Tuesday, January 27, 2015

For the love of Cadburys

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UK Cadburys is better than US Cadburys, chocolate ban, British, American, Expat

I started writing this a couple of weeks ago as I munched through the last bar of Cadburys Bubbles, which my Dad brought over to USA at Christmas. I was feeling a little sad. There really is nothing like it. Most things that I left behind when we moved to the USA I have been able to replace or forget, but Cadburys chocolate is irreplaceable with no equal substitutions. Every Brit here knows where they can get a stash of British goodies and imports when required!

I think a simple bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk is possibly my favourite treat. Other favourites would include Twirls, Wispas, Box of Cadburys Roses!!

And then this week the media has gone crazy with the ban of UK Cadburys being sold in USA!!!
NY Times 01-24-15


One of our favourite British shops in NYC, Tea and Sympathy, posted the following to their Facebook page:
Due to legal action by the so called chocolate maker Hersheys, we can no longer import the real Cadbury chocolate from England. They want us to sell their dreadful Cadbury approximation but we can't in good conscience sell you such awful chocolate when we have made our reputation on selling you the yummy real English stuff.
In addition to banning the good Cadbury they have also banned Yorkie bars because they stated that people might confuse them with York Peppermint Patties! As if! To add insult to injury they have also banned Toffee Crisp because they contended that the packaging was too similar to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! May we politely suggest that if you think Toffee Crisps look like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups your eyesight is a much bigger problem than your chocolate bar confusion.
If you would like to voice your opinion about this to the CEO of Hershey's, Mr John P Bilberry, you can do so with the following information:
Johnpbilberry@hersheys.com
1800 468 1714 or write to him
The Hershey Company
Attn: John P Bilberry President
100 Crystal A Drive
Hershey, PA 17033



And there is at least one unsubstantiated story worthy of the prohibition days!
Chocolate seized off the US coast

I am desperately hoping we don't have to put up with this ban and that common sense prevails. British Cadburys has no trademark rights to produce the chocolate in USA and now the importers of Cadburys have been banned from doing just that. Last week, to avoid further legal action, Let's Buy British, the importer, agreed to stop selling any Cadbury’s product made in the UK, as well as British-made KitKats, Rolos and Maltesers.

So the infamous purple wrapper here belongs to Hershey. Surely there's a loophole. Maybe Cadburys UK can make chocolate with a Union Jack wrapper if it's made in England/Ireland. That should clear up any confusion.






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