Some ideas are just wrong. The Cadbury Egg has been in that category for me since its introduction to the U.S. I’m that old. (And I always preferred dark/plain chocolate.)
@yakkoTDI IMNSHO, that is not chocolate. (But I would have uses for it.) Sadly, the regulations do not cover this, establishing only a minimum level of cacao and nothing else, so Lindt gets away with it. (Cadbury’s milk “chocolate” famously used to contain too little cacao to meet the standard, and was derided for it. Some used to jest that in parts of Europe, it had enough milk content to qualify as cheese. This was probably incorrect.)
I’ve always heard that the Cadbury sold in England is different/better than the same type sold here in the US. Nonetheless I am glad to buy one pack of Cadbury eggs each year for the happy memories they bring.
Some ideas are just wrong. The Cadbury Egg has been in that category for me since its introduction to the U.S. I’m that old. (And I always preferred dark/plain chocolate.)
@werehatrack How dark?
@yakkoTDI IMNSHO, that is not chocolate. (But I would have uses for it.) Sadly, the regulations do not cover this, establishing only a minimum level of cacao and nothing else, so Lindt gets away with it. (Cadbury’s milk “chocolate” famously used to contain too little cacao to meet the standard, and was derided for it. Some used to jest that in parts of Europe, it had enough milk content to qualify as cheese. This was probably incorrect.)
@werehatrack @yakkoTDI isn’t this bar pure cacao powder and cacao butter? (e.g. baking chocolate)
I’ve always heard that the Cadbury sold in England is different/better than the same type sold here in the US. Nonetheless I am glad to buy one pack of Cadbury eggs each year for the happy memories they bring.
@duodec Might be the sugar type. European sugar tends to come from beets still? (As opposed to cane sugar.)
@duodec @pakopako Beet and cane sugar are both highly refined sucrose; there is no actual difference. The Cadbury-branded chocolates produced in the US have slightly different formulas from those made in the UK because a lot of the crap that’s legal here is banned there, and vice-versa. https://www.thedailymeal.com/1236360/10-ways-british-and-american-cadbury-chocolate-is-different/