Originally Posted by BelfastGuy125: “And considering cocoa butter itself was a poor substitute for the real thing, that they are downgrading it further with palm oil is sickening.”
I try to avoid Palm oil anyway I can because of the poor homeless orangutans being left with no home and without food.
Originally Posted by BelfastGuy125: “And considering cocoa butter itself was a poor substitute for the real thing, that they are downgrading it further with palm oil is sickening.”
I don't understand WHY they're doing it though. They make mega money.
Next time I by some lidil or Aldi chocolate I'll read the ingredients. I know I know it might not be great, but it tastes nice.
There is a chance....a small chance it's got good ingredients because they approached a small chocolate maker and offered them a international market?
Originally Posted by TeganRhan: “I don't understand WHY they're doing it though. They make mega money.
Next time I by some lidil or Aldi chocolate I'll read the ingredients. I know I know it might not be great, but it tastes nice.
There is a chance....a small chance it's got good ingredients because they approached a small chocolate maker and offered them a international market?”
They have mega money, but like all companies they want more. The shareholders want more and they always have more competition. Easy way to cut costs in chocolate? Substitute out the most expensive part, the cocoa.
I haven't bought Cadbury's for a while (I used love Dairy milk with fruit and nut but since Kraft took over it's not as nice). I had a creme egg the other day and it was horrible, the chocolate tasted cheap. I tend to buy Mars, Nestlé or Lindt chocolate now, or I go to Hotel Chocolat when I want to treat myself.
Isn't this a trick that has been pulled several times before with other products? They change the recipe, gets lots of news coverage for their product, and then get even more news coverage several months later when 'due to customer demand' they bring the old recipe back.
Originally Posted by TUC: “Isn't this a trick that has been pulled several times before with other products? They change the recipe, gets lots of news coverage for their product, and then get even more news coverage several months later when 'due to customer demand' they bring the old recipe back.”
Ah yes, but that could just be a Wispa............
Originally Posted by elliecat: “I haven't bought Cadbury's for a while (I used love Dairy milk with fruit and nut but since Kraft took over it's not as nice). I had a creme egg the other day and it was horrible, .”
I'm a bit alarmed by this thread. My OH is away on business this week, so I bought Cadbury's caramel and Turkish delight bars as a treat to console myself. Now I'm wondering if the goodies waiting for me in the fridge are going to be a bit rubbish. Have they really changed that much?
Originally Posted by skp20040: “They did that in the Australian Cadbury's , reduced the amount of cocoa butter and replaced it with palm oil
It appears Kraft are slowly changing recipes so the British Cadbury is using the same cheaper recipes as in the USA.”
It's very unlikely that Kraft would use the US recipes. A bit of background.
Herschey's Milk Chocolate does actually smell of vomit. It's not hyperbole. The US process saves money by lipolysis of stale milk, and produces butyric acid (the smell of vomit). The US consumer didn't have much choice, and have become accustomed to it. The stuff does not export well to other markets. In addition US milk chocolate is 10% chocolate liquor. It wouldn't be legal in the UK (20% cocoa solids) or the rest of the EU (25% cocoa solids)
Originally Posted by elliecat: “I haven't bought Cadbury's for a while (I used love Dairy milk with fruit and nut but since Kraft took over it's not as nice). I had a creme egg the other day and it was horrible, the chocolate tasted cheap. I tend to buy Mars, Nestlé or Lindt chocolate now, or I go to Hotel Chocolat when I want to treat myself.”
The Nestle chocolate tastes horrible to me now. I used to love it years ago but has a very strange taste nowadays. I much prefer Cadbury.
Originally Posted by karapote monkey: “I find it hard to believe there is a glass and a half of milk in any Cadbury's chocolate these days. They should never have sold it.”
I completely agree, I am a huge fan of the Easter eggs that Cadburys create, I wonder if the recipe has changed for them.
No more Cadbury's for me.
I even threw some away recently, it was that horrible. I certainly never imagined myself doing such a thing shocking, our lovely Dairy Milk, gone forever.
Originally Posted by TeganRhan: “Do they own Ahoy! ? I posted this on a advert thread a while back, but you know those cookies called Ahoy! ? Well they did a series of odd adverts one of which had the Cadbury gorilla advert in..,then the cookie remixed it? Or pulled the if or something.
If kraft now owns Cadbury and if they make Ahoy ... Then my confusion is over lol”