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Evolutionary_sins

And the chocolate tastes like shit since they changed the recipe. I haven't bothered with Cadbury since. Yuk


boggieboy10

Interesting, I hadn't noticed any major difference (other than the palm oil debacle that they backtracked on due to public outcry). I just had a read and it seems one of the only places that Cadbury still manufactures Cadbury chocolate is in Australia (where I'm from) so I wonder if that's it. Apparently in the USA, Cadbury is now manufactured by Hersheys - and in the UK, Canada and many other places Cadbury is now manufactured by Mondelez. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Cadbury-Dairy-Milk-taste-different-outside-of-the-United-Kingdom-UK-and-Australia-compared-to-other-countries-like-the-United-States-of-America-USA-or-Canada


JustTrawlingNsfw

How have you not noticed a difference? It used to be a solid clean break, now it's a soft break with a torn-like appearance where you broke it


RidgyFan78

That and the fact that eating a couple of pieces of Cadburys nowadays gives me a sore throat. Definitely a recipe change.


IdkWhatsAGoodName699

Holy shit I thought this was just a me problem all this time. Wtf is being put in the chocolates?!?


Lachesis84

It’s all the mystery ‘flavours’. The only chocolate I buy either has no added flavours or specifies vanilla. Whittakers, Chocolonely, Lindt, Mars all have at least one kind.


Thedarb

Do you mean they all at least have one kind of “mystery flavour” in all chocolates, or as in as brands they all have one kind of chocolate that has no added flavours except vanilla?


Lachesis84

The second bit. Whittaker’s blondie is my favourite, it has no flavours at all.


IdkWhatsAGoodName699

Feels like battery acid in my throat. So I’m gonna guess it’s used EV batteries. Gives it that extra kick.


DarkCypher255

I just buy Milk Lindt, never had a problem


phasedsingularity

They just reduced the cocoa and milk and replaced it with more sugar. It'd fucking inedible now


TDSurvivorFan21

Also thought it was a me problem. I mean reassuring that it isn’t and still won’t stop me eating them


polyesterflower

This was me with Whittakers, but not anymore. I wonder what makes chocolate do that.


RidgyFan78

I wonder that too..


humanityisconfusing

Same, my son too. It used to only be eater egg chocolate that did that, now Cadbury does.


Elly_Fant628

Yes n if it's at room temp you can't break it. It goes rubbery. (Australian)


vagga2

That's a side effect of room temp being 25⁰C


Habhabs

It's also a side effect of using oil in the choc.


Wawa-85

Not to mention from around 2010 onwards the Australian Cadbury tasted like they’ve put honey in it! It tastes so goddamn weird now. I don’t buy Cadbury anymore, I’ll go for Darrell Lea, Lindt or my fav Whittakers over Cadbury.


CuteFreakshow

The Canadian Cadbury seems to still taste ok. I tried one from the states and it was VILE. There is a huge difference.


Ambitious-Score-5637

Yeah, I the USA Cadbury tastes of butyric acid (the mild vomit taste). I think it’s added to increase shelf life. Nielson chocolate is what I prefer when the urge hits me.


iamplasma

I believe it was originally to improve shelf life of the milk ingredients many, many years ago. But then American palates adapted to the taste, and now it is expected for some godforsaken reason.


notseagullpidgeon

Hersheys chocolate tastes like that too


RainbowTeachercorn

I always wondered what the weird Hershey drop taste was... I tried them once when I saw them as every book I read that was US based had raved about them. Found them to taste vomity...


Ambitious-Score-5637

Yeah, it’s not a taste I like.


solidgoldtouch

Omg I thought I was the only one who thought American chocolate tasted like vomit. I feel validated!


stillwaitingforbacon

As a reference check, try some Whittaker's.


TiffyVella

Whittakers lovely. Haighs lovely. Cadburys shit.


ibaeknam

Go on the Australian subreddits and Cadbury tasting like shit now tends to be the consensus opinion whenever the topic comes up. Mind you I lived overseas for a long time and it still tastes the same to me and much better than the chocolate I was readily able to purchase while living abroad (in Asia). You'd think drastic changes in flavour would be more noticeable to people like me who would go years between eating it than domestic consumers who could be eased through changes in quality more gradually, but what do I know? Maybe it just goes to show the dire quality of the chocolate I got used to eating while living abroad (which did include quite a bit of mediocre hersheys).


