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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:Ccoa solids...need...cocoa solids...
wiki says.....dirtybobby said: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..
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:wiki says.....dirtybobby said: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..
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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.
xIn the 1870s, Swiss confectioner Daniel Peter invented the process of solidifying milk chocolate using condensed milk, which was invented by Henri Nestle in the 1800s.[3]
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: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 ?
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:
i wouldnt bank on it.Mr X said:Hopefully this isn't the first of a long line of decisions that the public won't like.
let me know if i need to bring food parcels of cadburys chocolate back from sheffield next time im home!tek-monkey said: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?