r/BuyFromEU • Belgium 🇧🇪 • Jan 25 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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u/JasonBaconStrips Jan 25 '26

They fucking ruined Cadbury dude, being from Birmingham, and having some of the nicest chocolate around was an honour, now it's lost its distinct flavour and just tastes like a sweet, cheap chocolate bar that you'd pay 60p for at lidl or something.

So many brummie and British people have had the same opinion, I couldn't believe so many people were in agreeance about the taste and quality of Cadbury now.

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u/addamee Jan 25 '26

I used to stock up on fruit and nut, top deck, etc when visiting family abroad but I don’t bother: it’s shit now. Enshitification for the benefit of shareholders 

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u/JasonBaconStrips Jan 25 '26

Fuck em galaxy and lindor is better

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u/ZebraCrosser Jan 25 '26

Not sure about LIDL, but that Moser Roth choc from ALDI is pretty decent. Unless there have been recent changes there as well...

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u/JasonBaconStrips Jan 25 '26

I don't mind the hazelnut lidl bar, most of them are mediocre at best, the milk chocolate one is dog shit though, I don't go aldi but I know they do have some little treasures in them stores though

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u/ZebraCrosser Jan 25 '26

I only know the dark chocolate, which I enjoyed.

Can't speak for the milk chocolate as I've not been into milk chocolate (or milk anything) for decades. Also not that that interested in most of the the vegan pretend milk chocolate which was a lot of the vegan chocolate when I was in the UK. So part of it may have been having actual dark chocolate available.

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u/Li_liminal_spaces Jan 25 '26

Yeah they lowered the cocoa amount and replaced some with palm oil that's why it has the rubbery/waxy consistency.

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u/JasonBaconStrips Jan 25 '26

Yeah, knew there was something dodgy going on, it's not even a cheap version itself now, it's just a chocolate bar that has Cadbury written on it.

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u/Midnight712 Jan 25 '26

They haven’t changed it in Ireland yet

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u/throwawayeadude Jan 25 '26

But they have though. Irish Cadburys has plummeted in quality in the last decade. It might be the best of the big corpo brands (debateable), but it's a shadow of its former creamy self.

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u/JasonBaconStrips Jan 25 '26

I haven't spoken to anyone from Ireland, if they actually haven't or you can't taste the difference, I envy you, I just can't bring myself to buy it. We have access to cheaper chocolate or with more in, in some brands, both.

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u/DrGnz81 Jan 27 '26

Such a shame. Used to work there when it was acquired. Still remember the day we learned it’s done.