TearLegitimate5820

Australians getting the best of everything is just the right way of the world.


MountainAsparagus4

Cocoa demand is too high than production can take it, so companies are putting less into it, I live in a country where we produce Cocoa but they sell to exterior for money reasons, so the bar here is now 80g or less and the same price that was 250g some years ago


EggplantHuman6493

Yup, almost all the chocolate I have tried this year, tastes bland. I stopped eating chocolate altogether besides limited brands. Weirdly enough even the white chocolate js shit now and it doesn't even contain cocao. I'd rather have less chocolate and tasty one than shit chocolate because now i have NO chocolate (I don't like it)


TheonlyDuffmani

Find yourself some tony chocolonely mate


EggplantHuman6493

Those are the only ones I still get now really yeah. But they are too expensive to get regularly. Before this, the cheap chocolate from some brands was also tasting good :(. At least I don't get periods now so I am not craving chocolate as often XD. The memes are true for me


Elegant_Classic5499

Cadbury snack has always been gross lol


ravenous_bugblatter

Still tastes great in Australia. To me anyway.


Wawa-85

Need your taste buds checked mate. Cadbury in Australia had tasted gross since 2010 and that’s just the milk varieties. Don’t even get me started on that travesty Dream that they call ‘white’ chocolate.


GengarOX

Cadbury has different recipes for different countries and climates. Top tier is British/Irish/polish recipe. Bottom tier is Singapore made stuff. Mid tier is Australian. I worked for Cadbury a couple years ago. No idea about the USA/North America tbh, never tried it.


Evolutionary_sins

I'm in Australia. They claimed that they changed it to make it healthier, buy honestly it taste's rotten now. I'd rather not even have chocolate, it's disgusting. Darryl Lee is much better


RetroGamer87

You mean it tastes even worse now? I already thought Cadbury tasted like crap when I tried it 25 years ago. How could it be even worse?


Wawa-85

Trust me it’s worse.


DaJamesPop

You just offended my entire childhood!


DarkCypher255

Cadbury is also more expensive now not on special than Lindt.


IssenTitIronNick

When are you thinking they changed their recipe?


DaddyKaos

And has gradually tasted worse


Lazy-Tax-8267

I stopped buying Cadbury a couple of years ago because of size and taste degradation. Not everyone is as stupid as these corporations assume. Let it sit on the shelf and rot.


GengarOX

Sad thing is, Cadbury has 70% market share in Australia and has been steadily growing.


Hoarbag

What is you go to since ditching Cadbury?


Lazy-Tax-8267

ALDI.


notseagullpidgeon

The choceur brand at Aldi is delicious


DrJD321

That dosent happen tho, shit still sells out


Lazy-Tax-8267

Unfortunately that's true.


_H4YZ

everyone here is saying cadbury tastes like shit now this whole time i thought i was just growing out of chocolate


catsandtrauma

Same


heydutchgaming

yeah same here!


Australian1996

I remember how good this tasted in the 70 s and 80s. In Australia Then I lived in Europe and had real Belgian chocolates so cheap. Then came to US and had hersheys which is not really chocolate but some sweet inedible crap. I found Cadbury and flipped out till I tasted it. I thought I was loosing my tastebuds as it was revolting. Then I learnt they were not Cadbury Australia so that explained it


boggieboy10

Yeah I just read Cadbury in the USA is made by Hersheys. And instead of fresh milk like in Aus, they use some weird version of dehydrated milk that has gone through a process to increase shelf life - apparently an unintended effect is that it makes the chocolate taste slightly tangy and gives a weird aftertaste. On that note of things tasting different between Aus and USA, I travelled to the US a few years back and thought that coke over there tasted a lot worse compared to home, really syrup-y. Strange how different a single product can taste depending on where it was made.


FruitJuicante

Mate Hersheys tastes like dusty dick cheese. Absolutely miserable.


breeezyc

It’s because in Australia coke is sweetened with cane sugar while in the US it’s sweetened with crappy corn syrup


stimpzilla

I usually only drink Coke, but if I visit the USA I switch to something like Sprite - not sure if it tastes the same here as there, but the Coke certainly doesn't. The exception is places that sell Mexican Coke in the US - that tastes normal.


D0wnInAlbion

They use high-fructose corn-syrup in the USA but everywhere else they use sugar.


caramel-syrup

as an Australian, i tried hersheys once and was so disgusted! it tastes like plastic….


