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Milk Tray

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    #32
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Strumms wrote: »
    As of 18 months ago 380 people are employed at the facility which produces all the eight-square Dairy Milks as well as Flakes, Twirls and Star bars from what I’m reading ‘link below’.. apparently Mondelēz have and are spending cash to automate the production of their products so less human manpower will be required..

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/manufacturing/up-to-70-jobs-to-go-at-cadbury-plant-in-coolock-1.3886372

    Sorry forgot to mention, I know it ain't just how different it is now, passed by yesterday looked completely shut down.....

    Such s pity as they were a good employer.


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    #33
    Grab All Association
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    Chocolate should be heavily taxed and multi buys BOGOF offers banned. When this pandemic is over, the HSE needs to stop treating people with type 2 diabetes. It’s a reversible condition and costs us 100s of millions per year to treat because people are too ****ing lazy to go out and exercise, change their diets, portion sizes etc.


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    #34
    Strumms
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Sorry forgot to mention, I know it ain't just how different it is now, passed by yesterday looked completely shut down.....

    Such s pity as they were a good employer.

    I pass by there once a week myself, looks absolutely dead alright.

    Looking overhead on google maps, I can count 17 cars parked there. You’d have to guess that is nothing for a site that size...would probably be at least in and around 5 or 6 security on site for a site that size so you are talking a handful of employees only.


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    #35
    JupiterKid
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    Milk Tray, a product I will forever associate with those James Bond style 1980s TV adverts, had sadly been deteriorating in quality for well over a decade now.

    But only yesterday my partner bought a box and we were shocked at how poor Milk Tray has become. Shame on Kraft/Mondelez for tarnishing a once great name in chocolate. :(


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    #36
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭smilerf


    It's not only Cadbury we opened a box of dairy box last night
    Horrible
    They all tasted the same


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
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    It's all waxy and gross now. Although, controversially, the low sugar dairy milk I find much nicer than the original. Tastes a little more like old Cadbury's.


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    #38
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
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    Has anyone tasted Black Magic lately? They were the height of sophistication when I was growing up. Have they been ruined as well?


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    #39
    The J Stands for Jay
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    That’s because it’s not awful, it’s just fashionable to say it is because someone else said it. In reality, nobody would know the difference.\

    _

    Even if you don't notice the difference in the chocolate, you have to have noticed the change in the fillings of roses and milk tray, as well as the substitution of some of the classics with poor replacements.


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    #40
    The J Stands for Jay
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    BuboBubo wrote: »

    Nowadays, it's a little wee plastic tub, the wrappers weighing more than the actual chocolates.

    And the plastic tubs have managed to shrink in the short time they've been used.


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    #41
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,559 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Bland, flavourless candy.

    Candy? Fook off yank and take your puke flavoured chocolate with you. :)

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #42
    Frankie19
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    46 Long wrote: »
    Different terroir over there is it? Feckin' Protestant cows and their weird tasting milk?

    I mean, most wine experts can't distinguish between red and white wines in a blindfolded test. But you - Paddy Chocolate Expert - can somehow tell the difference between the milk from Irish vs English cows even after it's been pasteurized and processed into newsagent grade chocolate.

    There is a massive difference between the taste of milk from different countries which affects foods its in. Ever have US chocolate? Pure muck due to how they pasteurise their milk and add chemicals to it to keep the shelf life longer and avoid melting easily.


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    #43
    Everlong1
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Chocolate should be heavily taxed and multi buys BOGOF offers banned. When this pandemic is over, the HSE needs to stop treating people with type 2 diabetes. It’s a reversible condition and costs us 100s of millions per year to treat because people are too ****ing lazy to go out and exercise, change their diets, portion sizes etc.

    Plenty of action on all fronts going on here.

    https://www.revenue.ie/en/companies-and-charities/excise-and-licences/sugar-sweetened-drinks-tax/liability.aspx

    https://assets.gov.ie/10073/ccbd6325268b48da80b8a9e5421a9eae.pdf

    https://www.gov.ie/en/policy-information/b60202-national-physical-activity/

    https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/healthy-ireland/


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    #44
    dennyire
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    Aidan Orange Cashier wrote: »
    Has anyone tasted Black Magic lately? They were the height of sophistication when I was growing up. Have they been ruined as well?

    Yeah got a box at Christmas
    Didnt see any problems....tasted same as iv always tasted them


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    #45
    Strumms
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Chocolate should be heavily taxed and multi buys BOGOF offers banned. When this pandemic is over, the HSE needs to stop treating people with type 2 diabetes. It’s a reversible condition and costs us 100s of millions per year to treat because people are too ****ing lazy to go out and exercise, change their diets, portion sizes etc.

    Hundreds of millions is spent combatting drug addiction and it’s affects.

    Outpatient treatment, inpatient, respite, recovery, , methadone, counseling...

    100% of the population know drug use or abuse is wrong but.... hundreds of millions on treating addicts over a decade.

