What has happened to chocolate?

[rosemole]

I haven’t eaten popular brands of chocolate for years because they all started adding palm oil to their ingredients, but I still missed the unique taste of Cadbury’s and Milky Bar.

Anyway this Christmas someone gave us a box of Quality Street and I decided to eat one - the green triangle - but it tasted absolutely rank!
And today I noticed a bar of Milky Bar doesn’t have palm oil (maybe changed) so I thought I’d treat myself to memory lane. It’s disgusting. Not that yummy moreish flavour of years ago. Or have my taste buds changed?

YABU - it still tastes the same
YANBU - chocolate is not what it used to be and is full of cheap ingredients

Just had a fudge from a quality street box and it tasted of NOTHING.

Just checked the results. This whole time when it said “you have one vote” I thought it meant only one person had bothered voting 🤣 so pleased to see 500+ people agree that mainstream chocolate is SHITE. Are you listening, Cadbury’s marketing team?

Just had s Star Bar.
Made in Dublin - had OCOO - below the best before date - that’s how you can tell where it’s made.
It was delicious.

Most of the chocolate we used to love is hideous these days, I had a couple of Easter eggs from Cadburys given to me, they were awful. I usually buy Lidl or Aldi chocolate if I want something decent.

Good Boy choc drops for dogs taste better.

I don’t really eat chocolate (well for last 10 years or so) but I tried someone’s Cadbury’s buttons last week. They were disgustingly greasy and did not taste how I remembered.

I used to love those praline shells (Guillyan?). Have they gone the same way?

I see @Greenpeanutsnailhas given a verdict on the shells already. Shame.

sadly those praline shells are awful now. I used to love them.

I used to buy a bar of chocolate most days, can't think when I last did to be honest.

The Dublin OCOO thing is interesting 😀 I love learning random bits of info I may only ever need in a pub quiz some years in the future 🙂
Dia "gwitch" to you 👍

Tony’s Chocolonley is gorgeous! About £4.50 for a bar but it’s delish! Sells in Sainsburys

I melted a bar of dairy milk a few months back to make rice crispy cakes and the melted chocolate was like gloop. Greasy and not like the melted chocolate I remember at all.. gloop!

Do you have any shops that sell Irish groceries? Barry's tea, barm brack etc. See if they also have some Cadbury's chocolate for sale. It's the closest thing to the chocolate of my childhood that I've found! Expensive, mind.

Laderach or nothing

Maybe it;s a ploy to stop people eating chocolate and be healthier?

Aldi's fruit and nut bar is delicious.
Hefty weight, too.
Too good as it is so moreish.

Had a chunky kit kat the other day. Honestly felt like chucking it. Ate it but not pleasurable.

Aldi and Lidl are the best for normal everyday chocolate now.
They're like the Cadbury's of yesterday.

For luxury chocs, anybody heard of La gout de Belgique (excuse spelling) in London?

Dh used to get me a box of this when he was there. Is it still there?

I threw out a large lindt Easter egg yesterday. Even the grandchildren hated it.

Oooh I love Lindt.

god i know, they've all gone so horribly downhill. profiteering at the expense of everything else, including their own brand reputation. some like cadbury's was built over 100+ years and now it's all gone.

i make my own chocolate. i order couverture chocolate which only has the basic ingredients which are supposed to actually make chocolate. it's time consuming and expensive though, albeit quite fun. but i only do it for special occasions

YANBU. I like Lindt and Green & Blacks. Galaxy is still actually nice. Also M&S, Aldi and Lidl chocolate is good and reasonably priced.

we mainly have Swiss or Belgian chocolate . I Waitrose /m and s/ Lindt etc Never been a fan of QS to be honest .
don’t mind Maltesers though .

The plus side to all of this is I don’t eat nearly as much chocolate as I used to.

I order chocolate spread from an Italian company because there's no palm oil in it.