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Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Mary Hanbury. It banned imports of British-made Cadbury chocolate in British expats claim that Cadbury's chocolate in the US tastes nothing like its UK counterpart, but according to Hershey , there's barely any difference in the ingredients.
We tried both to see if we could tell the difference. Here are the two bars side by side. The packaging is the first difference we notice. The US packaging is significantly more glitzy. The cubes are much flatter and wider. Check out these four delicious ways to hack your way around Hershey's:. Import it yourself. The new ban specifically applies to LBB Imports , the wholesale distributer that supplies most of the Cadbury chocolate to the U. Though the ban will make it much harder to run down to your local specialty store and pick up some British chocolate, you can still import the chocolate to yourself, by using something like Cadbury Gifts Direct, which ships internationally.
A little bit of effort with a high reward. Let the British Chocolate Club ship your sweets to you. Best part? You're only paying for the candy -- the shipping is free! Keep calm and Buy British Chocolate. Buy your goods at the British Corner Shop. One of the many places for expats to get their favorite British food, British Corner Shop lets shoppers get their Heinz Baked Beans and their favorite Cadbury Chocolate in one sweep.
Indeed, while sharing the exact same brand name, the two versions of Cadbury milk chocolate are distinguishable from one another in taste, with different milk-to-sugar ratios and different emulsifiers. The situation resembles that of Mexican Coca-Cola versus American Coca-Cola : Lots of people prefer the taste of Coke made in Mexico because it contains cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
But why should this be so? Why are global food and beverage companies even allowed to market materially different things under the same brand name? In , Cadbury was part of Cadbury Schweppes. Two decades later, the rest of the Cadbury business was acquired outright by Kraft, another US company, putting the British chocolate label completely under American ownership in But Cadbury is the label that consumers are harrumphing about , which is why its complicated history is now up for discussion.
Ms Madeley urged customers to join a boycott of Hershey and to sign online petitions persuading the company to change their minds. Cadbury chocolate varies around the world. In the UK, the first ingredient in a classic Dairy Milk bar is milk. In the United States, where Hershey has the license to make and sell all Cadbury products, the first ingredient is sugar.
Ms Madeley says her customers wouldn't buy the US kind even if she stocked it. Thousands of fans in small shops across the United States and on social media have been urging Hershey to allow them legal access to their favourite British creamy treats. Some have even called for a Boston Tea Party-like protest with plots to throw "inferior" chocolates into the nearest body of water. Soon the US recipe may be their only choice.
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