Cadbury

[the_hawk*]

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_Y...

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

[cherry*135]

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.

[lionrose.7]

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

[lloydslights]

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

[cherry*135]

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

[cherry*135]

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@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

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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.

[lloydslights]

Wow, that's good.

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

DEB

[cherry*135]

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.

[lloydslights]

What if I accidentally forget what day it is?

[lionrose.7]

We used to make yummy Chocolate with vegetable fat.

The old days 🙂

[j*oono]

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.