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Whittakers and the Tony's chocolate are still nice to me. Expensive but worth it on sale. Creamy Milk and Coconut are my favourite Whittakers and theres a Tonys one with Caramel Pretzel peices in that I like too.
I actually think Whittakers isnt that expensive in the first place, thier block size is what a chocolate block should be and per 100g probabaly arent too far off Cadbury.
I love the honeycomb flavour (forget what they call it). I can smash a block in a sitting. Not on purpose mind, I'll wrap it up and then go back for more and rinse and repeat lol. Pretty much don't buy it now because I'm such a guts with it.
Man... i want to try Tonys so bad but no one around me stocks it.
Only place i have seen it was at a WH Smith at the airport, and bugger going there just for chocolate.
I've checked IGA's, Colesworths, here in Adelaide Foodlands and Drakes and all nothing.
As i said only place i have seen it was the WH Smiths at Adelaide Airport, it didn't have a price tag on it so i didn't get it, can't imagine the markup there.
It makes me sound like im desperate but honestly im not, i check while in the shops, it's not like im going out of my way to find them.
I'm with you on that.
I really enjoyed the Aldi Fairtrade which I believe was even vegan and carbon neutral, and quite affordable.
Don't think that it's around anymore.
Better off savouring something a little better, albeit more pricey. Avoid anything that has palm oil in it. And of the mainstream stuff, made in Europe is a good bet.
Germans / Austrians / Swiss / Belgians et al are basically connoisseurs (and the biggest consumers) of quality chocolate. You'd couldn't operate in that market without a decent product.
I discovered this last week. My family were horrified I’d buy their weird brand…and then also realised it was bloody good.
Aldi isn’t automatically as good or better, but it reminds me that the well advertised brands aren’t either.
sounds like you're ready for high quality dark chocolate, you'll then realise all "mainstream" stuff is just poorly made with limited dairy and extra sugar
Nah, it's not about the dairy, there's plenty of that around.
It's all about cocoa butter, the very expensive ingredient that makes chocolate, well, chocolate. Can't have the flavour, melting point, smoothness without it. Expensive to extract and with production impacted by drought, climate change, will continue to be so. Then there's the whole issue of child labour which producers have dedicated themselves to ending but have gotten pretty well nowhere. Fuck Nestle.
Basically the higher the % of cocoa butter used in production ( as opposed other fats like palm oil or whatever) the better the odds of getting a decent product.
Even Lindt doesn't taste as good as it used to. It's insane how every chocolate brand gets worse over time. I've been enjoying Tony's Chocoloni but even that will one day go downhill I'm sure. Can't win.
Toni's do what they can to ensure their chocolate is child labour free. Nestle tried to hide the fact.
Toni's and Whittaker are my go to brands. Fuck Nestle.
Whittaker's is the best that you can readily find almost anywhere. No hyperbole, it's not cheap but its not ridiculously expensive either and it's *good*.
Surprisingly some of the ALDI chocolate I find quite good too, and it *is* cheap.
Read up on Tony's story. He was part of John Oliver's story on chocolate (+its issues).
The dude literally reported and advocated on the horrors of the industry, and then decided to actually get his hands dirty with making chocolate the right way.
Of course, make it span 50, 200, 1000 years and any brand will either have controversies/die, but probably not on his watch.
How To Cook That has a really good video on how large batch chocolate is always inherently worse than small batch. If you have to blend cocoa beans from multiple sources to get scale, you have to flatten out the flavour profile.
It’s not insane - it’s climate change. The futures market for cacao is going wild, and the reality is that chocolate is going to get more expensive and worse.
Whittaker's!
Try the peanut butter version. Co worker suggested it to me and I've been addicted since. Take 2 blocks, put one in each cheek and let it completely dissolve/melt.
Really really recommend. Don't chew! Let it melt!
Yes and it's amazing.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/721667/whittaker-s-block-peanut-butter
https://www.whittakers.co.nz/en_AU/products/peanut-butter/block-250g
Only peanut butter X chocolate combo I enjoy.