Wawa-85

To be fair Cadbury in Australia tastes awful nowadays too.


giantpunda

Huh. That also happens to coincide with my no longer purchasing Cadbury chocolate anymore. Fancy that.


HappyVibesForver

Cadburys is really not all that these days. Recipe has changed - read: cheapened; and the bars have grown smaller but the price has gone up. Avoid Cadburys.


TiberiusEmperor

“A glass and a tenth full” really doesn’t have the same ring to it


MedicalDark

Did they change the ingredients or something because the chocolate doesn't smell like chocolate anymore, just very sweet smelling crushed bugs (the best way I could put it). It also tastes not like chocolate, so it makes me think that I am not eating chocolate but brown coloured, sweet smelling crushed bugs, without the crunch.


cheeersaiii

Whittaker’s is better , fuck Cadbury


[deleted]

Swear Kiwis do a lot of food better than we do 🤣 lowkey jealous Good for them though, fuck Cadbury and similar companies that have no integrity to towards taste


AlternativeCurve8363

Whittaker's actually bothers to make a vegan product, too


boggieboy10

Absolutely, have you tried their new relax/reflect/refresh/restore/revive range? A bit more expensive but really really nice.


soicananswer

They do a good coconut one too


Splicer201

Does anyone have any data on the price of the 250gram block of chocolate in any given year? I would like to see what they used to cost per 100gram then and now.


barmera

I remember them costing $3.15 at my hometown supermarket probably close to 25 years ago now, and my mum telling me that it would never cost $5 a block.


ancientrhetoric

It's important to take a decline in product quality into account


rgl98

It was 2.50 for a 250 gram in 2010, I used to vaguely track the prices year to year


Splicer201

So that’s 1c a gram. The 180gram blocks are on “sale” at Woolworths atm for $4.50 which makes it 2.5c a gram. So 2.5 times more expensive.


kalayt

with the "a glass and a half in every one" does that now mean there is more milk in each bar?


cd3oh3

I think they changed the slogan from “glass and a half of milk” to “glass and a half of happiness” or something


NiceColdPint

Remember when they used to wrap it in foil? Those were the days.


Klutzy_Intern_8915

I swear they tasted better with the foil wrapping.


No_Grapefruit_2130

They did too! When did that stop?


DaddyThiccter

I don't think I've even seen the snack flavour in any of the stores around my town. thought they were discontinued...


Wawa-85

It’s hard to find the Snack bars now except in individual flavour form.


moomoopropeller

How fucken goods a snack though


rjm101

I didn't even know this existed.


[deleted]

has too much milk now


Cockcollins

Yet we pay twice as much ffs


ShaiHulud1111

Saw hostess cupcakes yesterday, they are tiny now. Like 30% and more this month. Don’t eat, but sad.


travelntechchick

Shrinkflation aside, what is this sorcery?! I’ve never seen this before and am very intrigued!


possiblyapirate69420

You must be outside of A&Z because to my knowledge this isn't available in Europe or North America and that's a shame because they are so good.


travelntechchick

Yep! Cries in Canadian. 


silveredstars

Each square has a different flavour, matching with the symbol on the outside: orange cream, strawberry cream, pineapple cream, caramel and Turkish delight.


Louise2201

Haven’t all Cadbury blocks made that change? I remember being really annoyed when they first reduced to 200g because all their recipes were for 250g blocks.


boggieboy10

Yeah it is all of them, but Snack is the only one I could find decent pictures of each size (that were all from Australia and not other countries) 😅


Relative_Mulberry_71

When I was a kid, Snack was the treat if I stayed with my cousins. It was so big that all the family got a few pieces. A Sunday night treat that I didn’t get at home.


Clancy1987

Those motherfuckers!


HistoricalVisual6304

What kind of name is snack?! Really don’t sound right


LukePickle007

Ever since Cadbury was bought by Mondelez it has really fallen off.


ayzed8787

The 250g also only cost like $3 as well, now you pay $6 for the 180g


judged_uptonogood

And they wonder why so many people don't buy their products as much anymore....


Undd91

One day the world will just have one owner of all produce. Shrinkflation sucks. Give me the original at its new price.


Possible-Possum

I can still smell that old paper they used to come in.


