Chocolate tasted different as a child

cinnamon

Is this just me or is it the tastebuds?

Although I still love chocolate I would kill to be able to taste a Caramel bar/Toffee Crisp/Twix as it did when I was a kid. I can remember the taste but would love to taste it!

Ann22

I don't know so much about the taste but Wagon Wheel were definitely bigger as were curly wurlies. Tell you what though, Jaffa Cakes aren't as scrummy as they used to be.

hamlet1

anyone remember two and two bars?they had nine squares with dark chocolate on top ,a fudgy filling and milk chocolate on the bottom.they were unbelievably delicious!

PCPhoto

the quality of ingredients would have changed since you were a kid - and your tastebuds would have become used to same flavours.

that combined with the recipe's might have been altered.

I know the ould spice burger has not been the same in years....but we're talking chocolate... so galaxy used to melt with a lovely creamy texture - not anymore.

TheScribbler

I'm often told that my taste buds have changed since childhood. This may be true but my taste memory is as clear as it ever was and I agree with those who say that many confectionery products don't taste the same. This is also true of things like Weetabix and Jacobs Lemon Puffs.

Handsome Bob

I seem to remember thinking that Snickers tasted like absolute muck, I couldn't stand the taste. Now I can't resist any bar with nuts in them!

TheScribbler

That's because they swapped the Marathon recipe formulation from Snickers bars and vice versa

merlie

hamlet1 wrote: »

anyone remember two and two bars?they had nine squares with dark chocolate on top ,a fudgy filling and milk chocolate on the bottom.they were unbelievably delicious!

Yep I remember them, they were really nice. I also remember the lemon puffs that The Scribbler is talking about. They had a kinda sticky coating and tangy lemon. I liked them as well.

Oh also liked Kelso bars ( we used to call them Klipso Bars for what ever the reason ) I know they are still about but they are not the same. The ones I used to get, the chocolate was a lot thicker and it was always great to bite off all the chocolate and then eat the toffee part last.

TheScribbler

I had some Jacobs Lemon Puffs last week and I simply didn't recognise them at all. But back to the subject of chocolate, does anyone remember the Urney Milk Tray bars. They were big sellers for Urney before the Two & Two bars were introduced. They were quite small and were about half the price of a small Cadburys bar (3d instead of 6d in really old money). But they were delicious

kumate_champ07

cinnamon wrote: »

Is this just me or is it the tastebuds?

Although I still love chocolate I would kill to be able to taste a Caramel bar/Toffee Crisp/Twix as it did when I was a kid. I can remember the taste but would love to taste it!

are you a smoker?

TheScribbler

Goodness I fancy some chocolate now but Tesco is closed

rainbowtrout

cinnamon wrote: »

Is this just me or is it the tastebuds?

Although I still love chocolate I would kill to be able to taste a Caramel bar/Toffee Crisp/Twix as it did when I was a kid. I can remember the taste but would love to taste it!

I think there's more biscuit and less caramel in a Twix than there used to be, the recipe definitely changed over the years

FruitLover

They're not allowed put half as many chemicals in as they used to be.

I wants my E-numbers dammit!

TheScribbler

I had a cup of hot cocoa the other night. I haven't had that for years. Those of us with long memories will recall how no matter how vigorously you stirred it before drinking, a quarter of the cocoa always congealed in the cup by the time the last drop was drunk. Much of the remainder was lodged around your teeth! Funny that.

It was an interesting consumption but I suddenly remembered why I preferred drinking chocolate. No matter what you do to cocoa it still tastes bitter. Brilliant in cakes though.

dochara

hamlet1 wrote: »

anyone remember two and two bars?they had nine squares with dark chocolate on top ,a fudgy filling and milk chocolate on the bottom.they were unbelievably delicious!

I do! I loved that bar - was it made by Urney?

The squares were quite small with a wide flat piece between them.

dochara

I don't think this bar lasted long - it was a bit sickly-sweet:

Monkey61

God that marzipan thing looks amazing!

Yorkies have changed a lot. When they changed from the paper wrapping to the shinier foil in 2000 the taste and texture changed with them. They became a lot creamier and not in a good way. Cadbury's caramel bars aren't very nice now and Twixes also seem a lot dryer or something.

