Cadburys Mini Eggs - Shrinkflation

[AngusMcDoon]

Asda smart price choc on the other hand is 30p for 150g, comes in milk or dark and is actually pretty decent...

...and white for us aspiring Milky Bar kids

 

[Kurrawong_Kid]

I think the recipe has been changed in quite a few chocolates, by many manufacturers, to remove nut flavourings or the likelihood of traces of nuts. Unfortunately I have had a nut allergy since infancy and until recent years I had to avoid most chocolates unless I had discovered that they were nut free. For example I had to avoid Galaxy, Kit-Kat and rarely risked Cadburys Dairy Milk in which traces of nuts varied according to whether a batch of Fruit and Nut had gone "down the line" previously or waste scrapings had been added to the mix. Luckily I could always eat Mars and Aero. Now I eat Galaxy and Dairy Milk without reaction . I suspect the manufacturers are cautious of legal action; and anyway nuts are expensive.

 

[Greenheart]

SWMBO bought a bar of Lidl white chocolate a while ago.

I know Milky Bar is incredibly sweet, nearly too sweet, and similarly creamy, but the Lidl equivalent was unpleasantly like snappable plastic, in comparison. Not really chocolate, I concluded - or perhaps like rations found at the site of Captain Scott's tent, 15 years later.

Certainly not a product we'll buy again.

 

[James_Calvert]

For those still ready to pay a premium price for a product, have a look at this.
https://salcombedairy.co.uk/product-category/chocolate/

Not for every day maybe!

 

[Denek]

Aren’t Cadbury now owned by Kraft? It probably tastes different because it’s contaminated. By cheese.

 

[RichardS]

Aren’t Cadbury now owned by Kraft? It probably tastes different because it’s contaminated. By cheese.

No longer called "Kraft". See post #17.

Richard

 

[Robin]

It does taste differently, big brand choc contains vegetable fats, some even using hydrogenated, instead of cocoa butter. Yorkie contains some mango derived gloop to pad it out and is about as bad as it gets, try one you'll see what I mean, it's oily and almost chewy at the end, absolutely horrible. Asda smart price choc on the other hand is 30p for 150g, comes in milk or dark and is actually pretty decent...

Asda Fruit and Nut bars are brilliant, like Cadburys of old, bar is thicker (deeper) so that it's nuts aren't half exposed within a skinny bar of sickly sweet brown stuff. 90p a bar too every day. their smart price plain cheapo ones, dark or milk or white at IIRC 30p are also pretty good, hopefully Brexit will not add to the Asda current very reasonable prices as made in EU not UK.

 

[Stemar]

I can't speak for the white chocolate, because I hate it - far too sweet for my taste, and far too much sugar for my diabetes, but the Aldidl milk and, my preference, dark chocolates are pretty decent. Some of their specialist chocolates are excellent - I can't have them in the house!

I don't do Cadbury's because the Dairy Milk, IIRC, isn't even chocolate, nor do I do Nestlé because they were just plain evil (baby formula in Africa) and I've no reason to believe they've repented, just got a bit more subtle.

 

[Greenheart]

My dad always favoured high-cocoa chocolate and for many decades I accepted the idea that it has a richness and intensity which is more enjoyable, and I even accepted that that enjoyment is somehow enviable compared with the simple child-like enjoyment of the creamy sweet chocolate I'd always preferred.

I'm over that, now. Dark chocolate is coarse and bitter, something for caged birds to sharpen their beaks on...

...so if the big manufacturers want to reduce the cost of ingredients and make proper milk chocolate inferior, to hell with them.

Sorry Stemar. Enjoy that dark muck. I'm fighting diabetes too and as a rule I don't let chocolate in the house.

 

[Gary Fox]

The new Cadburys Creme Egg advertisement is definitely aiming to broaden their customer base. Here's a still, make of it what you will, I have no comment..

 

[Greenheart]

?

They need to learn to eat with their mouths shut.

 

[pvb]

Are we sure that's creme egg filling?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

SWMBO bought a bar of Lidl white chocolate a while ago.

I know Milky Bar is incredibly sweet, nearly too sweet, and similarly creamy, but the Lidl equivalent was unpleasantly like snappable plastic, in comparison. Not really chocolate, I concluded - or perhaps like rations found at the site of Captain Scott's tent, 15 years later.

Certainly not a product we'll buy again.

You haven't eaten chocolate until you've eaten it in the polar regions. Mind, you'd better have good teeth - you could easily break a tooth on it, no matter what brand it was. But as a lunch break snack, deep frozen chocolate takes some beating.

We had some excellent Icelandic chocolate last year; not a country you associate with chocolate!

 

[half tonner]

What about Wagon Wheels? Are they still made, or have they shrunk to trolley wheels? Used to love them.
Not allowed too much sweet stuff in our house, The wife watches both our weights.
Whilst I complain bitterly, I am rather glad she does, as I seem to put on weight just looking at anything with chocolate in it.
The difficult part is taking it off again & with lockdown reducing the activities, burning it off becomes even harder.

 

[Greenheart]

I seem to remember Wagon Wheels not having much in common with chocolate, even forty years ago.

A layer of some sort of marsh mallow, a lot like those spongey bags they pack electrical goods in, inside cardboard boxes...

...and some sort of never-very-crisp biscuit. The chocolate appeared to have been painted on, very thinly.

They do seem to be available, though...but read the reviews first.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

A layer of some sort of marsh mallow, a lot like those spongey bags they pack electrical goods in, inside cardboard boxes...

Marshmallow has a surprising history - a millennium old Arabic recipe.

Marshmallow creme - Wikipedia

 

[Greenheart]

I won't say a word against real marshmallow - and thank you for pointing out that it's one word.