Chocolate Search

[Tonks]

> Carol responds:
> Speaking of Cadbury, appropriately enough, confection manufacturer and reformer George Cacbury (1839-1922) is today's New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's Life of the Day> You can read about him here:
> 
> http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html


Tonks:

Here is an interesting part of that article, talking about the mid-1800's.

"At a time when parliamentary attacks were being levelled at adulterated foodstuffs, Cocoa Essence benefited from the absence of additives traditionally used to counteract the taste of the excess oils, and the new product was effectively packaged, branded, and advertised."

Food additives were a problem even then? 

Frankly I don't think the Cadbruy we get here is all that good, as chocolate goes. You see it around Easter, and is very cheap.

While we are on the topic. What about the Harry Potter candies? The frogs here in the U.S. are only good for the collectore cards. The best chocolate frogs were in the UK. But the cards were not great. That chocolate was very good, however. And they had a bar made by Mars, I thing, that was called Honeydukes, that was good too. You guys don't have any HP candy in the UK anymore, do you? I use to get it on E-bay. We don't have much here anymore either, just the beans and those horrible frogs, there might be a new one too. The UK HP candies were the best. I think you use to be able to get the UK version in Canada too.

Tonks_op