Dad Bites Into Chocolate Bar, Immediately Notices Something Is Very Wrong

A man treated his family to a bar of chocolate, only to go viral for what he found inside.

Daniel, 37, lives in Bristol in the U.K., and recently picked up a large Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Daim bar. It usually consists of solid milk chocolate with chunks of almond crunchy caramel, but Daniel got more than he was expecting.

“Something felt weird on my lips,” he told Newsweek. “I looked and there it was, [a] pretty big piece of plastic.” Daniel, who is originally from Poland and gave his first name only, explained that his fiancée and their two-year-old son had also had a square of the chocolate before he discovered the piece with the embedded plastic.

At first, he said he simply thought: “Oh this is cool, I found something.” And so he took to Reddit’s r/MildlyInteresting sub through his account u/Niko_Dangos. He shared a photo of the chocolate with a shard of blue plastic sticking out of it, the wrapper visible in the background, and titled the post: “There’s a piece of plastic inside my chocolate.”

Admitting he is a “laid back guy,” Daniel said he only realized when other people, including his fiancée, voiced their concerns, that “this is not good at all, and I need to contact them so that they can take all chocolate from the shelves in stores.

“Nothing happened to me, but a child could have been hurt.”

A spokesperson from Mondelēz International, Cadbury’s parent company, told Newsweek: “The safety and quality of our products is of paramount importance to us, and we’re sorry to hear about this experience. We’d welcome the opportunity to investigate this matter directly and would ask the individual concerned to please contact our consumer care team for assistance.”

The post, shared on January 29, has racked up 11,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments, many urging him to tell Cadbury’s what had happened.

“100% call their customer service number to report it (along with the batch number if it’s printed on the packaging),” one advised. “Besides the fact they’ll probably send you some free stuff, more importantly it’s likely to cause a recall that may prevent harm to someone.”

Some people shared light-hearted responses, including one who joked: “Big Business knows that microplastics are harmful to your health and are now including macroplastics instead,” another calling the plastic “Vitamin P.”

And another corrected Daniel’s post, as they said: “Actually, there’s chocolate around your piece of plastic.”

Daniel told Newsweek he only caught glimpses of how well his post was doing, having worked a long shift, and that he planned to take steps to alert Cadbury’s about the plastic in the chocolate.

Cadbury’s is a popular chocolate brand in multiple countries: in the United Kingdom, 70 percent of all people who eat chocolate will eat Cadbury brands, according to Statista.

In the United States, Hershey’s is the most popular chocolate brand, with a Statista survey finding 57 percent of respondents who recognized the brand eat Hershey’s. Cadbury was in 12th place in the U.S., on 27 percent.