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> One thing I have noticed is that Cadbury in the UK is different from Cadbury in other Countries. Irish Dairy Milk is the best! My wife’s family is Irish and

> One thing I have noticed is that Cadbury in the UK is different from Cadbury in other Countries. Irish Dairy Milk is the best! My wife’s family is Irish and I spend a lot of time there. Their Dairy Milk is much creamier, much like their milk. I think their blue top “full” milk is much closer to the old “gold top” we used to have here in the UK. My in-laws will send over “care packages” of all my wife’s favourite things, Dairy Milk, Tayto Crisps, Red Lemonade and many other little treats. If you don’t have the opportunity to visit Ireland (you should, it’s beautiful and the people are the best) you can buy Irish Dairy Milk online for delivery on sites catering for Irish expats so you can sample it.

belter 5y ago
Noticed this also! Always assumed had bad luck with a batch or it was just sitting at the airport shop for too long. So my taste did not fool me! Thanks for the explanation. Must now find a way to order cross country without melting...
dbspin 5y ago
Unfortunately this seems to have changed very recently. Not sure the cause, but there's been a sudden and complete loss of quality in Cadbury products, including Dairy Milk, in Ireland. Chocolate tastes like Nestle now. As discussed (repeatedly) on the Ireland subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/search?q=Cadbury%27s+shite&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/search?q=Cadbury%27s+shite&...
- NoboruWataya 5y ago
  There may well have been a decline in quality but the overarching theme of /r/Ireland is that everything is awful all the time, so I would take those results with a pinch of salt. It's an overwhelmingly negative subreddit that complains about everything.
  - dbspin 5y ago
    That's a fair criticism, but anecdata though it may be, their chocolate does taste dramatically different to me. I would say that it's not just a recent shift though - the smoothness and richness has been gradually being replaced by waxiness and a softer / cheaper flavour in recent years.
  - messe 5y ago
    You’re not wrong, we do love a good moan in (/r/)Ireland, but I do think there has been a noticeable decline in quality of cadburys products based on offline anecdata. If you want good chocolate in an Irish supermarket, I’d usually recommend either Lindt or the supermarket’s own brand (which is more often than not a rebranding of relatively decent European chocolate).
bArray 5y ago
> My wife’s family is Irish and I spend a lot of time there. Their Dairy Milk is much creamier, much like their milk. I think their blue top “full” milk is much closer to the old “gold top” we used to have here in the UK. I wouldn't be surprised if it is creamier if they source their dairy locally. I miss gold top milk! I always try to buy butter from Ireland too, it tends to be richer in flavour. The insanity of the current situation in the UK is that there is a sugar tax (I once got sugar-taxed on a sugar free drink), sweet snacks have been suffering from shrink-flation (or inflation if we're talking about a freddo), and yet, for all of these efforts there is still an obesity crisis. If there is going to be an obesity crisis anyway, it might as well be from nice food. I noticed that Guinness is by far the best when you buy it in Ireland. Mainland Britain is second best, and then it seems to get worse the further out you get. There is not a nicer beer than a fresh hearty Guinness.

belter 5y ago

Noticed this also! Always assumed had bad luck with a batch or it was just sitting at the airport shop for too long. So my taste did not fool me! Thanks for the explanation. Must now find a way to order cross country without melting...

dbspin 5y ago

Unfortunately this seems to have changed very recently. Not sure the cause, but there's been a sudden and complete loss of quality in Cadbury products, including Dairy Milk, in Ireland. Chocolate tastes like Nestle now. As discussed (repeatedly) on the Ireland subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/search?q=Cadbury%27s+shite&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/search?q=Cadbury%27s+shite&...

NoboruWataya 5y ago
There may well have been a decline in quality but the overarching theme of /r/Ireland is that everything is awful all the time, so I would take those results with a pinch of salt. It's an overwhelmingly negative subreddit that complains about everything.
- dbspin 5y ago
  That's a fair criticism, but anecdata though it may be, their chocolate does taste dramatically different to me. I would say that it's not just a recent shift though - the smoothness and richness has been gradually being replaced by waxiness and a softer / cheaper flavour in recent years.
- messe 5y ago
  You’re not wrong, we do love a good moan in (/r/)Ireland, but I do think there has been a noticeable decline in quality of cadburys products based on offline anecdata. If you want good chocolate in an Irish supermarket, I’d usually recommend either Lindt or the supermarket’s own brand (which is more often than not a rebranding of relatively decent European chocolate).

bArray 5y ago

> My wife’s family is Irish and I spend a lot of time there. Their Dairy Milk is much creamier, much like their milk. I think their blue top “full” milk is much closer to the old “gold top” we used to have here in the UK. I wouldn't be surprised if it is creamier if they source their dairy locally. I miss gold top milk! I always try to buy butter from Ireland too, it tends to be richer in flavour. The insanity of the current situation in the UK is that there is a sugar tax (I once got sugar-taxed on a sugar free drink), sweet snacks have been suffering from shrink-flation (or inflation if we're talking about a freddo), and yet, for all of these efforts there is still an obesity crisis. If there is going to be an obesity crisis anyway, it might as well be from nice food. I noticed that Guinness is by far the best when you buy it in Ireland. Mainland Britain is second best, and then it seems to get worse the further out you get. There is not a nicer beer than a fresh hearty Guinness.