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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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%

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’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).

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

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

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

Agree..Lindt far far nicer plus I prefer dark chocolate. I also like Bournville

As a vegan, the recipe means even the dark chocolate is no longer suitable. Public criticism was withheld as I always felt disloyal as I was born in Birmingham. Now it is no longer British the gloves are off .

Aldi dark chocolate is delicious.

I have always been a dark chocolate fan, so most of the cadbury milk stuff was not to my taste but friends who like milk say it has gone downhill. It is very sad when you have worked for a firm whose attitude and quality align with your own views and so many people will no longer feel that satisfaction of working for them. As a child I lived in the east riding of yorkshire and of course we had the quaker chocolate makers, like Fry and Terry,s . I remember there was the frys bar of cream centred dark chocolate with the boys on the cover, but the best one was the frys 5 centre one. I used to wonder how they did it, on a small scale, but it was so great. Dark chocolate covering and each of the pieces of the bar were different flavour, orange, coffee and I think lime. I always loved the coffee one best, my sister loved the orange, but it was clever. If there was only limited funds, you got one bar that had the flavours that suited 3 of us. Dont know if they still make such a bar, this was over 70 years ago. i loved the old box of Black Magic, which had soft and hard centres but they have changed a lot of those flavours now.

Quick bob in before the family arrive; I was given my absolute favourite, Leonidas, and my DH always chooses the ones I love (you can choose your flavours on the website) and I’ve put them away to eat after it’s all settled down.
I love Belgium chocolates but especially Leonidas.

I'm very lucky and am given Hotel Chocolat boxes several times a year. I find them so rich that I can only manage one or two a day. Fine by me!

As long as there are Ferrero in the world, I'm happy.
I happen to know there are some with my name on, wrapped up, still.

Try the Danish chocolate Fris Holm or Anthon Berg, both wonderful chocolates.

I get Hotel Chocolat every year; Christmas, Easter, birthdays, and they make me shudder.

They're too much. Sweet and cloying, and soft.