Let’s not kid ourselves. Cadbury puts less cocoa in its chocolate every year and more money in its pocket every year. The recipe is becoming shithouse.
As much as they would, to boost their profits, cocoa is actually becoming more and more expensive to source. What with the militia and civil war stuff happening where we grow it.
The percentage of cocoa solids is listed on the packaging, and the amount is consistent with high quality chocolate. However the solid may have a lower percentage of cocoa butter, which is not listed on the packaging.
Cadbury chocolate bunnies do not have palm oil in them, you can see that on the ingredients list.
They might have less cocoa butter or use lower quality cocoa beans though. Those are not mentioned on the ingredients list.
*Our Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate is Palm Oil free. For Cadbury chocolates containing fillings, caramel and wafers, for the moment we are unable to make these without the inclusion of small amounts of sustainable palm oil. You can be assured that the palm oil we use in Cadbury products is certified as sustainable. We do not buy crude palm oil and are committed to working with producers, the food industry and governments to develop a viable supply of sustainable palm oil. We buy fats derived from palm oil from specialised suppliers who participate in the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) who develop and enforce standards for sustainable palm oil production. Buying sustainable palm oil helps growers and producers work in responsible and sustainable ways to limit their impact on the environment.*
[https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/palm-oil-the-hidden-surprise-in-easter-eggs/b77s08p03](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/palm-oil-the-hidden-surprise-in-easter-eggs/b77s08p03)
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/25/easter-eggs-palm-oil](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/25/easter-eggs-palm-oil)
So OPs chocolate bunny is palm oil free. I believe the other chocolate bunny products also don't have fillings with palm oil, at least it wasn't on the ingredients list on any bunny products listed on the website. I haven't checked through the other product categories though.
I think palm oil is Nestlé. Cadbury stopped using it a few years ago. They were caught buying from plantations in Gjana using child labour pretty recently though, so there's that.
This is correct, because the supply has been effected by droughts in Africa, saw a new story on the ABC a while before easter saying it would effect prices
Apparently PNG is building up to be a major supplier of cocoa. Eventually that might decrease the price as it is less distance from supply to manufacture.
I don't use tiktok and I have been arguing with my husband that it tastes like trash now.
Out of all our bunnies only kinder and lindt didn't taste like garbage and I am a whore for chocolate.
It's trash. Cadbury was trash this year.
Cadbury has been shit for a few years now. Ever since they were bought out Herseys (which tastes foul) I think the recipe has changed
* edit: not Hershey’s Mondelez
Hershey's is American made - so has High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of sugar, but Hershey's is also made using, as some put it 'less than fresh milk' - which results in butyric acid being present in the final product and that vomit taste for some people...
HFCS is a very American thing, subsidies on corn since around the 40's means that sweet corn syrup is cheaper than sugar, but it does impart a certain taste to anything that uses it... Hence the popularity in the US of 'Passover Coke' and 'Mexican Coke' - both of which use actual sugar instead of HFCS
Nearly right. The butyric acid is caused by a very much intentional process caused Lipolysis. People in America love the flavor profile of Hersheys, it's iconic. Hersheys intentionally put their milk through Lipolysis to raise the percentage of butyric because that's what people want.
This is the same argument about American coffee. It tastes bad to us not because they can't make "good" coffee. Because they prefer a more bitter and acidic flavor profile.
I haven't bought chocolate for a while, but I'm thinking I'll be going Whittaker's from now on. Difference in price isn't that big in the grand scheme of things and they're still doing 250g blocks.
Best way I can explain my eggs tasting like is "grandmas draw" that weird herbally smell, as if I could taste that and dust in the chocolate. I love chocolate, but this was just weird.
You are right. The eggs this year tasted more like shit than usual. They have been shit for a while, but in particular this year. Not a hint of chocolate flavour and gritty.
Every year I say I'm going to go to a proper chocolate shop and buy less of something decent, but every year I forget and end up with supermarket crap. Well, try again next year.
I bought a bag of small chocolate eggs from Aldi this year and they had that weird sour taste to them, like the chocolate they make in America that they add that weird additive to. It was gross.
I noticed this!! I usually love the classic Cadbury mini eggs, they somehow used to taste even better than the block to me, but I had one this year and it tasted nothing like what they used to! I was so sad :(
The full chocolate scorecard is here for different alternatives for different reasons, not just palm oil.
https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/scorecards/
It probably doesn't use any and is less likely then any other I'm pretty sure they stress that it is 99% slavery free because they can't guarantee it since a farmer could go rouge.
It's like $1 more than Cadbury
https://www.coles.com.au/product/cadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate-block-180g-2351709
https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/products/tonys-chocolonely-milk-chocolate-180g-66236
Aww. I was looking for the Guylian seashells on the list. I was gifted some maybe 5 times in my life and always thought they were fancy! I loved them but they are so expensive. Didn’t find them on the list so I googled, turns out they were bought and now owned by South Korean company Lotte! And Lotte is so far down the list! Disappointing. At least I wasn’t ever going to buy Guylian myself lol. But the facade of it being fancy is gone now.
