Cadburys Chocolate - recipe change - and not for the better?

sporina

I seriously think that Cadburys have changed their recipe or maybe changed the grade of some ingredients.. it tastes awful... not at all like it use to - to me anyway.. anyone else think so?

L1011

It's been happening constantly since the Kraft takeover. Cost cutting and replacing cocoa solids with soya

phormium

I agree but it's been going on a while, it's getting progressively worse. Not worth buying anymore.

Sinus pain

Yellow snacks are disgusting now

LimeFruitGum

They’re pretty much inedible. I could enjoy a piece of Aero or Lindt, but now if I take a piece of Dairy Milk, it stings the back of my teeth. That never happened under the old management. I so used to look forward to the Xmas Roses, but I just give them away now, or have my OH work away on them. They’re manky now

The new Darkmilk is alright though. Almost creamy.

sporina

Yes, it seems that it has been declining in quality for a while but now it has reached its bottom for me..

I always have a supply of choc in the house - use to be Cadburys - but as of yesterday, Lindt will be going into my shopping basket!

sideswipe

I find chocolate that is wrapped in plastic ends up tasting like it. Some of the Aldi and Lidl stuff that comes in foil is the nicest around now.

BobMc

Lessons to be learned by big Companies, quality declines, we as consumers stop buying. Take the roses at xmas, people see 3 tins (sorry plastic tubs) for tenner or whatever and buy them.

Walk away leave them on the shelf, when Dunnes or tesco start sending back pallets of unsold crap they cant shift they might get the message. But alas Quality costs money and for the most part consumers are easily lead by price point
rather than ingredients and cost. Will it ever change ?

But back to OP, chocolate for the most part nowadays pure Muck !!!

mar2000

Sinus pain wrote: »

Yellow snacks are disgusting now

I was pretty much addicted to yellow snacks but haven’t eaten them since the taste changed.

gmisk

sideswipe wrote: »

I find chocolate that is wrapped in plastic ends up tasting like it. Some of the Aldi and Lidl stuff that comes in foil is the nicest around now.

Moser Roth is Delicious!
They do 5 little individual bars in tinfoil in a pack yum

DublinWriter

Really can taste the salt in Cadburys now, which is normally added as a cheap substitute for flavour.

Overall, the flavour has gone from creamy to clawy.

tedpan

They've also changed the hazelnuts in whole nut. So many bad ones. Kraft should have left things as they were at Cadbury. Marabou and Daim chocolate is perfect.

the beer revolu

mar2000 wrote: »

I was pretty much addicted to yellow snacks but haven’t eaten them since the taste changed.

Don't bother.
New ones are a fcuking travesty.

leahyl

Love the Moser Roth and the Lidl brand too - can’t remember the name - they have an orange and almond dark one that’s nom, the Moser Roth mint is lovely as well. Really disappointed in the Cadbury roses now, pity cos used to love getting the tin at Christmas. I rarely buy Cadbury’s during the year.

sarah88

So glad I stumbled on this thread. I bought a dairy milk bar last night and thought it was gone off. Almost a sour/plastic taste, I gave up on it after 2 squares. Rotten!!

hgfj

Cadbury flake gone to sh*t as well. No difference now to the type of chocolate they sell in America. Hersheys, and twinkies, and all that crap.

sporina

so who owns Cadburys now? I heard it was Hersheys - or is that just in the States?

Blaizes

sporina wrote: »

so who owns Cadburys now? I heard it was Hersheys - or is that just in the States?

Mondelez took over Cadbury a few years back as far as I know.

tedpan

L1011 wrote:

It's been happening constantly since the Kraft takeover. Cost cutting and replacing cocoa solids with soya

Blaizes wrote:

Mondelez took over Cadbury a few years back as far as I know.

Mondelez is kraft

Blaizes

tedpan wrote: »

L1011 wrote:

It's been happening constantly since the Kraft takeover. Cost cutting and replacing cocoa solids with soya

Blaizes wrote:

Mondelez took over Cadbury a few years back as far as I know.

