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.... don't buy a Club! Presumably there will be more to follow.
From the BBC
McVitie's Penguin and Club bars are no longer classed as chocolate after rising cocoa prices led the makers to switch to using other ingredients.
Club bars had previously been marketed under the slogan: "If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club".
But both treats are now described as "chocolate flavour" because the amount of cocoa they contain has been reduced after owner Pladis had to find cheaper alternatives to the main ingredient in chocolate.
The UK sources cocoa beans from West Africa and poor harvests as a result of severe drought conditions in cocoa-producing countries, such as Ivory Coast and Ghana, have led to restricted supplies and higher prices.
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If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit..... on 07:31 - Oct 21 with 1152 views
Cocoa prices did go up an awful lot from 2023-24 as a result of a poor harvest as they say. They’ve fallen a lot over the last six months not to the consistently low levels they were but to about the point they were when they started to really spike. The big chocolate companies were still doing reasonably and the really big ones nowadays are in all sorts of other categories (Cadbury owned by Mondelez, Mars do pet food and all sorts, Nestle coffee and various other things).
I’ve seen the fake chocolate in its various prototypes in recent years from the suppliers to the chocolate companies and it’s been worked on for quite a few years, before cocoa prices really went nuts. Obviously if cocoa prices collapse you aren’t going to see a hugediscount on the shelves and they aren’t going to start using a more expensive recipe for your Club bars or whatever.
Plus there are various factors beyond cocoa- wages, profit expectations from retailers etc. but the big conglomerates that own most of the bars you eat will take the piss where they can.
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If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit..... on 10:01 - Oct 21 with 864 views
I like the article where the makers basically say, we can't afford real chocolate but our customers seem more than happy with the sawdust, anthrax and reclaimed sugar we are using as chocolate flavour instead.
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit..... on 09:20 - Oct 21 by Watford_Ranger
This is a topic I know a bit about for once.
Cocoa prices did go up an awful lot from 2023-24 as a result of a poor harvest as they say. They’ve fallen a lot over the last six months not to the consistently low levels they were but to about the point they were when they started to really spike. The big chocolate companies were still doing reasonably and the really big ones nowadays are in all sorts of other categories (Cadbury owned by Mondelez, Mars do pet food and all sorts, Nestle coffee and various other things).
I’ve seen the fake chocolate in its various prototypes in recent years from the suppliers to the chocolate companies and it’s been worked on for quite a few years, before cocoa prices really went nuts. Obviously if cocoa prices collapse you aren’t going to see a hugediscount on the shelves and they aren’t going to start using a more expensive recipe for your Club bars or whatever.
Plus there are various factors beyond cocoa- wages, profit expectations from retailers etc. but the big conglomerates that own most of the bars you eat will take the piss where they can.
"....but the big conglomerates that own most of the bars you eat will take the piss where they can."
Unfortunately the same for any business. If there's a short-term spike in price (for whatever reason) when that spike comes down again they'll still hold their existing price because that's what people got used to paying and therefore increase profit.
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If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit..... on 17:03 - Oct 21 with 465 views
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