Chocolate from the 1990s

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

Swiss chocolate? Not cheap but on the very rare occasions I get a box, it won't last longer than 24 hours.

Tony’s Chocolonely has no palm oil (I think!). Tastes lovely.

Try Beeches, it's palm oil free. British company too.

I had the most foul mini twirl in a box of heroes yesterday, not worth the calories!

@Theladyinred

McVities digestive used to be a lovely balance of salty and sweet with a short crumbly texture and now they taste of nothing with a horrible texture almost as if they are going stale

I'm in Ireland and the Cadburys here definitely does not taste anything like it used to in the 90s thanks to disgusting palm oil. I've found it's gotten infinitely worse in the last 2-3 years, I used to melt it to use in baking but find that it's so waxy now that I can't get it to melt down properly, it just turns into a lumpy sludge 🙈

I think they have rejigged the Terry's chocolate orange recipe again - the one I had this year tasted much better than they did 2 or 3 years ago when they really were inedible.

Not back to 90s levels of taste, but much better.

Chocolonely reminds me of chocolate of the now distant past. You don't need to eat lots of it either.

Just wish it would have squares really...I know they're making a point but honestly it's miserable being reminded every time you eat a lump about slavery. I'm already a bean-eating, down avoiding treehugger...

I find it interesting peple say chocolate now has less sugar, as I remember chocolate from my home country and after lots of the factories having been taken over by the likes of Nestle and everything became 100% more disgustingly sweet.
I do think big concerns getting bigger meant they cheapened the recipes and we eat disgusting junk now that tastes of nothing. Sweets in the UK are definitely a lot sweeter than bck home.

This has been the case for a while now, how Cadbury’s are still in business is beyond me, the quality and taste is just ewww. Really, I would be happy to pay a bit more for a higher cocoa content and less palm oil and sugar. Green and blacks smooth is delicious on the other hand, made with raw cane sugar so not as processed either.

Lindor(the red ones) were disgusting this year. Even my toddler noticed - we could hardly keep her away from them the last two years. This year she had two bites and didn't want any more!

Thornton’s used to do the most amazing chocolate buttons which I would kill to try again , someone got me their current version during lockdown and they were nothing like the taste I remember .
i recommend the Chocolate Cafe they have a fantastic range of flavours and quite often have special online offers . I’ve bought these for myself and gifts for others many times and everyone’s raves about them . The Kinder spread bar they did was especially nice

I was going to say Milka but see they have changed the recipe recently.

US chocolate is awful - a lot of it contains butyric acid which to me tastes like sick.

UK standard consumer milk chocolate has got a lot worse over the years. A lot of bog standard supermarket milk chocolate seems to taste ok to me - eg A**i.

Thanks!!I'm going to try chocolonely, Beeches and the Chocolate Cafe. I think lindor is particularly revolting. Waxy, and too sweet.