No more "real" cadbury at Epcot UK?

[LBIJim]

years ago, the Cadbury eggs at Easter were imports. and then greedy Hershey got the rights to make and sell them. there is a huge taste difference. I think the imported product will be available if we are willing to get it in Canada, or an approved US seller. I hope so , anyway. I am ready , willing and able to pay for the product to be sent south to me from the north.

If you all hear of a crazy American buying it all next week in Epcot, that will be me. No, it will not be on Ebay. In my cupboard, certainly.

Yep, sure, Hershey is the greedy one here. . Hershey paid good money for the rights to manufacture and distribute their version of Cadbury in the US. And the UK Cadbury gladly accepted Hershey's money and signed away their rights to import their version to the US. Good for Hershey for sticking up for themselves.

 

[bumbershoot]

Next time I go to England I sure hope I see no American Hershey bars then....

 

[Brian Noble]

It's very unlikely that you will. Europeans have better taste in chocolate, and wouldn't buy such garbage, so why would anyone stock it?

Edited to add: in fact, it appears that a US Hershey bar cannot be called "Milk Chocolate" (or even "Family Milk Chocolate") in the EU, because it does not have enough cocoa. A Hershey bar has 11% cocoa, and the minimum for anything called some variety of "milk chocolate" has to be at least 20% in the EU. The US minimum is 10%, and Canada's minimum is 15%.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24276-2004Jun8.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate#European_Union

 

[Princess Clayre]

Thank goodness I live in the UK. I couldn't survive without cadburys chocolate. It's surely a fair deal though; you guys get WDW and us Brits get the chocolate

 

[ArwenMarie]

Yep, sure, Hershey is the greedy one here. . Hershey paid good money for the rights to manufacture and distribute their version of Cadbury in the US. And the UK Cadbury gladly accepted Hershey's money and signed away their rights to import their version to the US. Good for Hershey for sticking up for themselves.

This is the way I understood it too.

Although I do think Cadbury should have made them stick to the original formula more closely. But that would be between them.

 

[yankeepenny]

I still maintain Hershey is the greedy one. They get a higher profit margin and sell an inferior product , many of which contain some less than stellar ingredients.

 

[mummabear]

IMO no where has had real cadbury since 2009

 

[cheryl.UK]

To answer a previous post, here in the Uk there are Hershey bars in most supermarkets.

I've tried the Hershey version of Cadbury's and it's NOTHING like the cadbury's we have here. Maybe if they had kept to the original recipe, Cadbury would not have bothered exporting to the US but as far as I can tell, they are two different products. perhaps Cadbury should just sell under a different name in the US...

 

[Maggie Lizer]

Now I finally know why I was so disappointed a couple of years ago when I broke down and bought myself a Cadbury Egg after not having one for about 15 (?) years. I remembered them being so delicious years ago, but ended up being really disappointed at how sickeningly sweet it was. The recipe changed!

 

[chartle]

I still maintain Hershey is the greedy one. They get a higher profit margin and sell an inferior product , many of which contain some less than stellar ingredients.

This should be directed at Cadbury not Hershey, Cadbury is the one that agreed to these terms unless you think Hershey had some sort of undue influence.

 

[ArwenMarie]

I still maintain Hershey is the greedy one. They get a higher profit margin and sell an inferior product , many of which contain some less than stellar ingredients.

Yeah, I agree with that as well. I think Hershey is being greedy and cheap. But Cadbury did it, by selling them the rights and not making them stick to a Cadbury-type formula.

 

[rwdavis2]

After seeing this thread I noticed a stand alone display at a local store that had Hershey's and Cadbury side by side. I tried the Cadbury and it's not what I remember. It was more like a Hershey bar, more solid and less creamy. No where near as good as what Cadbury can be. What a shame.

 

[chartle]

After seeing this thread I noticed a stand alone display at a local store that had Hershey's and Cadbury side by side. I tried the Cadbury and it's not what I remember. It was more like a Hershey bar, more solid and less creamy. No where near as good as what Cadbury can be. What a shame.

If this was in the US after 1988, thats because Hershey made that Cadbury chocolate. Thats the main point in this thread.

 

[chartle]

Yeah, I agree with that as well. I think Hershey is being greedy and cheap. But Cadbury did it, by selling them the rights and not making them stick to a Cadbury-type formula.

It gets further embroiled. Cadbury didn't sell the rights, greedy Kraft foods did. Currently the Cadbury brand is owned by Mondelēz International based in ...............


no not France but Deerfield, Illinois a spin off of Kraft.

But as pointed out in many news articles, Hersey has the rights to all chocolate based Cadbury products in the US which means they hold all the cards. Oh and I don't see it as being cheap or greedy at all. Chocolate appears to be a very regional taste and Hersey is making a kind chocolate that the US eats.

I binge watched a lot of UK taste tests of American snack foods youtube videos and it appears no one outside the US likes a straight Hershey bar. Give them a Reeses and they do a little dance. But frankly I would say 90% of Hersey bars sold in the US are for S'mores.

ETA: Hershey Bought the chocolate business from Cadbury Adams in 1988 before Kraft bought it. Its super complicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury#United_States

 

[Skywise]

But as pointed out in many news articles, Hersey has the rights to all chocolate based Cadbury products in the US which means they hold all the cards. Oh and I don't see it as being cheap or greedy at all. Chocolate appears to be a very regional taste and Hersey is making a kind chocolate that the US eats.

What's interesting is that I remember as a kid (back in the 70s so this dates me) Hershey's chocolate bars being really good, then they changed how the bars were formed to make them smaller (to cut costs - instead of the bars with "seams" these were whole bars with lines denoting squares and not as breakable) then later they changed back to the original style. Somewhere along the way the taste changed for me as well. I always figure it was because I grew up and my tastes changed but now I wonder if that's when they went to their current formula.

 

[RogueKnits]

My British relatives always take back loads of Reese's items when they come here to visit because they are not sold in the UK. Wish Hershey's and Cadbury could work out some kind of reciprocal agreement. I'm not even interested in the British versions of the things Hershey's sells under the Cadbury label (the Hershey version of creme eggs and dairy milk is good enough to me). What I DO want are the things that have no comparable substitute here--Flake, Crunchie, Aero, Wispa, Twirl, CurlyWurly, etc.

And yes, I "get" why Hershey did this and I don't even particularly think they were wrong to do it. I'm just sad on a personal level that it will be more difficult to get these chocolates. And hoping that Fruit Pastilles aren't impacted.

 

[rwdavis2]

If this was in the US after 1988, thats because Hershey made that Cadbury chocolate. Thats the main point in this thread.

That's odd, but it seemed different than the last time I had it since some time last year. Maybe it was just old?

Our daughter visited a friend about 2 years ago living in England and brought back a bunch of Cadbury that were factory seconds. Some of it looked odd but was delicious.

 

[pandv_2000]

If it helps for the people missing Creme eggs Cadbury have changed the recipe here in the UK. They are no longer using dairy milk chocolate for the shell so they don't taste the same any more

 

[mummabear]

If it helps for the people missing Creme eggs Cadbury have changed the recipe here in the UK. They are no longer using dairy milk chocolate for the shell so they don't taste the same any more

Here in NZ too-even made the news...

 

[yankeepenny]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^




A perfectly good product shot to hell.


darn. darn . darn.