Chocolate prices to increase significantly soon
mike_dunn
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Just in time for Christmas, over 21p per 100g. :eek: Due to the ever increasing price of cocoa butter. Chocolate manufacturers say they've been trying to absorb the wholesale price rises for a while but can no longer do so alone :eek:
So if chocolate increases a lot in price will you eat less?
I love the Cadburys Turkish bars.
Those 400g boxes will be as much as £1 dearer this Xmas. :rolleyes:
So if chocolate increases a lot in price will you eat less?
I love the Cadburys Turkish bars.Those 400g boxes will be as much as £1 dearer this Xmas. :rolleyes:
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I picked up a Twix the other day and upon opening, they were almost a third less than they were a few months back.
You're sure you're comparing like with like? Remember they had those extra long Twixes a few months ago.
There's got to be a ****, Mags and Bags joke in here somewhere...
By contrast, the other half is a complete holic. He'll spend £40 in Hotel du Chocolat in the blink of an eye. Probably be £50 now.
It shouldn't really affect the price of junk chocolate like Cadbury's as their products typically have only 25 - 26% cocoa in them and it's cocoa butter that is increasing in price. Probably won't stop Cadbury's hiking selling prices, though.
I'd hardly call Cadbury's chocolate junk. Hershey's from the US, now that's junk, just inedible.
Why is 25% cocoa a bad thing?
You're right. Cadbury's 'chocolate' is good enough for those that know of none better.;)
Too little for the product to actually taste of chocolate. Cadbury's tastes of sugar and the cheap vegetable fat they use as filler. Nothing like proper chocolate that has at least 70% cocoa. Have you never tried it?
Mind you, I'm sure they've been watering down the quality of our most popular brands for a good long while, now, as well as product sizes. Nestle went down the pan, becoming bland and tasteless years ago. Cadbury's is rapidly following suit. Mars still seems to be keeping something of how good I remember their chocolate to be but it really, really isn't the same. I know I'm getting older and lots of older people say 'things don't taste the same' but having been a bit of a choccie freak for nearly 30 years, there are definite differences.
Got a thing for Thorntons Mis-shapes at the moment. 99p a bag at Home Bargains. Bit of a lottery as to which ones are in the packet but the packets are see-through and they are the 'real thing'. Highly munchable, if you're not too fussy on appearance. There are also the brown bags of mis-shapes you can get in the pound shops and they are usually Cadbury's.
Hershey's tastes like feet
It's a different manufacturing process, isn't it? Don't they use fermented milk or something?
And, I'm guessing, not in a good way...
feet that has athletes foot
I have tried Hersheys, it wasnt very good. Cadbury is much better. However Cadburys is quite low on the quality chocolate scale.
and that have been walking in vomit
That's my take on it.
I personally can't stand Cadbury's and don't see its appeal at all, but maybe if I'd grown up eating it I'd have a different opinion.
Presumably you don't eat feet like a number of the other posters in the thread do?
That's correct, BB. I'll leave those sort of activities to DS's experts.