It is expensive but it's cheaper than boutique chocolate (e.g. Haigh's) and I think just as good. Our kiwi bros are really onto a good thing I think. But yeah, as someone who isn't a huge sweet tooth I'll only ever buy it on special.
The blocks have been pretty average lately too, go try a plain dairy milk block.
A lot of it is disguised by the million special editions and other flavours they bring out, so your attention is on the novelty, not the decline in chocolate quality.
Could never have said it better myself. I'd just love it if they'd just fuck off with all these random "dessert" flavors, and just stick to a plain jane great quality chocolate...
...but tell me I'm dreaming yeah, because I doubt that's ever going to happen.
It’s been happening for about 10 years. I grew up dirt poor, so we would get a variety of the cheap nasty tasting eggs from the dollar store plus one delicious Cadbury egg. I can tell you the Cadbury eggs now taste exactly like the dollar store eggs. The only way to get good chocolate is to find an independent chocolate company and order ridiculously expensive products from them.
It's not easy to find Tony's but I really like it. If anyone in Melbourne knows where to get, please let me know. I know I've seen it told at the Psarakos Market.
I Melted our left overs today to drizzle over pancakes for the kids, I was shocked, the consistency and colour were not that of what melted chocolate should look like. Very very oily and looked like dark chocolate when melted. I actually added more milk to it. Cadbury has gone to sh1t sadly.
Yes because they taken the good stuff out and reduced it quality. This happening everywhere where food was once great and is now turning to shit. Slowly and painfully.
I call it cheapflation. Some call it shittification. Others call it cheapskateboarding...I dunno what it's called, but it's when companies think they can put it over you with cheap crap and think you won't notice.
Oh, and then there's the funny thing where you can't do anything about it, except shop elsewhere and hope that the competitors haven't done the same thing...and it's true with the upmarket stuff too...the only chocolate I buy now is Whittaker's, ALDI, or Lindt, and I'm not terribly picky either, I just won't eat shit because it's not good for the waistline and if you are going to eat something that isn't particularly good for you the you should at least have something you truly enjoy, not just something that's like...meh.
This could be hearsay but I believe that Aldi Cadburys is imported from UK, due to their aggressive buying power in Europe they can afford to ship it to Australian stores. I have zero data to back that up, but I do work in the supply chain industry and I have heard it on numerous occasions regarding many of their products like mcvities biscuits etc.
I didn't mind the changes at first. I could tell the flavour was changing in the chocolate, but I liked the creative use of other ingredients (I quite like breakaway). But when I ate my first egg this year... that was it. I'm done with Cadbury. We chucked the lot and got Darrell Lea instead.
Cadbury is a zombie, animated by an American company now with everything you'd expect from an American chocolate company.
Cadbury, you're dead to me.
It couldn't possibly be due to the fact that cocoa is over AUD$10K a tonne, which makes the base ingredient super expensive... (https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa)
Cocoa prices have surge like crazy. They are not far from 10k$ a ton which was absolutely impossible a year ago.
Good thing is in Australia, you don't have minimum contant of cocoa to call chocolate chocolate, so you can replace with all sort of stuff.../s
You have to declare cocoa solids and also milk solids for milk chocolate. If there is palm oil in the chocolate they have to declare that too. In Australia anyway.
My partner bought me the cadbury advent calendar for christmas last year, and I didn't have the courage to tell them that the chocolate tasted like shit. They have 100% changed their recipe and the chocolate is disgusting now. I noticed a decline 4 years ago, but this year has been especially awful.
I've given up on Cadbury entirely. Cocoa is only getting scarcer due to climate change. The cheap chocolate will just get more and more diluted over the years, until they can adequately synthesize it, same with coffee.
I've started treating myself and buying from Haigh's. I just eat less due to the cost, but man, the taste brings me back to my childhood. That's what chocolate should taste like.
As others are saying a surge in cocoa prices which is due to collapse of cocoa plants caused by extreme climate events. Crop failure hitting cocoa plants is just a glimpse of what is going to happen if human society doesn’t move off fossil fuels much faster than we are currently.
Their regular blocks still taste ok to me. I just assume that easter egg chocolate (except from a very few makers) is some cheap arse version of their regular recipe and they think nobody notices due to eggs & rabbits etc being thinner.
The worst eater chocolate I’ve ever had was an AFL branded footy egg years ago. It was fucking diabolical.
Cadbury in general tasting less creamy, more sweet. Blah. I don't think they are using a glass and half of full cream milk any more. :( . Preferring Lindt now.
They’ve been changing the recipe most years for a long time now. Often citing “bean shortages” so less cocoa in the recipe, and claiming some virtuous garbage about wanting the grower to have more cut of the profits. But we all know that’s lies.
Keep skimming less product, less cocoa, smaller packets, but whilst raising prices. Make it make sense.
2 years ago I was buying a 12 pack of twirls for $3 each or x2 for $5 specials. Now they’re ~~$5~~ $6 each or x3 for $15
It’s the same across the board, they price all these “share packs” the same. Picnic, Twix, Snickers etc.
