Cadbury's Dairy Milk now tastes disgusting

[Firehorse]

I've always absolutely loved Cadbury's Dairy Milk - it's been my favourite chocolate since before I can remember, but something seems to have changed in the past couple of months and I want to know if anybody else has noticed the difference or if I'm just tasting things.

I have a nut allergy so I'm very sensitive to traces, although small traces aren't very dangerous for me and I have never before had any problems with Cadbury - until now.
I picked up a bar about a week ago and something wasn't quite right about it, for the first time ever I was getting the tingling sensations of a small allergic reaction coming from a bar of Cadbury's milk chocolate - I assumed at the time that I must have just been imagining things or that something else I had eaten earlier was having an effect on the taste.

Today I bought another bar, and I got the same sensation once again. I'm starting to question if my nut allergy has suddenly spiked, which has never happened before in my entire life, or if crafty Kraft have been playing games with the ingredients and substituting original high quality ingredients with cheap, nut trace-ridden alternatives just like they did last year with their Milk Tray chocolates as was reported here by the BBC.

Another possibility that occurred to me was that since they moved the production to Poland hygeine standards may have slipped if they aren't as well regulated as they were over here. Maybe it's possible that they were producing a nutty chocolate bar and didn't clean the equiptment effectively between production runs.

Has anybody else here tried a bar recently (a bar from the new batch that has the most distant expiry date)? To me it has a more piercing-like after taste that wasn't originally there. Have you observed any changes in taste?

[AgnesIO]

Haven't eaten any recently, but could it simply be that your taste buds have changed? I believe peoples tastes and preferences do sometimes change as they grow older.

Could probably find online if they have changed anything though - will take a look myself

[Chippiewill]

I think they swapped out cocoa solids for vegetable fats/oils or something like that.

[Firehorse]

Haven't eaten any recently, but could it simply be that your taste buds have changed? I believe peoples tastes and preferences do sometimes change as they grow older.

Could probably find online if they have changed anything though - will take a look myself

I think something has definitely changed beyond my taste buds, I've eaten Wispas recently too and they're perfectly fine (same chocolate, right?), a bar of Dairy Milk has never made me feel giddy before.

[AgnesIO]

I think they swapped out cocoa solids for vegetable fats/oils or something like that.

Dairy Milk has only ever been hydrogenated vegetable oil

[=Sam]

Cadbury is an Australian brand, and the chocolate you're talking about is most likely licensed to Kraft.

Kraft is a separate company who bought the brand name of Cadbury to increase popularity of their chocolates overseas, but the chocolate in comparison to Cadbury's will be completely different as it's manufactured in a different country under a different brand using different ingredients.

If you want some real delicious Cadbury chocolate, come to Australia and get the real deal, it's fantastic!


PS. Chocolate is incredibly bad for you, but I'm sure you all know that.

[GommeInc]

Cadbury is an Australian brand, and the chocolate you're talking about is most likely licensed to Kraft.

Cadbury is a British chocolate brand which is exported to Australia. It's about as Australian as Coca Cola is a British brand

It's likely you've just started changing your tastes, or the batch you had wasn't up to scratch (edible and perfectly legal, but an alteration to the ingredients and measurements may of happened). I've not tasted any Cadbury's chocolate in a while so can't really compare. The easter egg chocolate tasted about the same though :/

[sex]

they make it different all over the world according to where its being sold!! its weird that itwould be changedfor sucha huge market.
its still made here in Ireland and tastes the same to me but thats only for the irish market!!! i would be upset if the taste changed

[Sloths]

Cadbury is an Australian brand, and the chocolate you're talking about is most likely licensed to Kraft.

Yeah Cadbury is British but the factories over here in NZ and AU have a different recipe to those in Britain as we have an added ingredients so it doesn't melt as quick in the higher temperatures of the countries. So it does taste different, to me english cadburys has always been best.

[=Sam]

Yeah Cadbury is British but the factories over here in NZ and AU have a different recipe to those in Britain as we have an added ingredients so it doesn't melt as quick in the higher temperatures of the countries. So it does taste different, to me english cadburys has always been best.

The Cadbury company was founded in Britain and has 3 factories in Australia but our ingredients are stable and retain the same taste.

However I believe in 2010 or around about if memory serves me correctly. Kraft bought the license and has the right to change ingredients, which they have - that results in the change in taste.

I have never tasted british Cadbury/Kraft chocolate so I can't vouch for the taste. I respect your opinion though.

The best chocolate in Australia is our Cadbury. And it's legit, although I haven't eaten any chocolate in a very long time. Also, lindt chocolate sucks so hard, just had to add that bit in.

---------- Post added 09-05-2013 at 05:02 AM ----------

Cadbury is a British chocolate brand which is exported to Australia. It's about as Australian as Coca Cola is a British brand

It's likely you've just started changing your tastes, or the batch you had wasn't up to scratch (edible and perfectly legal, but an alteration to the ingredients and measurements may of happened). I've not tasted any Cadbury's chocolate in a while so can't really compare. The easter egg chocolate tasted about the same though :/

The chocolate made by Cadbury is licensed by Cadbury here in Australia and made with suitable ingredients as as stated above by Sloths.

Your chocolate uses the brand name of Cadbury but is owned by Kraft allowing them to change the recipe and tweak it to the market in reference to cutting expenses and changing tastes. This is very common with any notable brand name that's been bought for marketing and investment purposes.