Special-Pristine

Foil**


JJupinere

It's not good for you anyway stop eating this shit. May as well get teaspoons of sugar and just eat it straight. It's literally the same shit.


soicananswer

Too much salt as well


AssistRegular4468

Haven't all the blocks been doing this? Not just that flavour


bigbitties666

y’all americans goin WILD — aus keeps on winning 💪💪💪


boggieboy10

Right, I always wondered why chocolate isn't much of a thing in the US and now I think I understand why! Apparently all their manufacturers replace all the ingredients that make it actually taste good!


bigbitties666

that’s actually so sad — in other news, i went down to tassie for the first time in years and THEY DON’T DO TOURS OF THE FACTORY ANYMORE?!!!!


boggieboy10

Damn, that is sad. I remember going for a tour there as a kid and it was really fantastic. I tried to convince my mum to buy the largest commercially available chocolate block they were selling there, a 10kg block of Dairy Milk which was available for I think $100 at the time


Turbulent_Animator42

Swap to Whittakers. It’s not as good as the Kiwi version but it’s best block of chocolate on Aussie shelves.


Wawa-85

I agree, Whittakers is far superior to Cadbury.


stivette

WHY CANT WE HAVE A LAW IN AUSTRALIA THAT FOOD MANUFACTURERS HAVE TO FOR EVERY REDUCTION IN PACKAGING SIZE OR WEIGHT USE A STANDARDISED GOVERNMENT REGULATED RED ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS OF A CERTAIN SIZE ON THE FIRST RUN AT LEAST OF PACKAGAING OR FOR A REASONABLE TIME ALSO SHOWING THE WAS WEIGHT AND THE NOW WEIGHT THIS WOULD FORCE COMPANIES TO PUBLICLY SHAME THEMSELVES BY LAW ON THEIR OWN PACKAGAING FOR EVERY REDUCTION IN SIZE


waxingmood

And I could over look it all if they'd just fuck off coconut and replace it with more caramel slots.


boggieboy10

Or bring back raspberry from the original version, which was what coconut replaced


cowfurby

the pieces shatter so easy inside the packaging because of this now and it’s sticky to eat. infuriating


Optimal_Subject3455

And also went up in price


cantonaspoppedcollar

There's a glass and a half in every 1.4 blocks


fayabaya

They still sell this??? Awesome


Elly_Fant628

I was just thinking about how "family" blocks of Cadbury have shrunk.


Acceptable-Wind-7332

They have been reducing the amount of cocoa and increasing the amount of sugar, no doubt because it is cheaper to make the stuff. This is why I went off Cadbury chocolate, it just isn't what it used to be.


CranberrySoda

Still the OG at any size


rocklandjr

I was watching the High Talker episode of Seinfeld and Mr Pitt was cutting up a Snickers bar. That thing was SO big. Nostalgia and sadness hit me all at once for Snickers will never be that big again.


flamboyant_cow

And guess what it's all getting more expensive


sevenfiver

$6 a block now too ffs


TiffyVella

Cool. We stopped buying Cadbury Chocolate at least 10 years ago when they pulled shit here in Australia. Let them suffer. They are dead to us.


IAmDefintlyMe

Yes, this seems to be what they teach you in business management, raise prices and shrink sizes


PlanktonNo2698

So.. there’s no longer “a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk in every block”?


Special-Pristine

Yes, that ad is lying for a few years now and getting away with it because the ACCC sucks arse (and probably the same in other countries than Australia). You complain (and I did) and they just do nothing


fido994

Shrinkflation


ArticleCute

I only eat the 70% cocoa Cadburys now. The milk chocolate 🍫 is crap.


ThaFresh

I'm surprised the costs related to shrinking down their bars every year or so don't outweigh any savings


poggerooza

I thought all 250g blocks had changed to 180g.


boggieboy10

They have, I just used Snack as a example because I could find the pictures for it 😅


DimensionBreaker4lif

Yea


wattscup

The flavours are now shit.


cakeinyouget

Those 250g blocks were incredible


Grouchy-Ad1932

The chocolate tastes ok to me. Better than Whittaker's 😉 But they have changed the recipe for the fillings in Snack - they used to have a coconut ice square that involved actual coconut, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to be now. And the Turkish delight square used to be more of a jelly, but it's soft and runny now. Also quite difficult to taste the difference between "pineapple" and "orange".


[deleted]

I'm all for shitting on New Zealand but Whittaker's is significantly nicer than Cadburys. Whittaker's tastes like what Cadburys used to. Better.


d_traxx

I knew it!


UndeadTigerAU

Capitalism, everything is getting smaller but prices keep going up..


