Cadbury Has Discontinued Its Chocolate Coins. The End Is Nigh.

Christmas is cancelled.

Already done your shopping? Don’t care.

Send it back. All of it.

Why, you may ask, are we talking so much rubbish when it’s only October?

Well maybe you haven’t heard the news – Cadbury has discontinued its chocolate coins.

That’s right – NO MORE CHOCOLATE COINS.

So to answer your question, no, no we don’t think we’re taking this too seriously.

In fact, we’re not taking it seriously enough!

The confectionery giant confirmed the devastating news via its Twitter account yesterday to a collective online gasp of shock and horror.

“Christmas without Cadbury chocolate coins is like British Summer Time without a hosepipe ban,” tweeted Jeff Wode from Lincoln.

“I remember the first time I saw chocolate after the war,” tweeted Vera L, “It was a bag of Cadbury coins. I had to hand over half my ration book but they were worth it.”

“CADBURY ARE DISCONTINUING CHOCOLATE COINS WHAT IS THE POINT WHAT IS THE POINT,” @mishcollins rightly pointed out.*

The heartbreaking news even made the front page of The Daily Telegraph.

When pushed on the highly sensitive matter, Cadbury claimed the decision was made for “straightforward commercial reasons”:

“They are quite fiddly to produce”

Quite fiddly? QUITE FIDDLY? Well we imagine Big Ben might have been “quite fiddly” to build but that didn’t stop the Victorians erecting it.

The Blue Peter badge was probably “quite fiddly” to make too but those stalwarts behind the scenes at the BBC didn’t just give up and choose to disappoint millions of British children.

This country was built on things that are “quite fiddly” and if that is just too much for those corporate big wigs over at Cadbury then maybe they should rethink their position as the nation’s favourite chocolate maker.

UPDATE:  Err, so it turns out not only do other brands make chocolate coins but no-one on the Yahoo Lifestyle desk has ever actually had a Cadbury coin.

So, might have been a slight exaggeration there.

Good news is, Christmas is back on!

Celebrate by treating yourself to one of these other (and some might even say superior) bags of fun.

1.    Marks and Spencer – £1
2.    Morrison’s - £1
3.    Tesco – 50p
4.    Poundland - £1
5.    Fortnum and Mason - £5

Will you miss the Cadbury coins? Or do you prefer another brand? Is this all ridiculous? Let us know what you think on Twitter!

*One of these tweets is genuine.

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