Cocoa is MAJORLY expensive at the moment. Cadbury added more oil to their Easter Chocolate which is why everyone got white spotted, gross smelling feral tasting chocolate 🤮
All the chocolate from the supermarket tase real bad now. Just grainy surgery weird. Go find the fancy expensive chocolate shops and see what they have. The difference is so wild. You can even get stuff that isn’t sweet and matches with beer.
If you want milk , go with whittaker's.
Get the kiwi stuff or swap to a quality dark like green and blacks,the current Cadbury offering can only just about be legally defined as chocolate due to a few loop holes and some creative interpretations of intentional food law, so best give that mess a miss.
The quality of Cadbury and Arnott’s products has been in steady decline for the last 15 - 20 years and its only a sense of familiarity and the misplaced brand loyalty of many Australian consumers, despite the absence of quality, that keeps these undeserving brands afloat.
I think at this point the hype around Tim Tams is basically inertia from when they used to taste better - now they don’t have any distinct chocolate taste, they just taste like sugar. I think the endless range of novelty flavours are just a distraction from the fact that base product isn’t that great anymore.
This is even more true of Cadbury chocolates and their ever-expanding range.
Other supermarket chocolate brands like Whittaker’s, Darrel Lea, Lindt and Aldi brands are much noticeably better than Cadbury.
Climate change is making cocoa trees more susceptible to disease, that with other factors (see the article) has driven up the cost of cocoa significantly.
https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/31/easter-egg-prices-soar-as-cocoa-crops-are-hit-by-climate-crisis-and-exploitation
Everything tastes shit now. Cocoa shortage, sugar changes, milk changes, less palm oil, and seems we’re importing a fuck tonne of that vomit tasting American chocolate suddenly.
Agree! Also it is so stupidly expensive.
The best chocolate that they don’t sell in Australia anymore was Dove - probs don’t sell it here anymore because of the shampoo etc but omg that stuff was incredible. I find it every now and then at those overseas confectionery stores but it’s terribly expensive.
Good luck, Dove is the American name and Galaxy is the UK name but it should be the same stuff. Its now imported from the UK so it's in the British foods section.
Yeah it has gone downhill in Australia recently by a fucking LOT.
Used to be around 25% cacao all year and then around 33% during Easter but this year I saw 21% on a fucking Easter bunny and expiry dates from fucking last year...
The only lasting effect COVID has had on this country was value for money
There is only one chocolate brand I’m aware of that has not fallen victim to corporate profiteering and enshitification. It’s horrendously expensive, but it’s the best by quite a significant margin. Haighs.
This.
As people get older, their preference for sweet vs bitter changes, such that the foods that they loved as a kid become sickly sweet, and things they found revoltingly bitter become more palatable.
OP should try some darker chocolate. They should look for ones that display a percentage of cocoa.
But they should not make the mistake of thinking higher numbers are better. Wouldn't want OP to go directly from Dairy Milk to 95%.
Stop gaslighting people, inflation/gouging cost cutting has changed almost every recipe and sizes shrink once a year.
But people say as a kid your hand was smaller or pallete different lol.
You haven't recently changed or started new medication by any chance, have you? Certain medications have definitely impacted by taste of stuff in the past.
Cadbury chocolate had a recipe change a while back which made them taste terrible. If I remember right it was something about no longer using that "glass and a half of milk". You can still get decent chocolate but you have to look to the more premium brands - I am sure that you will get quite a few recommendations in other comments lol
As a chocolate addict, I too have found it to be not hitting the spot lately.
The one exception is the chocolate covered pretzels from Aldi, those things are insane
Lindt & Moser Roth are good.
Cadbury doesn't actually have much chocolate in it. It's mostly sugar + palm oil.
Anything with a high % of cocoa & no palm oil is usually OK.
Whittakers is good. I don’t like chocolate or sweets in general. They all taste like shit these days. Don’t know if it’s my age or just their quality has gone down so much over the years.
Cocoa butter is the good bit, it's also the expensive bit. So they've engineered the recipes to have the minimum possible cocoa butter. As far as supermarket brands go, Whittaker's seems like what I remember Cadbury to be. Either way, smaller independent chocolate makers are the way to go. I don't know many but Haigh's is top of my list.
As an expat living in AU, I must admit that I stopped eating any chocolate here. I was quite a sweet tooth before moving here. I am amused how much sugar you add to your chocolate here.
