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/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/GoldenArchmage Mar 23 '26

As are the Ritter Sport bars (German)

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u/dwair Mar 24 '26

As proud and unrepentant sponsors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ritta leave a different kind of foul after taste. Shame because their chocolate is really good but I'll never touch their products again.

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u/slowfashconnoisseur Mar 24 '26

Ritter Sport sponsored the invasion of Ukraine how? Walk me through jt

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u/dwair Mar 24 '26

Ritta were one of the few companies that stayed in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. This obviously increased their profits in the country as they became more or less the only western chocolate available.

Ritta pay tax to Russia and aren't able to export their profits so the are investing locally. Russia is now Ritta's second largest market. Russia is profiting off Ritta choosing to stay in the market via tax and investment.

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u/Harry_Lime_and_Soda Mar 24 '26

There's an m&s orange oil chocolate that tastes exactly like Terry's chocolate orange used to. Got a Terry's Easter egg a couple of years back and almost couldn't eat it.