it with when they started to change it. My guess is that those of us in the former category might be a decade or two older than those in the latter - but I may be completely wrong there!

I'm nearly 50. It's always been poor quality chocolate.

It's okay to like poor quality chocolate (I love a Hershey's kiss) but cadburys has never been really good

And yeah that's exactly what it is, fond memories of when you didn't know any better

Tony's might not have managed to be as ethical as they claim. But they do manage to be palm oil free.
It is frustrating when you just want to get something nice. But then I guess there never going to be an entirely ethical chocolate due to the amount of miles involved in production (there is no British cocoa plantation!)