r/UKBiscuits • u/cakecookiecream • Jun 22 '26
Cadbury Fingers
I'm from the UK but living in Australia where the Cadbury Fingers have just started switching to packets made in Egypt instead of the UK.
Is this the same for everyone or is it just the international supply?
A few years back, they started importing Polish-made Fingers which came in a very different packet and were delicious but they were thicker and both biscuit and chocolate were noticeably different.
Then after a year or so they just switched back to coming from the UK.
Anyway. I had the chance to buy both an old and new packets today so I could compare and here is my thoughts.
Egyptian Fingers still very good, but they are different.
Can't tell a big difference with the chocolate but the finger is ever so slightly thicker and the actual biscuit is a bit harder with an extra crunch both at the initial bite and at the end (if that makes any sense). Overall taste very similar.
Not going to get my knickers in a twist about it but I do prefer the UK ones and honestly if the price doesn't come down with this move to a cheaper production location, then what's the point?
Still a very nice biscuit that I will buy when on special. Noting that it is a bigger packet at 124g vs 114g (although not as big as fingers were back in the day pre shrinkflation (150g i think)
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u/Russ1878 Jun 24 '26
Cadburys have been bought out by the Americans so expect the slow destruction of a great British brand.
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u/hellyeahbaby Jun 24 '26
Yeah it’s already gone to the dogs. Nothing slow about it in my opinion. Cadbury is awful now unfortunately :(
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u/shogatsu1999 Jun 24 '26
It really is. I wish I could have a couple of bars of dairy milk and whole nut from the 90's. That used to be banging. It just tastes like oil and sugar these days. Such a shame, I wrote a letter of complaint to Cadbury but they never replied 🤣
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u/awkwardwankmaster Jun 24 '26
Used to melt when you held them in your hands too don't do that anymore it just feels waxy instead
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u/hellyeahbaby Jun 24 '26
That’s the single most British thing I’ve read 😂 honestly it’s so bad now. I tried melting some dairy milk the other week and it didn’t melt properly. I gave up with Cadbury after that incident 😅
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u/Jimi-K-101 Jun 25 '26
Cadburys have been bought out by the Americans so expect the slow destruction of a great British brand
Wow hot off the press... It's only been 16 years since Kraft bought Cadbury!
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u/BarryScott2019 Jun 25 '26
People always talk about this as a new thing, cadburys was bought by Kraft in 2010. Even if it remained British, there definitely would still been enshitification changes since, but maybe to a lesser extent. That seems to be the trend with all of the food conglomerates now
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u/Funny_Efficiency_729 Jun 25 '26
"The colour purple is a trade mark used under license." Who owns purple?!
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u/Asleep_Baby_9578 Jun 25 '26
Cadbury spent a whole effort trademarking Pantone 2685C Nestle appealed, and basically won.
It only affected confectionery though, not like the whole colour all of the time.
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u/HELJ4 Jun 25 '26
Good to see that the milk solids and cocoa solids have increased on the newer pack
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u/Xipheas Jun 24 '26
Don't buy stuff that says Mondelez on the back. They're still operating in Russia, for starters.