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Penguin and Club Bars can no longer be called Chocolate

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The BBC reports that Penguin and Club Bars can no longer be called chocolate because the coating doesn’t contain enough cocoa solids. The price of chocolate has rocketed so much that the bars will now have a chocolate flavoured coating. 

i would prefer to buy real chocolate coated biscuits less often than I do at present, rather than consume chocolate coated biscuits that taste of plastic.

It’s such a shame that chocolate has become so expensive. It feels like we are going  back in time to the16th century, when cocoa beans were so expensive they were used as currency and were kept under lock and key. 

www.bbc.co.uk/.../c86737yg3jlo

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  • It is sad, but I wonder if we take it too much for granted these days. When I was a child chocolate was a treat in my family. We looked forward to birthdays and Christmas when we would get boxes of chocolates. Chocolate biscuits were a special alternative occasionally to ordinary biscuits. When I was younger my Mum occasionally took me to Fortes after school for orange squash and a fruit club. At that time we didn't have chocolate biscuits at home, except occasionally Jaffa Cakes.

  • in reply to Homebird

    I agree chocolate  wasn't something we had in our house. It was something me and my brother went to the shop to buy when we were given some money by my dad, usually one pound and we used to come back with about 6 bars to share with the family.

    Christmas was exciting because of the tin of Quality Street, which I think we're much better back then.

    What happened to the one in the red wrapper that was sort of crunchy and nutty?¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • in reply to Lonehare12

    I don't know whether my tastes have changed as I have got older or maybe the composition of chocolate has changed but I find some types of milk chocolate to be too sweet.  I prefer the more expensive brands of chocolate nowadays.

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