Is there anything that replicates the taste and mouth feel of old Dairy Milk?

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As in how dairy milk used to feel and taste, not dairy milk that is old
DH regularly laments old Dairy Milk, it really is his happy food! And he doesn’t have many vices, I would love to get him some for Christmas.
Thanks

I think try and avoid chocolate that’s bulked out with palm oil. Cadburys is crap now. Even the once holy Green and Blacks has succumbed to palm oil shit.
Apparently the Guerlain chocolate seashells are still decent…

Whittakers came today.

Creamy milk, not bad, creamy but too sweet
Almond gold. Nuts tasted cheap and flavourless
Hazella. Not that nice.

I've had a few bits of each bar and the aftertaste is not nice, like a diet soda. I wouldn't buy it again.

Tried Harris and James salted caramel chocolate the other day and it was the best chocolate I've had in ages

Love Cocoa chocolate is almost as good

The Harris and James chocolate had the closest mouth feel to old Cadbury Dairy Milk

Yes all the different bars have precise recipes. Some will differ.

also flake is still made in Dublin, and yes the recipe for it probably hasn’t changed as the machinery to make flakes would not work with the new recipe.
probably a twirl is your best bet.

maybe Easter eggs, as they have a different recipe, to get the flow around the egg moulds.

Cadbury owns green & black

Cadbury was bought by Mondelez. Headquarters in Switzerland. So dodging tax as well as messing with the Cadbury recipes. And they absolutely do not care. It is purely about profit per brand for Mondelez.

Butlers chocolate. It’s Irish with no palm oil whatsoever. And they do lovely flavours like latte, pink Himalayan salt and Christmas pudding to name a few! They’re in business since 1932.

The problem with that - a lovely compromise as it would indeed be - is that they would then have to admit that what they now sell as 'standard' chocolate has been bastardised, adulterated and repeatedly penny-pinched and is a shadow of what it used to be.

As PP says, now they've stubbornly held out and refused to bring back the old recipe for so many years that there are new generations for whom the new slop is all they've ever known, they're never going to go back now.

Incidentally, didn't they try out that Dark Milk stuff - advertised by Jason Donovan, with a very subtle hint that it might be a tiny bit more like the original stuff? I've not seen it in the shops for ages - have I just overlooked it or did they scrap it?

Just ordered 4 bars of Harris and James milk chocolate 🤞🏻

I'm not holding my breath - and it's in no way comparable to the old proper Cadbury's; BUT we've noticed that the new Roses (in the slightly darker blue tubs in shops - most seem to have a mixture of both old and new) have a noticeably nicer taste.

Has anybody else noticed this? To be fair, imho Roses were already amongst the best products that Cadbury's make - nowhere near amazing as chocolate brands go, but significantly better than many of their products.

Oh that original 80s Cadbury taste is my childhood. It’s so sad what they’ve done to it. The tubs of Hero’s are the worst.

I think those little Freddo bars taste nearly the same as it used to? also the “little bars” and fudge bars. No idea why though. They are marketed at kids so surely would have been the first thing to have been cheapened down?? Maybe buy your partner a whole sackful of them!

i still love wispa bars but not sure if that’s because the recipe is the original or if the bubbles and aeration make it taste better.

agree with pps who say the £1 choc button Easter eggs also taste like the old recipe.

i still love wispa bars but not sure if that’s because the recipe is the original or if the bubbles and aeration make it taste better

I'm sure I read somewhere that they can't get them to work using the new downgraded ingredients, so they (no doubt regretfully) had little choice but to use the old recipe. Maybe the figures still add up for them as, when you account for all the air bubbles, they're using far less chocolate per bar anyway?!

Even so, nice as Wispas are, they still can't provide the same deeply-satisfying taste that you used to get biting into a solid, chunky bar of original Cadbury's.

https://www.kennedyschocolates.co.uk/

Have these been mentioned? Handmade amd can't see palm oil on the ingredients? Not cheap for delivery so would depend how much you buy as to whether it's worth it?

I love Butlers chocolate (particularly the pink Himalayan) - but they're posh chocolates, not good old Dairy Milk 'everyday' chocolate. I am amazed companies aren't actively trying to replicate DM.

So whitakers was actually OOS which reading the comment above I am happy about!
also won’t bother now with the dark milk. In retrospect it is actually obvious it’s dark chocolate
Butlers was £20 delivery so I’ve gone for the Harris and James. May look at some of the other brands and put together a bit of a package 📦

Just tried to order from Butlers.

£25 quid shipping to UK!

Yes.😖Used to do an order for Christmas every year, but not since bloody Brexit.

They do sell some in Waitrose, although selections rather than me bulk ordering the Pink Himalayans LOL.

(Am in Ireland for a weekend next year, looking forward to a visit to the Butlers Cafe at Dublin airport.)

Looks promising?

It does ... report back if you order, please.

Galaxy
and Aldi

I think it's £6 delivery so might buy a few or with some chocs for ds1's hamper.

I ordered from Kennedys. Spent 42 including delivery. The chocolate is fresh so has to be eaten within a few weeks. Shame 🤗🤣

Edited for spelling

I occasionally treat myself to this and it's pretty good.

Would this not just apply to filled chocolates, rather than bars? Can't see anything about it on website.

(Actually, even the filled chocolates say 6-8 weeks.)