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Original poster

Chocolate from the 1990s

39 replies

Nutmegger · 29/12/2022 15:37

Aibu to ask if there is ANYWHERE I can get chocolate that tastes like the chocolate in the 1990s? Happy to buy online

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TheChippendenSpook · 29/12/2022 15:39

I hope someone has some hope! I really miss 90s chocolate too.

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Nutmegger · 29/12/2022 15:45

I've completely had it with chocolate. I spent all Christmas eating chocolate I didn't like. All because of the memory of how chocolate used to taste. I know it's something to do with corn syrup (thanks mumsnetters) but surely some smart company will have realised the massive gap in this market?

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xsquared · 29/12/2022 16:20

No idea op, butI agree with you. A lot of chocolate today just don't taste like they used to.

I have happy memories of spending pocket money at the school tuckshop at break time, on things like Ripple, Twirl, Twix or Flake bars amd even bite was a treat.

I don't think I've outgrown them, more like the recipe has changed. More palm oil and less cocoa, so it tastes sugary and greasy rather than chocolate.

Brightstar84 · 29/12/2022 16:24

I like Ritter sport and green and blacks

Badhead · 29/12/2022 16:29

Milky Ways in the 90s tasted so much better than they do now.

Keyansier · 29/12/2022 16:33

Is it not just nostalgia? Then again loads of people say exactly the same thing. I don't notice any difference but I've never really liked chocolate.

Glitterybee · 29/12/2022 16:41

Yes - cadbury dairy milk in Ireland tastes exactly like it used to in the 90s!

we can buy the standard bars that the UK has but then there’s more expensive / square shaped bars that are so good, just like chocolate used to be.

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Nutmegger · 29/12/2022 16:46

Oh yes, it's palm oil, not corn syrup! (Or both maybe). It's definitely different though. I remember the taste.
I'm in England - I think Ireland and England have the same chocolate?

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Felicity42 · 29/12/2022 16:48

Nope. The Cadburys chocolate made in Ireland still tastes like it always did.

candycane10 · 30/12/2022 10:17

In b&m you get Australian Cadbury's chocolate and I think it's what we used to get here. The best one is called top deck but check the back of the packs of the "imported" stickers

Sillybanana · 30/12/2022 10:18

Some confectionery tastes different because they used to put masses more sugar in them back in the day!

GimmeSleep · 30/12/2022 10:19

Aldi and Lidl fruit and nut (in a box) is pretty tasty; not sure if it tastes like 90s chocolate but it's a lot nicer than Cadburys.

BIWI · 30/12/2022 10:24

Australian Cadbury's is made to a different recipe from ours - and was the case back in the 90s. So it won't taste like ours used to.

Moonopoly · 30/12/2022 10:30

Australian Cadbury is gross. I think they add an ingredient to prevent melting in heat. It’s definitely not what we had here in the 90’s.

Moonopoly · 30/12/2022 10:31

I also agree our current Cadbury’s is gross. I bought a box of dairy milk that was pretty much inedible. They’ve ruined it!

Purplechicken207 · 30/12/2022 10:39

I was a young teen in the 90s and it doesn't seem to have changed for me. I'm a super taster (generally means many foods are heightened - I cant bear super creamy/sweet things, its so cloying, but in particular bitter tastes are just so yuk) so i cant abide dark chocolate for example.
It is a fact that your palate/taste buds change as you age, and sweetness is one of the things you taste less. I think it usually begins in 40s/50s?

Purplechicken207 · 30/12/2022 10:40

Oh actually I tell a lie - creme eggs definitely changed a few years back 🤢

SleeplessInEngland · 30/12/2022 10:41

Change in taste doens't bother me but shrinkflation has reached laughable proportions now.

SVRT19674 · 30/12/2022 10:43

They much much less sugar and cocoa than they used to and it shows. I grew up in Spain and we used to have for tea two slices of french bread with some squares of Nestle´s chocolate in the middle. Loved it. Nestlés chocolate doesnt taste the same either, tastes more of sweetners now.

WatchoRulo · 30/12/2022 10:50

SleeplessInEngland · 30/12/2022 10:41

Change in taste doens't bother me but shrinkflation has reached laughable proportions now.

Someone gave me a Chocolate Orange this year, and I noticed that they have managed to reduce the chocolate content by casting an indented image of an orange segment on it - I bet the dude who invented that to save a couple of grams per unit got a fat bonus.

All chocolate has a nasty sharp taste to me now - but I assumed it was my taste buds being fucked because I am so old.

Rayn22 · 30/12/2022 11:04

I miss quality chocolate!

VestaTilley · 30/12/2022 11:16

YANBU. Once a year I treat myself to a nice box of chocolates from Audrey’s, just so I can eat some decent quality stuff over Christmas.

KirstenBlest · 30/12/2022 11:20

I think it's the palm oil. I used to love CDM, but it's all wrong now. The smell is wrong, the mouthfeel is wrong, the taste is wrong, the aftertaste is horrible. Some but not all other brands are the same, so I don't think it's me.

squishee · 30/12/2022 11:23

A while ago a MNer insider wrote that Cadbury's buttons are made in Ireland, so they still taste like they used to (without the palm oil taste). Not sure if it's still the case.

Theladyinred · 30/12/2022 12:04

It's not just chocolate. Cereals , crisps all taste different too. Everything has lost flavour . They use less sugar and less flavours and everything just tastes so blend.
The 90s bowl of frosties used to taste sooooo good and different.