Decades later I found som ein the English shop et Everberg and treated Possum and me to one each to eat on the drive home. We both spat them out - nasty, oily things - but then Possum was brought up on proper Belgian chocolate andI's adjusted my taste buds.
Yes they were ALWAYS horrible, worse than cooking chocolate and the filling was some sort of goop with a suspiciously long shelf life.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
@loxley Many things have suspiciously long shelf life. When my wife was in hospital a pudding she ordered sounded great on the menu but when it arrived it was bright pink with a glow in the dark yellow topping. It also had a use by date of around June 2025!
Decades later I found som ein the English shop et Everberg and treated Possum and me to one each to eat on the drive home. We both spat them out - nasty, oily things - but then Possum was brought up on proper Belgian chocolate andI's adjusted my taste buds.
Yes they were ALWAYS horrible, worse than cooking chocolate and the filling was some sort of goop with a suspiciously long shelf life.
For some reason my mum got the idea in her head that Walnut Whips are my favourite chocolate and bought me a pack. I tried one and it was terrible so I gave the rest to my wife who isn't very fussy when it comes to free chocolate. Sadly my mum kept buying them for me after that and only telling her that 'they seem to have changed the recipe' managed to stop her.
Dark chocolate Mountain Bars from M&S were always better than Toblerone but what amazes me is that every time a company downgrades their product they get an increase in sales from the bad publicity. It's no wonder companies prioritise profits over quality and ethics if people are addicted to junk.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
One strange trend I've noticed with chocolate bars is that where previously you would have had one normal sized bar, you now get two smaller bars. The blatant reason for this is so they can print the number of calories in one bar on the packet; most people will just assume this is for the whole pack and think they're getting a relatively low-calorie treat. Or, like me, they will buy the pack with the intention of eating the other half later and then retrieve it from the glove box and eat it 30 seconds after eating the first one.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I have been buying a frozen ready meal regularly (for too tired to cook moments) -one of the few healthy types, made of vegetables and a spicy sauce. Unfortunately the shrinkflation involved changing the recipe and reducing the diversity of vegetables. It might as well be a completely different product, but it still has the same 'name'. Needless to say, I find it revolting and no longer buy it. It is sometimes easier for a company to change the recipe rather than the packaging size and name of the product, but I think it is wrong.
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I read the labels @KT53 to check for chocolate content as well as the presence of things like palm oil, other vegetable fats and palm sugar which are all a big no-no for me.
Used to like Cabury's milk choc, Terry's All Gold and even Caramac but not anymore.
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Used to like Cabury's milk choc, Terry's All Gold and even Caramac but not anymore.