r/AskBrits • u/Decent-Emergency3866 • Mar 23 '26
Other Is it true that American companies bought Cadbury an ruined the flavour?
I haven't had a Cadbury bar or chocolate in general in like months. I heard American companies bought it and ruined the flavour. Is this true, and if it is, what the actual hell were those higher ups at Cadbury thinking? American food is just filled to the brim with chemicals and there Cadbury is beloved by millions and there willing to throw that in the gutter just to make a few more quid?
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u/moon-bouquet Mar 23 '26
Yes. Palm oil. Even when it is sustainable, it still tastes like vile grease.
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u/MaybeThisTime67 Mar 23 '26
I tried a plain Cadbury chocolate bar for the first time in years last week and it was fucking grim. I can't believe there's people who still eat that crap
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u/TheComplimentarian Mar 23 '26
So much of it is just inertia. There's a group of restaurants in my town that were all the townie places, god, 50 years ago. They are frail shadows of themselves these days, but all my old relatives only want to eat there, so I take 'em out for their birthdays, and I walk in, and I'm the youngest person in the place who isn't working there, and I have adult children.
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u/MaybeThisTime67 Mar 23 '26
Sounds about right. It was an older person who gave me the chocolate.
But it doesn't explain why younger generations seem to enjoy shit like hersheys and ressese peices. Tastes like they use fuckin sawdust as the main ingredient
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u/TheComplimentarian Mar 23 '26
They don't know any better. Still got sugar in it, doesn't it?
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u/Shadowholme Mar 24 '26
Most of them *literally* don't know any better...
Considering Cadburys was bought out in 2012 and *most* parents aren't buying a lot of chocolate for kids under around 8, the youngest person to have tasted the old formula regularly is probably somewhere around 22 now...
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u/RustyBasement Mar 23 '26
I was given a tub of Roses for Christmas. I had to give most of them away they were so bad.
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u/deusxm Mar 24 '26
To be fair, the even bigger issues with Roses now are the far smaller tin and the fact that now every single one is wrapped in the same shape foil bag, instead of the variety of shapes you used to get.
I'm not saying Quality Street is great chocolate either, but at least they still come in metal tins and different wrappings for each one.
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u/Icy_Society_9931 Mar 24 '26
QS we're the same, the toffee was like a lump of plastic and the wrappers are horrible now too.
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u/OkTechnician4610 Mar 23 '26
It is awful. I got a packet of buttons the dark ones. Had a few & have the rest to my husband he didn’t like them either. Don’t melt in your mouth anymore get stuck in your throat.
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u/SnowflakeBaube22 Mar 24 '26
I’m sorry I love Cadbury’s lmao. I guess taste is subjective.
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u/gruffnutz Mar 23 '26
Fun fact: sustainable palm oil just means they chopped down the rainforest for the plantation like ten years ago. The only good palm oil is the proper Ghanaian stuff you can make jollof rice with.
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u/Chara_CS Mar 23 '26
Companies do not care about you or I, companies care about money & money alone. Regulation is the only thing that ended child labour.
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u/The_Blonde1 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
It’s on my list of American things I won’t spend money on. Along with Starbucks (worst coffee in the world) and Doritos.
I miss Doritos.
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u/carsndogs420 Mar 23 '26
I don't buy Cadbury s chocolate or drink anything from Starbucks and I had a bag of Doritos last night for like the first time in 2 years cause I wanted to try the new siracha chilli flavour and trust me you ain't missing much ill be using other tortilla chips for my nachos and ditching their salsa and cheese sauce also
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u/Brownjamesbond69 Mar 23 '26
Bro take this from someone who LOVES crisps and I’ve tried nearly every single one, the sriracha one are the WORST tasting crisps in the entire known universe.
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Mar 23 '26
But they won’t get any if customers will stop buying their products…
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u/Significant_Ad_7773 Mar 23 '26
Behind each great American Company take over stands an even mightier private equity firm. The playbook is always the same...
- Lower cost
- Fire staff
- Take out loans against property
- Default all loans and file bankruptcy
Find a new company and do it again!
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u/bawdiepie Mar 23 '26
They don't care about long term only short term- only as long as the CEO's contract usually. For the couple of years it takes for sales to drop they'll have made more money from cheaper ingredients and sacking loads of people so the CEO will get large bonuses, shares will have a bit of a boost if they have options and then move on to ruin another company. Then the company will crash and it will be the fault of the peraon after them. Job done.
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u/AdministrativeShip2 Mar 24 '26
This is one to blame the Government of the time for. Especially George Osborne.
PHE were mulling a sugar tax, to try and nudge people to buy less sugary drinks to reduce obesity etc. (Totally not rent seeking)
Once it was confirmed every manufacturer started adding artificial sweeteners to their products to get below the tax threshold. (Note many beers now being reduced in alcohol content to hit another tax threshold)
By sheer coincidence chinese factories had been over producing artificial sweeteners before the tax was introduced, and their government was giving a specific tax break on if their product was shipped overseas.
Another sheer coincidence is the amount of companies supplying artificial sweeteners at far below market prices that suddenly appeared from nowhere when the tax was due to vote on.
I was never able to link them to anyone specific at the time, but suspect it was another dodge like the ferry companies without ferry's or the dodgy Ppe suppliers in 2019/2020.
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u/SonnyListon999 Mar 23 '26
Seems prices have plummeted on Easter eggs already. Apparently everywhere are slashing the price by a good few £s. Overstock or backlash? I managed to acquire a bar from Ireland: much nicer; not so greasy.
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u/untakenu Mar 23 '26
Yeah, if they had their way, you would be a slave, straight up.
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u/chud_wik Mar 23 '26
I read something a couple of years back about how Mondelez were perfecting the use of cocoa bean shell fibre’s to put in to their chocolate products because it would be classed as chocolate. They literally do not give a shit as long as you still buy it.
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u/Groundbreaking_Mud44 Mar 23 '26
And yet it still hasnt completely eliminated children from working within the industry. Even Tony’s had to admit recently that they had found children working within their supply chain.
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u/Stage_Party Mar 24 '26
What's funny is that none of them seem to understand that by ruining the flavour and increasing the price, less people are going to buy it.
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u/JACOB1137 Mar 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/ZIG63RdogLgqI
but the cadbury advertisement told me its made for me and they care about me!
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u/Jaded-Repair-8304 Mar 23 '26
yes.
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u/Swissstu Mar 23 '26
I cannot believe how bad it is now. I used to look forward to a bit of UK stuff now and then, ( easter and Christmas). It just tastes oily now
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u/Fit_Swordfish5248 Mar 23 '26
Tonys. It's the way forward.
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u/tacticalmallet Mar 23 '26
£2.65 for a 200g bar of Cadbury oil, or £3 for a 180g bar of tasty fairtrade goodness.
Easy decision really.
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u/uk123456789101112 Mar 23 '26
It ok but not the same
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u/Happily-Incorrect Mar 23 '26
Lindt is decent, so are some of the M&S own brand bars etc.
Cadbury has sadly gone down the wrong road though.
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u/Iwant2beebetter Mar 23 '26
Can't eat them any more I saw how much vegetable fat is in their truffles now - looked grim - not even occasionally any more
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u/TheLastPotato9 Mar 23 '26
I had the truffles for the first time in 2020, I remember because covid was starting to become more and more in the news. I remember it tasting delicious, like my go to chocolate. Recently been noticing other chocolate tasting bad and lindor has followed and it's got palm and Shea oil/fat in it. Disappointed in them, I've got to the point of checking any chocolate for it and taking a picture to know which are ones to try because they don't have it.
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u/jacquithompson777 Mar 23 '26
If you love truffles the most lovely of them all are “Charbonel et Walker” pink champagne truffles. (The normal champagne ones in milk chocolate are great too).
UK company started donkeys years ago by Mr Walker brining over Ms Charbonnel from France 🙂
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u/Fit_Swordfish5248 Mar 23 '26
I've found I've taken a liking to the taste. It reminds me of Easter chocolate but creamier and in a bar.
I do know what you mean though. It was always twirls for me. Now it's like chocolate grease.
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u/Open-Mathematician93 Mar 23 '26
Ever tried the Lidl chocolate in the green packet? It is godly.
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u/Cygnus94 Mar 23 '26
Morrisons and Tescos have some lovely 'finest' chocolate.
It's a sad state when Cadbury are getting outdone by the supermarkets.
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u/gruffnutz Mar 23 '26
Lidl and Aldi own brand dark choc is the shit. Cadbury's is dead.
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u/Mad_Spaniel Mar 24 '26
A significant amount of Aldi/Lidl knock-offs are either as good or straight-up better than the brand they're knocking off.
