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Cadbury

the_hawk* — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:48:47 GMT

What are your thoughts on Cadbury, their sales have fallen into a huge heap in the second half of the year.

Is it a result of Cadbury changing the formula to remove pig fats to gain Halal certification that has affected the texture and flavor of their product,

or is it a back lash from people boycotting Cadbury due to the Halal certification and sending a message to them

The Hobart Cadbury factory will close its doors for five weeks at the end of this year.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=cadbury+pig+fat&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=1CGWVNeJHoTq8AWC_YGABg#q=cadbury+sales+figures+australia+2014

what ever the reason it would seem they have made some huge mistakes that have effected sales

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bushies.girl — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:52:32 GMT

I rarely eat chocolate but I did taste a cpl of squares of Cadbury milk chocolate recently and it tasted terrible, nothing like the taste I remember.

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twyngwyn — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:55:10 GMT

I love chocolate, preferably European....I find Cadbury's too sweet & sickly

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aps1080 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:57:37 GMT

By pandering to the 2 per cent, thy lost 50 per cent !

On a serious note, it does taste different.

Does coke have halal certification ?

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lurker172602 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:58:53 GMT

They've brought in all those new flavours and got rid of the old favourites. That's the only reason why I don't buy Cadbury's any more.

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lionrose.7 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:09:01 GMT

I just feel sick that it used to have pig fat in it OMG how Yuk

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aps1080 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:12:57 GMT

Lion

I would give up eating a lot of things then.

Btw, do you eat pork, bacon ?

Better pig fat than palm oil.

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the_hawk* — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:13:10 GMT

@lionrose.7 wrote:
I just feel sick that it used to have pig fat in it OMG how Yuk

You would amazed at what its in.

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lionrose.7 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:17:20 GMT

I dont eat any Fat at all!!!

I buy nothing with Palm oil in it

Seems I have eaten fat in my Chocolate 😞

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aps1080 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:19:09 GMT

Lion

What do you eat ?

Fat is in many things that don't list it, all sorts of different fats.

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cherry*135 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:24:04 GMT

I gave up buying Cadbury chocolate a few years ago.. when they reduced the size of the block down from 250gms, at one stage they had palm oil in it, which is a reason to boycott it.

There are many different brands of chocolate and Cadbury's doesn't cut it for me.

Do you have any proven info hawk, that shows/showed Australian (& NZ) Cadbury's chocolate was sold with pig fat in it?

Lots about that on the net from anti-halal certifcations blogs/sites.

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lionrose.7 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:25:55 GMT

I eat veg soup, home made.

Fried rice with Veg

A small piece of Fillet steak twice a week, make sure there is NO fat

Vegetables a lot.

Think the only thing I eat that is fatty is cheese and I only eat aged cheese, not the soap sort.

Some times eat spag Bol, only buy the best mince, this still has a little fat in it.

I dont eat ice cream now or biscuit's.

Seems as I get older I have a slight Latose intolerance

Re: Cadbury

lloydslights — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:29:37 GMT

I remember years ago, melting chocolate for some recipe, and there was copious clear liquid floating on the top (because I hadn't stirred it) would that have been "fat"?

DEB

Re: Cadbury

cherry*135 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:31:49 GMT

Lindt chocolate ingredients( milk chocolate)

Sugar, vegetable oils, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, skim milk powder, milk fat, emulsifier (soy lecithin), barley malt extract and flavourings.

No halal certification

No pig fat

Re: Cadbury

cherry*135 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:37:42 GMT

@lloydslights wrote:
I remember years ago, melting chocolate for some recipe, and there was copious clear liquid floating on the top (because I hadn't stirred it) would that have been "fat"?

DEB

Maybe... cooking/melting chocolate has different ingredients than the eating chocolate.

Lion wrote: Seems as I get older I have a slight Latose intolerance

So do I. Do you think it is because we don't eat much dairy products, so get a bit of a reaction when we do?

hawk: All sorts of factories are closing down.. car industry, steel etc.. sign of economic times, no halal certification involved in most of the closures.

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lloydslights — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:37:16 GMT

Wow, that's good.

I'll now be able to eat the couple of boxes of Lindt choccies here without any worries.

DEB

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cherry*135 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:40:43 GMT

Not till the 25th though

To be classed as 'real' chocolate it has to have a fairly high % of cocoa butter in it doesn't it? (as opposed to the 'fake' chocolate that has none.) I can't see big Brand name chocolate using pig fat as fillers.

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lloydslights — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:39:54 GMT

What if I accidentally forget what day it is?

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lionrose.7 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:39:56 GMT

We used to make yummy Chocolate with vegetable fat.

The old days 🙂

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j*oono — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:40:09 GMT

I thought it might have been because they tried to replace some of the cocoa butter with palm oil and people hated the change. I think that was trialled in Tasmania. They have gone back to cocoa butter now.

I don't know whether they ever used pigfat. That just sounds like propoganda to me.

Also, Lindt would have snaffled quite a few of their customers now that they are in all the supermarkets.