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Always glad to risk my hips and waistline for my friends lol :-D :-D

Thanks for the link Sylvia. I've got another cousin who lives in Canada, and she might be coming over to the UK this autumn. Think I'll ask her to bring some Purdys over so I can try it.

Jan

it's a local chocolatier, been around since 1907, started in Vancouver BC but now have stores as far east as Toronto and yes ........... they mail overseas.

http://www.purdys.com/our-company/about-us.htm

SheilaWestWilts Do you mean that no, it doesn't taste good since Kraft took over?

SylviainCanada - I've not heard of Purdys - must sell it only in Canada?

Joy - thanks for being the official taster! :-)

Hope I haven't started a chocolate war!! :-) :-)

Jan - no it doesn't... :-(

Also, there is a reason why Hershey's tastes vile - it contains butyric acid, which is present in......vomit :-S

Sorry

Just for research

I have been the shop and bought a Cadburys twirl
and my opinion is

ITS STILL MIGHT GOOD :-D :-D :-D

no way!!

Purdy's dark chocolate ginger is THE only chocolate :-)

Thanks Andysmum for your reply and to all the other people who replied too.

I agree with JoyBoroAngel that Cadbury's is the best! :-) At least it was before Kraft took over - since I haven't had any since then, I don't know if it still tastes good.

There is only one Chocolate and that's Cadburys
All the rest are Imitations and horrible ;-) ;-) ;-)

Hi SylviainCanada,
I was aware that Hersey Chocolate in the US tastes different to Cadburys, but the American firm Kraft took over Cadburys a few years back and changed the recipe.
So I had wondered if since the take over, that Cadburys would taste the same in both the UK and US. About 8 years ago I did send my cousin some Cadburys through the post before Kraft took it over, and she loved it.

I've checked at the Post Office and they said it will go through customs ok.
The only thing I'm worried about is, what other people have said, if it arrives like a chocolate drink! :-) Last time I sent her some wrapped up in lots of bubblewrap, it hadn't exactly melted but had got a bit soft! If I do send some, I know its a risk I'll have to take!

Jan, sorry about the delay in replying. By "proper" chocolate I meant that made by any of the smaller companies, of which Thorntons is just one. It is also easily available, as there are shops in most towns.

I don't know about the other companies, but Hotel Chocolat will deliver abroad. It is quite expensive, but the chocolate will be properly packed for travel and also getting past customs.

:-)

I wonder if those chocolate cigars melted when they were lit... :-S

So that would be chewin' baccy then? ;-)

I think they used to make cigars out of chocolate :-S

I love this exchange rate that the Mayans used to use:

"Cocoa bean exchange rate

4 beans = 1 pumpkin

10 beans = 1 rabbit

10 beans = lady to stay overnight" - http://www.godivachocolates.co.uk/the-history-of-chocolate-mayans-aztecs.html

I wonder if it still works :-D

"Chocolate invented 3,100 years ago by the Aztecs - but they were trying to make beer"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493335/Chocolate-invented-3-100-years-ago-Aztecs--trying-make-beer.html#ixzz4DX2jS1Kv
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Maybe it's something to do with ambient temperature, I imagine places like Florida would end up with a chocolate drink in a packet instead of a crunchy bar in mid summer not a problem in the UK! :-)

My sister who lives in Florida always takes Galaxy bars back with her as she can't get it in Florida and she likes it more than Cadburys.

Kath. x

proper chocolate is Lindts or Suchards

Ate Hershey chocolate whilst in the States years ago - not nice at all

Jan ............

Cadbury's chocolate has been different in the US and in Canada from the UK version since at least the mid-1970s, when my niece pointed out that the nut and raisin bar she had just bought at the store down the street tasted nothing like the ones she bought in Manchester. I had been here long enough (about 8 years) that I had forgotten what English chocolate tasted like.

US chocolate is even a bit different from Canadian chocolate ......... or it used to be as I haven't eaten mass-produced chocolate for many years.


One thing to think about ................... is your cousin now so used to US chocolate that she would not like the British taste?

Another thing to think about ............ will it get through the US Customs, and will the taste be affected by the extremes of temperature experienced during the travel. Cargo holds in planes are usually not heated, but equally postal trucks in the US are usually not cooled that much.