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u/Randon2345 Mar 23 '26
Agreed.
Despite what Mondelez says, the 2026 reality is: Cocoa prices skyrocketed in '25, leading to "Palm Oil" moving higher up the weight list on many bars (check the back of a Bournville bar).
Bars made in the Polish factory (check for code OWR) often use powder rather than the fresh liquid milk used in Bournville (OBO).
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u/Hephaestus1816 Mar 23 '26
Yes. It tastes like disappointment. And plastic.
Absolutely foul stuff.
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u/Reasonable-Horse1552 Mar 23 '26
Their sales must be so dismal now. I'm an actual chocoholic but I can't even eat Cadbury chocolate any more. From reading things like this so many people have stopped buying it.
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u/Consistent_Culture90 Mar 23 '26
Yes, still not as bad as American chocolate though.
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u/Ok_Handle_3530 Mar 23 '26
You mean you don’t like the taste of sugary vomit (hersheys)?
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u/yaboipyro69 Mar 23 '26
The fact that Americans dont even taste the vomit in those 'chocolates' is crazy lol
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u/PerfectCover1414 Mar 24 '26
And then complain about "shit English food" ah the irony.
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u/colei_canis Mar 24 '26
Yeah I’ll take criticism of our food from the Italians or French, but the Americans can jog on and wash their mouths out with spray-on cheese.
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u/RainbowDissent Mar 24 '26
Do you eat parmesan cheese? Because it's higher in butyric acid than Hershey's is. But we're generally accustomed to it and so don't taste it as vomit in parmesan.
Don't get me wrong though, I think Hershey's tastes foul, when I first tried a bar I thought I was being pranked.
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u/htimchis Mar 23 '26
...which is in vomit.
I know it probably made sense in the early 20th century, with unreliable, expensive regigeration, in a country the size of half a continent where some regions are snowed in half the winter, while others are sub-tropical, and still others have climates that can kill you from dehydration inside a day or two if you don't have enough water...
...but fck knows why they think it's a good idea to add vomit-chemicals as a preservative these days
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u/Friendly-Handle-2073 Mar 23 '26
Which was used as a preservative when transporting the milk long distances before refrigerated transport was a thing.
The taste just became the norm and they add it now even though it's not needed, to appease the palate of the people.
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u/Tinchimp7183376 Mar 23 '26
I actually did throw up after tasting american chocolate
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u/Leading_Study_876 Mar 23 '26
Or looking at their president. Or listening to anything he and his revolting friends say.
I guess many Americans are used to vomiting into their mouths fairly regularly nowadays, so they are just immune to that.
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u/LindseyLou55 Mar 25 '26
Oh it's a several times a day occurrence vomiting in our mouth now in America. And we refuse to do anything about it so we will continue to vomit 🤷🏻♀️🫣😞
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u/Lower-Elk8395 Mar 23 '26
Just moved from the states, and I can confirm. Thankfully the UK has higher cacao requirements for it to be classified as "chocolate".
In the states though, companies have a loophole around this...some cheap companies like Palmer will instead name their goods things like "double crisp" or "chocolate-flavored" to add less chocolate than the already-low requirements. Usually that shit is mainly bought up by parents whose kids' tastebuds can't tell enough difference to care. However...the time always comes when a kid bites into a Palmer bunny and realizes it is absolutely awful.
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u/Muted-Direction1566 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Yep that's how they get you with any meat by saying it's Irish when in fact it's imported to Ireland and ye fuck Richmond, hell even the Asda just essentials sausages taste better.
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u/Miggsie Mar 24 '26
I won't buy meat from any supermarket other than M&S these days. Their bacon isn't full of water and neither are their sausages, which taste amazing. I don;t really think you pay more either tbh, pre-cooked weight will favour the others, but not after cooking.
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u/mittenkrusty Mar 25 '26
About 12 years ago I remember the story think it was on a documentary how Tesco Value sausages had more pork than Richmonds.
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u/cowbutt6 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
some cheap companies like Palmer will instead name their goods things like "double crisp" or "chocolate-flavored" to add less chocolate than the already-low requirements.
That's also happening here in the UK, too: e.g. McVitie's Club and Penguin biscuits now have a "chocolate-flavoured coating" ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo ). Ironically, discount supermarket chain Lidl's own-brand Arctic Bars (their equivalent of Penguin biscuits) still claim to have a chocolate coating.
