The Great Finger Shortage of 2024: French consumers are (unsurprisngly) angry after the British chocolate biscuits vanish from supermarket shelves. The French don’t like to admit it, but no one does chocolate treats like the British. Consider the evidence: Maltesers; Bourbon biscuits; Terry’s Chocolate Orange; McVitie’s Penguin bars; everything Cadbury ever released.
Case closed. Well, the French are currently dealing with quite the chocolatey quandary, one you may not be aware of: Cadbury Fingers have been impossible to find for several months now. And considering , now is not the time to be severing innocent bystanders from their coping mechanisms.
Consumers noticed that supplies had dried out, something which French outlets like Libération and Le Monde confirmed. French TV channel BFM labelled it "La mystérieuse disparition des biscuits Finger" ("the mysterious disappearance of the Finger biscuits"). Le Parisien opted for "Un symbol de moments partagés et de plaisir" ("a symbol of shared and pleasurable moments"), while Libération went with: "Les Finger de Cadbury ont disparu des magasins en France et personne ne nous a rien dit" ("Cadbury's Fingers have disappeared from French shops and no-one told us") - adding that Cadbury Fingers are the "perfect link between fine Mikado and large Twix.
" Poets. And not wrong. So what has happened to these chocolate life savers and how could they have mysteriously disappeared from supermarket shelves without a reasonable e.
