American Versus British Chocolate.
by Liv | Published on November 14th, 2009, 10:21 am | Food
Via BritFancy we learn of a NY Times article that explains exactly what's wrong with American Chocolate:
“One day I was eating a bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk and I thought, this has absolutely no flavor,” he said. “I looked at the label and saw it was made by Hershey. I was outraged.”
Of course as Brit Fancy points out, because of this the recent news of Kraft's attempted takeover of Cadbury, many citizens of the world were deeply concerned.
It’s a different bar from the Cadbury bar available in the United States. According to the label, a British Cadbury Dairy Milk bar contains milk, sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, vegetable fat and emulsifiers. The version made by the Hershey Company, which holds the license from Cadbury-Schweppes to produce the candy in the United States under the British company’s direction, starts its ingredient list with sugar. It lists lactose and the emulsifier soy lecithin, which keeps the cocoa butter from separating from the cocoa. The American product also lists “natural and artificial flavorings.”
Mmmm... I love artificial flavorings!
“Hershey’s tastes like ear wax,” said Kevin Ellis, an Alaskan-born designer with Adobe Systems in San Francisco.
I wouldn't go as far to say that, but I do love's me my Aero bar, and my Mars Muffins.