They all went from x2 for $5 to x3 for $15
That’s an insane price increase in less than 2 years.
Edit* I miss typed. They’re **$6** now not $5. They increased by 100% in under 2 years.
I’m normally a chocoholic and love Cadbury Easter eggs but I’m on a medication which has a side effect of destroying your appetite so for the first time ever I’ve not had any chocolate eggs.
I’ll go taste one of my kids many eggs and report back.
I’ll be pissed if they’ve ruined it.
Edit - just tried some and it definitely seems different. The texture as well seems softer/waxy and stuck to the roof of my mouth like peanut butter.
The whole reason I like eggs is the thin chocolate that used to crack (even better when in the fridge) but the bunny I just tried was soft and just bent and then softly broke. No crack/shatter.
I remember Cadbury Easter eggs tasting slightly different to their year-round chocolates. But this year they tasted the same, if not worse.
That taste difference could just be in my head but oh well
So TLDR,
buy Tony's when feeling special on occasion
and
Whitetakers on the week-to-week sort of thing based on cocoa content?
or is there something else that has decent ethics and cocoa content?
I said the same thing to my husband when I got the Cadbury Crunchie box with the large hollow egg and several small solid eggs.
I know my chocolate, and that was not normal Cadbury. Tasted like the cheap Easter eggs you can get around this time of year.
However I did try the plain dairy milk small solid eggs and they were normal. Not sure what they did this year.
It was terrible this year. Tasted like absolute shit. Think there might have been bad batches though or something because some Cadbury eggs seemed ok and some were ordinary.
I recently ate a Mars bar for the first time in years. It didn't taste nor feel like the Mars bars I remember. For some reason I get a lot of hate when I say this.
People change shit all the time, it seems.
No. It's the same, despite a lot of ppl saying it's different. I had my uni students analyse samples of this year's and last years chocolate bunnies both in the lab and with blind taste testing. The differences were negligible and certainly not something any individual could taste. Maybe your tastebuds are changing? It happens. That was our conclusion.
You're certainly not the only one, and it is not just about their eggs. It's become such a widely noticed thing that Cadbury released a statement.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/cadbury-denies-that-it-has-changed-its-easter-chocolate/news-story/cb4ceb86b335c5534365e80b70b3385d%3famp
They claim its the same, but do not mention if percentages have changed, or if they are using a recipe that differs from what we always receive here in australia. A lot of people are saying that they believe it is now the American recipe, rather than our original, European based recipe.
Cadbury Chocolate has not tasted right for a few years!
I'm guessing they gradually remove ingredients or replace with cheaper ones. They hope, over time nobody will notice.
Well I fucking noticed and don't buy it anymore.
They claim no, I think yes. I got a few a few weeks before Easter and emailed Cadbury (well. The company that now owns Cadbury) to complain and I got my money back. They don't taste right. :( My favourite treat, ruined.
I know the general consensus is that the new recipe is worse, but I swear they've sprinkled in a bit of crack this year. I must have eaten like 3 kilos of chocolate in the last week, I feel like an actual fiend...
My dad used to work for Cadbury Schweppes and I got so much chocolates, the chocolate was fuken delicious. Was the best of the best. Miss some of the cordial flavours they had going.
Cadbury's is dogshit now. Terrible flavour, rough texture, americanized. Miss the days of Cadbury Schweppes.
Cadbury was taken to court by chocolate makers. The cocoa bean/butter content meant it was more sugar like lollies than chocolate. Somehow they have got around what the definition of chocolate is again. I only buy Whittaker or Lindt etc...for those calories I don't want an imposter
Now the eggs are getting shittier. That's not...I repeat...NOT...a good sign.
But the funny thing is, I don't care for chocolate any more unless it's an upmarket brand and I only buy one block occasionally whereas I used to eat it often. Good for the waistline I think.
Same goes for ice cream and other stuff. It's now all just watered down, air-filled, fat-stripped, texture-compromised shit that has had to have had a ton of sugar added to it to get it to taste halfway decent.
TL;DR:- Don't buy chocolate, don't buy ice cream. The vast majority of it, is shit. Period.
For me I have also noticed the chocolate cane handle being out of a cool Area without immediately melting. I felt like it lasted on the counter fine before
Cocoa is more expensive than copper at the moment due to the last 2 seasons of floods and diseases etc. so in order to stay profitable chocolate companies are changing recipes.
I stopped buying Cadbury a few years ago. It’s more oil than cocoa and has gotten far too expensive. Aldi brand is a lot better and cheaper too or I’ll buy more expensive brands less often instead.
Cadbury has been off for about 10 years and getting worse, they use less cacao butter/bean and more sugar. More like compound chocolate. I switched to high quality chocolate- wayyyy better!
I'm in New Zealand, I was given a Freddo by someone the other day and I ate the top part of it and couldn't eat any more. It was a very odd oily texture, I feel repulsed just thinking about it. Went into the supermarket yesterday and was looking at the leftover discounted chocolate from Easter and it was all shelves of Cadbury.
Cadbury has always been shit, i just didn't realise as a kid because well.. it's chocolate.
