Is expensive chocolate worth the extra money?

Cadburys is very disappointing.

We have a chocolatier local to us too. We have supported his business since he began before Covid. That was a tough time for him but he weathered the storm and survived. His products are delicious.
If we go anywhere new we like to check out local ones. A hardship I know!

Not keen on Hotel Chocolat any more. Not sure if they’ve changed the recipe. Quite like Lindt though.

Bendicks for choice, but Elizabeth Shaw and Waitrose dark mints are good too.

A lot of the cheaper chocolate brands are not chocolate anymore full of palm oil and rubbish.

I prefer to buy really good quality and like dark rather than milk and white is not actually chocolate at all . I try not to eat it all the time so it’s a treat and currently it’s Lent so not eating it at all. Roll on Easter Sunday!

I only like dark chocolate, and prefer Green & Black's. Cabury's chocolate doesn't taste like it used to.

Agree with everyone here who says Cadbury's is nothing like it used to be.I struggle somewhat with the high percntage cocoa solids in case they are too dark as I've never been able to stand dark chocolate. I do like Choc Affair made in York and their choc has good credentials.

I find Aldi's chocolate is very good. I believe it is made by a very good German manufacturer, On the other hand my daughter did give me some chocolates from a very expensive chocolatier in Rome, and they were superb.

No! Because chocolate is hyped to be irresistible. Of course it is - I don't like the stuff!!

TBH I’d just as soon have a box of Maltesers as anything else. I have been singularly unimpressed with one or two supposedly upmarket brands.

Though having said that, we have found Friars of Keswick’s chocolates to be brilliant. So far we’ve had (and given) the chocolate nut platter, the liqueur cherries, and the orange creams. All excellent. Mail order is very quick and efficient, but they’re not cheap.

My sister in the US loves the Bendicks mint chocolates, so I never have to think about what to get her for Christmas. 🙂

I don’t like boxes of chocolates of any kind, even the really expensive ones.
A bar of Lindt is my go to when really needed but I also like a few squares of Bourneville now and again with a mug of good coffee.

polomint

I used to love chocolate, any chocolate but now I am a bit more choosy in which chocolate I buy. I prefer hotel chocolat nowadays but also like lindt. My daughter says she can't tell the difference between expensive chocolates and cheaper ones.

Then she's a philistine, but at least she's cheap to buy for!

I went off chocolate about ten years ago. I could still be tempted by Leonidas though, a favourite for Seven Seas cruisers.

Green & Blacks organic chocolate is divine. Box of individually wrapped bars of various types of chocolate- the sea salt one is my favourite.

I don't like expensive chocolate. Oh the fancy fillings are nice enough in a box of chocs, but the actual chocolate coating is not. Give me a simple bar of chocolate any day.

Cheap chocolate is like eating candle wax.
I’ve stopped buying chocolate as it’s way too expensive- instead buying frozen fruit & Greek yogurt which is better for me & lasts way longer.

Just opened Hotel Chocolate from my D for Mothers Day.
Absolutely nothing special, I have had far better, even Thorntons which are mid range and delicious.

Hotel Chocolat sold out to Mars and will probably go downhill. They’re incredibly overpriced and I honestly don’t think they’re as nice as they were 10 years ago.

Cadbury sold out to Kraft (Mondelez) and we all know how that turned out.

I try to boycott Nestlé and even Ritter chocolate is on that list.

I read the labels and avoid chocolate with added emulsifiers (like soy lecithin or sunflower lecithin).

My favourite supermarket bar is Tesco Dark Milk. Next is Waitrose No 1 Fairtrade Dominican Milk Chocolate, or Willies Milk Of The Gods.

When I bite into chocolate it shouldn’t be hard/waxy, I like a piece of chocolate that feels as if it will melt once I have put it in my mouth. Lidls own chocolate bars are melt in the mouth, I believe is German chocolate.
On a trip to Brussels some years ago we sampled Belgian chocolate from chocolatiers, was absolute heaven. It melted in the mouth every time.

twiglet77

Hotel Chocolat sold out to Mars and will probably go downhill. They’re incredibly overpriced and I honestly don’t think they’re as nice as they were 10 years ago.

Cadbury sold out to Kraft (Mondelez) and we all know how that turned out.

I try to boycott Nestlé and even Ritter chocolate is on that list.

I read the labels and avoid chocolate with added emulsifiers (like soy lecithin or sunflower lecithin).

My favourite supermarket bar is Tesco Dark Milk. Next is Waitrose No 1 Fairtrade Dominican Milk Chocolate, or Willies Milk Of The Gods.

Sunflower lecithin is supposed to be good for you.

Oh dear, I obviously have no taste at all. I hate dark chocolate and happily eat Twix bars! 😂
However I am willing to be guided by you Grans and will look more carefully into the question of additives. DGD prefers money to an Easter egg this year - I asked her and she said one (from her mother) was enough!

Someone up thread mentioned Lily O’ Brien’s they are indeed delicious.

DamaskRose

Oh dear, I obviously have no taste at all. I hate dark chocolate and happily eat Twix bars! 😂
However I am willing to be guided by you Grans and will look more carefully into the question of additives. DGD prefers money to an Easter egg this year - I asked her and she said one (from her mother) was enough!

Well yes, am more than happy to slum it occasionally 🤣
I love

twix and double decker bars as well as other chocolate bars that might get the thumbs down.

Sorry that post was posted on a weird way.
What I wanted to finishing saying is that on the absence of supa dupa expensive chocolate this chocoholic will happily lower her standards 🫣🫣

Oh dear. I give up. Typing on my phone is making me sound illiterate.

Agree with those who are now unimpressed by Cadbury's. I like Tony's Chocolonely (2 Mother's Day bars to look forward to!) and Divine. Also Ritter's - I'm interested to know why you put them beside the definitely boycottable Nestle, twiglet77?