Cadbury

pblakeney

I was in Waitrose yesterday and I picked up a bar of Cadbury's Milk Chocolate simply out of curiosity.

20% cocoa.

20%???????

Says it all really.

pinno

Pross wrote:

Just finished a Snickers Duo, my first chocolate bar in a couple of weeks, and thoroughly enjoyed it. You can all keep your chocolate snobbery and '85%' rubbish you bunch of Guardian readers

Wink or no wink Pross, it isn't snobbery - Cadbury's tastes like sugared margarine.

You can buy the FD Gross dark chocolate range at Lidl cheap - as good as Lindt if you ask me. The 70% is the most palatable and the Ecuadorian 85%, a little bitter.
If you suck on a cube of Dairy Milk, you will get all the nasty flavours. If you do the same on a square of Dark Chocolate, you get this fantastic clean and lingering aftertaste.
A cheap bottle of plonk tastes bloody awful and a good bottle ends too quick. Sometimes you can get lucky and a £3.99 bottle can taste really good. I remember stumbling on a Macon Village (1991) at the local Victoria wine and it was stunning - my GF and I at the time temporarily turned into a couple of wino's. The following year, the same label was vinegar.

Back to the plot: Take 3/4 of a block of lindt dark or Lidl equivalent, break it up in the bottom of a mug, pour hot milk on it and whisk - Probably the best drinking chocolate you could ever have.
Don't do it with Cadbury's or similar, or you get this oily slick floating on the top.

Pross

You won't convince me any of that dark stuff is better than Cadbury. I'll concede that Galaxy and some European milk chocolates are slightly better though. Mind you, I used to eat spoonsful of Cadbury drinking chocolate powder straight out of the tin so maybe taste buds are shot!

ddraver

It's wierd what you like isnt it...

When I was away, one of the things i missed most of all was a Tomato and Basil Chicken pasta salad from M&S. The second i got off the plane it would be my first stop. I chose airports based on the availability of an M&S in the arrivals lounge

I ve been back a month or so and there's an M&S near all the lunch places and I ve only been maybe 2 or 3 times. It's all a big meh now really...

I ve had a horrendous cold this week too and my comfort food of choice has been Cadbury Dairy Milk - even though normally i would nt touch it...

My expat experience was that most people miss really stupid silly things like that.

Loretta Damage

Read this thread and felt compelled to buy a bar of Green & Blacks 85% Dark Cocoa on the way into work tonight. Its now in the fridge, taunting me. Think I'll leave it until tomorrow after a couple of hours in the saddle when I'll deserve it.

pinno

ddraver wrote:

It's wierd what you like isnt it...

I ve had a horrendous cold this week too and my comfort food of choice has been Cadbury Dairy Milk - even though normally i would nt touch it...

So the next time in a week or so, you'll pick up a bar of cadbury's and feel awful because it will remind you of 'that horrendous' cold?!

ddraver

pinarello001 wrote:

ddraver wrote:

It's wierd what you like isnt it...

I ve had a horrendous cold this week too and my comfort food of choice has been Cadbury Dairy Milk - even though normally i would nt touch it...

So the next time in a week or so, you'll pick up a bar of cadbury's and feel awful because it will remind you of 'that horrendous' cold?!

if I could do that for cheese and Beer too I'd be givng Froome Dog a run for his money!

boydster76

Perhaps I have no taste but Cadbury Dairy Milk is by far the best chocolate on the market! All this posh, high % cocoa stuff just doesn't do it for me.

And as for Hershey, I'd rather eat cardboard.

ugo.santalucia

boydster76 wrote:

Perhaps I have no taste but Cadbury Dairy Milk is by far the best chocolate on the market! All this posh, high % cocoa stuff just doesn't do it for me.

And as for Hershey, I'd rather eat cardboard.

You have your own taste... when I was a kid I loved overly sweet things, then I grew out of them.
I find chocolate brownies horrible too, same as those soft cookies and many desserts where you can almost feel the sugar is so concentrated that it is recrystallising in the mix.
That said, I do like Snickers, Twix, Lion, Kit Kat and Mars bars... I don't buy them because they are junk, but they do taste nice... Cadbury tastes revolting to me

mrushton

Not read all the thread but I presume you know Cadbury (and poss. Hershey) is part of Kraft? Green & Blacks are too. Aldi Moser and Roth chocolate is good and sensibly priced. Asda do a good range sourced from various countries

ugo.santalucia

mrushton wrote:

Not read all the thread but I presume you know Cadbury (and poss. Hershey) is part of Kraft? Green & Blacks are too. Aldi Moser and Roth chocolate is good and sensibly priced. Asda do a good range sourced from various countries

I don't find chocolate in general pricey... 100 grams of Green & Black are 2 pounds in supermarkets... for 2 pounds you also buy 150 grams of Lindt dark chocolate with hazelnuts... a small sirloin steak in the same supermarket costs 6-7 pounds minimum and a pint of lager in a pub in London is around 4.50 to 5 pounds.

Good chocolate is stupidly cheap, in fact!

Anonymous

I like dark chocolate, but only a bar, not as part of anything else. Hate dark chocolates in a selection box etc.

Prefer milk mainly. Fave is Lindt.
Really don't like Hersheys but love Reeces.

Cadburys choc is a bit poo but can suffer a bag of buttons.
Funny how choc tastes different depending on shape (easter egg for example).

Do not like Nestle choc or Kinnerton or supermarket stuff (some M&S is nice though).

Some cadbury choc bars are nice if sickly and at the end of the day all is forgiven because they make Creme Eggs :P
Do not think a Lindt creme egg would be as nice.

southdownswolf

Pross wrote:

Mind you, I used to eat spoonsful of Cadbury drinking chocolate powder straight out of the tin so maybe taste buds are shot!

I used to do that, as did probably many others, just don't tell my kids ;-)

Grill

Having been brought up in the states on *shudder*Hershey's*shudder*, I quite like Cadbury's. It's not to the same standard as the nice dark Belgium stuff, but if the mood strikes I'll go for a Fruit and Nut.

What I do miss from the US is Snickers with Almonds. That and Cookies and Cream Twix (the best thing that happened in 1990).

Anonymous

mmmmm cookies and cream twix sounds nice. How did I miss that :-(

If anyone tells you that Freia chocolate from Norway tastes like (better than) Lindt, they are talking rubbish.

It costs a fortune (if bought in Norway at least) and tastes like Marabou.

Worth getting a bar of this just for the name though

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I love a good Firk.

Mccaria

Grill. Have to agree on the almond Snickers. All time favourite that I could only get on trips to the States was almond M&Ms.

rickeverett

PBlakeney wrote:

I was in Waitrose yesterday and I picked up a bar of Cadbury's Milk Chocolate simply out of curiosity.

20% cocoa.

20%???????

Says it all really.

20% - that much ? - god it seems like its less.

I'm sure I have seen it somewhere that Cadbury, Nestle and Mars chocolate is so low in cocoa content its close to the point where EU regulations mean it cant be called "Chocolate" !!


Sugar and Fat is where its at with those boys. In general everything today has gone sickly sweet with zero flavour- and it isnt age.

Had a Snickers bar the other day and it was horrible. just a mass of sweetness and a slight hint of nut flavours.


To prove its not just you, try places like Hotel Chocolate and its a revelation .... "ahh so THATS what chocolate tastes like"

Grill

Coke does not contain saccharin. UK coke actually uses real sugar.