When I was a child, I remember the price of these sugary treats being about 10p. I was in a local shop today, and the box on the counter had them priced at £1 each!! Now yes, I could easily afford £1 BUT, morally I just couldn't bring myself to squander a £1 on this sweet, the joys of growing old...LOL

Also a lot smaller. ☹️

2 hours ago, dezwez said:

Also a lot smaller. ☹️

Now actually, in this case not sure that's true. A 1970s egg was 34g, whereas modern ones are 40g. Though true for most other consumables LOL

85p at our Tesco and 5 for £4, even less if you use your clubcard 😉

16 hours ago, StephenFord said:

A 1970s egg was 34g, whereas modern ones are 40g.

They're probably using a thicker foil wrapping to bump up the weight. 😦

I heard bird flu was to blame, the poor chooks that lay these bad boys are all laid up in bed, with unsymathetic wives. ^😂

Everyone needs to wise up and STOP buying every single product made by Cadburys or licenced by Cadburys, Cadburys is no long 'thee' chocolate to buy ☠️ The oil content is shocking and really didn't believe it until some 3 odd years ago, I got a large dairy milk, stuck it in a blender and chopped it up, then added a pint of hot water and blended the lot until it was a big thick shake, pouring the contents in a clear pint glass, allowing it to cool, the layers of sediment separated, what hit me was some 30mm of oil in the layers.

3 minutes ago, Ian Lanc said:

Everyone needs to wise up and STOP buying every single product made by Cadburys or licenced by Cadburys, Cadburys is no long 'thee' chocolate to buy ☠️ The oil content is shocking and really didn't believe it until some 3 odd years ago, I got a large dairy milk, stuck it in a blender and chopped it up, then added a pint of hot water and blended the lot until it was a big thick shake, pouring the contents in a clear pint glass, allowing it to cool, the layers of sediment separated, what hit me was some 30mm of oil in the layers.

Well, I still like it!! 😋😄

16 hours ago, Ian Lanc said:

I got a large dairy milk, stuck it in a blender and chopped it up, then added a pint of hot water and blended the lot until it was a big thick shake, pouring the contents in a clear pint glass, allowing it to cool.

What a waste of perfectly good chocolate! 😋

16 hours ago, Ian Lanc said:

Cadburys is no long 'thee' chocolate to buy

The kiss of death for Cadburys was when it was sold to Mondelez International, an American multinational. It's well known that American chocolate is cr@p and Cadburys is likely to go the same way in the American chase for profit over quality.

7 minutes ago, mjt said:

. It's well known that American chocolate is cr@p and Cadburys is likely to go the same way in the American chase for profit over quality.

Nothing more disappointing than being in USA and buying a bar of Hersheys, thinking it's chocolate!

I've heard that American chocolate tastes like puke! Sorry if anyone is eating at the moment. 🤮

16 hours ago, LincsFordFan said:

Well, I still like it!! 😋😄

People will still buy it because of their nostalgic mindset of ''that's cadburys and it's the best chocolate out there'' but in reality it's nothing like was it was in the 70's to the very early 2000's, Cadburys is sold in the USA but is actually made by Hershey, a friend of mine went to New York last year, I asked him to bring me some American chocolate bars & sweets, in the selection pack he got me was a bar of dairy milk, it was a lighter brown and looked a more matt colour, it was rough & literally melted as it hit my tongue and tasted nothing like cadburys, on the wrapper was ''made under licence by hershey'' 🫨

33 minutes ago, Ian Lanc said:

People will still buy it because of their nostalgic mindset of ''that's cadburys and it's the best chocolate out there'' but in reality it's nothing like was it was in the 70's to the very early 2000's, Cadburys is sold in the USA but is actually made by Hershey, a friend of mine went to New York last year, I asked him to bring me some American chocolate bars & sweets, in the selection pack he got me was a bar of dairy milk, it was a lighter brown and looked a more matt colour, it was rough & literally melted as it hit my tongue and tasted nothing like cadburys, on the wrapper was ''made under licence by hershey'' 🫨

Most 'own' brands are tastier than Cadbury, such as Lidl or even Asda... (and of course, much cheaper)

The raw price of cacao has been ridiculously high in recent years. Manufacturers had to make a choice between massively increasing shelf price or bulking it out with cheaper ingredients. I doubt any of the cheaper chocolate has much chocolate in it either. A lot of items now legally have to say 'chocolate flavoured'...

