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r/CasualUK•
shrewphys

Why is caramel always salted all of a sudden?

I like the flavour, but as I sit here scoffing the Galaxy caramel in my selection box, I think back to the salted caramel Galaxy bar that I had yesterday from the same box. Then when I looked in my cupboard, the millionaire shortbread bites are all salted caramel. It seems everything is salted caramel, and normal caramel treats are fast becoming a thing of the past. I definitely don't remember the same thing being the case in Christmases past, so what the bloody hell has happened to good old fashioned caramel sweets?

Posted Dec 28, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

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SubjectiveAssertive•

Someone found a great way of using up all the butterscotch flavouring that has been sitting around since the 1970s

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shrewphysOP•

Butterscotch angel delight is still the shit.

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6beeskneesSouthron Casual•

Mmm, yes. You're right.

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Swony1985•

There was a post just about the butterscotch yesterday i believe and some peoples concoctions were lets say..... naughty!

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ban_jaxxed•

You mean salted caramel angel delight

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Britneyfan666•

This all goes along with everything being 'pulled' every type of meat is now pulled, not just pork like when this fad started. Salted pulled avocado next.

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FrankBerg•

I wish someone would pull my meat

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elfwriter•

have you tried salting it

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Preacherjonson3 Ridings and a little bit of Humber = 1 Yorkshire•

My mum follows the same philosophy, if you like something you must want it every day.

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puppet_lifeMuscular and compact, like corned beef•

With a side order of sweet chilli kombucha quinoa jerk served on a roofing slate.

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fergunil•

Salt make things tasty.

Salty butter caramel is a French delicacy from Brittany, but is overused these days in a way more basic form (salted caramel) because it makes it easier to get something taste good and balanced when it's salty.

Or something completely different, what do I know about fudge

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shrewphysOP•

French delicacy

Ah okay, I feared that it may be another example of our sweet treats becoming (gasp!) Americanised. But then again, is it much better if our sweet treats are becoming more French?

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fergunil•

Once again, salted caramel and true "caramel au beurre salé" are two different products

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cthulhucomes•

This - salted caramel or ‘caramel de beurre salé’ (salted butter) is the bomb.

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lamby•

«caramel de beurre saléx»

FTFY (italics and guillemets)

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gadmouseuse a sausage as a breakwater•

Muphry's Law

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korevbras•

Probably because it saves cost somewhere along the line.

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The_Ruly_Anarchist•

I think it's the other way 'round: add a little bit of salt and that gets you a 'premium' product that you can charge more for - greater than the cost of the added ingredient.

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disco54hendos not lea & perrins•

How does adding an extra ingredient save cost?

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korevbras•

Depends if it means less of something else. More salt may mean they need lower quality caramel, for example

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disco54hendos not lea & perrins•

Fair point

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xedrites•

As a US expat, I warn you: this is how it starts. We don't actually like our food flavored with just salt and sugar, but we've lost control of our corporations.

Replacing caramel flavor with salt and sugar hurts sales less than it lowers costs, so it helps the bottom line.

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Sixty606•

It disguises the fact you've replaced another ingredient with utter vomit

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ban_jaxxed•

Also salts as close toe free as makes any difference to large company's

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Apollonius_Cone•

Violence inherent in the system.

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IsDinosaur•

Yes!

Used to be just regular, delicious caramel, now everything is salted caramel.

I like both, but feel that choice has greatly diminished.

Even ice cream is now salted caramel.

How do we bring back regular caramel as an equal??

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Henry-Black•

There'll be riots the day they try to make Caramac bars salted.

Honestly, it's just a fad. It's always been there - I vividly remember giving an ex a box of Gordon Ramsay chocolates back in 2005, and that had a salted caramel chocolate. It gradually became a posh way to use caramel, for it was an extra seasoning and adjective. But, being relatively cheap to do, it's just filtered through to mainstream products.

Same as pulled pork. The UK was shit for anything remotely resembling barbecue for the longest time (and still mostly is), but supermarkets have realised pulled pork is both tasty and cheap. So it's gone mainstream.

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LinuxMageLuffbra•

It probably allows them to reduce the sugar and increase the salt content thus lowering their overheads on sugar which is getting more expensive to add to stuff. Salt is a lot cheaper than sugar.

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Henry-Black•

The amount of salt added is minimal - it's a seasoning. It's not somehow replacing any vast quantity of sugar... you can't caramelise salt.

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Smiffy01•

Star Bar

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BristolGAP•

Food trends.

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LeonisStar•

I bloody love the salted caramel galaxy bar :D

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Ruewd•

I noticed this like a year ago.

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mattthepianoman•

I think it happened when all the tomatoes became sun-dried

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