FINALLY I found a block of the new Cadbury Old Gold ‘Toffee Crunch’ that some readers, commenters and emailers have already been talking about. It took about a month for it to reach my local Coles or Safeway and I haven’t seen any form of advertising for it anywhere.
Old Gold is as much of a Cadbury classic as Dairy Milk is. It contains a fairly paltry 45% cocoa solids, so it’s certainly not a strong version of dark chocolate unless you select their 70% Old Gold block. The website says: “Legal Description: The original taste of Cadbury® Old Gold® dark chocolate with crunchy toffee pieces.” Crikey, who knew you needed lawyers to describe the flavour of a family block??
Despite the crumbs scattered on the top as a result of being hidden in the shopping trolley under a bag of oranges, then jostled in a green shopping bag, rolled on the backseat, lugged from the car and flung onto the kitchen counter before being ripped open, the squares had a nice sheen and the usual sweet smell that is associated with Old Gold.
According to the ingredients, the block consists of 9% of crunchy toffee pieces (sugar, milk solids, salt, flavours, emulsifier 322) and whilst they are clearly visible and I could certainly feel their crytallised slivers get stuck into my teeth, they didn”t taste like anything much. I was hoping for a much more discernible buttery toffee flavour – especially considering that milk solids are included – but could only detect sugar.
Sapphire and Love Chunks adored it, both proclaiming it moreish and delicious, and were quite puzzled at my lukewarm reaction of ‘Plain Old Gold with bits in it.’ I think that the ultra-sweetness of the dark chocolate might override the actual ’toffee’ in the ‘crunch’ a bit too much and wonder what it would taste like in either the 70% or Dairy Milk (one extreme to the other).
For those of you who have tasted it, what do you think?
I’m torn. 
