Cadbury Ruined Its Taste and Betrayed Britain [video]
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I am no fan of Hershey but I usually don't find it disgusting [1] but everything about Cadbury turns me off.
I knew someone who started her own artisan chocolate company and she was quite eloquent about how other chocolate brands do it wrong, particularly using lecithin as an emulsifier which simplifies the production process but doesn't give the best quality.
[1] Right now the thought of chocolate, peanut butter, shortbread cookies or anything like that turns my stomach even if I'm hungry because I'm tapering a medication which causes weight gain and dropped about 10kg in 4 weeks.
Supermarket stuff: Tony's Chocolonely salted caramel (from the Netherlands) is super, and Ritter Sport Cornflakes is nice. Lidl has a white chocolate I could eat in huge quantities and I don't even really like white chocolate that much.
For British brands — Duffy's and Damian Allsop. I think Damian Allsop's water ganache chocolate is possibly the best in the world.
Some sort of confluence of Brexit and cocoa prices must have fundamentally broken Lidl's ability to purchase Ritter Sport in huge bulk and discount it.
I managed to use it as a brief entreaty to the chocolate cortex of my will-power-less brain that I should maybe not buy it again because it's now too expensive.
But now I've mentioned it...
It takes a sophisticated palet to appreciate vomit chocolate, and if it's not from Hershey, Pennsylvania then it's just tangy candy