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[-] underthesign@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

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?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You can still hate chlamydia

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

And conform? Why don't you make me drink a Starbucks coffee you heartless monster

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

It's shit chocolate now, I can fully understand it.

Kraft is the death of quality.

[-] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Whenever I hear Kraft I instantly think of a block of cooking fat. With Cadbury it's the same block of fat but brown.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

brings new meaning to the term "fat shit"

[-] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I use the same metric for videogames. The instant they're buying up other companies' IP to sell skins, they're cooked.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 33 points 1 day ago

Can someone explain to me what is this warrant list? What does it bring to companies in it?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago
[-] s_s@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

Talk American to me any time.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 34 points 1 day ago

The warrant enables the supplier to advertise that they supply to the royal family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royal_warrant_holders_of_the_British_royal_family

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gotcha so nothing burger then.

There is absolutely no reason why anyone in the world should give a shit about some irrelevant family.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago

Like it or not (personally I don't) lots of brits care about them. And a surprising amount of non brits too

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Sure but it’s an extreme minority. This is like caring what the kardashians are doing.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago

That is, unfortunately, not an extreme minority.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago

Get out of your bubble. There are 8 billion people on the planet. The combination of the people who care about the Royale family and the kardashians is a minority.

[-] codapine@lemm.ee 13 points 22 hours ago

No, but it implies that the brand has attained a certain level of quality to the point where some rich pleb sponges have decided they rather like it. The papers want to know who's shirts you wear...

Surprised it didn't happen sooner. Americans don't do chocolate well. They should stick to going to the moon.

[-] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

Hey! Do you Europeans not appreciate corn in your chocolate or something?!

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

You put a bit of corn in their bread and they legally declare it cake. Can’t win with them

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Huh? Are you trying to take a swing at corn bread cuz homie, every southern matriarch would like a word. Don't shit on corn bread lol. But for real what is the connection between corn, chocolate and cake. I'll be the first to admit candy corn is candy from Satan's anus. The closest I can gather is carrot cake and that shit is just as good as corn bread if not better.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Sugar content

In Ireland Subway had to call their bread cake because of the amount of sugar in it

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago

i’d say it’s because when you put HFCS in bread in a lot of countries it categorises the thing as cake as far as regulations are concerned

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago
[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No shit. Worked as a sous chef for years but somehow never made corn bread to know it even had HFCS in it much less how it was viewed in the global culinary community. Good shit, thanks for the knowledge.🍻

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Never saw the hype behind those.

I'll be real though: chocolate is expensive as fuck and not worth the money.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Huh? Some of the best chocolate is Ghirardelli which is American.

Maybe you just don’t understand American chocolate.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] bitwise@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

Why does anyone give a shit about a parasite's tier list? Charlie don't like Cadbury? Meh.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

Oooooookay then.

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