Mondelez is kraft

You went to all that trouble cutting and pasting to tell me that 😀

B0jangles

Lidl or Aldi chocolate, even the cheap stuff, is nicer than Cadbury now. Lidl have a thin hazelnut praline bar on special at the moment - 59c for 100g bar and it's delicious

Of the christmas tubs, the only one I actually like any more is Quality Street, I genuinely wouldn't bother taking a tub of Roses if they were giving them away - they are just plain nasty.

tedpan

Blaizes wrote:

Mondelez is kraft

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Blaizes wrote:

You went to all that trouble cutting and pasting to tell me that 😀

No, I didn't copy and paste anything lol

Blaizes

tedpan wrote: »

Blaizes wrote:

Mondelez is kraft

Blaizes wrote:

You went to all that trouble cutting and pasting to tell me that 😀

No, I didn't copy and paste anything lol[/quote]

No worries 😀

The sh1t cadbury made was only ever masquerading as chocolate.

Blaizes

Augeo wrote: »

The sh1t cadbury made was only ever masquerading as chocolate.

Funny was thinking about that earlier does anyone remember the ads on Telly for Cadbury’s dairy milk years back where they showed a bar and said every bar was made with a glass of Irish milk. I wonder was it it? Tasted better.

the beer revolu

Blaizes wrote: »

Funny was thinking about that earlier does anyone remember the ads on Telly for Cadbury’s dairy milk years back where they showed a bar and said every bar was made with a glass of Irish milk. I wonder was it it? Tasted better.

A glass and a half!

They never stated what size glass or what size bar, though.

SweetCaliber

I used to be a big cadbury eater, but ever since Kraft took it over its gone to the dogs, none of its chocolate is the same anymore.

What I used to love were the bars of dairy milk in the foil, much fresher. Even the Easter eggs taste horrible now.

Blaizes

the beer revolu wrote: »

A glass and a half!

They never stated what size glass or what size bar, though.

You're right glass and a half, better memory than me!

Corkgirl18

I don't know what they've done to it but Cadburys chocolate doesn't melt half as well as it used to a few years ago.

RhubarbCrumble

Since Mondelez took over Cadbury, everything is just stuffed with palm oil. It's all disgusting now. Agree with other posters saying that Aldi and Lidl chocolate is much nicer. The majority of it seems to still contain cocoa instead of palm oil.

the beer revolu

Blaizes wrote: »

You're right glass and a half, better memory than me!

Actually wasn't it a glass and a half in every half pound?

iguana

BobMc wrote: »

Take the roses at xmas, people see 3 tins (sorry plastic tubs) for tenner or whatever and buy them.

Walk away leave them on the shelf, when Dunnes or tesco start sending back pallets of unsold crap they cant shift they might get the message. But alas Quality costs money and for the most part consumers are easily lead by price point
rather than ingredients and cost. Will it ever change ?

Yup. A few years back I bought a couple of tubs of Miniature Heroes and Roses on offer at Christmas. I should have known better because earlier that year I'd bought a box of Creme Eggs and they were inedible but the 2 for €7 offer got me. I couldn't eat the chocolate in the tubs. They were so, so horrible. It's not that they weren't as nice as they used to be. Eating a sweet was a genuinely unpleasant experience where my over-riding feeling was a desire to get the chocolate out of my mouth as fast as possible. I ate two from the whole box and spend the next 6 months putting them out whenever I had guests in the hope that someone else would eat them. And eventually threw what was left in the bin.

The next year at Christmas I was momentarily tempted to buy the tubs again when they were on offer but sense prevailed. Instead I went to Aldi and Lidl and bought packs of their chocolates that actually taste nice and put them in festive boxes at home.

Graces7

I still love Cadbury's ; always have.

......regarding the glass and a half of milk thing.......that's still in the ingredients of the Dairy Milk Bar.........

"Ingredients
Milk**, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Shea), Emulsifiers (E442, E476), Flavourings, **The equivalent of 426 ml of Fresh Liquid Milk in every 227 g of Milk Chocolate, Milk Solids 20 % minimum, actual 23 %, Cocoa Solids 20 % minimum, Contains Vegetable Fats in addition to Cocoa Butter"

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/cadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate-45g?langId=44&storeId=10151&krypto=WzgRcgdHGfhXNsh4G1EjV0oHVnuy8leYPMP5iOk6uHfTKbcn6oBcg1v7wnTEmT39OLereQUABD%2FSsCJipdPcY7S%2FogJWvAPpaqsJhuoCX%2BP0pvqDmy3a7R38dpj%2FNzwpmwWZSfZ%2F3InZA3DNAzScfx3XNQ0EcMbobCtWm055lBU%3D&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fcadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate-45g

Dropped verbally due to a metric measure spiel thing....

