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

  • 29-05-2019 9:33pm
    #1
    sporina
    Registered Users Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


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


  • #3
    phormium
    Registered Users Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭phormium


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


  • #4
    Sinus pain
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Sinus pain


    Yellow snacks are disgusting now


  • #5
    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    sporina
    Registered Users Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭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!


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  • #7
    sideswipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    BobMc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭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 !!!


  • #9
    mar2000
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭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.


  • #10
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,825 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #11
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,756 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,244 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    sarah88
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭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!!


  • #16
    hgfj
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭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.


  • #17
    sporina
    Registered Users Posts: 6,779 ✭✭✭sporina


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


  • #18
    Blaizes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #20
    Blaizes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭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 😀


  • #21
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭tedpan


    Blaizes wrote:
    Mondelez is kraft
    [/quote]

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


    No, I didn't copy and paste anything lol


  • #23
    Blaizes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭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 😀


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The sh1t cadbury made was only ever masquerading as chocolate.


  • #25
    Blaizes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,756 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    Blaizes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭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!


  • #29
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,756 ✭✭✭✭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?


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