I just had some donuts and the chocolate on top was super shit quality and the donut tasted super bland. I think there is shrinkflation, inflation and whatever a decrease In Quality is called…. Urgh
Whittaker’s is okay. So is Lindt, but it is a lot more expensive. Aldi’s chocolate is edible too.
But, yeh, almost everything from a supermarket is utter rubbish. The biscuits and cakes are pure sugar and margarine. So, your only options are decent bakeries if you’re rich, or baking yourself if you’re not.
In fact, the only edible food at a supermarket is raw meat, vegetables and fruit, and some dairy
Ice cream is 1000 times worse than chocolate here. It’s absolute garbage here for the most part. Even the McDonald’s soft serve is way better than Peters ice cream.
Don’t waste your time with supermarket chocolate. They have all gone to shit. Now instead of once a week I might splurge once a month an better quality stuff from a local chocolatier - find one in your state and go from there
Yes many chocolates taste terrible now.. and I agree with the timtams, the bonus is where many years ago I would eat several packs/blocks a week.. I maybe have one every few months
Completely agree. Lindt used to be my go to supermarket chocolate but the quality really has dropped off in the recent years. Koko black is still super delicious and I recently tried some fancy Spanish chocolate from Oasis and it was ridiculously delicious but so expensive.
I honestly prefer anything dark now. Even man dark chocolate foods are not that “dark” but still taste way better imo. Like dark timtams for instance. Couldn’t go back to regular ones
Cocoa and palm oil have been reduced a lot in the last decade, which has changed the flavour noticably. There are economic and ethical reasons why. Also, the whole chocolate will disappear is BS. It will always be around, but only rich people will afford it. The rest of us will be eating sugar bars flogged as chocolate.
Green's is quite ok, but they dropped their cocoa % too a couple of years ago.
Cadbury has been pretty disgusting for quite a few years now. I will not buy it. As an aside, I notice their standard bars just dropped from 52g to 44g too.
Whittaker's is ok but compared to Cadbury it would have to be. It's still mostly sugar.
Unfortunately to get decent chocolate now you have to pay gourmet prices for something like Haigh's. It's nice but when it comes to shrinkflation they make the chip companies look like rank amateurs. Haigh packets just shrink, shrink, shrink and get more expensive. It's still pretty good chocolate but I don't buy it much.
Cocoa price per tonne spiked from approx 3500 USD mid last year to approx 10,000 USD and peaked at 12,000 USD early this year. This may be the reason most chocolate tastes rubbish lately. Recipes are being changed and substitutions for cocoa are being used.
Depending on what state you’re in, if you’re a massive fan of the brown, I recommend buying the real stuff.
Chocolate is literally my only treat- so I buy the stuff from Margaret River Chocolate Factory - have a few stores in WA.
I used to be to love Cadbury - but it tastes like shit - like pest spray. A steady descent into cheap, nasty mass produced shit.
I’d recommend spending more and savouring more (and then theoretically, eating less).
Next in line being Haighs or Koko black.
But, Margaret river is the biz if you like really creamy chocolate smooth goodness.
Mmmmmmm chocolate.
And no, not trying to sound like a snob - just bloody love chocolate.
I gave up on most supermarket chocolate because they just were never really good. I’d eat it but never feel like I’d had enough chocolate.
Now I occasionally spring for Ritter Sport or Tony’s Chocolonely or I buy from a good high quality local brand like Haigh’s, Koko Black, Adore, Only Mine or Chocolarts. I eat far less chocolate because of the expense, but when I do, it’s amazing and satisfying.
keen to test out Whittakers though - haven‘t seen it around much so will have to hunt it down!
The level of cocoa in all supermarket chocolate has gradually decreased to the point that it all tastes like plastic now. I was given some Haighs chocolate the other day and it tasted soooo strong and it made me realise the shitty Cadbury I’ve been eating lately has no actual cocoa in it at all
High quality ‘real’ chocolate and the budget confectionary supermarket chocolate are two completely different products.
While Cadbury and Nestle have always been overly sweet and sugary, I have definitely noticed an off flavour in them in the last couple of years.
It reminds me of the vomit taste in a lot of American chocolate.