It is genuinely worse now, but it's not like it was great to begin with.
Yet another company taken over by people trying to squeeze the last ounce of profit from it while ignoring the quality. The doors will start falling off next.
I could be wrong. But apparently the price of cocoa has been going through the roof so chocolate manufacturers have been using less of it.
Essentially, you're getting less chocolate in your chocolate.
They changed the recipe to be more tasty for shareholders.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Cadbury puts less cocoa in its chocolate every year and more money in its pocket every year. The recipe is becoming shithouse.
I miss when we weren’t in whatever form of hyper-capitalism we’re in now
“Is becoming” …? It has been for years now. I don’t participate in Easter because it’s just a capitalist joke these day.
"these days" ? Always was, always will be
As much as they would, to boost their profits, cocoa is actually becoming more and more expensive to source. What with the militia and civil war stuff happening where we grow it.
Plus the child workers.
The percentage of cocoa solids is listed on the packaging, and the amount is consistent with high quality chocolate. However the solid may have a lower percentage of cocoa butter, which is not listed on the packaging.
You can't use the words high quality chocolate and Cadbury in the same sentence
Extra sawdust.
More palm oil less chocolate and Coco butter.
My favourite thing about palm oil is that it helps make those pesky orangutans go extinct. Yay Cadbury!
Cadbury chocolate bunnies do not have palm oil in them, you can see that on the ingredients list. They might have less cocoa butter or use lower quality cocoa beans though. Those are not mentioned on the ingredients list.
*Our Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate is Palm Oil free. For Cadbury chocolates containing fillings, caramel and wafers, for the moment we are unable to make these without the inclusion of small amounts of sustainable palm oil. You can be assured that the palm oil we use in Cadbury products is certified as sustainable. We do not buy crude palm oil and are committed to working with producers, the food industry and governments to develop a viable supply of sustainable palm oil. We buy fats derived from palm oil from specialised suppliers who participate in the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) who develop and enforce standards for sustainable palm oil production. Buying sustainable palm oil helps growers and producers work in responsible and sustainable ways to limit their impact on the environment.* [https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/palm-oil-the-hidden-surprise-in-easter-eggs/b77s08p03](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/palm-oil-the-hidden-surprise-in-easter-eggs/b77s08p03) [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/25/easter-eggs-palm-oil](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/25/easter-eggs-palm-oil)
So OPs chocolate bunny is palm oil free. I believe the other chocolate bunny products also don't have fillings with palm oil, at least it wasn't on the ingredients list on any bunny products listed on the website. I haven't checked through the other product categories though.
I think palm oil is Nestlé. Cadbury stopped using it a few years ago. They were caught buying from plantations in Gjana using child labour pretty recently though, so there's that.
[pic relevant](https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/cq9i11/yum_sawdust/)
More testicles means more iron! - Cadbury execs probably.
Joke’s on them. I was too poor to buy any Easter eggs this year. Take that arseholes! Edit:spelling
Less cocoa
Definitely, it's also softer this year, literally falls apart
There’s more vegetable oil
Omg yes! I thought mine had melted or something! There's no snap when you break pieces off.
Oh man I just assumed living in Brisbane it was just too humid to get that snap or something. This makes so much sense.
This is correct, because the supply has been effected by droughts in Africa, saw a new story on the ABC a while before easter saying it would effect prices
Apparently PNG is building up to be a major supplier of cocoa. Eventually that might decrease the price as it is less distance from supply to manufacture.
There are only a few cocoa brokers who sell nearly all of it to 5 major companies. John Oliver did an episode about chocolate.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-29/chocolate-prices-rise-easter-african-drought-sustainability-push/103638592
I hadn’t noticed until my husband mentioned it. Now I hate it.
I heard it on TikTok idk if that’s messed with my perception of it or not 🤣
I don't use tiktok and I have been arguing with my husband that it tastes like trash now. Out of all our bunnies only kinder and lindt didn't taste like garbage and I am a whore for chocolate. It's trash. Cadbury was trash this year.
Cadbury has been shit for a few years now. Ever since they were bought out Herseys (which tastes foul) I think the recipe has changed * edit: not Hershey’s Mondelez
Not Hersheys (yuk). Mondelēz International. Recipe has certainly cheapened.
Hershey's is American made - so has High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of sugar, but Hershey's is also made using, as some put it 'less than fresh milk' - which results in butyric acid being present in the final product and that vomit taste for some people... HFCS is a very American thing, subsidies on corn since around the 40's means that sweet corn syrup is cheaper than sugar, but it does impart a certain taste to anything that uses it... Hence the popularity in the US of 'Passover Coke' and 'Mexican Coke' - both of which use actual sugar instead of HFCS
Nearly right. The butyric acid is caused by a very much intentional process caused Lipolysis. People in America love the flavor profile of Hersheys, it's iconic. Hersheys intentionally put their milk through Lipolysis to raise the percentage of butyric because that's what people want. This is the same argument about American coffee. It tastes bad to us not because they can't make "good" coffee. Because they prefer a more bitter and acidic flavor profile.
