MattySD

My American mrs is a bit meh about a lot of the British stuff that I hold dear, but Battenberg cake is one thing she absolutely adores, especially the Mr Kipling Mini Battenbergs.

Bob

yeah, tell me about it...if I'd have done the same, I'd either be ignored or told to piss off

Southy_SWFC

My father in law (American) keeps using my single bars to balance as much peanut butter as physically possible on. Not impressed to say the least.

MattySD

I still have a lot of unanswered questions about the future of the Cadbury brand in the USA. We know that (1) in 1988 Hershey bought the rights to manufacture and distribute Cadbury branded chocolate in the USA and (2) that contract was for 25 years and so will expire in 2013. What I don't know is what happens at the end of the 25 years - when I say that it will automatically return to Cadbury, now Mondelez, I'm only making an educated guess, I don't have any more information as nobody else is talking about it. Also I have no idea what will happen to the Peter Paul brands Mounds and Almond Joy and York's Peppermint Patty as they also are covered under this 25 year contract (however internationally rather than just the US). Does anybody have any sources that can clarify what will be happening?

Bomjeito

Crunchies on the way! BritishMart seems reasonable for some things, but not others. Thanks for the tip!

Mummy in the foothills

Just dropped my Mother to the Airport and she left me with a few huge bars of Cadbury fruit and nut and whole nut I'm saving them. Not sure what for, but I am.

yellowroom

I'm stuck at Philadelphia airport with interminable delays to my connecting flight. I don't think my bag of Wispa Bites bought at heathrow are going to make it back to virginia let alone the emergency chocolate stash.....

fsm

Discovered that World Market is now selling Galaxy Carmel.

Also when flying anywhere out of Charlotte the duty free has a small Cadbury's selection, which they will sell to anyone, so you just have to pay sales tax if not flying international.

MattySD

Going on from what I stated previously, doing a bit more digging I found this reference to Hershey’s contract with Cadbury/Mondelez:
So Hershey has the choice to continue the contract in perpetuity providing they maintain a minimum inventory level. Quite what the inventory level is I don’t know, but it does mean that they don't have to sell so much that they eclipse their own brands. So, going on from what the contract states, and the fact that there has been nothing in the news to state that Mondelez is taking back Cadbury distribution in the US this July/August, I would say that we are probably stuck with Hershey-made Cadbury chocolate for some time yet.

Uncle_Bob

Thats why I imported my wife from England

She won't even touch Hersheys

But if you needed the green card

toopie28

That's what happened with Cost Plus. When I asked the guy where my beloved Cadbury's were, he told me that since Hersey's took over their new terms outlined selling their make of what they call chocolate AS well as Cadbury's (brit made). Cost Plus declined - all Cad chocs pulled.

This was about a year ago - not sure if things have changed.

Brit stores are still able to import them though.

MattySD

Interesting that as far as Ice Cream Treats are concerned things are different - Blue Bunny have the Cadbury brands and Unilever/Good Humor have the Hershey/Reeses brands.

cheers

I'm not big on Hersheys but I have read that they need to change their ingredients because of the US climate. Think...they don't have too many 110 degree days in Scotland.

joto

I would rather have a melted bar of British Cadbury's than a solid bar of Hersheys any day.

MattySD

Yes, I never quite got the "Hersheys Chocolate has to be different because of the climate" argument. Mars' Dove brand in the US is perfectly decent, as are most of their bars, so it's not an American problem, it's a Hershey problem.