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Have they ruined Lindt now as well?

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crochetmonkey74 · 13/12/2023 15:58

Got bought a Lindt Teddy. My absolute favourite. Hadn't had one for about 18 months, settled down with a nice cuppa, ready to enjoy it. It tastes totally different!!

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Missingpate · 13/12/2023 16:02

No! Really hoping this isn’t so!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 13/12/2023 16:05

I thought Lindt got palm oiled several years ago?

gocompare · 13/12/2023 16:10

I think the Lindt balls are still the same as ever.

I had a teddy last week and it was crap. Totally different flavour to what it normally is. Almost a bit waxy or greasy.

HotGirlInHell · 13/12/2023 16:11

Lindt has always been the emperor's new clothes of the chocolate world. It's awful!

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Alarum · 13/12/2023 16:12

Maybe they’ve changed the master chocolatier who handcrafts them?

BombaySamphire · 13/12/2023 16:12

Ah, no! 😭

MadeOfAllWork · 13/12/2023 16:12

Alarum · 13/12/2023 16:12

Maybe they’ve changed the master chocolatier who handcrafts them?

He has a busy time making all that chocolate with that whisk and bowl.

RudsyFarmer · 13/12/2023 16:14

Follow the money and your answer will be waiting.

Elvis1956 · 13/12/2023 16:16

HotGirlInHell · 13/12/2023 16:11

Lindt has always been the emperor's new clothes of the chocolate world. It's awful!

So do true, just like the ambassadors ball, it's marketing genius. It cheap chocolate at premium price

pharmachameleon · 13/12/2023 16:17

Lindt tastes disgusting now-tasteless but with a greasy aftertaste. I'm devastated (dramatic I know) as they were my favourite chocolate before this. I wouldn't waste the calories on Lindt now.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 13/12/2023 16:19

Try Waitrose no. 1. I’m not kidding, it’s chocolate as it should be. I’d love to know who makes it.

Alarum · 13/12/2023 16:20

Didn’t they once do a white chocolate one with a raspberry Centre?

If so, it was pimpin’.

Or maybe it only exists in my mind.

GrumpyPanda · 13/12/2023 16:21

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 13/12/2023 16:05

I thought Lindt got palm oiled several years ago?

Thanks to the sovereignty-stealing EU that would only be legal if restricted to less than five percent, so I wouldn't worry about palm oil.

Unfortunately there's rather more leeway on cocoa content - pushed through by Sweden and, horribile dictu, the UK. Also, chocolate producers tend to use different recipes for separate national markets - Eastern Europeans have been batching for decades about being sold substandard chocs. So if they wanted to, unfortunately Lindr would have quite a lot of freedom in mucking about what goes in its product.

MattDamon · 13/12/2023 16:22

I thought it was me. Bought some of these and they taste rank. Used to love them.😭

Have they ruined Lindt now as well?
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crochetmonkey74 · 13/12/2023 16:24

gocompare · 13/12/2023 16:10

I think the Lindt balls are still the same as ever.

I had a teddy last week and it was crap. Totally different flavour to what it normally is. Almost a bit waxy or greasy.

Yes! It used be so creamy, you could only have a little bit. Literally my fave since a kid when you got the little boxes of flat back animals, only at Christmas and only from Beatties. Loved the reindeers too. It tastes totally different

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Moonmelodies · 13/12/2023 16:25

GrumpyPanda · 13/12/2023 16:21

Thanks to the sovereignty-stealing EU that would only be legal if restricted to less than five percent, so I wouldn't worry about palm oil.

Unfortunately there's rather more leeway on cocoa content - pushed through by Sweden and, horribile dictu, the UK. Also, chocolate producers tend to use different recipes for separate national markets - Eastern Europeans have been batching for decades about being sold substandard chocs. So if they wanted to, unfortunately Lindr would have quite a lot of freedom in mucking about what goes in its product.

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Switzerland isn't in the EU.

Delphigirl · 13/12/2023 16:25

The balls were ruined about 2 years ago. Can’t eat Lindt now.

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crochetmonkey74 · 13/12/2023 16:25

pharmachameleon · 13/12/2023 16:17

Lindt tastes disgusting now-tasteless but with a greasy aftertaste. I'm devastated (dramatic I know) as they were my favourite chocolate before this. I wouldn't waste the calories on Lindt now.

This is how I feel. I love a lindt reindeer that's been in the fridge , the top bit was always really thick.

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LoveStHelier · 13/12/2023 16:29

No, please no…I have asked for some Lindt chocolates for Christmas and was looking forward to the treat.

BombaySamphire · 13/12/2023 16:34

I won’t bother with the stocking Teddies, so. Shame.

Usernameundiscovered · 13/12/2023 16:39

I've gone off Lindt and don't eat ferrero rocher now either. If I want FR I just eat Nutella with an ice cream wafer.

IDontHateRainbows · 13/12/2023 16:43

Decent chocolate is becoming a luxury item.
I vote montezuma

CoatOfArms · 13/12/2023 16:44

The balls have palm oil as it is needed to keep the filling liquid rather than solid.

The recipe of the teddy/bunny does not appear to have changed. The solid chocolate ingredients are: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Milk Powder, Cocoa Mass, Anhydrous Milk Fat, Lactose, Skimmed Milk Powder, Barley Malt Extract, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring (Vanilla), Cocoa Solids: 30% min. Milk Solids: 20% min

Myridiculousstomach · 13/12/2023 16:45

I had one of their large extra creamy milk chocolate bars a couple of
months ago and it tasted the same as always (and I usually pick up on every little change in the chocolate world - I seem to be very sensitive to things tasting different). Haven’t had a reindeer this year though.