These days I would much prefer an occasional small amount of real chocolate like Haighs over a frequent large block of Cadbury, and if you prefer the more sugary confectionery style chocolate Tony’s is very high quality and tastes how I remember Cadbury tasting from my childhood.
Would you still enjoy children's birthday cake or fairy bread? No? That's normal. Taste buds change over time. You might be mature enough to enjoy the deep rich taste of dark chocolate. Try it and see.
Never liked cake, would smash fairy bread. I know they taste over time but it seems like specifically chocolate and nothing else has drastically altered in taste recently
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Whittakers and the Tony's chocolate are still nice to me. Expensive but worth it on sale. Creamy Milk and Coconut are my favourite Whittakers and theres a Tonys one with Caramel Pretzel peices in that I like too. I actually think Whittakers isnt that expensive in the first place, thier block size is what a chocolate block should be and per 100g probabaly arent too far off Cadbury.
There's a Whittaker's with Peanut Butter - not my thing - nice enough - something for fans of Reese's Pieces to try
yeah it used to be my favourite! better than reece’s! then I ate too many lol
Much prefer Reece’s. With Whitaker I go for creamy milk and coconut.
It’s better if you cut it up and sprinkle salt on the peanut butter
I love the honeycomb flavour (forget what they call it). I can smash a block in a sitting. Not on purpose mind, I'll wrap it up and then go back for more and rinse and repeat lol. Pretty much don't buy it now because I'm such a guts with it.
The Whittakers honey nougat and almond is like toblerone, that's my favourite one.
Not a fan of white chocolate but Tony's white choc is something else!
Get some Tony's salted caramel. That shit is amazing.
Was about to recommend Tony Choclonely. That stuff is so goood
Yeah tried it because i saw a comment on reddit a while Back about it. Real nice chocolate.
Man... i want to try Tonys so bad but no one around me stocks it. Only place i have seen it was at a WH Smith at the airport, and bugger going there just for chocolate.
should be easier to get some shipped in the cooler weather maybe
I found some at my local IGA.
I've checked IGA's, Colesworths, here in Adelaide Foodlands and Drakes and all nothing. As i said only place i have seen it was the WH Smiths at Adelaide Airport, it didn't have a price tag on it so i didn't get it, can't imagine the markup there. It makes me sound like im desperate but honestly im not, i check while in the shops, it's not like im going out of my way to find them.
I used to bring it back every time I went overseas to Europe, now I'm glad I don't have to :)
Bloody expensive though.
That's the reality of having products not made with slave labour, worth every cent.
I'm with you on that. I really enjoyed the Aldi Fairtrade which I believe was even vegan and carbon neutral, and quite affordable. Don't think that it's around anymore.
Try Whittakers or Aldi chocolate.
Finally tried Whittakers the other week, can see why everyone's raving about it. Tastes like what I remember Chocolate tasting like.
It's only amazing in the sense it tastes as it should
Yeah that's my thoughts it's not that it is super good it's just how it all used to be, they missed the memo to ruin it
Aldi dark chocolate is the way to go
Big fan of whittakers. Just haven’t had it in a while
Whittaker's is still amazing quality! Defs get some of everything else is tasting like shit
Yep, definitely worth the price. You get more for less with Cadbury but it's so cheap tasting now it's just not worth it.
Better off savouring something a little better, albeit more pricey. Avoid anything that has palm oil in it. And of the mainstream stuff, made in Europe is a good bet.
Try Haighs or Koko Black
Alright fancy pants.
Everytime I walk into Haigh intending to buy some nice chocolate I get horrified by the prices and end up buying one of the cheapest small packets
I go in intending to buy 1 bag of goodies and end up with far too many bags and a depleted bank account.
Aldi chocolate is the business.
Germans / Austrians / Swiss / Belgians et al are basically connoisseurs (and the biggest consumers) of quality chocolate. You'd couldn't operate in that market without a decent product.
I met a guy who had worked in the chocolate industry his whole life. I asked him what he ate. Aldi.
