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Club and Penguin just 'chocolate flavour' after cocoa reductions
The Guardian
|October 18, 2025
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit you can no longer join our Club or pick up a Penguin.
The lunchbox favourites have reduced the cocoa in their recipes so much that they are now merely “chocolate flavour”.
The snacks, both made by McVitie’s, changed their formulations this year amid soaring cocoa prices that have led manufacturers to try various tactics to keep prices down.
This story is from the October 18, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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