Capt'n Midnight

Nestle took over Rowantree Mackingtosh and changed the chocolate. :mad::mad::mad:

KitKats and Yorkies and such lost all their magic yumminess

humberklog

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Nestle took over Rowantree Mackingtosh and changed the chocolate. :mad::mad::mad:

KitKats and Yorkies and such lost all their magic yumminess

Exactly. Nail on head.

kumate_champ07

Im not a big fan of cadburys chocolate, I prefer nestle especially the kitkat chunky. they use actual butter in that kitkat chunky, I remember when it just came out, there was a girl giving them out free in my town as we drove thru. this was years ago and they werent in the shops yet. all the 2 euro shops have them @5for2euro

Capt'n Midnight

They say that the reason cadbury's tastes different here to the UK is that here they use Irish milk.

and on the continent they use a different coca bean , here we have to use a more expensive one cos of the milk or so marketing legends would have us believe

TheScribbler

I Must confess that I have never been able to detect any difference between Cadburys made in GB or Ireland. I just like them. However Cadburys from Canada and USA is way too sweet. I guess it is to compete with Hersheys (taste like sick) Bars!

Seonad

The old macaroon bars were amazing. They had a lovely paper wrapper and really nice textured chocolate that tasted great. The modern day version is woeful by comparison and several times the price:rolleyes:

Rovi

What's everyone's earliest memory from this lineup?:


I can remember the 1961 (6D) one.

At about the same time, Cadbury's did a smaller bar that was quite thin and flat (and cheaper), wrapped in the same silver foil with a paper wrapper.

[rose tinted spectacles]I have NEVER tasted chocolate like it since.[/rose tinted spectacles]

Ann22

dochara wrote: »

I don't think this bar lasted long - it was a bit sickly-sweet:

I don't remember it. Do you know what years it was on the market? I'd say it was gorgeous! Strange green colour of filling, maybe it's the photo. I do remember having some kind of Marzipan bar with my lunch once in school though late 70's, we never got proper choc bars for lunch in Primary school, more likely one of my mother's home made buns or a few biscuits wrapped in tissue. In secondary we got Penguins or the sorely missed Uniteds so this bar stands out in my mind as being a big treat. I don't remember it being shaped like that bar however, I remember it more Crunchie shaped but I could well be wrong. It was feckin' lovely anyway.:)

Bearhunter

Rovi, I remmeber that little bar. And it was the best tasting chocolate ever. Whenever I think of the taste of chocolate, that's the ghost that haunts my taste buds. I think they did a tie-in with Disney one time too, because I'm sure I remember those bars ahving characters form the Disney version of Robin hood on them. Antoher one I remember from back then was the Pink Panther bar. Who made that strange pink bar?

Rovi

Bearhunter wrote: »

Antoher one I remember from back then was the Pink Panther bar. Who made that strange pink bar?

Nestle:

Ann22

I hated them Pink Panther bars! My sister loved them.

Pretty_Pistol

The chocolate on Club Milk bars has changed completely. They use to be yummy now they're just meh.

dh0661

Pretty_Pistol wrote: »

The chocolate on Club Milk bars has changed completely. They use to be yummy now they're just meh.

That's probably because they are not made in Ireland anymore.

rohatch

Monkey61 wrote: »

God that marzipan thing looks amazing!

Yorkies have changed a lot. When they changed from the paper wrapping to the shinier foil in 2000 the taste and texture changed with them. They became a lot creamier and not in a good way. Cadbury's caramel bars aren't very nice now and Twixes also seem a lot dryer or something.

Yorkie's used to be hard to chew and would take a while to get through.

I miss Trigger bars, we use to stop off after mass (1977ish) in our local tiny shop and the bar was 6 or 7p. Cadburys in USA and Oz is foul stuff.

TheScribbler

dochara wrote: »

I do! I loved that bar - was it made by Urney?

The squares were quite small with a wide flat piece between them.

Yes it was made by Urney. I loved them too. Goodness I am suddenly hungry

CUCINA

When I was kid, my mother worked in Rowntree's in Inchicore. The staff were allowed to eat the chocolate on the premises all day if they wanted but they were not allowed to bring it home. But of course, the women used to smuggle it out in their handbags.
Sometimes the manufacturing process resulted in "faulty" items such as Aero bars with no bubbles, and Kit-Kat with no biscuits etc. So we never knew what kind of treats were going to come outof that hand-bag! On occassion, the chocolate would be "flavoured" with my mother's make-up but that didn't stop us from eating it!
The odd time I would be despatched to collect my mother's wages if she was out sick or whatever. I can still smell the hot chocolate as I walked through the factory to the foreman's office!

Bajingo

TheScribbler wrote: »

I had a cup of hot cocoa the other night. I haven't had that for years. Those of us with long memories will recall how no matter how vigorously you stirred it before drinking, a quarter of the cocoa always congealed in the cup by the time the last drop was drunk. Much of the remainder was lodged around your teeth! Funny that.

It was an interesting consumption but I suddenly remembered why I preferred drinking chocolate. No matter what you do to cocoa it still tastes bitter. Brilliant in cakes though.

Thats because you'd always put two more spoonfuls into the milk than container told you to.:D