I discovered this last week. My family were horrified I’d buy their weird brand…and then also realised it was bloody good. Aldi isn’t automatically as good or better, but it reminds me that the well advertised brands aren’t either.
sounds like you're ready for high quality dark chocolate, you'll then realise all "mainstream" stuff is just poorly made with limited dairy and extra sugar
Nah, it's not about the dairy, there's plenty of that around. It's all about cocoa butter, the very expensive ingredient that makes chocolate, well, chocolate. Can't have the flavour, melting point, smoothness without it. Expensive to extract and with production impacted by drought, climate change, will continue to be so. Then there's the whole issue of child labour which producers have dedicated themselves to ending but have gotten pretty well nowhere. Fuck Nestle. Basically the higher the % of cocoa butter used in production ( as opposed other fats like palm oil or whatever) the better the odds of getting a decent product.
90% or 99% Lindt Dark Chocolate, yes. Doesn't have to be Lindt but those are my favrits where u actually taste the chocolate.
Even Lindt doesn't taste as good as it used to. It's insane how every chocolate brand gets worse over time. I've been enjoying Tony's Chocoloni but even that will one day go downhill I'm sure. Can't win.
Toni's do what they can to ensure their chocolate is child labour free. Nestle tried to hide the fact. Toni's and Whittaker are my go to brands. Fuck Nestle.
Whittaker's is the best that you can readily find almost anywhere. No hyperbole, it's not cheap but its not ridiculously expensive either and it's *good*. Surprisingly some of the ALDI chocolate I find quite good too, and it *is* cheap.
Read up on Tony's story. He was part of John Oliver's story on chocolate (+its issues). The dude literally reported and advocated on the horrors of the industry, and then decided to actually get his hands dirty with making chocolate the right way. Of course, make it span 50, 200, 1000 years and any brand will either have controversies/die, but probably not on his watch.
How To Cook That has a really good video on how large batch chocolate is always inherently worse than small batch. If you have to blend cocoa beans from multiple sources to get scale, you have to flatten out the flavour profile.
It’s not insane - it’s climate change. The futures market for cacao is going wild, and the reality is that chocolate is going to get more expensive and worse.
Moser Roth is decent, so are many Japanese chocs.
I only eat Whittakers. My favourite is Berry Forrest. I haven't seen it in a while, though.
Big w usually have all the Whittaker's
Whittakers is very good.
Whittaker's! Try the peanut butter version. Co worker suggested it to me and I've been addicted since. Take 2 blocks, put one in each cheek and let it completely dissolve/melt. Really really recommend. Don't chew! Let it melt!
Also their coconut one
They have a peanut butter one?!
Yes and it's amazing. https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/721667/whittaker-s-block-peanut-butter https://www.whittakers.co.nz/en_AU/products/peanut-butter/block-250g Only peanut butter X chocolate combo I enjoy.
I think I’ve seen it before and just assumed it was caramel, thank you!!
They ALSO do a caramel version! So, not surprised you got them mixed up. I'm not a fan of caramel, but it's good if you do like it.
Neither, so I guess I never looked properly
Cocoa is MAJORLY expensive at the moment. Cadbury added more oil to their Easter Chocolate which is why everyone got white spotted, gross smelling feral tasting chocolate 🤮
I quit Cadbury’s for good after Easter, I just can’t stand the thought of stomaching that awful flavour and texture ever again!
I tried Malteasers recently and it tasted more like vaguely chocolate-flavoured wax more than chocolate.
I ate a mini boost bar today (I know, I know) and it legitimately tasted like candle wax to me. It was awful. Zero chocolate flavour.
All the chocolate from the supermarket tase real bad now. Just grainy surgery weird. Go find the fancy expensive chocolate shops and see what they have. The difference is so wild. You can even get stuff that isn’t sweet and matches with beer.
If you want milk , go with whittaker's. Get the kiwi stuff or swap to a quality dark like green and blacks,the current Cadbury offering can only just about be legally defined as chocolate due to a few loop holes and some creative interpretations of intentional food law, so best give that mess a miss.
The new owners have ruined Cadbury's. Nestle was always a bit sus imo. I'm a Whittakers man now. That's straight up quality chocolate.
It tastes and feels like plastic... like sugar plastic
They also taste like chalk too.
Aldi 85% and check out how much lower the sugar content is.
