Of all the coconut bars Cadbury tried and dropped in the 1970s, Cabana is the one that gets brought up most often by people trying to describe a flavour combination that simply doesn't exist on shelves anymore.
Coconut, cherry and caramel together
Cabana launched in 1970 with a filling built around shredded coconut, pieces of glacé cherry and a layer of caramel, all coated in milk chocolate. That cherry element set it apart from Cadbury's other coconut bars of the period, like Aztec, giving it a fruitier, slightly tangier profile against the sweetness of the caramel.
A decade on shelves, then gone
Cabana lasted about ten years before Cadbury discontinued it in 1981. As with several other niche bars from the same era, it fell victim to Cadbury narrowing its range to focus resources on its highest-selling lines rather than maintaining a wide spread of smaller, more experimental products.
Its place in Cadbury folklore
Cabana has become a fixture of "discontinued sweets we miss" conversations precisely because nothing since has replicated its coconut-cherry-caramel combination. It sits alongside other lost Cadbury bars from the 1970s as proof of how experimental the brand's range once was, well beyond today's core lineup of chocolate bars.
Frequently asked questions
What was the Cadbury Cabana bar?
A 1970s Cadbury chocolate bar combining coconut, cherry pieces and caramel in milk chocolate.
When was Cabana discontinued?
Cadbury discontinued Cabana in 1981, around a decade after it launched.
Why do people still talk about Cabana?
It regularly comes up in nostalgia lists of discontinued British chocolate because its coconut-cherry-caramel combination was unlike anything Cadbury sells today.