Cadbury Chocolate
 

I'm a bit behind the times but seeing this headline put a smile on my face..

Cadbury to move Dairy Milk production from Germany to UK with £15m investment

Well yes, But Cadburys Chocolate is nowhere as good as it used to be. Never been the same since the Yanks took it over.:mad:

I did mean that it was good news for the UK factory staff..
As for the chocolate I'm strictly bournville plain..None of that milky stuff for me.:D:D:D

The cynic in me says that Mondelez obviously think that unit labour costs will be lower in the UK than wherever the use at the moment. That suggests they believe that Bourneville staff will cost less than the alternative. Which could indicate that their understanding is that the Bourneville workers standard of living will reduce compared to their contemporaries elsewhere.

I must agree that the Cadbury Milk Chocolate has changed since Mondelez took over Cadbury's. It is "oily" and the taste is no longer nice, much closer to USA style chocolate. Ugh.

With great regret I no longer purchase it. Milka brand chocolate is far better.

As regards the change of factory, border controls must affect its movement.

I recently (well about a year ago lol) the 'diet' cadbury version,

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and thought it tasted like the old Cadbury's. Also for Christmas 2019, I ordered dipped flakes for my dad from New Zealand! (he loves his chocolate and often laments the ones you cannot get any longer, and what can you get someone who has everything lol). The supplier, obviously impressed by the distance I ordered from (judging by the email received) included a local large bar of Dairy Milk with candied pineapple chunks. My goodness! Whilst not a fan of bits in chocolate, it was like being transported back in time, that thick and chunky creamy melt in the mouth chocolate of my childhood, coating the inside of your mouth .............

I can't be the only person who stopped buying Cadbury Fry products when they were taken over by Kraft, who then morphed into Mondelez, a made up name with echoes of Ford and Mondeo. It wasn't the quality, or otherwise of the chocolate but more the cynical manipulation and Americanisation of the brands.

Mind you since Covid appeared my chocolate consumption has plummeted as well. If I think back I was probably picking up at least half a dozen bars a week and there've been some months when I haven't consumed any at all and the the rest has been just one bar a month. Maybe that's why I've lost a stone since last March.

Some chocolate can feel and taste different when cold, perhaps the oily sensation mentioned above. When warm it does seem different.

Cadbury Dairy Milk does not last long in our house so we try not to buy it.
Chocolate Aero is something I have not had for years. Twix seems different to when I was a child.

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I think Aero is a Nestles product, yet another enormous company that bought up some of our heritage in Rowntrees and Twix is a Mars product, though at least they developed their own brands and didn't pinch other people's ideas.