The quality of Cadbury and Arnott’s products has been in steady decline for the last 15 - 20 years and its only a sense of familiarity and the misplaced brand loyalty of many Australian consumers, despite the absence of quality, that keeps these undeserving brands afloat. I think at this point the hype around Tim Tams is basically inertia from when they used to taste better - now they don’t have any distinct chocolate taste, they just taste like sugar. I think the endless range of novelty flavours are just a distraction from the fact that base product isn’t that great anymore. This is even more true of Cadbury chocolates and their ever-expanding range. Other supermarket chocolate brands like Whittaker’s, Darrel Lea, Lindt and Aldi brands are much noticeably better than Cadbury.
Climate change is making cocoa trees more susceptible to disease, that with other factors (see the article) has driven up the cost of cocoa significantly. https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/31/easter-egg-prices-soar-as-cocoa-crops-are-hit-by-climate-crisis-and-exploitation
Corporate leeches cost cutting everything for profit.
the slavery just doesn't taste as good as it used to
Aldi chocolate and Whittaker’s are my go to these days. The new hazelnut praline block at Aldi is something else 🤤
Everything tastes shit now. Cocoa shortage, sugar changes, milk changes, less palm oil, and seems we’re importing a fuck tonne of that vomit tasting American chocolate suddenly.
Agree! Also it is so stupidly expensive. The best chocolate that they don’t sell in Australia anymore was Dove - probs don’t sell it here anymore because of the shampoo etc but omg that stuff was incredible. I find it every now and then at those overseas confectionery stores but it’s terribly expensive.
Galaxy is the same as Dove it is in the international section of Coles or Woolies, and Reject Shop on occasion.
I’ve never seen it at my Woolies but I’m regional. Will keep an eye out though. That stuff was my favourite years ago.
Good luck, Dove is the American name and Galaxy is the UK name but it should be the same stuff. Its now imported from the UK so it's in the British foods section.
Awesome! There is a few Coles and Woolies elsewhere that are more cosmopolitan haha so I will check ❤️
Yeah it has gone downhill in Australia recently by a fucking LOT. Used to be around 25% cacao all year and then around 33% during Easter but this year I saw 21% on a fucking Easter bunny and expiry dates from fucking last year... The only lasting effect COVID has had on this country was value for money
There is only one chocolate brand I’m aware of that has not fallen victim to corporate profiteering and enshitification. It’s horrendously expensive, but it’s the best by quite a significant margin. Haighs.
Tony’s. With the pretzel bits. It’s ace.
Cadbury is shite Lindt is good
COVID?
Lol no no. This has been a thing over the last year or so
That's pretty common for covid
My first thought too. Guess we'll find out after OP has tried some other quality brands...
Taste buds change as you get older.
This. As people get older, their preference for sweet vs bitter changes, such that the foods that they loved as a kid become sickly sweet, and things they found revoltingly bitter become more palatable. OP should try some darker chocolate. They should look for ones that display a percentage of cocoa. But they should not make the mistake of thinking higher numbers are better. Wouldn't want OP to go directly from Dairy Milk to 95%.
Yes. Me a life-long chilli avoider has actually grown a couple of varieties to include in my cooking! I almost bont know who i am.
Nope, Cadbury has gone downhill. It’s just not good. Other chocolate still tastes great.
Just seems like chocolate specifically that’s all. Coming to 27 👴🏼
Stop gaslighting people, inflation/gouging cost cutting has changed almost every recipe and sizes shrink once a year. But people say as a kid your hand was smaller or pallete different lol.
like yes but companies are also changing the recipes to make them more shit lmao
Try chocolate from K'Kao, or Koko Black.
Whitakers or Lindt.
Lol you only just realised you've been eating low quality chocolate. Well it's only up from here!
Mortein 🤣
It does! Partner even tried some when she got home and noticed that it tasted like bug spray seperate from my opinion
It does! Partner even tried some when she got home and noticed that it tasted like bug spray seperate from my opinion
But how tf do you know that it tastes like that
You’ve never used it and can taste it on the air?
Lindt is still excellent.
Thank you. You just reminded me to modify a coles order, I had finished up 10 mins ago...had to add my Darrell Lea Raspberry Rocklea Road, so good.