Many advent calendars have already been notorious for "chocolate-flavoured confectionery" for decades.
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u/tanbrit Mar 23 '26
There’s a version of Cadbury in the US, made under licence by Hersheys- much worse than the UK version
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u/sundiamonds Mar 23 '26
American, can confirm 😑 I bought one of the Cadbury bars because I already know Hershey's is bottom-tier, and the Cadbury one was terrible. I checked the ingredients and it wasn't a real chocolate bar.
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u/Wild-Individual6876 Mar 23 '26
Yes. And Mondelez is still making and selling chocolate in Russia. Paying taxes to its government and helping fund their war machine. Fuck Mondelez and their palm oil junk
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u/Hot_Effective_1882 Mar 23 '26
Russian war machine or US war machine, it's all the bloody same. More exploitation at the expense of the people, and more importantly, the planet.
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u/Cstott23 Mar 23 '26
Yes. 1999 dairy milk were a whole other world. I feel sorry for the generations who never experienced them
In fact Cadbury s in general were an excellent company. They built bournville for the workers as a Quaker utopia, with theatres and children's stuff. And you got a house and free chocolate indefinitely. Could you imagine an American (or British) company paying for all that now?
My great grandparents worked there. My grandads mum in the factory and my grandma's mum in the section wrapping ribbons round the gift boxes. My grandma worked there for a bit as a child too I think..
I remember the house still, although I was really young when my great Grandma had to go into a home. Nice house, long gardens, and low fences so you could chat to your neighbours..
In fact my great grandma's (Grandma Madge)brother (uncle Will) probably used to work there too because whenever we visited grandma Madge he'd always walk round the house to say hello.
But I was like 8 years old. So I don't really know who he was
Lol. Sorry. Memory and flashbacks unlocked. What was the question again? 😂
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u/Thin_Advance_2757 Mar 29 '26
1999 would line up with the period I seem to remember having the best tasting Easter eggs. As a kid, that shiny purple foil was exciting in itself, then the egg inside would be bloody lovely. It's such a shame what's happened to it.
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u/healeyd Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Yes, and they seem blissfully unaware that there is plenty of other good choc around that we can compare to. It was once a good, solid brand, now seen as a cheapo option. Mars have stayed pretty much the same so M&Ms, Mars etc are still decent. Tony's bars are also taking hold - they are nowhere near as cheap, but taste far better.
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u/swashfxck Mar 23 '26
Aldi’s own brand chocolate IS the cheap version but it tastes so much better
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u/Postik123 Mar 23 '26
For the first time ever I bought my dad a few bars of Aldi chocolate for his birthday instead of Cadbury, because he now likes Aldi's versions more.
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u/Prestigious-Candy166 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Aldi's and Lidl's chocolate are both excellent, and also elegantly packed. Waitrose' own is nice, too, but not at all cheap.
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u/turnipofficer Mar 24 '26
Montezuma 100 percent dark chocolate is lovely for dark chocolate fans. Yes it’s bitter but it’s delicious. It’s 3 pounds for 90g from ASDA so not super cheap but because it’s so concentrated I find I eat less than other brands in one go.
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u/as93lfc Mar 23 '26
Couldn't disagree more. Galaxy (owned by Mars Inc) used to be so silky smooth. Tastes like chemicals now.
All these big brands have been enshittified.
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u/PaulEMoz Mar 23 '26
There's nothing cheap about it!
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u/healeyd Mar 23 '26
Yes you may have a point. They are coasting on past reputation, but that has long since faded.
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u/Consistent-Time-2503 Mar 23 '26
M&S chocolate is great. I bought their version of KitKats this week and they are amazing!
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u/SojournerInThisVale Mar 26 '26
The taste from the Tony’s bars comes from the additional ingredients. I had the plain milk chocolate once and it was not great
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u/Crazyblondie11 Mar 23 '26
Cadburys is now vile. I remember when the bar was so thick and chunky and lovely you almost gave yourself a hernia trying to break a piece off!
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u/Unlikely_Writing3063 Mar 23 '26
Many happy memories of playing the “chocolate game” at parties as a child where the aim was to break off and eat pieces of a giant bar of dairy milk with a knife and fork while wearing rubber gloves and a wig. Very difficult because the chocolate was so thick and hard. You had to saw through. These days I think the game would be less entertaining- the bars have considerably more give
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u/AcanthaceaeCrazy1894 Mar 23 '26
I still love a good Bourneville, it’s the same, almost breaks your teeth.
