Cadbury Easter eggs - is it me or do they taste bad?

All the old well know chocolate brands like Cadburys, rowntree/mackintosh, Frys, bendix of Mayfair etc have all been taken over by Mars, kraft/mondelez, Nestlé or companies from Europe. Some of it, is not even made here anymore.

They have also had their recipes changed, to save money and increase profits. Primarily the reduction in cocoa or coco solids. The increase in the use of vegetable or palm oils and more sugar or worse still, glucose fructose syrup. There are also a lot of bars with extra added things like biscuit, fruit, cereals or jelly bits. As it pads the bar out, so they can use less chocolate as the other ingredients make up the weight.

Real chocolate doesn't contain vegetable or palm oil. Only coco fat or oils from the cocoa. That is why a lot of chocolate is so hard and waxy now.

  

just buy a decent quality high cocoa chocolate bar and enjoy

Cadburys chocolate is ©®ap because of all the constant changing of ingredients. Galaxy on the other hand .......... 🤤🤤🤤

Have you done a covid test?

last years stock

nestle much worse

Bought some on offer from Morrisons and cant believe the size of them now, even for £1 they’re tiny.

I enjoyed the Buttons Easter Egg, which tasted closer to the old recipe, but the Mini Eggs Easter Egg tasted terrible and it went straight in the bin.

My wife thinks the Buttons egg was made in the UK, but I'm not so sure.

I know that since they changed the recipe, I've eaten less Cadburys chocolate. Do they not realise they are pushing us to other chocolate brands, or even worse we stop eating chocolate and eat other things.

Bring back our old milk chocolate. (edited)

I know that Cadbury's has generally gone down the pan in recent years, but i've largely found that their eggs were still pretty great. That said, even I thought that my Buttons egg was really poor this year - apart from the obvious size issue, the lack of foil meant that it couldn't be re-wrapped properly after eating part of it, and the consistency of the chocolate was shocking, it became a kind of odd sludge after just holding it for a minute or two while eating it. It even seemed to lack a bit of taste this year. I only bought it in the first place because of the TCB offer, but i think i'll be buying eggs from other companies in future. (edited)

try some of the aldi or lidl chocolate... much better quality than the big named brands and loads cheaper!