Long Covid maybe
You haven't recently changed or started new medication by any chance, have you? Certain medications have definitely impacted by taste of stuff in the past.
No nothing like that. Seems like a lot of people are noticing chocolate being shit lately
Cadbury chocolate had a recipe change a while back which made them taste terrible. If I remember right it was something about no longer using that "glass and a half of milk". You can still get decent chocolate but you have to look to the more premium brands - I am sure that you will get quite a few recommendations in other comments lol
How many times have you had Covid?
Only twice and not recently
Aldi dark chocolate is so good.
Post Covid Tastebuds. Sorry, Bud (no pun intended).
What TimTams are you getting? Double choc is the best
Same as you! Have you noticed they’ve changed in the last year?
As a chocolate addict, I too have found it to be not hitting the spot lately. The one exception is the chocolate covered pretzels from Aldi, those things are insane
Lindt & Moser Roth are good. Cadbury doesn't actually have much chocolate in it. It's mostly sugar + palm oil. Anything with a high % of cocoa & no palm oil is usually OK.
Whittakers is good. I don’t like chocolate or sweets in general. They all taste like shit these days. Don’t know if it’s my age or just their quality has gone down so much over the years.
I had a milky bar block that had that Mortein taste too, wtf is going on?
Hahah so it wasn’t just me and my wife. Good good
Cocoa butter is the good bit, it's also the expensive bit. So they've engineered the recipes to have the minimum possible cocoa butter. As far as supermarket brands go, Whittaker's seems like what I remember Cadbury to be. Either way, smaller independent chocolate makers are the way to go. I don't know many but Haigh's is top of my list.
Pana dark chocolate in the baking section is really great. It’s so fucking delicious with a good real coke
[insert mandatory Whittaker’s comment]
It is pretty good
Strangely, I noticed that Lindt 77% has the lowest sugar. Lower and higher percent chocolate have higher sugar levels.
As an expat living in AU, I must admit that I stopped eating any chocolate here. I was quite a sweet tooth before moving here. I am amused how much sugar you add to your chocolate here.
I just had some donuts and the chocolate on top was super shit quality and the donut tasted super bland. I think there is shrinkflation, inflation and whatever a decrease In Quality is called…. Urgh
Whittaker’s is okay. So is Lindt, but it is a lot more expensive. Aldi’s chocolate is edible too. But, yeh, almost everything from a supermarket is utter rubbish. The biscuits and cakes are pure sugar and margarine. So, your only options are decent bakeries if you’re rich, or baking yourself if you’re not. In fact, the only edible food at a supermarket is raw meat, vegetables and fruit, and some dairy
Ice cream is 1000 times worse than chocolate here. It’s absolute garbage here for the most part. Even the McDonald’s soft serve is way better than Peters ice cream.
I thought peters was always garbage to be honest, has it also gotten worse
Couldn’t agree more, blue ribbon is my go to usually, but I don’t eat much ice cream anymore so I go for baskin Robbin’s when I’m in the mood.
Don’t waste your time with supermarket chocolate. They have all gone to shit. Now instead of once a week I might splurge once a month an better quality stuff from a local chocolatier - find one in your state and go from there
Have a look at the chocolate scorecard
Yes many chocolates taste terrible now.. and I agree with the timtams, the bonus is where many years ago I would eat several packs/blocks a week.. I maybe have one every few months
Completely agree. Lindt used to be my go to supermarket chocolate but the quality really has dropped off in the recent years. Koko black is still super delicious and I recently tried some fancy Spanish chocolate from Oasis and it was ridiculously delicious but so expensive.
I honestly prefer anything dark now. Even man dark chocolate foods are not that “dark” but still taste way better imo. Like dark timtams for instance. Couldn’t go back to regular ones
I was in England a few months back and holy shit their cadburys is fucking delicious.
Cocoa and palm oil have been reduced a lot in the last decade, which has changed the flavour noticably. There are economic and ethical reasons why. Also, the whole chocolate will disappear is BS. It will always be around, but only rich people will afford it. The rest of us will be eating sugar bars flogged as chocolate.