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-11427357

"Cadbury said it had been advised that it would be forced to drop the phrase describing the ingredients under European rules.

"Because EU regulations state that by 2010 all weights and measures on packs must be in metric, given our long run times we felt it was sensible to make that change now," said spokesperson Tony Bilsborough."


Interestingly the chocolate crumb that makes the bars is made in Rathmore, Co Kerry. I used to visit that factory once a month back in the mid 00s, they were a customer of mine.

Graces7

Augeo wrote: »

......regarding the glass and a half of milk thing.......that's still in the ingredients of the Dairy Milk Bar.........

"Ingredients
Milk**, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Shea), Emulsifiers (E442, E476), Flavourings, **The equivalent of 426 ml of Fresh Liquid Milk in every 227 g of Milk Chocolate, Milk Solids 20 % minimum, actual 23 %, Cocoa Solids 20 % minimum, Contains Vegetable Fats in addition to Cocoa Butter"

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/cadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate-45g?langId=44&storeId=10151&krypto=WzgRcgdHGfhXNsh4G1EjV0oHVnuy8leYPMP5iOk6uHfTKbcn6oBcg1v7wnTEmT39OLereQUABD%2FSsCJipdPcY7S%2FogJWvAPpaqsJhuoCX%2BP0pvqDmy3a7R38dpj%2FNzwpmwWZSfZ%2F3InZA3DNAzScfx3XNQ0EcMbobCtWm055lBU%3D&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fcadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate-45g

Dropped verbally due to a metric measure spiel thing....

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-11427357

"Cadbury said it had been advised that it would be forced to drop the phrase describing the ingredients under European rules.

"Because EU regulations state that by 2010 all weights and measures on packs must be in metric, given our long run times we felt it was sensible to make that change now," said spokesperson Tony Bilsborough."


Interestingly the chocolate crumb that makes the bars is made in Rathmore, Co Kerry. I used to visit that factory once a month back in the mid 00s, they were a customer of mine.

Apparently the veg fats are palm oil. Cadbury were strongly featured in the Iceland campaign I think. I used to pass that factory in Rathmore often and wonder if they had free samples

I can still tell Cadbury from any other chocolate and prefer it. Including the creme eggs..

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

........... I used to pass that factory in Rathmore often and wonder if they had free samples ............

They were lovely folk to visit. I used do maybe 4 hours work there after arriving at 10am ish.
I was never given samples but they'd always provide a complementary lunch which isn't the norm as I was in a service engineer type role.
As it was the crumb they manufactured they didn't make any actual finished product on site, the crumb I imagine would be quite the treat but maybe not the most appropriate sample to gift someone

DublinWriter

Augeo wrote: »

They were lovely folk to visit. I used do maybe 4 hours work there after arriving at 10am ish.

The Coolock site was highly unionised. Back in the 80's I worked as a network engineer and was told by my company that I wasn't to change/replace and mains cables to the PCs or IBM 3270 Terminals as it would cause the sparks to go out on strike.

Demarcation Brothers! (and Sisters!).

L1011

Augeo wrote: »

They were lovely folk to visit. I used do maybe 4 hours work there after arriving at 10am ish.
I was never given samples but they'd always provide a complementary lunch which isn't the norm as I was in a service engineer type role.
As it was the crumb they manufactured they didn't make any actual finished product on site, the crumb I imagine would be quite the treat but maybe not the most appropriate sample to gift someone

Almost certain that site also has the flaking/swirling machines (as in all of the ones they have) and as such does make a finished product in Flake and also the insides for Twirl

.....apologies, I thought it was just the crumb they made

Graces7

the only other chocolate I really like is Butlers but it is both above my pay grade and as I am on a small offshore island with limited access to shops, hard to come by.
when I lived near Killarney and visited the Traditiional farms at Muckross often I used to treat myself to a bar at the shop there..

Meanwhile Cadbury's is a standard part of my shopping order list.