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Goodbye Cadbury
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#chaplife
funnily enough, it's the absence of cocoa solids that gives british chocolate its distinctive flavour and texture.. if you try "real" chocolate (e.g. that 70% stuff you use in cooking, and birds eat it cos they convince themselves it's healthier) it's far more brittle and doesn't possess any of the nice, creamy flavour..Withnail said:
uk chocolate tastes the way it does because rationing in the war meant that chocolate producers couldn't actually procure much cocoa to put in their chocolate, so they started packing loads more sugar and other stuff by way of substitute.. thus, the sickly sweet (in a good way), pale "milk chocolate" was born.. the great unwashed developed a taste for it, so even when rationing was over the recipe remained..
i'm writing all this off the top of my head, so it's entirely possible that i just dreamed all this and it's complete bollards..
cookie_monster
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#chaplife
that's just a link to wikipedia's entry on different types of chocolate, it doesn't mention the war, or rationing, or why our chocolate is so different, etc.cookie_monster said:
maybe i phrased part of my post incorrectly.. i didn't mean to say that milk chocolate was created as a result of rationing, just that the british variant that we all hold so dear was a result of restrictions on cocoa content! hold on, i'll have a google..
Withnail
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Hence if the yanks love it theirs must be bad. It is not long ago that Brit Choc was threatened with not being able to call its products chocolate in the EU but chocolate 'flavoured'. I don't know what happened to that idea.
Don't get me wrong, i love the stuff, but the difference is comparable to espresso/instant coffee. I also love both of those.
Don't get me wrong, i love the stuff, but the difference is comparable to espresso/instant coffee. I also love both of those.
cookie_monster
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i thought it did by explaining the legal requirements necessary to call the product chocolate and how they differ between the EU and the US.dirtybobby said:that's just a link to wikipedia's entry on different types of chocolate, it doesn't mention the war, or rationing, or why our chocolate is so different, etc.
it also explains the different types of chocolates and the indgredients that give their distinct flavours/qualities.
well, in my eyes it did anyway...even if it didnt uphold the rationing story.
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Withnail
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Sounds entirely plausible ( the rationing thing ) to me. I was assuming that yank choc tastes un-chocolatey becuase it has an even lower cocoa butter content than ours (typically 20-25% in milk chocolate) though i haven't checked this out.
The question is do Kraft merely want to eliminate competition or do they want to acquire a better quality product ?
The question is do Kraft merely want to eliminate competition or do they want to acquire a better quality product ?
I wondered the same thing. I would hope that Kraft is so impressed with the Cadbury products that they want to be associated with that. Ah, one can hope.Withnail said:
I know when I talked to my family about the Kraft takeover my mother almost cried that she may not be able to have creme eggs again. I think she has started to stockpile them.
~Francis
Mr X
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Closures and job losses were the main concerns with the Kraft takeover, and I thought that they had made it clear they had no plans to close factories or make redundancies - it's not been long since they took over and already they've announced a closure.Gramaisc said:
Hopefully this isn't the first of a long line of decisions that the public won't like.
cookie_monster
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i wouldnt bank on it.Mr X said:
francis, if your mum is worried about creme eggs running out, she should come up to sheffield before kraft shut the factory here. theyre on sale at ridiculously low prices in the factory shop.
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tek-monkey
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Something I don't get though. If they cut production, they cut sales too. Less Cadbury chocolate on shelves means people move to another brand, so the Cadbury name devalues. What are they to gain? Nobody will move onto American 'candy', what else do Krafty sell that they think could replace Cadburys?
Although if Cadbury themselves were already going to close the plant, have Kraft actually lied? Depends how they worded their 'promise'.
Although if Cadbury themselves were already going to close the plant, have Kraft actually lied? Depends how they worded their 'promise'.
cookie_monster
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let me know if i need to bring food parcels of cadburys chocolate back from sheffield next time im home!tek-monkey said:
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