Blame Cadbury for selling then, if you have to blame somebody.
If I was buying something, it might be chocolate, and it might be Cadbury’s.
Be glad nobody eviler than Kraft bought them- it might have been Monsanto.
Yep, count me in your group. I can’t recall seeing any other Cadbury product besides the eggs.
If your grocery store has an international aisle, check there for the UK imports.
Oh no, I just realized this means I will have to buy an UK Dairy Milk bar and a US Dairy Milk bar and do a comparison test. O woe, O woe!
:dubious:
They are only the second largest confectionary manufacturer in the world after Mars. That’s a lot of eggs.
Yep. As a student at the University of Birmingham I lived in Northfield (Claines Road), in the Bournville Village Trust. All sorts of rules so as to keep the village/small town feel in the middle of one of the UK’s biggest cities. A certain number of fruit trees, no external TV aerials … although there were no pubs though. Had to go on a short walk to get to one of those.
My local Vons (Safeway) stocks Hershey-made Cadbury, and it is indeed crap.
My mother sent me a care package from Australia recently with a block of Cadbury Fruit ‘n’ Nut, and it doesn’t seem as nice as i remember it. The texture and the flavor both seem different.
We have a store in San Diego that specializing in British goods, and they have British Cadbury, but importing it in small quantities like that makes it too expensive for “cheap” chocolate. I can pay the same price for Lindt in the supermarket, and it’s a better chocolate.
It’s a shame, because i grew up with Cadbury, and even as an adult in Australia i ate it all the time. As for Hershey chocolate, i don’t understand how they sell even a single bar; it’s gross.
If they were the largest in the world by 10 times the size of their nearest competitor and in the USA they still only bothered to put the name Cadbury on their freakin eggs then that’s pretty much how they would be known. :dubious:
Amazon.com, amazon.co.uk. Both have the white ones.
No, I know that other products exist, but as other dopers have said, “hand me a Cadbury” is almost as unambiguous as “hand me a Kleenex” in the US.
Oh yeah, the Mini Eggs are wonderful. And to firmly state: I am not a chocolate person. Mini Eggs are better than Creme Eggs, which I like for nostalgia and the exclusivity more than the taste.
That’s what I was trying to subtly point out. I blame Kraft for how Cadbury quality and variety has gone downhill.
Welcome to big business.
In Aus, Cadbury’s has been squeezed between better ‘swiss’ chocolate, and cheaper ‘american’ chocolate.
They tried to to move up market, and found that in Aus no-one would buy better chocolate from a ‘local’ brand: we expect quality chocolate to be imported, mostly ‘Swiss’, sometimes ‘Belgium’.
Then they tried to move down market, to compete with Nestle/Mars/Whittakers, and found their market collapsed when they had no point of differentiation.
Note (1): they did not go ahead with the plan to use ‘vegetable oils’ in their brand-name chocolate.
Note (2): lot’s of people like cheaper chocolates. I’m not saying you have to like expensive chocolate, just that there is a difference.
It’s put them in a very sad situation: they have lost an enormous market share, and there is no obvious solution. The smaller they get, the less muscle they have for fighting back. If they weren’t backed by a multi-national factory-food company, I think they would have sold out to someone else.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean, but I just think it’s funny that you’re contrasting Swiss chocolates vs. Nestlé.
The new ones are actually 220g compared to the 200g of the old ones. Even 200g is too much for one person - if I buy a 220g block I will eat the whole thing as a snack. In the olden days a block of Cadbury chocolate was 100g.
I always get a faint vomit like after taste with Hersheys. I’m sure I had another brand of US chocolate that was quite good though. I can’t remember the name at the moment.
The family blocks were 250g until the recent (couple of years ago) downsizing.
Yes, that’s right. I forgot about that. I still wish they had a 100g size - I’m a family of one without a stop button when it comes to chocolate.
Stop button?!? Whassat?
I used to like the threepenny chocolates when I was a kid. There was something deliciously melty about the small, thin chocolates of yesteryear.
Slight hijack: Our weekly supermarket flyer is advertising Cadbury Creme Eggs for Halloween: Cadbury “Screme” Eggs. I understand they’re trying to be like Peeps and expand to other holidays, but eggs for Halloween? That’s just wrong.
So the yolk is green? Damn, now I want some Ecto Cooler.
there’s no wrong time to enjoy a creme egg