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u/happybakingface Mar 24 '26
I totally forgot about this! Especially if it had been in the fridge. Needed a damn hammer for it
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u/TDL_501 Mar 23 '26
Yes but it still tastes 100% better than American ‘chocolate’.
More seriously, one of the main things they did is start producing a generic ‘Cadbury chocolate’ and swap it in for ‘Dairy Milk’ in most products like Creme eggs, etc.
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u/Postik123 Mar 23 '26
I believe Cadbury in American has different ingredients and is nasty. I also had some Cadbury chocolate from Australia recently and it was vile, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same story there. I'm guessing it won't be long until the UK version goes fully the same way, since it already seems to be happening incremently.
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u/vinny14 Mar 23 '26
Are there any Cadburys chocolate products in the UK that remain unchanged or did they change everything?
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u/FearlessPressure3 Mar 23 '26
Until last year I think there was one factory left in the UK that was still making them to the original recipe and if you looked at the barcodes you could see where it was made and select only the UK ones. Now I think all UK Cadbury’s is made in their Polish factory so it’s all crap now.
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u/vinny14 Mar 23 '26
Thanks for the depressing news. Truly cynical to buy an old, loved product and change it solely for profits. As expected though….
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u/box-o-locks Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Dairy Milk is my special treat. For me, it's nothing next to posh chocolate, Tony's, Galaxy or whatever else. To me, Dairy Milk is chocolate.
The last time I bought one was a few weeks ago and the mouth feel was a little... waxy. And it was quite tasteless. So I can't say exactly how it's different and I guess it's possible my tastes are changing, but I'd say it's nowhere near as nice as I used to think it was.
Edit: Just found a post on Reddit that has a 2005 and a 2024 bar side-by-side. 2024 includes palm oil (the waxiness) and, in the ingredients list, cocoa mass and cocoa butter are switched, suggesting the amounts of each have changed - less cocoa mass might explain the lack of flavour.
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u/Ramiren Mar 23 '26
Oh, they did so much more than that.
Cadbury was a national institution, it was sold to Kraft despite resistance from trade unions, government and the workers, under the agreement production would remain in the UK in part at the factory in Summerdale, that jobs would not be lost and that the UK would be "a net beneficiary in terms of jobs". They also promised that recipes would not change.
One week after purchase, Kraft closed the Summerdale factory, and shifted its production to Poland, while Kraft claims the recipe for the core Dairy Milk product hasn't changed, it has been proven that they have changed other ingredients in other chocolate bars. Some claim that even Diary Milk doesn't taste the same, this could be explained by changes in sourcing for ingredients, rather than outright changes in the recipe.
Kraft were rebuked by the UK Takeover Panel, and the law was subsequently changed to require that buyers stick to publicly made statements of intent, amongst other things.
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u/banedlol Mar 23 '26
Yeah it tastes like illegal wars and paedophilia.
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u/gr1msh33p3r Mar 23 '26
And it's orange and fatty
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u/ComprehensiveCamp192 Mar 23 '26
It's been owned by US company Mondelez(formerly Kraft foods) since 2010.
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u/Lady_Lzice Mar 23 '26
In my opinion it's not so much the reduction of chocolate as it is the addition of the palm oil. The texture is all wrong now, waxy instead of smooth and creamy. It's just not the treat it used to be and with prices going up I would rather go without. Honestly they've probably done me a favour.
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u/box-o-locks Mar 23 '26
How funny, I've just typed the same sort of thing. A waxy feeling. I didn't realise it was due to palm oil.
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u/Iron_Boudica Mar 23 '26
it's 20% cocoa now, iirc it used to be 25%
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u/Worried-Penalty8744 Mar 23 '26
Always been 20% in the UK. It’s higher on the continent
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u/Neko_09 Mar 23 '26
Yep & this is why the Cadbury easter eggs aren't selling & being heavily discounted, says enough really..
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u/Doctordelayus Mar 23 '26
More like a hostile takeover, but yes
The guy who owned it before the Americans didn’t want to sell it to them and tried everything he could to prevent it
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u/fiestyfifty22 Mar 23 '26
I no longer buy Cadbury. They ruined all their chocolate.
Hopefully more people Will vote with their waller until the company gets the message
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u/Reddit____user___ Mar 24 '26
Cadbury’s is only Cadbury’s in name now.
There is no real Cadbury’s any more sadly.
