1mo ago

Cadbury dropped from royal warrant list for first time in 170 years

www.theguardian.com Cadbury dropped from royal warrant list for first time in 170 years

Chocolate maker one of 100 previous suppliers to royal household to be stripped of accolade under King Charles

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This shouldn't come as a surprise. Since its takeover by Kraft/Mondelez their chocolate has become poorer quality. As soon as the Cadbury name was being licenced to various other diversified food products (ice cream, cakes etc.) it was a sign of what was to come. Sad. Still not as bad as Hershey's though.
- I use the same metric for videogames. The instant they're buying up other companies' IP to sell skins, they're cooked.
  
  In game purchases are already a pretty bad sign it's a commodified product dopamine machine and not an artistic experience. I don't think I'd have the same regard for classics like Grim Fandango or Mario 64 if they built a store into the game.

Surprised it didn't happen sooner. Americans don't do chocolate well. They should stick to going to the moon.
- Hey! Do you Europeans not appreciate corn in your chocolate or something?!
  
  You put a bit of corn in their bread and they legally declare it cake. Can’t win with them
- Here's a little explanation as to the differences with US chocolate.
  The bit about Butyric Acid explains why US chocolate tastes literally like vomit; it's the component in vomit that gives it the distinctive taste and smell.
  When Hershey's products came to the UK they initially had to be relabelled to reflect the extremely low cocoa content and be called "chocolate flavored candy bar".
  Ironically, the article references Cadbury.
- I'm not being snarky, I swear. But Cadbury eggs were/are super gross. Were those made in America for Americans and you get a different product?
  
  Creme eggs have been around for 60-odd years. They're crazy sweet and not very high-quality – especially after the Kraft acquisition, as it's not even Cadbury's Dairy Milk any more.
  What you get in the US are smaller and made over there by Hershey, so frankly they're probably as bad or worse, but you're not missing out on much.
  
  Never saw the hype behind those.
  I'll be real though: chocolate is expensive as fuck and not worth the money.
- Huh? Some of the best chocolate is Ghirardelli which is American.
  Maybe you just don’t understand American chocolate.
  
  It's a Swiss-owned company originally founded by an Italian in... barely the US. Two years after California joined the union.
  A kilo for forty bucks. Are you kidding me. That's way too cheap to be good cocoa, actually good chocolate costs 150-200 per kg.
  milk fat, vanilla extract, natural flavor, soy lecithin.
  ...it gets worse and worse. You want to see none of those in good chocolate. But at least Lindt checks out as an owner they upcharge you for the gold paint on the packaging and also use cheap cocoa.
  Go to Aldi. Buy Moser-Roth. Same quality, priced sensibly. Or treat yourself and buy something from Domori.

Everyone here thinking the reason they were dropped was because the quality turned to shit after the buyout, but the main reason is their continued presence operating in Russia after their thankfully failed attempt to annex Ukraine. I'm pleased the royals took a stand. Ultimately both are good reasons to drop them.
- Everyone here thinking the reason they were dropped was because the quality turned to shit
  But how else am I supposed to show my really cool and deep personality of hating anything vaguely popular?
  
  You can still hate chlamydia
  
  I don't think that not wanting enshittification of Cadbury's mean you have a "really cool and deep personality".
  It's not about hating popular things, it's about hating shrinkflation. I for one would happily pay a little more rather than have the products I love become so shit that I don't want to buy them anyway, which is the only real power you have as a consumer.
  Cream eggs are case in point. Not only are they smaller now, but the ingredients are shitter quality and it shows.
  
  I know you were trying to look sarcastic in this comment, but it's almost funny how literal it actually is. Unfortunately it's not actually funny and ends up just being sad
- Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury?