Cadbury Old Gold Original

My favourite Old gold dark chocolate is the Peppermint variety and the Mint crisp they both taste very good and I don't mind Rum and rasin occasionally . Will be trying the Esspresso Affagado this Easter Sunday. Show details

Perfect taste, good sweet treat, cures chocolate cravings whilst still having some health benefits. Overall great experience in every bite.

Total rubbish – Sugar, sugar, sugar and vegetable fat. How to ruin a once great product.

Cadbury just keeps disappointing me – I just bought a block of Old Gold chocolate as it used to be an old fashioned favourite of mine. The last block I’d purchased was probably 4 years ago and I remember it being delicious. The one I bought today was incredibly disappointing. Cadbury have definitely changed their formula and what used to be a real rum flavour, now tastes like fruit… Read more

soaked in methylated spirits - no exaggeration. It was so toxic that I threw out the block. I used to love cherry ripes too but again, so packed now with dedicated coconut soaked in fake cherry flavour, hardly any cherries, it’s a mere vision of its original. I don’t buy Cadbury often because I get so disappointed. But this time is probably the last.

Cheating us again – They are doing it again - reducing the package size from 200g to 180g and hoping we won't notice. Now you have to buy 2 bars to make all the recipes that use 200g of chocolate - not happy Show details

Old gold addict – Tried old gold first time last week went to shops today to buy two blocks rum raisin and almond new addiction the best

Delicious – Incredible chocolate for round the campfire. Stuff a banana with some, wrap in foil and chuck on the coals. Especially the almond one. If Rum and raisin is your thing then you've got issues..

Glossy and sickly – I'm not sure if they have changed the recipe or I have only started to notice, but something is terribly wrong with this chocolate. I bought it recently for the first time in maybe 12 months. I had a few bites and had to throw it away. It has an odd sickly sweet flavour for a dark chocolate. It's hard to describe, almost like an artificial… Read more

sweetener. It has a glossy texture and leaves a glossy oil residue in your mouth reminiscent of cheap chocolates that use vegetable oil rather than cocoa butter for the fat content. Perhaps there has been a change in there recipe.

Very disappointing.

I recommend coles brand dark chocolate. Half the price of cadbury and almost as good as lindt. Give it a go.

Tastes like dirt – I don't understand how the people making this ever let this go on the shelves. The texture is a bit sandy and the flavour is actually acceptable. Except there is this other flavour that kicks in the tastes strongly of dirt. Kind of like when you eat a vegetable that didn't get washed properly and you have eaten a chunk of dirt. I've tried it on multiple occasions as I was sure it was a defect on my first packet, but they are all like that

What have they done ! This is terrible – I recently purchased a mutilple pack of Old Gold chocolate. The day after I bought them I opened one up took a bite and had to spit it out ( now I love my chocolate so to waste it like that it has to be bad ). It had the strongest chemical taste which I can best describe as being like fly spray . My partner suggested it could have been due to… Read more

something we had eaten previously and the two flavours clashing. I was not convinced. The chocolates were kept in a dark cool cupboard as I don't like putting chocolate in the fridge however

As I had no intention of having anymore my partner put them in the fridge as he likes chocolate cold. Anyway he suggested I try another piece on a different day which I reluctantly did. It was no suprise that the chocolate had the same horrible chemical taste and went straight into the bin. I'm not sure what changes they have made because I have eaten this brand on and off over the last year and I enjoyed it !!!

Old Gold is not as bad as everyone make it out to be – I can't understand what all the hate is towards Old Gold. Maybe they've changed their formula since? I've compared Callebaut's belgian dark chocolate (recipe number 811) against Old Gold and it compares favourably. Side note: There doesn't appear to be any vegetable oil in Old Gold (which is a good thing!).

Tastes Like Dirt – As soon as I put it in my mouth I wanted to spit it out. It tasted like old dirt, and the taste will stay with you and linger on your now destroyed taste buds. I really do mean dirt, that wasn't figuratively speaking. Literally tastes like actual dirt off the ground, in block form..

Terrible – Can't eat it as is, terrible to cook with....tastes awful. I am stunned that this was a product from before I was born and after all these decades it is still on sale when far superior products have been made obsolete! The packaging - and that is being generous. Worst dark chocolate I have ever tasted.