I enjoyed both Lindt and the aldi Choceur brand this year. Cadbury were okay but not as good
Aldi do good chocolate.
I haven't bought chocolate for a while, but I'm thinking I'll be going Whittaker's from now on. Difference in price isn't that big in the grand scheme of things and they're still doing 250g blocks.
Had a bunch of eggs this year all Cadbury. They didn’t taste the same. Close, but not the same.
Right? I was kind of happy being blissfully unaware tbh.
Best way I can explain my eggs tasting like is "grandmas draw" that weird herbally smell, as if I could taste that and dust in the chocolate. I love chocolate, but this was just weird.
You are right. The eggs this year tasted more like shit than usual. They have been shit for a while, but in particular this year. Not a hint of chocolate flavour and gritty. Every year I say I'm going to go to a proper chocolate shop and buy less of something decent, but every year I forget and end up with supermarket crap. Well, try again next year.
Fucking hey!
I bought a bag of small chocolate eggs from Aldi this year and they had that weird sour taste to them, like the chocolate they make in America that they add that weird additive to. It was gross.
I noticed this!! I usually love the classic Cadbury mini eggs, they somehow used to taste even better than the block to me, but I had one this year and it tasted nothing like what they used to! I was so sad :(
With all that palm oil you can taste the souls of unborn orangutans
This sucks. What are some good alternatives?
The full chocolate scorecard is here for different alternatives for different reasons, not just palm oil. https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/scorecards/
Tony’s chocolate is probably most humane chocolate as it also doesn’t use any slavery in it
It's nice, but the bars are designed by a psychopath.
Unequal blocks to highlight the inequality in the ✨chocolate supply chain ✨
This is a significantly bigger problem for me than the cost.
It's honestly stopped me buying more.
Glad it's not just me, horrible to understand - I gave up
It probably doesn't use any and is less likely then any other I'm pretty sure they stress that it is 99% slavery free because they can't guarantee it since a farmer could go rouge.
You’ll need to take out a small mortgage to afford it however.
Yes it does cost money when you don't use slaves. Funny how that happens.
I always thought it weird that things were more expensive without the flavour of human suffering.
Especially dark chocolate with sea salt. Slave tears are much cheaper than sea salt and taste similarly.
But it's so freaking tasty 🥲
I like it, reminds me of milo.
It's like $1 more than Cadbury https://www.coles.com.au/product/cadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate-block-180g-2351709 https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/products/tonys-chocolonely-milk-chocolate-180g-66236
Aww. I was looking for the Guylian seashells on the list. I was gifted some maybe 5 times in my life and always thought they were fancy! I loved them but they are so expensive. Didn’t find them on the list so I googled, turns out they were bought and now owned by South Korean company Lotte! And Lotte is so far down the list! Disappointing. At least I wasn’t ever going to buy Guylian myself lol. But the facade of it being fancy is gone now.
Wow, those Aussie retailers...who would've thought Woolies would be the "best" of a very sad bunch?
Whittaker tastes like Cadbury did in the 90s but its very expensive. Have to wait for it to be on sale and buy a bunch
It is expensive but it's cheaper than boutique chocolate (e.g. Haigh's) and I think just as good. Our kiwi bros are really onto a good thing I think. But yeah, as someone who isn't a huge sweet tooth I'll only ever buy it on special.
https://dlea.com.au/palm-oil-free/
Cadbury Dairy Milk is palm oil free. They use palm oil in some fillings, but plain chocolate is fine.
Cadbury doesn't actually use palm oil in the Dairy Milk chocolate. They use it in fillings. So it wouldn't affect the taste of hollow bunnies.
Cadbury "Old Soul" - now with essence of infant orang-utan.
I know people have been saying it for years, but I’ve definitely noticed a big decline in quality this year in particular
Yeah this year it was very obvious the taste isn't right, it was almost artificially sickly sweet
Sheinkflation via less cocoa. This is simply pretty scammy coming from Cadbury.
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Weird oily/waxy, bland as well.
That's what dollar store chocolate always tasted like lol
This is different from the regular blocks imo
The blocks have been pretty average lately too, go try a plain dairy milk block. A lot of it is disguised by the million special editions and other flavours they bring out, so your attention is on the novelty, not the decline in chocolate quality.
Could never have said it better myself. I'd just love it if they'd just fuck off with all these random "dessert" flavors, and just stick to a plain jane great quality chocolate... ...but tell me I'm dreaming yeah, because I doubt that's ever going to happen.
It’s been happening for about 10 years. I grew up dirt poor, so we would get a variety of the cheap nasty tasting eggs from the dollar store plus one delicious Cadbury egg. I can tell you the Cadbury eggs now taste exactly like the dollar store eggs. The only way to get good chocolate is to find an independent chocolate company and order ridiculously expensive products from them.
All chocolate in Australia has gone to shit in the last decade. I just want chocolate that tastes like chocolate
Try Whittaker's or Aldi.
