Cadburys chocolate bars

[Otta]

Otta Wrote:

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> What Jeremy said. It's all about dairy mild for

> me. Best Chocolate there is.

>

> Twirls are my favourite.

>

> And Cadbury's easter eggs are easily the best.

Outside of Cadbury's I'd have to go Toblerone.

[Mustard]

Louisa Wrote:

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> If anyone gets half a chance to pop down the world

> food aisle in the nearest tesco extra (probably

> Surrey quays) you have to try Cadbury's Cherry

> Ripe (Australian). It's bloody amazing.

>

> I agree, nothing beats the taste of Dairy Milk.

> Gorgeous stuff.

>

> Louisa.

I think Galaxy is better.

[Louisa]

I don't mind Mars chocolate, but I grew up on Cadbury's/Fry's so I'm always going to be a little biased. Of course, both British brands are now part of an American owner conglomerate so it matters not.

Louisa.

[Mustard]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Just had a request from across the pond to bring

> over a uniquely British chocolate bar. What would

> you pick?

I used to take large Fruit and Nut/Nut only Bars, also Crunchies and packs of Curly Whirlies. I would take Fry's Chocolate Creams now, plus some of the Green and Black's different flavours. The chocolate from Lidl and Aldi is worth picking up, but obviously not British.

[Otta]

Mustard Wrote:

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> I would take Fry's Chocolate Creams now

It's funny that Fry's seemed to disappear for years. Used to get them as a treat when I was a kid, then didn't see them for a couple of decades before they started appearing again a couple of years ago.

[MrBen]

Having a debate with my brother about whether you used to be able to get dark chocolate Yorkies. I'm convinced you could...and they had a red wrapper?

[Otta]

I don't remember ever seeing them to be honest.

Red wrapper for dark chocolate orange. And bournville of course.

[Louisa]

Talking of Fry's anyone old enough to remember 'five boys' chocolate bar with the almost ghoulish looking pictures on them? Think Fry's was bought out by Cadbury and consequently is now part of Mondelez. Still love a Fry's Turkish Delight and a Peppermint Creme bar.

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

I remember 5 boys.

Weird or not.

Foxy

[tfwsoll]

>>you can take your 85% cocoa single estate nonsense and shove somewhere REALLY dark!

There's a wide range of chocolate between Cadbury's and the 85% single estate stuff. I prefer Swiss milk chocolate - Callier makes fabulous cheap chocolate but I am partial to a bar of dairy milk every now and then. There an interesting history of British chocolate on the Cadbury's website: https://www.cadbury.co.uk/the-story

[red devil]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Having a debate with my brother about whether you

> used to be able to get dark chocolate Yorkies. I'm

> convinced you could...and they had a red wrapper?

It may have been a 'limited edition', I know they did that for Kit Kat for a while...

[Louisa]

"But it wasn't until Bristol company Fry & Son made a 'chocolate delicieux a manger' in 1847 that the first bar of chocolate appeared, as we know it today. The first ever chocolate bar was made from a mixture of cocoa powder and sugar with a little of the melted cocoa butter that had been extracted from the beans."

https://www.cadbury.co.uk/the-story

We as a nation discovered the chocolate bar! And now that company has been eaten up twice and is under the ownership of a multinational. How sad.

Louisa.

[Loz]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Having a debate with my brother about whether you

> used to be able to get dark chocolate Yorkies. I'm

> convinced you could...and they had a red wrapper?

Wiki says yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkie_%28chocolate_bar%29

[bonniebird]

Yes they are smaller, but not cheaper!

[numbers]

Mustard Wrote:

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> MrBen Wrote:

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> -----

> > Just had a request from across the pond to

> bring

> > over a uniquely British chocolate bar. What

> would

> > you pick?

>

> I used to take large Fruit and Nut/Nut only Bars,

> also Crunchies and packs of Curly Whirlies. I

> would take Fry's Chocolate Creams now, plus some

> of the Green and Black's different flavours. The

> chocolate from Lidl and Aldi is worth picking up,

> but obviously not British.

I used to babysit for an american family when I was (a lot) younger and Crunchies were the most requested chocolate bar. I used to think their 'candy' was more exciting but I guess it was just because it was different (at the time). You can pretty much buy it all over here now anyway so it has lost its charm..and not sure I'd like the taste. My american cousins would go mad for Frys Chocolate Cream.

Louisa are you sure you didn't pick up those tiny packs of Flakes that are used for 99s (ice creams)?

[maxxi]

Otta Wrote:

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> Red wrapper for dark chocolate orange. And

> bournville of course.

...and Bounty.

Liked the short-lived Aztec as a kidlet and the weirdly glamorous Milk Tray bar - luxury. Unless you accidentally nicked the corner of the lime barrel, spilt it down your cubs uniform and made your woggle sticky.

[Earl Aelfheah]

I hate Dairy Milk. It doesn't taste of anything, just really sweet and has the texture of cheese. Horrible. That said, I do like a Crunchie and shameful as it is to admit, I always liked Caramac. My favourite old school bar though is the Fry's chocolate creme by a country mile. Oh, and Topics - love a Topic.

[Jeremy]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> I hate Dairy Milk. ... has the texture of cheese.

What type of cheese to you buy? I will try to avoid it!

tfwsoll Wrote:

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> There's a wide range of chocolate between

> Cadbury's and the 85% single estate stuff. I

> prefer Swiss milk chocolate

Oh yeah, of course I'm aware of that. I know Cadbury's is pretty low down on the "quality" scale, but nevertheless it always hits the spot for me, especially Whole Nut. The same way that fish finger sandwich with cheese and a fried egg is not a gourmet meal... but few things hit the spot in quite the same way.

[Louisa]

Hear hear Jeremy. Comfort food doesn't have to be gourmet to hit the spot.

Louisa.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I loved a Texan Bar.......a mighty long chewwwwwwwwwww.

[DulwichFox]

I like the chocolate on Maltesers.

Foxy

[Siduhe]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Having a debate with my brother about whether you

> used to be able to get dark chocolate Yorkies. I'm

> convinced you could...and they had a red wrapper?

I think the Red wrapper = the old Peanut Yorkie - long discontinued (there was a limited edition recently but it wasn't the same). Don't think it was dark chocolate though.

Edited to add - this is the one I mean: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/296745062924064984/

[Otta]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Still love a Fry's Turkish Delight and a

> Peppermint Creme bar.

I'm an orange creme kinda guy. But remember as a kid they did a fruit creme version where each section had a different flavour. Don't think they make that these days, I've only seen mint or orange.

[Mustard]

Raisin and biscuit Yorkies were rather good.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Agree with you about Fry's turkish delight Louisa. Good stuff.