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[karohemd]

Rubbish British chocolate in danger of becoming even more rubbish

Sadly, I don't have the writing panache of the staff at The Daily Mash so I won't elaborate.

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[oh-kimberley.livejournal.com]

AIN'T NOBODY BE STEALIN' MY CADBURYS.

I hope Daily Mash do write up an article on it. That would be amusing to read.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

While I have no love for Cadbury's, Hershey's is worse...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

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[missdiane.livejournal.com]

I used to despise Hershey's chocolate but some of their "fancy" brands are starting to actually not suck

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It's all brands they bought up, though, like Scharffen Berger and Dagoba (good chocolate, this is).

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Dagoba I like a lot, Scharffen Berger I don't - at all. The taste and texture seems too harsh for me. My favorites are Lindt (the daaaark stuff), Vosges when I'm going for a different flavored type and a couple of nearby local chocolate makers that rock.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Never tried SB (the comment was directed at Dagoba) and IIRC they mainly make baking/cooking chocolate stuff? At least I see the name a lot in recipes.
There are three little shops who make their own chocolate(s) in Cambridge now, the newest of which also makes fantastic ice cream and most supermarkets sell Lindt and Green&Black's (organic brand) and I've subscribed to the Dark Selection of Hotel Chocolat's tasting club so I'm pretty much sorted in terms of high-quality choc. :D

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

This is actually the second time someone's almost bought Cadbury's. I'll believe it when I see it.

Also, if it does happen it's unlikely Hershey's would interfere with the recipe for the Dairy Milk or Bournville ranges. I get through a lot of Dairy Milk when I'm programming, but if it started to taste like Hershey's I'd hardly carry on buying the stuff.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I believe Kraft have been trying for a while.

*nods* Most likely. They also bought a few smaller US companies producing decent chocolate.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

I don't consider myself a connoisseur by any means, but I can't say I've noticed the rubbishness of Cadbury's choc. It's not as nice as the Lindt stuff, mind you.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm the exact opposite and somewhat of a purist so anything that doesn't even comply with the standard definition of chocolate (30% solids for milk, 70% for dark, no other fats than cocoa butter) is rubbish.

[hrafen.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this, 70% or above, no fats other than cocoa butter. Anything less is pretty much not worth eating.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

You're entitled to your wrong opinion.
Unsurprising I suppose, Germans have also deluded themselves into thinking that they make nice sausages too.

(Wheras we all know that German sausages are the wurst)

:-)

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

Oops. I probably shouldn't include tautologies when I'm taking the piss out of you, should I?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*drums fingers on desk*
First of all, there is a distinct difference between what you call sausage and what we call Wurst (some of which you can find in the cold cuts section of delis and supermarkets).
The closest to British bangers would be Bratwurst and I'm sure if you tried some Nürnberger, you would be positively surprised.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I jest. I prefer the style of a well-made British sausage to the (generally) much denser German style, but that is probably upbringing (and the inability to resist a bad pun) as much as anything. I did have a German sausage in Switzerland once which was very bizarre though - as well as the meat, there was an even distribution of gristly pellets (about the size of lead shot), that were clearly intentional, but which I found to be scarcely edible.

(I don't know if you've ever watched any of the classic British political sit-com Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister, but there was a wonderful episode wherein a German EEC (as it was then) proposal was put forward to ban British sausages on the grounds that their ingredients were not up to standard. They wanted them renamed as "fatty offal-tubes" or something... but I digress)

Cadbury's chocolate is much lower in cocoa-solids than continental European chocolate, but it's not rubbish. It's just a different style, that does not conform to your own taste expectations (or indeed gastronomically elitist tendencies)!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I know. :)
Actually, there's no such thing as a German sausage, recipes and styles vary wildly between regions and even towns, down to the individual butcher (one part of the practical master butcher's exam is a new Wurst recipe) and there are certainly ones that aren't to my palate, either, especially the overly fatty ones.

When Yes, Minister was originally on, I was still in Germany but watching it there made little sense as the dub removed any context and much of the humour. I've caught a few episodes as repeats on Gold etc. so yeah, that sounds like a typical thing they would come up with. :) That said, "fatty offal tubes" could be applied to various German sausages I've had, too.

I guess it's the same as beer. The recipes are different but both can be really nice (I really like ales) and horrid.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I see we are in accord!
We should be at Copenhagen!