I've never been a fan of chocolate myself, can't eat it on it's own or even as a coating, only as small chips within a biscuit or cake, so it hasn't affected me much, but I can see why the chocolate lovers are unhappy about it.

16 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

The raw price of cacao has been ridiculously high in recent years. Manufacturers had to make a choice between massively increasing shelf price or bulking it out with cheaper ingredients. I doubt any of the cheaper chocolate has much chocolate in it either. A lot of items now legally have to say 'chocolate flavoured'...

I've never been a fan of chocolate myself, can't eat it on it's own or even as a coating, only as small chips within a biscuit or cake, so it hasn't affected me much, but I can see why the chocolate lovers are unhappy about it.

Tom, the joy of an ice cold glass of milk, and a sliced Mars bar, one of life's true luxuries (but then again, I don't drink or smoke, so have a very narrow bandwidth of treats LOL)

8 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Tom, the joy of an ice cold glass of milk, and a sliced Mars bar, one of life's true luxuries.

For me in the 80's I loved a large mug of ice cold full cream milk and a full packet of Mcvities Digestives, dipping each biscuit in the milk to soak up, then tuck in, whilst the biscuit was soaked well in milk it was still firm & crunchy, I've stopped doing this luxury indulgence around 10 years ago, dipping a digestive now goes soggy and horrible, like it's been dipped in hot coffee.......Even biscuits are not the same.

12 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Tom, the joy of an ice cold glass of milk, and a sliced Mars bar, one of life's true luxuries (but then again, I don't drink or smoke, so have a very narrow bandwidth of treats LOL)

I don't like milk either! 🫢 Used to have to mix strawberry powder into it to get me to drink it as a kid. 😅

I'm pleased to say I've now grown out of such silliness and...now only drink cold, plain water... 😆

28 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I'm pleased to say I've now grown out of such silliness and...now only drink cold, plain water... 😆

Yeah but what's in the water ? I bet they're diluting it to make it go further. 🤔

1 hour ago, Janner7859 said:

Yeah but what's in the water ?🤔

Turned our tap the other day and the biggest longest black slimy thing came out the tap, it wasn't no parasite, just a mass of built up gunk, made me think twice about drinking straight out the tap it has!

For years now we've taken to using a filter jug for our drinking water. I'm always conscious of the possibility of a pollution incident like the Camelford one in 1988 or high levels of heavy metals in the supply as have been found in the streams around Corby recently. In addition our water comes mostly from chalk aquifers and is quite hard. The filters I'm currently using are quite efficient at removing the calcium so I'm not having to constantly descale the kettle.

Sorry for getting off topic 🙂

The water here is very hard as well, doesn't taste nice at all. I just put up and shut up though, as with many other things here.

I used to have bottled water until they buggered up the lids on water bottles. Now it's slightly less hassle to use a jug, but it's not a filter jug.

Must admit I'm more concerned about microbial contaminants than metal ones. As far as I'm aware the filters can't stop that anyway.

No they won't stop that. The cartridges I'm using only claim to remove anything down to 30 microns. A filter jug would almost certainly improve the taste though.

Personally I don't trust bottled water although I have used it when there's no alternative.

10 hours ago, mjt said:

No they won't stop that. The cartridges I'm using only claim to remove anything down to 30 microns. A filter jug would almost certainly improve the taste though.

Personally I don't trust bottled water although I have used it when there's no alternative.

The very reason that masks were ineffectual during Covid, as their bacterial size was smaller than the mask mesh material...

Once again you've failed to understand their purpose. The ordinary masks were intended to prevent the spread of droplets from the person wearing them, to protect others in the vicinity.

In fact there were masks classified as FFP3 which stand for Full Face Protection and could offer some protection to the wearer. I bought some of them.

I thought we'd done this subject to death some time ago.