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FM
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Who in their right mind let Cadburys be sold off to that useless bunch of American asset strippers?  I refer to Kraft of course.  Not only were they allowed to buy a company that made proper food with the promise that the factory stayed in the home of chocolate (here, in the best country in the world bar none), but having got it, they have proceeded to send the fecking factory to Poland and the jobs to the dole queue.

Our worthless political class let it happen. A company with a name for value chocolate (not that nasty bitter and slimy Swiss and Belgian muck) has been robbed by a company who think the height of cuisine is fecking cheese slices, each one in a packet separated by a slice of plastic that tastes the same and has as much nutritious value as well.  What do the Americans know about cheese anyway?  A country that produces some orange glop in an aerosol can and calls it cheese has no right to be selling food at all.

And if all that isn't bad enough the new owners intend to reduce the size of each bar while keeping the price the same.  TWO SQUARES are being taken away.

The next thing they will be doing is sending us Hershey bars which taste like Kraft fecking slices, just not as orange.

I like Cadburys and the bigger the bar the better I like it.  And I will never buy anything made by Kraft or any cheese product that comes in a squirty tin either.


*and breathe*

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Quality rant Geordie person. I know many people who are unhappy about this. Not me I might add, chocolate's chocolate to me. And I quite like Kraft cheese slices they're quite handy when you're making a homemade cheese burger but I really do believe the intensity of your rant demands that they immediately hand Cadbury's back to the previous honest chocolate-making types but I fear they may not 
Prometheus
Originally Posted by Prometheus:
Quality rant Geordie person. I know many people who are unhappy about this. Not me I might add, chocolate's chocolate to me. And I quite like Kraft cheese slices they're quite handy when you're making a homemade cheese burger but I really do believe the intensity of your rant demands that they immediately hand Cadbury's back to the previous honest chocolate-making types but I fear they may not 
I was just reading a blog by someone who seems to know what they are talking about.  They said it was all about the land the factory stood on having more value from redevelopment than making chocolate which is cheaper to make in Eastern Europe (and talking at length about commodities and derivatives blah blah blah)

Apparently the factory being moved was once Fry's who made 5 boys

FM
Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:
Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Old Jamaica is my mums fave chocolate..     I haven't seen any about for a few years... 


Oh.. & Cadburys, has to be Cadburys!
Tescos has it ditty - but add about ÂĢ1.70 onto the price in that pic


oooh!  ta for that!

in fact, thank you Stonks, thank you Slinkeh...     mothers day gift from the one of the kids sorted!!
Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Cupcake:
I had a box of Milk tray last week Geordie lass, and I have to say that it wasn't QUITE the same as it used to be.  The flavour seems a bit 'flat'    It doesn't taste as 'milky' as it used to.
I know exactly what you mean.  Some bugger with a Euro Interfering Axe to grind has made them take out the juicy flavours and replace them with New Bland Flavour.  They all taste the bloody same. Remember when the strawberry one had pink mush in it and some red jelly-ish stuff in it.  I daresay it was full of stuff that our busybody lords and masters have decreed we should not eat to make sure we have as little fun as possible in our lives.  And the orange one tasted like orange as well.

Not now.  Between the makers of pseudo cheese and the EU nosy buggers we have been deprived of our rights.  They don't seem to understand that we became best in Europe and best in the world by eating what we wanted and drinking what we like.  Now its all daily limits and 5 a day.

5 a day?  And don't get me started on 5 a bloody day.  We got to here and now as hardy souls who can go out on the lash wearing as little as we want through Natural Selection.  When we are out in the blizzards waiting to get into clubs wearing only a pelmet to stop icicles forming the rule makers in Europe and America are wearing fur bloody coats because if they stripped off they would die in a trice.
Natural Selection made us the hardiest souls and it wasn't because we ate 5 bloody anything a day. Our ancestors were lucky if they got one a day and they survived in skimpy fur pants and bras.  You can guarantee that they were not being told what to eat and drink by bloody jobsworths. If they wanted Milk Tray they went and hunted it down, and it was full of mouthwatering flavours as well.  

And have you noticed that you don't need the little card in the box that tells you what is what because they all taste the fecking same!!!!  Or perhaps you do need to know what the bloody shapes are supposed to be so that when you get old you can tell your kids what chocolates tasted of before they tasted of either bland or cheese.

My favourite is big bars of Dairy Milk where you break a few squares off and put it back in the cupboard then you are back again in two minutes for four more.  At the fecking moment that is. If it turns orange or starts tasting of cheese I shall go elsewhere.
FM
Originally Posted by Jonesy:
We should follow in the footsteps of the Middle East countries and Revolt. A good thought, but lets face it- democracy comes with subordination. Even the Unions have to ass lick these days. If i was younger i would say " F**k the UK and go abroad. My own feelings of course.
Jonesy
You need to get some chocolate and calm down. Then you can come back in here and talk about chocolate 
FM
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Well, the trouble with Cadbury's is that there's actually hardly any chocolate in it. If you think you 'love, love, love' it, it is really because you are addicted to the sweetness of the sugar and milk. And subsequently, if you DON'T like dark or Belgian chocolate then you don't actually like chocolate!
I like Cadbury Chocolate.  There is nothing more disappointing than someone buying you posh chocs cos you know you will have to be really desperate to get them out of the back of the cupboard and when you do you won't even feel like pigging the box because they are horrid. 
FM
I luuurve Cadburys.....but sadly so do my hips and bum....so much so, in fact, that they just seem to store it all there and refuse to let it go.....I may be one of the few that is happy about the new horrid taste cos it means I am eating a lot less of it now!!!!! No other choccie has ever really appealed so maybe the nasty Krafters have done me a favour!!! But those not afflicted by huge arse syndrome as a result of their Cadburys love have my sympathies over the tragic downturn of this once glorious vital food group.......
MrsB
I like that Mrs B. glorious vital food group

When you put it into that sort of perspective that is exactly what it is.  So 5 portions of cadburys a day should do it do you reckon?

Sorry about the storage situation but it seems a cake shelf (or a muffin top at the least) is a cross we have to bear to get those important 5 a day in.
FM
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Well, the trouble with Cadbury's is that there's actually hardly any chocolate in it. If you think you 'love, love, love' it, it is really because you are addicted to the sweetness of the sugar and milk. And subsequently, if you DON'T like dark or Belgian chocolate then you don't actually like chocolate!
This is what I see when I see chocolate....

stonks
Originally Posted by stonks:
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Well, the trouble with Cadbury's is that there's actually hardly any chocolate in it. If you think you 'love, love, love' it, it is really because you are addicted to the sweetness of the sugar and milk. And subsequently, if you DON'T like dark or Belgian chocolate then you don't actually like chocolate!
This is what I see when I see chocolate....

I suspect you are going down the wrong aisle Stonxy..
slimfern
Originally Posted by slimfern:
Originally Posted by stonks:
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Well, the trouble with Cadbury's is that there's actually hardly any chocolate in it. If you think you 'love, love, love' it, it is really because you are addicted to the sweetness of the sugar and milk. And subsequently, if you DON'T like dark or Belgian chocolate then you don't actually like chocolate!
This is what I see when I see chocolate....

I suspect you are going down the wrong aisle Stonxy..
She needs glasses Slimfern

I shall go and find her a nice picture of chocolate to wipe away the bitter memories of kebab grease 
FM

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