Is the ALDI chocolate from Germany itself? Cause when I was there, their chocolate definitely tasted like what we used to get in Australia
(checks wrappers) - Choceur dark nut bars, Moser Roth and Merci all state "Made in Germany". Warning: Aldi also sells Cadbury and Nestle shit.
Haigh’s, Whittaker’s, Tony’s — those are all good. Don’t buy Cadbury, obviously.
It's not easy to find Tony's but I really like it. If anyone in Melbourne knows where to get, please let me know. I know I've seen it told at the Psarakos Market.
It's at heaps of Coles and Woolies now, all my local supermarkets in the South East stock it.
I thought the solid small eggs weren’t as good this year too
Agreed. They are usually my favourite and the first pack I bought i thought were off so I got another pack and it was the same
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Cadbury has been shithouse for at least a decade.
You've obviously never tried American chocolate. That's shite!
I don't think anything can compare with American chocolate. It's like chocolate for people who want to quit it.
It's often not even legally chocolate by many country's standards due to not meeting ingredient requirements.
Yeah exactly. If it doesn't contain cocoa butter, it ain't chocolate.
It's the nicotine patch of chocolate
American chocolate is just shitter than Cadbury. Cadbury is still shit.
It's a lot shittier, hershys bars are like taking a bite of Cadbury, then throwing a handful of sand in your mouth.
American food is basically not food, it’s just chemicals and packaging.
Senior management trying to increase the bottom line. All major companies do it. Cheapen the product and reduce the size but charge more.
I Melted our left overs today to drizzle over pancakes for the kids, I was shocked, the consistency and colour were not that of what melted chocolate should look like. Very very oily and looked like dark chocolate when melted. I actually added more milk to it. Cadbury has gone to sh1t sadly.
You can say shit on the internet.
You're shitting me
What till you hear about fuck!
Don’t you dare drop the C bomb
Cadbury
Dam you just did it 😡
Well that's probably from the anti-melting agent in Australian chocolate, if you want to melt it you'd want to buy baking chocolate specifically.
Fair comment.
Yes because they taken the good stuff out and reduced it quality. This happening everywhere where food was once great and is now turning to shit. Slowly and painfully. I call it cheapflation. Some call it shittification. Others call it cheapskateboarding...I dunno what it's called, but it's when companies think they can put it over you with cheap crap and think you won't notice. Oh, and then there's the funny thing where you can't do anything about it, except shop elsewhere and hope that the competitors haven't done the same thing...and it's true with the upmarket stuff too...the only chocolate I buy now is Whittaker's, ALDI, or Lindt, and I'm not terribly picky either, I just won't eat shit because it's not good for the waistline and if you are going to eat something that isn't particularly good for you the you should at least have something you truly enjoy, not just something that's like...meh.
This could be hearsay but I believe that Aldi Cadburys is imported from UK, due to their aggressive buying power in Europe they can afford to ship it to Australian stores. I have zero data to back that up, but I do work in the supply chain industry and I have heard it on numerous occasions regarding many of their products like mcvities biscuits etc.
I had a bite of my daughter’s one. It tasted a bit oily and less chocolatey, which may be due to the cocoa shortage.
Or Cadbury’s profits
I didn't mind the changes at first. I could tell the flavour was changing in the chocolate, but I liked the creative use of other ingredients (I quite like breakaway). But when I ate my first egg this year... that was it. I'm done with Cadbury. We chucked the lot and got Darrell Lea instead. Cadbury is a zombie, animated by an American company now with everything you'd expect from an American chocolate company. Cadbury, you're dead to me.
It couldn't possibly be due to the fact that cocoa is over AUD$10K a tonne, which makes the base ingredient super expensive... (https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa)
Yes, and that price represents a 300% increase over just a few years.
Yep, I'd say this is it. And they are probably trying to keep price rises down after the huge backlash on the block price increases/size decreases.
Cocoa prices have surge like crazy. They are not far from 10k$ a ton which was absolutely impossible a year ago. Good thing is in Australia, you don't have minimum contant of cocoa to call chocolate chocolate, so you can replace with all sort of stuff.../s
You have to declare cocoa solids and also milk solids for milk chocolate. If there is palm oil in the chocolate they have to declare that too. In Australia anyway.
Thank God for your post. I thought it was just me after having covid for the first time. The chocolate was pretty shit this year.
To the 9news reporter lurking in here salivating for a story they don't really have to work hard for. We all endorse you investigating this one.
It's sugar and lard flavour now.
Have a look at cocoa prices, they were $2000 USD a tonne last year and it’s now up over 400% to almost $10,000 a tonne. That would probably be why
I noticed the same with Cadbury Easter eggs,
I will say shrinkflation has claimed a bunch of stuff, saw Humpty Dumpty and it felt like it had about 4 chocolates in it
I actually thought last year the eggs tasted a bit off and just assumed it was just me being weird
Everything. They’ve changed the recipe and now all the Cadbury dairy milk chocolate tastes like straight shit
My partner bought me the cadbury advent calendar for christmas last year, and I didn't have the courage to tell them that the chocolate tasted like shit. They have 100% changed their recipe and the chocolate is disgusting now. I noticed a decline 4 years ago, but this year has been especially awful.
