I’ve stuck this in MPSIMS rather than the pit because:
a) It’s pretty pointless and
b) It’s chocolate…who in their right mind would seriously pit chocolate?
In recent times in Australia (dunno about the rest of the world), Cadbury has changed their packaging and has introduced some new tastes in their block chocolate. In the process, they’ve also changed the ‘formatting’ so that instead of breakable lines and individual squares, the block is all squiggly with big bits and smaller bits and it CAN’T BE BROKEN INTO REGULAR SERVES.
See, if I get the fancies for a block of chocolate, I like to have maybe one or two lines made up of four or five squares each. A block of Cadbury’s eaten in this fashion would last me, oh, maybe a week, perhaps two?
But now that the bastids have changed everything, I can’t keep count, and I keep breaking off more chocolate than intended. So I have to eat it…And you can’t have an uneven end to yer’ chocolate, so I have to try to level it up…and I have to eat that too. Last night I ate the whole block. :eek:
In all seriousness, I’m sure that was their intention…so hence this pitting in C(hoc) minor.
See, this is where you lost me. I don’t buy chocolate because a block would last me, oh maybe an hour, perhaps two.
My grievance with Cadbury is that their blocks of chocolate have become smaller and thinner and they no longer put whole nuts (brazils, hazelnuts) in them, only tiny fragments.
Letting Kraft buy out Cadbury was a sad, sad day. This is not an unexpected result. I really miss the white (chocolate) bar that came out of the U.K. It appears to have been dropped when Kraft shifted production to Poland. Anybody seen a Cadbury Dream bar around lately?
…when Cadbury started to play with its formula/size/shape etc over here, at gave the number two brand of chocolate , Whittakers, a big chunk of the market as people walked away from Cadbury. You can get Whittakers in Australia. Give it a try, its delicious! And the block is still made the old way!
The last time Cadbury Australia mucked about with their block sizes (and added Palm oil) I switched to Whittakers. They are awesome! These days I prefer Lindt. Cadbury have lost my goodwill.
Banquet Bear, I wish I’d known about the chocolate. See, my karate instructor is just leaving today for New Zealand, to see friends and family. He was born there, but has been in the US for a long time. I could have asked him to bring me back samples, so I could compare! I even think he’s going to be in Wellington for a while, as well as Christchurch.
I’ve met my instructor’s father, who has a pronounced NZ accent, but my instructor sounds like a “general American” to my ear. I think he was a young teen when he came over to the US, and he just turned fifty years old.
Yes, it was a very sad day when they sold out to Kraft. The quality of the product has gone downhill and it has pretty much put me off their chocolate entirely. I stick to either Green & Black’s (which I know is also theirs) or Lindt now, at least those are still pretty much as good as they used to be.
I’d just like to point out that these product changes, from Kraft buying a smaller company down to content changes and the disappearance of certain products, *are the result *of the intense consumer monitoring and analysis discussed in other threads. Those who laugh off or dismiss the monitoring and product engineering and tinkering for maximized profits… that’s what happened your fave food item. Your choices were limited by the process.
