Cadbury's Current Owners Might Think Again.....

I never buy it because I am old enough to remember when a bar of Cadbury chocolate was a delicious treat that tasted great.

Cadbury's Twirls still taste ok to me - but I think they're actually made in Dublin, so could be traditional recipe?

O H likes Lidl chocolate bars. I just don’t like chocolate.
DD says chocolate is good if you have a cough. Just saying. No guarantee but worth a try

I’m a bit late to the party.

Thank you for sharing the quote FriedGreenTomatoes2 it’s really informative. It’s all about the $$s clearly.

In all honesty, who’s surprised they have broken the promises they made? They didn’t even try to pronounce the name ‘CADberry’ correctly. I think it’s vile now, greasy and no longer melt in the mouth, more like stick to teeth like the chocolate in the US does. It’s just a sugar rush now. Once they changed from the cube shaped bar it all went downhill from there. Like most things these days, it seems to be a ‘race to the bottom’ whilst keeping shareholders loaded and I think they’ve made it.

I’ve got a book about the beginnings of Cadburys and Fry’s somewhere, I think it’s called the chocolate wars, about the two family institutions starting up and their values and intentions were made clear at the outset. They were very honourable people. We visited Bournville years ago to see where it all started and it’s a lovely place. You could imagine the community thriving there at one time.

Tony’s Chocalonly is an ethically produced chocolate that is delicious and ensures farmers get their fair share. The bar is weirdly shaped so you don’t get even pieces which reflects the unfairness in chocolate production. It’s on the pricey side, but I prefer to have it less often. The name refers to the loneliness of swimming against the tide of unscrupulous manufacturers to produce an ethical
chocolate (my words, but you get the gist).

Cadbury just don't make chocolate 'dark' enough for me. I much prefer a bitter (90% cocoa solids) chocolate that the sickly stuff that Cadbury are producing now.

JaneJudge

I didn't even know it had a royal warrant

Me neither. Never noticed anything. I don’t like American style chocolate like Hersheys but I do like the Swiss brands. They have a local one here, Darrell Lea, which most people like but I don’t. Just Aldi , I like all their chocolate.

Weirdly nanna8 the Cadburys chocolate made in Australia tastes nicer than the Cadburys chocolate made in the UK or Europe, I think they must use a different recipe there.

Astitchintime

Cadbury just don't make chocolate 'dark' enough for me. I much prefer a bitter (90% cocoa solids) chocolate that the sickly stuff that Cadbury are producing now.

I've eaten chocolate which is about 90% and find it quite bitter. We know the chocolatier but it's not really to my taste although I like dark chocolate.

ginny

Cadburys is so different to how it used to be. Greasy and tasteless.

I like Lindt or Green & Black.

Green & Blacks is now Mondolez as well ! Difficult to find a decent chocolate now (unless you pay an absolute fortune for hand crafted, small company products). Lidl do a reasonable dark chocolate 80% cocoa at a reasonable price.

albertina

I never buy it because I am old enough to remember when a bar of Cadbury chocolate was a delicious treat that tasted great.

100%

Casdon

Weirdly nanna8 the Cadburys chocolate made in Australia tastes nicer than the Cadburys chocolate made in the UK or Europe, I think they must use a different recipe there.

I can’t believe that because it tastes ‘almost’ original in Ireland!

We had a Swedish school exchange boy with us one Summer in the 1980s.
He took home 3 souvenirs which he couldn't get in Sweden.

One was a glass milk bottle empty
One a box of Bluebell non safety matches. He could strike them on his shoe .
The third was Cadburys chocolate which tasted better than Swedish chocolate.

I think he’d be taking Lindt or Suchard these days Grammaretto.

I've just bought myself a bar of JD Gross milk chocolate from Lidl.
Obviously for scientific research.
So far it is sweet but not sickly. A slight hint of coconut do I detect.
I may have to test some more....

It's made in Berlin.

Another forum that I am on has been discussing how awful Quality Street is now. I agree, opened the tub and the smell was unpleasant. Paper wrappers look cheap and covering doesn't taste like chocolate should. Like so much else it is the bean counters in the big companies that control the bottom line and heaven forbid thinking of the consumers. Celebrations have been fine for several years or Aldi for me next year.

Darn, I preferred UK 🇬🇧 Cadbury to what we have here 🇨🇦. Bournville was my favourite. A friend used to send me a few bars a year.