Cadbury's discontinues Christmas chocolate favourite and festive fans are fuming

The Cadbury Dairy Milk Winter Orange Crisp Chocolate Bar has been discontinued, meaning it won't beryllium disposable to bargain this festive play - and fans are not happy

Chocolate lovers are successful for a daze this Christmas arsenic Cadbury's has discontinued a beloved festive treat.

The Dairy Milk Winter Orange Crisp Chocolate Bar, a fashionable point usually released astir September, volition nary longer beryllium disposable this vacation play - oregon ever again.

The 360g bar, wrapped successful Cadbury's signature purple packaging, was filled with orange-flavoured crispy bites and was a favourite among fans. Despite its sister product, the Winter Mint Crisp, surviving the cut, the institution decided to propulsion the orangish variant.

This week, Cadbury's announced that the barroom would beryllium officially discontinued to marque mode for caller flavours. Needless to say, fans were not pleased with the unexpected decision.

One observant instrumentality noticed the lack of the barroom successful their section supermarket and took to X (formerly Twitter) to inquire Cadbury's astir it. They wrote: "@CadburyUK volition you beryllium bringing backmost the orangish festive crisp barroom this year? Pleeeeeeasse."

In response, Cadbury's said: "Hi there, we're ever adapting our Christmas scope to guarantee there's thing caller for everyone. This year, we've made a fewer updates we deliberation you volition love. While this was not the expected news, they gave fans immoderate hope: " While this wasn't the quality fans were hoping for, the institution did connection a glimmer of hope, adding: "We recognize immoderate volition miss the Dairy Milk Orange Crisp Bar. Who knows, we mightiness spot them again adjacent year. We anticipation this helps.", reports the Daily Star.

The hopeful instrumentality replied: "Fingers crossed it's backmost adjacent year! Me and my friends miss it!"

A spokesperson from Mondelēz International spilled the beans to The Sun, revealing: "At Cadbury we're arrogant of our long-standing practice successful delivering treats that our fans person enjoyed for implicit 200 years and we're ever adapting our Christmas scope to marque definite that it is reflecting changing user sensation buds, and determination is simply a scope of options disposable to enjoy."

They added, "In enactment with this, the Cadbury Dairy Milk Orange Crisp Bar is nary longer available, but we person plentifulness of different delicious options for consumers to take from successful our 2024 festive line-up, including immoderate breathtaking caller treats arsenic good arsenic our beloved Christmas classics and returning favourites similar the Cadbury Dairy Milk Mint Crisp Bar."

It's not a large clip to beryllium an orangish cocoa lover, arsenic Cadbury besides axed the Dairy Milk orangish flavour conscionable a fewer months back.