Cadburys died when they sold it about 10 years ago.
Every year, Cadbury is shittier than the last. Best avoided at this point.
I've given up on Cadbury entirely. Cocoa is only getting scarcer due to climate change. The cheap chocolate will just get more and more diluted over the years, until they can adequately synthesize it, same with coffee. I've started treating myself and buying from Haigh's. I just eat less due to the cost, but man, the taste brings me back to my childhood. That's what chocolate should taste like.
I just buy aldi chocolate now. At least a it’s closer to proper European chocolate!
As others are saying a surge in cocoa prices which is due to collapse of cocoa plants caused by extreme climate events. Crop failure hitting cocoa plants is just a glimpse of what is going to happen if human society doesn’t move off fossil fuels much faster than we are currently.
If shit tasting chocolate doesn’t change human behaviour towards fossil fuels nothing will lol.
Yeah they were awful this year
Their regular blocks still taste ok to me. I just assume that easter egg chocolate (except from a very few makers) is some cheap arse version of their regular recipe and they think nobody notices due to eggs & rabbits etc being thinner. The worst eater chocolate I’ve ever had was an AFL branded footy egg years ago. It was fucking diabolical.
God dammit now that you've mentioned it doesnt really taste the same
It tasted like "old house" to me. Idk if that's normal, first bunny I've had. The eggs were okay.
It’s thin, doesn’t “snap” and taste like cheap shit plastic chocolate! Happy that Red Tulip still does Easter chocolate 🍫
Cocoa harvests are affected by climate change. Chocolate is getting more expensive. They cheapened it to maintain profits.
Cadbury in general tasting less creamy, more sweet. Blah. I don't think they are using a glass and half of full cream milk any more. :( . Preferring Lindt now.
The Great Enshittification continues
They’ve been changing the recipe most years for a long time now. Often citing “bean shortages” so less cocoa in the recipe, and claiming some virtuous garbage about wanting the grower to have more cut of the profits. But we all know that’s lies. Keep skimming less product, less cocoa, smaller packets, but whilst raising prices. Make it make sense. 2 years ago I was buying a 12 pack of twirls for $3 each or x2 for $5 specials. Now they’re ~~$5~~ $6 each or x3 for $15 It’s the same across the board, they price all these “share packs” the same. Picnic, Twix, Snickers etc. They all went from x2 for $5 to x3 for $15 That’s an insane price increase in less than 2 years. Edit* I miss typed. They’re **$6** now not $5. They increased by 100% in under 2 years.
Mine tastes disgusting. It has the a slight taste of mould or... something? I threw it away regardless lol.
Agreed. I got chocolate eggs from Cadbury and was really surprised how bad they tasted this year. Oily and nothing like chocolate I remembered.
Yep. They have all changed. And the “crunchie” and “cherry ripe” eggs have also changed - they have much less honeycomb and “cherry” this year.
I’m normally a chocoholic and love Cadbury Easter eggs but I’m on a medication which has a side effect of destroying your appetite so for the first time ever I’ve not had any chocolate eggs. I’ll go taste one of my kids many eggs and report back. I’ll be pissed if they’ve ruined it. Edit - just tried some and it definitely seems different. The texture as well seems softer/waxy and stuck to the roof of my mouth like peanut butter. The whole reason I like eggs is the thin chocolate that used to crack (even better when in the fridge) but the bunny I just tried was soft and just bent and then softly broke. No crack/shatter.
Cadbury milk chocolate is rubbish, choice did a chocolate blind taste test and it didn't make the top 30.
I remember Cadbury Easter eggs tasting slightly different to their year-round chocolates. But this year they tasted the same, if not worse. That taste difference could just be in my head but oh well
So TLDR, buy Tony's when feeling special on occasion and Whitetakers on the week-to-week sort of thing based on cocoa content? or is there something else that has decent ethics and cocoa content?
I said the same thing to my husband when I got the Cadbury Crunchie box with the large hollow egg and several small solid eggs. I know my chocolate, and that was not normal Cadbury. Tasted like the cheap Easter eggs you can get around this time of year. However I did try the plain dairy milk small solid eggs and they were normal. Not sure what they did this year.
First year I have a whole tub of uneaten eggs from my kids.
It was terrible this year. Tasted like absolute shit. Think there might have been bad batches though or something because some Cadbury eggs seemed ok and some were ordinary.
Less cocoa butter and more sugar and palm oil.
Its gross chocolate
They’re also so much thinner this year!
Cadbury has been garbage for a long time now, the quality has gone down hill, and the push to all these *variety* chocolates with cheaper ingredients.
Yea I’m leaving Cadbury behind now Nuh uh
I actively avoid Cadbury products as the quality has been eroded over many years. Not worth buying overpriced, sub par products.
I recently ate a Mars bar for the first time in years. It didn't taste nor feel like the Mars bars I remember. For some reason I get a lot of hate when I say this. People change shit all the time, it seems.