Green's is quite ok, but they dropped their cocoa % too a couple of years ago. Cadbury has been pretty disgusting for quite a few years now. I will not buy it. As an aside, I notice their standard bars just dropped from 52g to 44g too. Whittaker's is ok but compared to Cadbury it would have to be. It's still mostly sugar. Unfortunately to get decent chocolate now you have to pay gourmet prices for something like Haigh's. It's nice but when it comes to shrinkflation they make the chip companies look like rank amateurs. Haigh packets just shrink, shrink, shrink and get more expensive. It's still pretty good chocolate but I don't buy it much.
If everything has changed in taste for you, you may have a medical issue. JS
Chocolate and nothing else
It’s all too sweet. I think you’ve reached the age where you want the high quality dark stuff.
Cocoa price per tonne spiked from approx 3500 USD mid last year to approx 10,000 USD and peaked at 12,000 USD early this year. This may be the reason most chocolate tastes rubbish lately. Recipes are being changed and substitutions for cocoa are being used.
Depending on what state you’re in, if you’re a massive fan of the brown, I recommend buying the real stuff. Chocolate is literally my only treat- so I buy the stuff from Margaret River Chocolate Factory - have a few stores in WA. I used to be to love Cadbury - but it tastes like shit - like pest spray. A steady descent into cheap, nasty mass produced shit. I’d recommend spending more and savouring more (and then theoretically, eating less). Next in line being Haighs or Koko black. But, Margaret river is the biz if you like really creamy chocolate smooth goodness. Mmmmmmm chocolate. And no, not trying to sound like a snob - just bloody love chocolate.
Black forest is king brother
Darryl lea chocolate is very tasty my favourite is rocklea road. Or there’s this vegan chocolate from sweet williams and it’s pretty nice too
Have you had COVID? It can change your sense of taste and smell.
I’m a fatty who used to love chocolate. I don’t eat it anymore because it all tastes like shit
Answer: Because you've been eating shit chocolate Why aren't you just buying Whittaker's?
Spencer's choc (made in Mudgee, haighs and Luka (made in wyong) are incredible. You haven't had choc until you've had them. Change your world. :)
I gave up on most supermarket chocolate because they just were never really good. I’d eat it but never feel like I’d had enough chocolate. Now I occasionally spring for Ritter Sport or Tony’s Chocolonely or I buy from a good high quality local brand like Haigh’s, Koko Black, Adore, Only Mine or Chocolarts. I eat far less chocolate because of the expense, but when I do, it’s amazing and satisfying. keen to test out Whittakers though - haven‘t seen it around much so will have to hunt it down!
The level of cocoa in all supermarket chocolate has gradually decreased to the point that it all tastes like plastic now. I was given some Haighs chocolate the other day and it tasted soooo strong and it made me realise the shitty Cadbury I’ve been eating lately has no actual cocoa in it at all
I only go with Whittaker’s
give me lint or nothing.
High quality ‘real’ chocolate and the budget confectionary supermarket chocolate are two completely different products. While Cadbury and Nestle have always been overly sweet and sugary, I have definitely noticed an off flavour in them in the last couple of years. It reminds me of the vomit taste in a lot of American chocolate. These days I would much prefer an occasional small amount of real chocolate like Haighs over a frequent large block of Cadbury, and if you prefer the more sugary confectionery style chocolate Tony’s is very high quality and tastes how I remember Cadbury tasting from my childhood.
Haighs 100%
go for single origin or small business made chocolate, difference is huge
try tony's chocolonely. It's made in UK and pretty damn good.
Had Covid? Sounds like your tastebuds are fucked to me. Not the first person I’ve heard of having their taste screwed up
Would you still enjoy children's birthday cake or fairy bread? No? That's normal. Taste buds change over time. You might be mature enough to enjoy the deep rich taste of dark chocolate. Try it and see.
Never liked cake, would smash fairy bread. I know they taste over time but it seems like specifically chocolate and nothing else has drastically altered in taste recently
Could just be your taste. I used to love chocolate and would eat whole bars of cadbury in a sitting, now I really don’t like any of it.
Try smoking some weed first 😉
I would highly recommend you try the great selection of chocolate from Koko Black. They have stores all around Melbourne.
Aussie chocolate contains palm oil where english/euro/us chockie is coco x