    The government still allows the sale of cigarettes, WHY ? despite the fact that its known that smoking is shortening your life or compromising your wellbeing from the get go... despite the huge tax on cigarettes, this tax isn’t freeing up hospital beds...


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    #46
    Doctors room ghost
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    The tastiest chocolate out there at the minute is the galaxy or the ripple.it’s an a+ grade chocolate where the rest are all rated as c’s


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    #47
    PsychoPete
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    I do think darkmilk is much better than the sh!te dairymilk


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    #48
    AllForIt
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    PsychoPete wrote: »
    I do think darkmilk is much better than the sh!te dairymilk

    It is, and 75%+ pure cocoa stops you from eating the whole bar in one go as well.


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    #49
    Doctors room ghost
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    It is, and 75%+ pure cocoa stops you from eating the whole bar in one go as well.




    Does it fcuk.


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    #50
    Capt'n Midnight
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Palm oil.......
    Cheapest edible oil as evidenced by the existence of Palmolive soap.

    And 120 years to become carbon neutral when they destroy habitat to make new fields.


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    #51
    Lynn Door
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    Aidan Orange Cashier wrote: »
    Haven't had these in years but got a box in my workplace secret santa. Jeeze what's happened to them? They're vile. No soft and hard centres. Just artificial tasting sludgy fudgy centres surrounded by cheap crappy chocolate. Is nothing sacred?

    Its cos they are a fiver now. Was that your secret santa limit!?


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    #52
    Mimon
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    the14thwarrior wrote: »
    gone be the days when no one in the house, and I mean no one, aka a mortal sin, choose the carmel one and the twirly ones with the hazel nut in the middle. They belonged to Mammy.

    the rest were up for grabs, and had actual centres i.e. organge, strawberry, turkish delight, fudge, carmel barrels, and the coffee ones that only Dad liked thank god.

    and when I was all grown up, and got my own box, the childish delight of picking a carmel all for myself, without guilt..........

    She hogged all the carmel ones and the twirly ones with the hazel nut in the middle for herself and ye let her!!!!!The humanity!


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    #53
    Dunfyy
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    Maybe your secret Santa does not like you


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    #54
    the purple tin
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Cheapest edible oil as evidenced by the existence of Palmolive soap.

    And 120 years to become carbon neutral when they destroy habitat to make new fields.
    The heaviest most unhealthy oil as well.


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    #55
    Mimon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Mimon


    46 Long wrote: »
    Different terroir over there is it? Feckin' Protestant cows and their weird tasting milk?

    I mean, most wine experts can't distinguish between red and white wines in a blindfolded test. But you - Paddy Chocolate Expert - can somehow tell the difference between the milk from Irish vs English cows even after it's been pasteurized and processed into newsagent grade chocolate.

    Wut??


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    #56
    theoneeyedman
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    That’s because it’s not awful, it’s just fashionable to say it is because someone else said it. In reality, nobody would know the difference.\

    The same people probably think Butlers and Lily O’Briens are hand made with love and care by some aul one or like the fake ‘master chocolatier’ in the Lindt ads :D



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    I disagree.

    You become conditioned to it.

    I recall about 25 years ago bringing big Dairy Milk bars to the US, and they were disgusted by them, because they were conditioned to the American Soy based crap.

    Cadbury customers here now are similar, just used to eating the new style crap.

    Each to their own, but it's not Milk Chocolate as we know it.


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    #57
    Mimon
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    It is, and 75%+ pure cocoa stops you from eating the whole bar in one go as well.

    40%. 75% would be crazy dark chocolate lovers territory


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    #58
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Frankie19 wrote: »
    There is a massive difference between the taste of milk from different countries which affects foods its in.

    You're deluding yourself if you think you can tell the difference between Irish vs English milk in a blind taste test, let alone after it's been processed into chocolate.
    Frankie19 wrote: »
    Ever have US chocolate? Pure muck

    Some of it is. Hersheys is notorious for a vomit like flavor caused by the presence of butyric acid. Not necessarily a bad thing - it's also found in things like Parmesan cheese. There are also plenty of craft/artisan chocolatiers there making products every bit as good as Swiss chocoolate.
    Frankie19 wrote: »
    due to how they pasteurise their milk and add chemicals to it to keep the shelf life longer and avoid melting easily.

    Please explain the differences in the pasteurization process and these vague 'chemicals' the Americans are adding to their chocolate.


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    #59
    Mimon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭Mimon


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's all waxy and gross now. Although, controversially, the low sugar dairy milk I find much nicer than the original. Tastes a little more like old Cadbury's.

    Is it full of those ****e sweeteners though?


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    #60
    AllForIt
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    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    Does it fcuk.

    Pig


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    #61
    Northernlily
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    Aidan Orange Cashier wrote: »
    Haven't had these in years but got a box in my workplace secret santa. Jeeze what's happened to them? They're vile. No soft and hard centres. Just artificial tasting sludgy fudgy centres surrounded by cheap crappy chocolate. Is nothing sacred?

    Kraft foods. Quality at the expense of max profit. All products gone to fook.


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