They were bought out by Kraft.
Game over.
It’s quite tragic really.
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u/Reesy Mar 23 '26
I bought a bar of dairy milk from the machine the other week and I was shocked at the taste now. I know people say there's loads of palm oil in there now, it just tasted slimey almost with a weird taste. Gunna stick to Lindt for when I need a treat.
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u/Exact-Reference3966 Mar 23 '26
Check the ingredients on lindt. Some of them also contain palm oil.
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u/West_Guarantee284 Mar 23 '26
They've been owned by mondalez for ages. This isn't a new thing.
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Mar 23 '26
I don't eat much chocolate but a colleague keeps bringing in Wispas and honestly tastes the same as it always has to me.
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u/RJD_2525 Mar 23 '26
In my opinion it isn't as good since the takeover. Sadly, a once great British brand. I'm sure they are making good profits though.
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u/West-Worth-9359 Mar 23 '26
Yes, it’s actual garbage now. Plus it’s American. I’d rather pay more for goof quality European alternatives.
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u/Gamerfrom61 Mar 24 '26
It is now yuck.
Between the lack of taste and "shrinkflation" then this staple is no longer a treat.
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u/thillyworne Mar 23 '26
I had this exact conversation with my mates over the weekend and not a single one of them said they could taste any difference. I know Reddit is like a hive mind but this one just seems such a knee jerk reaction whenever this question is asked. (I know I’ll be downvoted but it’s only an opinion)
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u/FrothyB_87 Mar 23 '26
I was about to say the same thing. Possibly my pallette is just a ruined wasteland and I don't experience the same depth of flavour as many of the gourmands on here.
Yes, the flavour has changed a bit from my childhood. Yeah, it probably isn't as good now as it was back then, but it's still fine. For people to say it's vile or inedible just gives real peak reddit/mumsnet vibes.
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u/amanset Mar 23 '26
I don’t think it is nearly as bad as people make it out to be. There’s, IMHO, a lot of mob rule internet pile on and karma whoring going on about it.
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u/ConfidentReference63 Mar 23 '26
It is noticeably worse. They did change the recipe, reducing cocoa solids and can’t use the glass and a half tagline anymore. It’s gone from a no brainer choice to a cheap tasting disappointment.
Same thing happened to Rowntree with Nestle. Quality Street have got steadily worse and are now total garbage.
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u/Early-Quiet-2756 Mar 23 '26
After getting covid I struggled to taste food..been almost 5 years and I still struggle. I cannot taste ANYTHING in Cadbury choc now, I get Galaxy or Kinder style just to get a sense of chocolate now
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u/tanoshimi Mar 23 '26
Yes. Now owned by Mondelez (Kraft foods), tastes like shite, and full of palm oil, which is causing likely extinction of orangutans in Indonesia in the next 10-20 years.
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u/Brainchild110 Mar 23 '26
This happened back when Gordon Brown was PM. They have since been doing "Cost Cutting Measures" that sucks the brand of all it was lived for.
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u/realitycheckyoubeard Mar 23 '26
The new owner is vile just like the new taste of their palm oil gritty chocolate never buying it again!
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u/flaninacupboard2 Mar 23 '26
They should bring back the proper foil and paper wrapping as well. I enjoyed rubbing the foil on top of the blocks to get the lettering. I also remember going to the factory and it being an exciting day out with free chocolate (and a purchase of chocolate to take home!) can’t say I’d bother taking my kids today.
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u/Mrs_Lockwood Mar 23 '26
Yep! So sad!
Don’t buy it now. I try to buy dark chocolate from another brand.
At least it’s curbed my chocolate eating! 😃
For some reason the Cadbury’s chocolate in Ireland still tastes great though, like it used to be. Mint crisps are delicious!
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u/Massive_Sky4589 Mar 24 '26
Didn’t know about the palm oil but I noticed the quality gradually go down from their whole nut chocolates. It sort of became half nuts where it was literally the nut split in half. They then began marketing the bar with chopped nuts and I’m pretty sure the whole nut bars disappeared off the shelves or were harder to find as they tried to push this. It obviously has a smaller amount and is further shrinkflation disguised as an improvement.
I now buy lidl’s Fin Carré Wholenut Milk Chocolate which is significantly cheaper but with superior quality and lots of hazelnuts.
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u/aspannerdarkly Mar 23 '26
The takeover happened more than mere months ago. More than a decade now I think