I had Googled to find out where I could buy a box of Black Magic and then read the Reviews. I looked further and this from YorkPress.co.uk of 23 Dec. 2013 "A Nestlé spokesman said that since the takeover, York had remained a global centre for confectionery and Nestlé remained committed to the city. He said the business had invested more than £200 million since 1988, making York’s site one of the world’s largest and most successful confectionery factories." Obviously this meant Nestlé could do what it liked thereafter and it did - Black Magic is apparently made in Czechoslovakia. The next quote comes from a response to one of the Reviewers here from Nestlé : "they replied telling me they had to consider their customers in Europe and felt it was time for a change, thus the inclusion of more praline & truffle-based centres as opposed to the original line up" This is why I don't buy boxes of chocolate any more, filled with pralines or truffles or (worst) ganaches sickly sweet sticky stuff supposedly with different flavours. Apparently there is now a choice of 6 in the Black Magic box - I remember we used to have strawberry cream, caramel, hazelnut, Brazil nut, Montelimar, marzipan, non-creamy fudge, orange, cherry in liqueur, butterscotch, my favourite: toffee mallow and the one that stayed in the box until I married a man whose favourite it was.... coffee cream. Shame on you Nestlé.

The creams are like fondant, no coffee cream and little taste in the rest - never buy them again

what have they done to my favourite chocolates...... where has the hazelnut cluster, brazil nut, butterscotch, montelimar gone.. and what have they done to actual chocolate.... it used to be so delicious.. now it tastes like cheap chocolate.. the type found on penny sweets........... wont buy these again......................

Ruined this product....nothing for a company to be proud of.ALl packaging and only 6 choices of chocolate.....appalling.

Not any more. The dark chocolate that gave them the "black" has gone and there is no "magic" in any of the fillings. A good product ruined.

Oh dear what HAVE they done to Black Magic chocolates? They have completely spoilt Spoilt what used to be a superb product.I thought IWould take a trip down memory lane and buy a box. They were awful and are now in the dustbin--I am a chocoholic but I could not eat them.

Nothing like the original they are actually terrible I couldn't eat more than 3 what happend to black magic they used to be quality with assortment now there discussing and all basically the same

My sister and I looked forward to opening a box of black magic, remembering all the yummy centres we used to enjoy. What a disappointment! Only six different centres. What happened to montellimar, Turkish delight, whole cherry, butterscotch, coffee cream, whole almond, hazelnut cluster, marzipan.....who knows the secret of the black magic box? Obviously not Nestle!

All products nowadays are going up in price, down in size and down in quality, we are being conned, Black Magic Chocolates are at the top of the list. We have recently lost our son (during Xmas 2011), Christmas is a very low time for us, so as a special treat I bought my wife a large box of Black Magic, they were always her favourite and she hadn't had any for years, when she opened them she said that there was something wrong they weren't the dark chocolate she expected, she then tasted one, she looked at the box again and said "Are these Black Magic", having confirmed that they were her comment was "They tasted like some cheap budget chocolate". Tesco's were selling at half price, I wouldn't even take them again if they were giving them away.

Bought these chocolates for a Christmas present for my wife. I used to buy her a box every year but have not done so for the last 2 years. Absolutely disgusted to find that there was a selection of 6 only, of which 2 were nut based. The others are cheap and boring fillings. These should not be sold under the Black Magic name as they are nothing like the chocolate selection they used to be. The name should be qualified to show that there is a limited selection. Although the chocolate selection is detailed on the back, when you have bought these chocolates for over 40 years, you see the box and the name and buy them, you do not look on the back to see what the box contains. I feel I have been tricked into buying these. The chocolate selection has has been reduced to the cheapest run of the mill rubbish but the product is still priced in the top quality range I will never buy these chocolates again. Look on back of the box before you buy to make sure the limited selection is what you expect.

Every year since I was quite young, my Dad would buy me a box on my birthday and for Christmas as an extra treat, I had a routine in which order I ate them in and saved the liquid cherry until last. About 1993, he again bought me a box as an extra treat and off I went to open them. OMG, the lemon centred one, the butterscotch, the liquid cherry had all gone and what was left was a very poor substitue for my one time favourite chocolates. I wrote to Nestle and stated my disappointment and asked why they hadn't changed the name to Black Moonlight or something else as the chocolates bore no resemblence to the original, tried, tested and popular Black Magic and they replied telling me they had to consider their customers in Europe and felt it was time for a change, thus the inclusion of more praline & truffle-based centres as opposed to the original line up. I stopped my Dad from buying me any more. A friend later bought me a box on my birthday and this time they were just slabs of choclate squares, even worse, so definitely do not ever want another box of these either. Why do companies change what the people want to buy in the name of "progress".

What has happened to the Black Magic chocolates I used to know - (I remember them coming in a proper box with a real red ribbon) - the chocolate is terrible and the fillings - where are all the nutty and hard centres? Picking through a box used to be sheer delight - now Never Again

I am so fussy when it comes to food and considering I had an eating disorder something unhealthy has to be really tasty for me to eat and boy do they tick the boxes, so rich and sweet, thank god there is no coffee I wouldn't buy anymore, I wouldn't change them I love them all especially the hazelnut Praline.ps I'm eating them as we speak hehe

I bought some for the loved one this Easter and when opened we were both disappointed at the lack of choice. I fully agree with the remarks of all the previous reviewers regarding the deteriorating quality of these once-great chocolates. I am convinced they are not as dark (less cocoa content?) and all the intersting old centres have been consigned by Nestle to history. Only the flavour lingers on in my taste buds. But what about the packaging? Absolutely dreadful. Where has the red tastle on the erstwhile luxurious 'casket' gone? Shame on Nestle!! When they took over Cadburys fears were expressed that that once great company which had values of social justice embodied in their principles would be thrown out the window and British jobs endangered. Why did Nestle not publicise that all the old favourites in Black Magic were being withdrawn? (If they did, it was done discreetly). I would like to have known in advance so that I could have made an informed choice.

I was given a box of Black Magic for the first time in years and was delighted because they were an old-time favourite. What a let-down....the chocolate isn't as dark or rich as before and the centres are all smooth, tasteless, sickly mush....nothing tasty at all. As soon as I started to mention them at work, my colleague knew what I was going to say,so I know it's not my taste-memory that's gone wrong.They are now very nasty chocolates. No more Black Magic for me thanks.

Very disappointed I wont be eating them again. They used to be one of the nicest chocolates you could get, taste cheap now.

Black magic look and taste cheap. The centres are bland now, what happened to montelimar and the coffee creams??? If it ain't broke don't mend it! The white squiggles look terrible , whoever does the design maybe should have a career change

I haven't eaten B/M for several years & this year I received a gift of a box of B/M What a waste of calories, these chocs are for toothless old people. Where is the butterscoth? the coffee creme,the REAL toffee? all gone WHY? These were my sons favorite chocolate 10 years ago why did you change them for a heap of old tasteless sugarful extremely sweet old tat. And so many of the same,time you gave VALUE FOR MONEY! Only worth £1.99 for 376grms Otherwise you robbing the public and should be reported to the office of Fair Trading. Well I wont be eating your box of toothless tasteless waste of calories again and so a many of the same tat in one box