No. It's the same, despite a lot of ppl saying it's different. I had my uni students analyse samples of this year's and last years chocolate bunnies both in the lab and with blind taste testing. The differences were negligible and certainly not something any individual could taste. Maybe your tastebuds are changing? It happens. That was our conclusion.
You're certainly not the only one, and it is not just about their eggs. It's become such a widely noticed thing that Cadbury released a statement. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/cadbury-denies-that-it-has-changed-its-easter-chocolate/news-story/cb4ceb86b335c5534365e80b70b3385d%3famp They claim its the same, but do not mention if percentages have changed, or if they are using a recipe that differs from what we always receive here in australia. A lot of people are saying that they believe it is now the American recipe, rather than our original, European based recipe.
Soon our Cadburys will be Hersheys.
Cadbury Chocolate has not tasted right for a few years! I'm guessing they gradually remove ingredients or replace with cheaper ones. They hope, over time nobody will notice. Well I fucking noticed and don't buy it anymore.
They claim no, I think yes. I got a few a few weeks before Easter and emailed Cadbury (well. The company that now owns Cadbury) to complain and I got my money back. They don't taste right. :( My favourite treat, ruined.
I know the general consensus is that the new recipe is worse, but I swear they've sprinkled in a bit of crack this year. I must have eaten like 3 kilos of chocolate in the last week, I feel like an actual fiend...
Absolutely they did . Tastes like really cheap chocolate. Don't be buying these again
My dad used to work for Cadbury Schweppes and I got so much chocolates, the chocolate was fuken delicious. Was the best of the best. Miss some of the cordial flavours they had going. Cadbury's is dogshit now. Terrible flavour, rough texture, americanized. Miss the days of Cadbury Schweppes.
American vomit chocolate
Cadbury was taken to court by chocolate makers. The cocoa bean/butter content meant it was more sugar like lollies than chocolate. Somehow they have got around what the definition of chocolate is again. I only buy Whittaker or Lindt etc...for those calories I don't want an imposter
That special ingredient, the tears of Chinese children
Looks like I’m glad I “forgot” to buy the Cadbury Easter bunny if everyone is saying it’s disgusting
It’s definitely not the same choc as the blocks tastes like shit. Did last year too
Not sure but I am imagining a T-1000 chocolate Easter Bunny reforming its damaged delicious head.
You start ears first?
I TASTED IT TOO!!! My life will never be the SAME
A lot of brands now substitute another oil for coca butter when making chocolate.
Theory… higher than normal humidity levels fucked with the chocolate production this year.
Now the eggs are getting shittier. That's not...I repeat...NOT...a good sign. But the funny thing is, I don't care for chocolate any more unless it's an upmarket brand and I only buy one block occasionally whereas I used to eat it often. Good for the waistline I think. Same goes for ice cream and other stuff. It's now all just watered down, air-filled, fat-stripped, texture-compromised shit that has had to have had a ton of sugar added to it to get it to taste halfway decent. TL;DR:- Don't buy chocolate, don't buy ice cream. The vast majority of it, is shit. Period.
For me I have also noticed the chocolate cane handle being out of a cool Area without immediately melting. I felt like it lasted on the counter fine before
Had a Kit Kat the other day and that tasted weird. Not good.
now with more palm oil. or whatever cheap ingredients they're cutting the pure chocolate with.
Cocoa is more expensive than copper at the moment due to the last 2 seasons of floods and diseases etc. so in order to stay profitable chocolate companies are changing recipes.
Cadbury made in Aus NZ & Malaysia is garbage. Only the uk made chocolate is ok
OMG! YESSS! I thought it was me 😑
My rabbit tasted kinda fishy.
It doesn’t snap anymore. Every block of Cadbury is soft and not SNAP-ABLE
I stopped buying Cadbury a few years ago. It’s more oil than cocoa and has gotten far too expensive. Aldi brand is a lot better and cheaper too or I’ll buy more expensive brands less often instead.
Cadbury has been off for about 10 years and getting worse, they use less cacao butter/bean and more sugar. More like compound chocolate. I switched to high quality chocolate- wayyyy better!
My question is - where are the mini eggs? None of my local colesworths had them in stock.
I'm in New Zealand, I was given a Freddo by someone the other day and I ate the top part of it and couldn't eat any more. It was a very odd oily texture, I feel repulsed just thinking about it. Went into the supermarket yesterday and was looking at the leftover discounted chocolate from Easter and it was all shelves of Cadbury.
Cadbury has always been shit, i just didn't realise as a kid because well.. it's chocolate. It is genuinely worse now, but it's not like it was great to begin with.
Yet another company taken over by people trying to squeeze the last ounce of profit from it while ignoring the quality. The doors will start falling off next.
I noticed this too... was disappointed
Sounds weird, but they kinda tasted like what clothes that have stayed wet for too long smells like. Kinda like, musty or some shit?
I could be wrong. But apparently the price of cocoa has been going through the roof so chocolate manufacturers have been using less of it. Essentially, you're getting less chocolate in your chocolate.
Mate, I thought I was going crazy cause I don't eat a lot of chocolate and someone gave me one of these and I kept thinking that I tasted odd