Cadbury chocolate contains vegetable fat?

[Headbanger]

The chief engineer at Cadbury's Dunedin say Cadburys Chocolate is going to have a standardised taste and recipe worldwide within a year or two.
So just like McDonalds, you'll be able to go anywhere in the world and buy identical shitty chocolate/burgers.

Your alive?

People have been asking after you in your mountain shack thread.

Anyway, All Aussie dairy products taste different then NZ dairy products, so having a standardised recipe won't make any difference when the ingredients themselves taste so different.

When I came back to NZ I feasted on milk, icecream and chocolate for months.

[vifferman]

In addition, where in the world you eat a particular chocolate can also influence the flavour. Chocolate made for hot countries (e.g. West Indies), will behave and taste different when eaten in NZ - often displaying a waxy characteristic where the taster feels that their mouth is coated with fat.
Fat profiles, (i.e. saturated - long and short chain - and unsaturated) which dictate melting characteristics, are key.

Anyway, All Aussie dairy products taste different then NZ dairy products, so having a standardised recipe won't make any difference when the ingredients themselves taste so different.

Yes, and yes.
It's largely due to the diet of the cows. The fats etc in the milk come from the food they eat: here it's mostly grass, in Switzerland it's mostly weeds; in the USA it's a mixture of chemicals, grain and feed trucked in from another state; in Australia it's mostly rocks, with some hay and grain thrown over the fence occasionally.

I used to drink non-skinny milk, but spent so much time working in Australia (mostly Perth) where the full-cream milk tastes really weird, that I switched to low-fat milk, just to get away from the taste.

[Naki Rat]

Cadburys is only chocolate flavoured sugar and fat anyways. It isn't a patch on real (70% + cocoa solids) chocolate like Whittakers Dark Ghana/Dark Mocha, Rapunzel or Green & Blacks, and nowhere near as good for you

[vifferman]

Cadburys is only chocolate flavoured sugar and fat anyways. It isn't a patch on real (70% + cocoa solids) chocolate like Whittakers Dark Ghana/Dark Mocha, Rapunzel or Green & Blacks, and nowhere near as good for you

What are you talking about?

I had some 70% cocoa solids Cadburys dark chocolate just this morning.

[Naki Rat]

What are you talking about?

I had some 70% cocoa solids Cadburys dark chocolate just this morning.

I was envisaging Cadbury Dairy Milk. So they do boutiquey type chocolate these days too.... I'm not trusted to be let loose in the supermarket much these days

[SARGE]

The chief engineer at Cadbury's Dunedin say Cadburys Chocolate is going to have a standardised taste and recipe worldwide within a year or two.
So just like McDonalds, you'll be able to go anywhere in the world and buy identical shitty chocolate/burgers.

BULLSHIT


the McD's tastes different here than it does back home and we REALLY need to educate you guys what a QUARTER POUND is

[007XX]

Personally, when it comes to chocolate, I am very happy to practice selective "degustation" (http://foodgeeks.com/encyclopedia/439/degustation/) and would rather have a smaller portion of really good stuff creating an orgasmic explosion on my tongue than gorge myself with insipid, tasteless quantities of supermarket crap.

The dark caramel from Whittakers is my only exception to my rule of expensive belgian chocolates

[Patch]

orgasmic explosion on my tongue

dirty girl

[bane]

I used to drink non-skinny milk, but spent so much time working in Australia (mostly Perth) where the full-cream milk tastes really weird, that I switched to low-fat milk, just to get away from the taste.

That makes sense - flavour compounds concentrate in the fat, therefore the higher the fat in the dairy product, the stronger any "unusual" flavours will be tasted. As you pointed out, feed is a major contributor.

[Hans]

In the UK they have used Veg Fat for ages and the French won't recognise it as Chocolate. They have branded it Vegolate and hate it when their natives buy it. So far as I know the NZ Cadburys contans more coco and has not yet been 'vegolated'. I understood the reason for this is that the veg fat is not able to cope with the higher temperatures in this part of the world. If the Aussies are now doing it then NZ will not be far behind. Bad news for the 'chocoholicly aflicted' NAMELY ME.

In fact, the whole EU with the exception of the UK doesn't allow Cadbury to pass their shit off as chocolate. The two reasons are a) Veg. fat b) Cocoa content is not high enough. I think you'll also find that the summer temperatures in Europe are often a lot higher than NZ.

Rant over.

[007XX]

dirty girl

[Headbanger]

In fact, the whole EU with the exception of the UK doesn't allow Cadbury to pass their shit off as chocolate. The two reasons are a) Veg. fat b) Cocoa content is not high enough. I think you'll also find that the summer temperatures in Europe are often a lot higher than NZ.

Rant over.

Fuck Europe.

[Pixie]

in Australia it's mostly rocks, with some hay and grain thrown over the fence occasionally.

And the odd dead kangaroo

[geoffc]

Yes, and yes.
It's largely due to the diet of the cows... in Australia it's mostly rocks, with some hay and grain thrown over the fence occasionally.
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Just back from a few weeks in Perth & W.A. Their dairy, food, meat, honey, etc all tastes like crap. Stuff is grown in mostly sand so no wonder it has no flavour. Drive 150 kms from Perth north south or east, its just more sand with a few rocks. Great to come home but I did enjoy their warm climate.

[merv]

So I go to our local New World today and flippin heck they've got the Aussie made Cadburys, light weight, new packaging. So I bought the Whittakers real 250g blocks. Bugger, I liked some of those Cadbury flavours, but what a ripoff.