I bought a 100gm bar of Green and Blacks for £1.50 in Sainsburys' yesterday. Paying the same I could have got 200gm of Dairy Milk. You will notice I didn't.
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:24 pm ] |
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Does the shape of chocolate change its taste? Discuss |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:43 pm ] |
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Dairy Milk hasn't tasted 'right' for years, but that's true of a lot of stuff you buy now. Even something as simple as a Kellog's cereal! |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:56 pm ] |
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Isn't it slightly more plausible that Cadbury's are lying about not changing the recipe? |
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| Author: | E. F. Benson [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:14 pm ] |
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I bought a 100gm bar of Green and Blacks for £1.50 in Sainsburys' yesterday. Paying the same I could have got 200gm of Dairy Milk. You will notice I didn't.
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:14 pm ] |
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I like Kellogs cereal although Special K hasn't been the same since they changed the size of it |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:29 pm ] | |||||||||
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I would have thought that they have changed the recipe to cope with price changes in key commodities. Though when you look at how much salt and sugar there are in the Kellogg's cereals you wonder if you would ever notice any change in taste. Nowadays I eat the value cereals and while there is a taste difference they are more than acceptable to eat. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:34 pm ] | |||||||||
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More to the point, does the ownership of Cadbury's change the taste? |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:27 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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If it wasn't for the salt and sugar in Kellogg's cereals you probably wouldn't taste much these days - Rice Crispies seem to be rather hard and almost coated with something recently 
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:13 pm ] | |||||||||
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I have not eaten brand cereals for more than 5 years. The supermarket own brands or value brands are perfectly acceptable, for me at least. As for the own brand clones of Frosties or Rice Crispies they have loads of sugar as well. If they are now coated with some nano technology to "enhance" the taste I am at least not getting impacted! 
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:57 pm ] |
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I was reading this earlier. I accept that shape, texture etc will affect the experience of any food item. What I don't believe is the claim that Cadbury's have not changed their recipe. All of their chocolate incl the likes of twirl and flake also taste differently. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 11:47 pm ] |
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I suspect the recipe has not changed, but they are sourcing the ingredients from a different supplier. One ingredient is "Vegetable fat". That usually means palm oil, it could now be GM soya or any other greasier product. |
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Wed Sep 25, 2013 11:55 pm ] |
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In terms of chocolate bars, no, shape doesn't alter taste, at least not with me. The article in the OP states chocolate melting in the mouth at different rates due to the shape change ... chocolate isn't in my mouth long enough to melt before I take to munching down on it. Also, I'm anosmic, so that particular effect doesn't alter my perception of what I'm eating. Mark |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:17 am ] | |||||||||
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G&B is much nicer than Cadbury’s, despite being owned by Cadbury’s and now the behemoth that used to be Kraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_and_blacks |
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| Author: | hifidelity2 [ Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:35 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ture but its now thier "premium" range - just like Tesco ahve a Value, normal and Premium range - all are say Burgers but the ingredients (amount of Horse  ) being different
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:22 pm ] |
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I didn't realise G&B was owned by cadburys until I went to cadbury's world. I suspect cadbury's put vegetable oil on the label but they damn well know which brand/type/source is used. |
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