Chocolate

Cadburys were taken over by an American company and I believe they use different ingredients, principally the swap from cocoa butter to other fats.

I'm not sure where they make the fruit and nut case now whitewave.
Some of their operation was moved to Poland when they closed the Bristol plant after promising to keep it open.

Another bee in my bonnet
I hope this bee looks very cross:

Yes it has ! The new American owners didn't feel a glass and a half of milk in every bar was necessary

The Americans have absolutely no idea what good chocolate - or any chocolate - should taste like. Have you ever had a Hershey Bar? ?

I have never tried one

Some of the chocolate you buy abroad has an ingredient in it which stops it melting in the heat.
It also stops it melting in your mouth.

The changed the recipe for all sorts of their products. Have you seen how small this year's crème eggs are?

I don't buy any kraft products.
They broke their promise

Cadbury chocolate should still be made in Bourneville.
It should have never been sold out of the country
(jamila my bee in the bonnet also )

It was a national institution.
IMO Cadbury chocolate buttons was the best chocolate in the world

Other brands sold out abroad
HP sauce
Branston Pickle

Well I for one won't be buying it again, totally inferior.

I don't buy any Cadbury products anymore due to the Kraft takeover, and besides which, the taste has changed for the worst. Americans do not make good chocolate, far too sweet and waxy. The chocolate sold in Aldi is far superior.

Cadbury's Roses chocolates have also deteriorated. If I buy chocolate, which I haven't done since I became 'low carb', I get it from Aldi or Lidl whose chocolate is (IMHO) infinitely superior.

I agree about Aldi chocolate. It's very good. I had a large box of chocs from DH this Christmas which he bought from Hotel Chocolat. I was really disappointed with them to be honest, but until he said, this evening, that he thought they weren't a patch on Aldi's chocolates and he didn't know what all the fuss as about, I had not wanted to say anything! Cadburys can't even make an effort with the wrappings on their Roses now either.

Most choc now has too much sugar in it, you eat 2 or 3 and need a drink of water.
Belgian, German, Swiss are the best.

Hershey's is really nasty !!

Neither of my girls will eat it either .... and that's saying something !

Having lost my sense of taste 6 years ago I've realised just how sweet some chocolate really is - Cadbury's and Thorntons are the worst - unfortunately lack of taste doesn't stop the craving

I don't buy Cadbury's anymore and that in itself has helped me break my addiction to chocolate. I like Green and Black's but I think they are owned by Cadbury so it can't be long before they ruin that.. Hotel Chocolate is nice for teats but on the whole I prefer Lindt and save that for birthdays and Christmas

oops treats!

I like Cadbury chocolate. Much prefer it to the really rich dark stuff which seems to be in vogue nowadays. I know Kraft have taken it over but there is no way it tastes like the established awful American stuff. I like mushy sliced white bread occasionally too, lovely for a jam sandwich. I shall now go back to my cave with the rest of the Philistines

When we lived in Germany near to an American army base I was eager to try a Hershey bar, one of my biggest disappointments ever. It was like the cheapest cooking chocolate, horrible.
When I was a child we lived near Bourneville & my aunt was a secretary at Cadburys, she used to bring me big sheets of the printed tin foil used for chocolate wrappers, no comparison with today's.

Disappointed when treating a Ladies Tea Party to Cadbury Choc Finger biscuits to find them changed-and inferior. Coating is lumoy and thin and reeks of vanilla. I adore vanilla but it ought not to predominate in chocolate-not even sure it should be used at all...

Americans happened to Cadburys...........explains everything.

I tried a Hershey bar and had to spit it out. How anyone can eat it - it looks and tastes like something you might use to get stubborn burnt on bits off the cooker.

And where Cadburys used Fairtrade cocoa products, Kraft quietly stopped doing that too. I've been buying Aldi chocolate for the last three or four years, so much nicer!

Our grandsons were born in America and have always lived there. When asked what they would like us to take when we visit, we know the answer will always be "A big bar of English chocolate" which to them means Cadbury's!
I wonder if they will notice, I bet they do - you can't fool kids!

The absolute best chocolate I have had recently is the Aldi chocolate brazils.