I recall seeing a story about the Cadbury thing. If I recall right
Nestle's took over distribution and changed the recipe so they could use
cheaper chocolate. You do know there was a shortage a year or two ago
of dark chocolate because of the Ebola outbreak. The dark chocolate
beans are grown in an African country and they used laborers from the
neighboring country for harvesting. They had to bar the usual laborers
due to the outbreak and use higher priced local labor. So dark
chocolate went sky high.
One thing I noticed about chocolate is most kids only like milk
chocolate. But my mother used to make cookies and cakes from scratch
and kept Hershey's semi-sweet bars on hand for baking. She would break
me off a piece so I developed at a young age a taste for dark chocolate.
When I was on TTC some of the folks knew to pick up the Marriot dark
chocolate in Switzerland. That was seriously intense chocolate and only
recently have I even found anything like it here in the states. First
off it was Flick's candies which re-emerged a few years ago and the
story is the Ghirardelli, the San Francisco based company had bought
Flick's many years ago as it was a popular candy at movie theaters.
They then moved the company to the East Bay and in the process broke the
machines that made the candies. So they stopped making them because
there was no one around to fix the machines.
A few years back a guy from Denmark bought the old equipment and brought
his dad over who could fix the machines. So they re-emerged but added a
dark chocolate item very much like the Marriot in richness. Then a year
or two ago it disappeared. Turns out they may have launched their own
candy stores and I don't have one in this community.
Then I often frequent a French bakery stall at our farmer's market
downtown. I always kid them by greeting in French. The guy studied
baking in France but the rest of the crew doesn't speak a word of it so
all have a great laugh. But one day saying "bon matin" got a reply in
French. It was from a Swiss chocolatier who was sharing their booth and
had some the best dark chocolate I've ever had. She runs a shop called
Swee55 which you can find online as Sweet55.com. Expensive and
definitely gourmet.
On 02/21/2016 07:50 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Consumer Reports has on occasion done a comparison on chocolates.
Hershey's has always fared pretty well.
I read that Cadbury's uses a slightly different recipe in the US than
in Britain.
Of course the season for Cadbury is coming up here. Otherwise you
don't really find them.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
They do have Aldi in the States.
I live in London and I've *never* seen one of their stores. Lidl (also
a German cut-price supermarket) is far more common here.
Yank chocolate isn't bad but it's not a patch on UK chocolate.
Can the Aldi brand really compare with Cadbury's milk chocolate?
