Ahhhhhh English chocolate

[Zedder]

Go Whittakers!

[Ocean1]

First ever Easter with no Cadburys in the house.

Fuck Cadburys.

The very best thing you can do for any chocolate is to make sure it never gets warm.

It's tempered immediately before being moulded, which involves complicated changes to the fats in the mix, and affects it's texture.

The stuff that's been sitting on the petrol station shelves for weeks through summer is always going to be shite, no matter how good it started out.

[pritch]

Go Whittakers!

Indeed!

As a kid lots of the magazines and comics I read contained ads for Cadbury, " A glass and a half of milk in every block". Long exposure with no bad experiences creates brand loyalty. Sadly the brand changed hands and some of the chocolate was replaced with cardboard. Although I hadn't been buying chocolate much I switched to Whittakers (or anybody except Cadbury).

Then there was the scandal about Cadbury replacing cocoa oil with palm oil which reduced them still further in my estimation.

Now they have upset people including the Prime Minister of Britain (who you might be forgiven for thinking would have more pressing concerns) by removing the word "Easter" from packaging and promotional events.

With a history dating back to 1824, the recent history of Cadbury would make a good case study in how to destroy a respected brand.

These days I usually have dark chocolate on hand, none of which is Cadbury.

[Moi]

Go Whittakers!

and

[roogazza]

Aaaaaaah Nige !!!!!!

[Akzle]

First ever Easter with no Cadburys in the house.

Fuck Cadburys.

their chocolate has always been shit and with a high percent of sugar.

never really an option for me.

whittakers for the general chocolates.
dark almond in the freezer at the moment. 62 or 75% cocoa... keeps the kids off it.

have a few chococlatiers that i employ for maximum de-panties.

[Berries]

their chocolate has always been shit and with a high percent of sugar.

Nah. A mates Dad was a salesman for Cadburys so we had boxes of Freddo's on the go at all times. As per the thread, the chocolate is different in both hemispheres.

I stopped buying big block Cadburys after the already mentioned palm oil debacle but still had the occasional bar of something or other - the new orange Twirl is great. But the way the multinational dealt with the profitable Dunedin factory pissed me right off so won't have it in the house any more. It won't make any difference in the big scheme of things but I am not supporting those cunts.

I can't believe they will let it happen but the Jaffa race will be very interesting if they let it take place this year. I might go for the first time just for the laugh.

[jonbuoy]

The likes of cadburys etc thats made in oz or (not made in UK) tastes different to the same brands in the uk. Id imagine its somthing to do with the heat here and need for preservatives?

English chocolate is the shizz....But whitakers will give anyone a run for their money. Most christmas chocolate is crap.

I've heard that but I don't get where the preservative for high temperature comes in to play. It's plenty hot here in the summer and English chocolate survives just fine. If it's melting in the cupboards put it in the fridge. Most stores and shops are air conditioned anyway.

[Swoop]

A colleague at work kept raving about Yorkie bars - on a trip back to Pomyland she purchased some

Why not go along to Pack N Save? They stock them there? UK manufactured.

have a few chococlatiers that i employ for maximum de-panties.

Perhaps if you don't put female underwear on, you will not have to remove them later?

[pritch]

I've heard that but I don't get where the preservative for high temperature comes in to play. It's plenty hot here in the summer and English chocolate survives just fine. If it's melting in the cupboards put it in the fridge. Most stores and shops are air conditioned anyway.

It's decades ago now, but I spent a number of years in the tropics and normally the chocolate was white. No, it wasn't milky bar. It had been brown, but had changed to a blotchy white. Not at all appealing.

Even in Taranaki I put chocolate in the fridge in summer - to protect it from the rain???

[Oakie]

Swiss chocolate
I used to work at the Hermitage Hotel at Mount Cook. We had about 30 kitchen staff and a few of those were Euro chefs ... i.e. from Europe. They would often get packages from home which often included chocolate. A fair bit of that was given away to us ordinary people and I can say without a word of doubt that the Swiss choc is best! Or at least it was 16 years ago.