Cadburys in profit but has no milk in it anymore

LOL… The only way to eat Cadbury’s now is to drink with a glass of milk, as mentioned before. But, I think the Buttons are the most suitable. The twirls (unless they have changed recently) are woeful. And if you are unlucky to eat the ones from the celebrations ‘tin’ you may as well eat ash from the fire.

The taste has deteriorated over the last 30 years so as to be unrecognisable. Those that say they can’t tell the difference are either 80 a day smokers, have defective taste buds or experienced a ‘boiling frog’ type step change in taste they don’t realise it.

Sadly, Cadbury’s is a palm oil infested, milk depleted parody of its 80/90’s self.

Isn't it different depending on what size bar you get?
The smaller 54g bars are made in Ireland Rathmiles, Kerry and Coolock, Dublin with Irish milk but the larger bars are made in Poland with different ingredients and different ratios or something like that.

From Reddit:

There is an important code on the back of Cadbury’s bar wrappers, which tells you where this bar of chocolate was made. If the code begins OBO, it was made at Bournville in Birmingham, in the UK; if it begins OCO, it was made at Coolock, near Dublin, in Ireland; if it begins with any other letters, such as OWR, then it was made somewhere else, such as Poland. I'm guessing that last one means Wroclaw.

And if it's made in either the UK or Ireland, then IT'S STILL MADE TO THE ORIGINAL RECIPE!

I grew up 5 miles over the county bounds on the Cork side to the plant in Rathmore. In fact the plant is right on the boundary as the Blackwater river flows right alongside it.

There is a local co-op on the Cork side (Boherbue) and every single litre of milk they take in goes directly to the Cadburys plant to make crumb. That crumb then goes to Dublin to make chocolate.

The issue is that Mondelez have stripped out the cocoa from the chocolate as it's the most expensive ingredient. Sugar and milk are cheap in comparison. In fact, dairy milk can no longer be labelled as chocolate as the cocoa content is below 25% now. Have a look at a dairy milk wrapper now. It's not labelled as chocolate anymore. Sad really.

Aldi/Lidl have better alternatives. Pay special attention to the packaging for ingredients etc.

Without commenting on the truth of this, because it sounds reasonable, I just don't care to check since I don't buy Cadbury's … I'm sure that if the price of cocoa came down / supply went up, they'll absolutely either a) reduce the price of the bars, or b) increase the amount of cocoa back to what it was before … right?

Will they sh*te.

I try to stick to Tony's for the record. Hard enough to come buy, not that that's a bad thing for my pocket or waistline.

I'll hold my hands up on the labelling error, seems like I was misinformed.

Mondelez had a net income of $4.61 billion in 2024. So yes, cocoa shortages have led to price increases but Mondelez chose to decrease the quality of their product rather than decrease their margins. I'd pay more for the product if it had more cocoa and milk in it, chocolate is a luxury product anyway.