A lot of other brands of "Chocolate" are cheap Vegetable-oil blends.



Anything that is "Choc" means that its compounded chocolate or made from mostly cheap palm fats. (Cooking choc, choc bar icecreams, "choc" chips in ice cream, most "choc" museli bars.



Perhaps the pack-size reductions may have come about from a cost blowout from all that expensive Cadbury advertising of recent? I wonder if the new cardboard packs cost more than the thin paper wrappers too?

paradoxsm: Mint imperials, made in Thailand, Pebbles still made here, marshmallows in Australia, Party mix, Aust and NZ

joker97: no more real choc *sobs*. i wouldnt go near any so called chocolate that contains vegetable oil. why not buy a tub of oil, add your own milo and call it chocolate!

lxsw20: . The downsize in bars is because they are being imported from Aus now, an upside to this is we now get a greater range of flavors.

Nimma: In NZ and Australia you are allowed up to 5% Cocoa Butter Equivalent to be able to still call it chocolate, usually this is a palm based oil. Any more than that and it has to be called compound or 'choc'. You'd be surprised how many ice creams, muesli and confectionary items don't actually use real chocolate - there's quite a bit more complexity involved in manufacture.

Nimma: In NZ and Australia you are allowed up to 5% Cocoa Butter Equivalent to be able to still call it chocolate, usually this is a palm based oil. Any more than that and it has to be called compound or 'choc'. You'd be surprised how many ice creams, muesli and confectionary items don't actually use real chocolate - there's quite a bit more complexity involved in manufacture.

DataCraft:
On that - I was told that Sizzlers ‘Sausages’ can’t be called sausages because they don’t contain enough meat products. --> Begs the question, if it ain’t meat – what is it?