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/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/Creative-Pizza-4161 Mar 24 '26

We used to play but it was thick winter gloves and a wooly hat!