CADBURY has confirmed it has discontinued fashionable chocolates leaving shoppers complaining that "Christmas is cancelled".
The cocoa shaper has ditched its Dairy Milk Daim Little Robins this festive season.
The 77g bags contained individually wrapped coagulated beverage cocoa eggs with crunchy almond and caramel Daim pieces.
Shoppers person antecedently labelled the chocolates arsenic "the cleanable stocking fillers" and "ideal for sharing".
The treats were released successful 2019 alongside the Dairy Milk orangish snowman and Winter Gingerbread bar.
But this week, the shaper announced the chocolates person been withdrawn from shops to marque mode for much flavours.
It comes aft shoppers took to social media to inquire if the bars would beryllium returning to shelves this Christmas.
They wrote connected X: "It's present November 23 and it doesn't look similar Cadbury are doing the wee daim robins this year.
"Sorry to say, but it looks similar Christmas is cancelled."
Another commented: "I americium virtually searching the nett connected this due to the fact that I can't find them anywhere.
"I person recovered connected a fewer random societal media pages that they person been discontinued but I tin find thing authoritative by Cadbury."
A spokesperson for Mondelēz International told The Sun: "We’re ever adapting our Christmas scope to marque definite that it reflects changing user tastebuds, and determination is simply a scope of options disposable to enjoy.
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"In enactment with this, the Cadbury Dairy Milk Daim Little Robins Bag (77g) is nary longer available, but we person plentifulness of different delicious options for consumers to take from successful our 2024 festive line-up, including the Cadbury Dairy Milk Robins (77g) arsenic good arsenic our beloved Christmas classics and immoderate breathtaking caller festive treats."
The Cadbury Dairy Milk Robins are the aforesaid arsenic their discontinued counterpart, but they don't incorporate immoderate pieces of Daim.
Cadbury regularly refreshes its merchandise scope to present caller favourites.
It discontinued different Christmas favourite - Dairy Milk Winter Orange Crisp this twelvemonth too.
The 360g barroom was made of creaseless cocoa enhanced with tangy orangish crisps, and it became a festive favourite for fans of the choclatier.
Cadbury discontinued different orange-flavoured barroom earlier this twelvemonth - Dairy Milk orange.
The 180g snack was launched successful 2021 pursuing a surge successful popularity for cocoa orangish products.
This included Cadbury's orangish Twirl successful 2019, and Buttons and Fingers successful 2020, arsenic good as Tesco's cocoa orangish bourbons.
After announcing its iconic Dairy Milk barroom would beryllium released with a effect twist, fans were initially delighted and rushed retired to bargain it.
Changes to fashionable cocoa treats tin deed fans hard.
Shoppers were successful uproar successful January aft noticing Dairy Milk Marvellous Mix-ups with Oreo have been axed from shelves.
They were likewise near heartbroken to observe the Cadbury Dairy Milk 30 per cent Less Sugar had besides been scrapped, arsenic good as Peanut Caramel Crisp Bars.
This year Cadbury has besides travel nether occurrence for reducing seven-packs of Animals biscuits to five-packs, though the terms is inactive the same.
Why are products axed oregon recipes changed?
ANALYSIS by main user newsman James Flanders.
Food and drinks makers person been known to tweak their recipes oregon axe items altogether.
They often accidental that this is down to the changing tastes of customers.
There are respective reasons wherefore this could beryllium done.
For example, authorities regulation, similar the "sugar tax," forces firms to alteration their recipes.
Some manufacturers mightiness take to tweak ingredients to chopped costs.
They whitethorn opt for a cheaper alternative, particularly erstwhile costs are rising to support prices stable.
For example, Tango Cherry disappeared from shelves successful 2018.
It has precocious returned aft six years distant but arsenic a sugar-free version.
Fanta removed sweetener from its sugar-free alternate earlier this year.
Suntory tweaked the flavour of its flagship Lucozade Original and Orange vigor drinks.
While the magnitude of sweetener successful each vessel remains unchanged, the supplier swapped retired the sweetener aspartame for sucralose.