Cadbury drops palm oil from chocolate!

**Mschvs** · 17th August 2009, 11:57

Yay, now I can eat Cadbury stuff again ... kinda boycotted it, along with a lot of other products when I found out about that!

**Swoop** · 17th August 2009, 12:29

Cocksuckers. Fuck over the customer with the palm oil issue but conveniently forget about the weight reduction of the product.

Stick with Whittaker's!!

I suspected they were desperate with this weekend's grocery shopping. cadbury choc was incredibly cheap. Porirua's finest STILL went into the trolly though.

cadbury can get fucked!

**Pussy** · 17th August 2009, 12:33

Bugger Cadbury!

**Naki Rat** · 17th August 2009, 12:34

Cadbury finally confirmed that they fucked up. Amazing what consumer pressure in capable of

And Cadbury is being flogged off cheap on 1-Day today. Good luck guys, it'll take a long time, if ever, to regain the customers that were lost to Whittakers

**Indiana_Jones** · 17th August 2009, 12:35

Whittakers for me. Very nice chocolate.

Cadbury have shot themselves in the foot.

-Indy

**crazyhorse** · 17th August 2009, 12:37

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I suspect that it may be too late for Cadbury in New Zealand. They will have lost significant market share to Whittakers, probably forever.

This demonstrates the perils in getting cute with one's consumers.

I don't know - if you like Cadbury, and they change it back, yeah, I'd buy it again. No different than buying your favourite ice-cream - gotta be Tip Top!

**Beemer** · 17th August 2009, 12:45

Yes, but are they going to go back to just cocoa butter or are they still going to have some vegetable oil content? If they are, I won't EVER be buying Cadbury chocolate again as I don't like the taste of the new stuff.

I don't eat a huge amount of chocolate anyway, so money isn't a concern so much, it's taste. Whittakers is great and I'll keep buying it because of that.

**merv** · 17th August 2009, 12:46

Nah I'll stick with Whittakers though as was said Cadbury were finally down to 2 for $6 at our New World but that's what they used to be on special before the 20% went missing.

We'll wait for the next Whittakers special before we buy more chocolate.

**CookMySock** · 17th August 2009, 12:49

Originally Posted by oldrider

Too late Cadbury, the damage is done, you have lost the trust of your consumers!

People would have to be pretty brutal to never trust someone again, because of palm oil.

Steve

**merv** · 17th August 2009, 12:55

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

People would have to be pretty brutal to never trust someone again, because of palm oil.

Steve

It was more than that though, it was also the reduced size of block, the change of taste and the sourcing of it from Australia instead of Dunedin so basically a whole lot of things that just rankled with too many Kiwis. I for one used to think of "good New Zealand Cadbury chocolate", well it is no longer a New Zealand product, whereas Whittakers still is.

**gtr boy** · 17th August 2009, 13:03

whittakers
cadburys not getting my business,smaller bars and tastes like shit

**YellowDog** · 17th August 2009, 13:03

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I suspect that it may be too late for Cadbury in New Zealand. They will have lost significant market share to Whittakers, probably forever.

This demonstrates the perils in getting cute with one's consumers.

Too right and too late.

The Cadbury's Fruit & Nut versus Whitakers - Whitakers superior Cocoa taste doesn't do it for me.

But the Whitakers Creamy Milk version wins hands down.

IMO - Cadburys NZ won't recover from this (great advert though).

**ckai** · 17th August 2009, 13:26

Holy shit, people are pretty hard nuts about their choccy

I had some Cadbury last night. Didn't notice the difference (apart from size). In saying that I don't have it all the time. Looked at the ingredients and it didn't say anything about palm oil. Only cocoa butter. Did it actually state it on the back?

I still can't get over how hard core people are

I prefer NZ recipe chocolate to a lot of other countries because it's creamier. It does kinda suck that it's made in Oz but so much shit is made overseas that you would think wouldn't.

I suppose you die hards are the reason companies keep manufacturing here as long as they can. Good on ya's!!

ps. must do a comparison with Whittakers...just to test...man it's gonna suck

**Max Preload** · 17th August 2009, 13:28

Originally Posted by merv

Nah I'll stick with Whittakers though as was said Cadbury were finally down to 2 for $6 at our New World but that's what they used to be on special before the 20% went missing.

I saw the 20% smaller 'king size' Cadbury bars for $1.99 at Pak'n'Slave last week.