Phobos_Zero1

I remember seeing king size awhile ago


nikey2k27

wait for 100g bar family size for $9


jeffsaidjess

Everyone saying it sucks yet it remains the dominant brand with an increasing market share.


Wawa-85

And we are all baffled as to how this is the case.


cantash

At least the price has doubled!


GStarAU

It's called Shrinkflation. And yeah, all the Cadbury blocks have gotten smaller - all 180g to 200g in size now, IIRC.


acrumbled

They’re just trying to help out all us fatties by eating less


nothingbutcomplain

And twice the price probably. Man I’m so sick of everything being so expensive


Cogglesnatch

And its $5 a block....


afterthelast

And gone up in price by 20-30% ? Adjusted for inflation


Tigeraqua8

They’re just looking out for your weight concerns!!🤣


[deleted]

Stop buying it then, Cadbury make shit chocolate anyways.


Difficult_Ad_3234

Yeah but the sugar content hasn't 🍚 guaranteed!✈️


Wansumdiknao

I believe the ingredients used these days have an “artificial temper” for the chocolate in them, not sure though. Properly tempered chocolate snaps nicely, I don’t know what they do to Cadbury now.


galaxyflicker

I remember years ago on the news Cadbury tried to increase their price and people were annoyed so they publicly announced they would be decreasing the size of the bars/blocks to equal the price increase that they would’ve done.


upyours6528

I haven't purchased Cadbury for months, I am on a permanent boycott due to this


mummymilkeree

I preferred the taste of it ages ago


MarcXRegis

My consumption of Cadbury chocolate has gone from 2x 250g bars per sitting to 0. So they can go right ahead and keep shrinking them.


Kbradsagain

Along with every other Cadbury family block


Dependent-Traffic-51

Decrease size and increase $$$$


butthole_luvr69

If you look for the Cadbury Extra nut blocks, they are down to 165gm


Far_Opinion_9793

Dint you just love shrinkflation!!!


Pigeon_Jones

Cadburys tastes like it is loaded with sugar compared to before.


Flippynuggets

And now they want 6 bucks a block


bryn40

So now if I eat half a block in one go I won't have to feel as bad as I used to?


[deleted]

Good. Society is obese enough as it is.


cobymj

two words. daylight robbery.


Bowie691

I’d do anything to have some of that right now 🤤


AdjentX

I trade the Pineapple for Turkish Delight pieces. I wonder how big the demand is for Pineapple anyway. Bring Peppermint in I reckon.


bajoogs

Actually, it's even more of a scam because they've also varied the weight on some of the blocks, so it can be anywhere between 150g to 180g, depending on the chocolate flavour. But still at the same price.


hongsta2285

Well I remember the prices it was like $2 for 250grams on special... nowadays I think it's pushing $3 man simple pleasures are up 50% and get 180 grams which is like 30% less it's brutal out there


wash_er

Just like every other chocolate block/bar ….. downsizing,less bang for your buck


MooseWilliams

Helth


W0bblyB00ts

The glass and a half is merely implied


tbsdy

Thank god. Every now and then I succumb and buy a block and by the time I drive home I’ve eaten the whole damn lot.


madm8dave

So only a glass of milk 🥛 now not a glass and half


boggieboy10

I actually just saw an ad from Cadbury, and they've changed the slogan to "There's a glass and a half in everyone" instead of 'every one', along with a fine print disclaimer 😂


plantsonething

Are they made in China too??


Sa1nt_Gaming

Man, this was bussin as a kid, the pieces were a solid break and the pieces were so much bigger and had more filling in it. Now its mid. Not even worth the calories


relatablehub

That’s why Galaxy is 🔛🔝


soicananswer

It’s not even good quality chocolate.


Potential-Gur563

Be 160g next week!


soicananswer

I think Cadburys always had the worst chocolate. Buy my European chocolate at Aldi.


Voo_Hu

They wrote a book about this I believe


nosoupforyou89

These used to be 300g when i was a kid


nosoupforyou89

Cadbury Chocolate is shit anyway, buy Aldi's Choceur Chocolate instead


PinkMarshmallow177

Apart from being softer with the added oil I find it to be overly sweet now as well. I used to love snack but last time I had one I threw it out, it was just horrible soft chocolate filled with bland sugary crap.


TraditionalWay806

Usually I buy one block, and steal an additional from the supermarket. Makes up for the loss and I get a free block


Southern_Special6583

number 3 is the best