Penguin and Club bars can no longer be called chocolate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo
Posted by YoshiMK
Penguin and Club bars can no longer be called chocolate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo
Posted by YoshiMK
16 Comments
They’ll always be chocolate to me!
They were a lovely choccy treat from the corner shop, which my best friends Dad owned whilst we had the local pub. Happy days. 😊
“♪ If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, make your own. ♪”
If people keep buying them then this will be the recipe going forward. Regardless of any future Cocoa prices.
Vote with your wallet.
its amazing to see how chocolate is made from the cocoa fruit, looks like alien spawn at first 😂
dry it, bake it, do something, chocolate!
My Father used to bring home really posh chocolate when he went down to London. Its was beautifully packaged but the lovely choc surrounding a Club or the strange, watery-choc on the Penguin’s was a preferred childhood memory.
>A spokesperson for Pladis said: “We made some changes to McVitie’s Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating.”
>”Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals,” the spokesperson added.
>The company said it was committed to delivering “great-tasting snacks” while managing rising costs, and it only adjusted its recipes when “necessary”.
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>For milk chocolate to be classified as such, UK regulations say it should be made up of about 20% cocoa solids, slightly lower than EU regulations which stipulate a minimum of 25%.
I would normally have edited out all the marketing speak, but I think it falls into the, so pathetic it’s mildly amusing, category,
I only recently found out that Penguins are just choccy covered bourbon biscuits.
Here’s hoping all UK blood donation locations boycott them in favour or real choccy snacks 🙂
Perfect timing as Timtams have just launched in the UK.
I wish they’d just put the prices up rather than making every product suck.
So I can put them in my kids lunchboxes now without invoking the school lunchbox police’s “no chocolate biscuits” rule???
VAT man ahead of the game
https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/vat-food/vfood6240
>Excepted item 2 now excludes from zero-rating, biscuits wholly or partly covered with chocolate **or some product similar in taste and appearance**.
So because it’s cheaper to make the prices are going down to reflect that right?
…right?
Worth noting that Aldi Seal Bars and Lidl Arctic Bars (their respective Penguin clones) still use proper 32% milk chocolate.
And now for Alan’s fact of the day.
Penguin chocolate bars do not actually contain any chocolate. And, from 2025 onwards, they are legally obliged to call them chocolate *flavour* bars.
Another one of those the same time tomorrow.
Wow, I bought Penguins recently wanting the taste and it just tasted like I was eating sugar, that iconic flavour wasn’t there.
Makes sense, like everything else it’s went to shit.