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A multinational corporation is much like a shark. It must keep moving, it must keep feeding.
Profits are one of the things that keep them alive.
I would never "open wide for Chunky, again.
Because the taste of cocoa butter, the taste of chocolate was missing. It was hard and waxy. It had a strange flavor. The label had new ingredients.
(butyric acid, the odor of vomit!) The formerly beloved square became teeth aching sweet.
The smooth, luxury feel of the small fragments bitten off of the chunk were missing.
It was no longer irresistibly delicious.
The conglomerate entity killed my childhood treasure.
Clay, gasoline, and weird lab experiment chemicals. How delicious!
The most monolithic, gargantuan, Godzilla- like corporations feasted on small, independent,high quality production based companies in America.
And converted the sought after delicacies into artificial obscenities.
(Because high profit was needed to back up the buy out, and payoff the bankers, investors, stock holders, execs.)
The corporation needed more Golden Geese to kill for Golden Eggs, so they attacked Cadbury.
Cadbury's is owned these days by Mondelez, which in itself is a new name for Kraft Foods.
(gsgs comment- Kraft, manufactures of shelf stable, chemical flavored garbage for human consumption.)
It was confirmed that Hershey manufactures Cadbury’s iconic Dairy Milk bar for the US market as part of a licensing deal but uses a slightly different recipe.
(My Ogre Husband and I loved the UK Dairy Milk bar, in the 1980s.)
An American company was so bold as to give UK ex-pats the opportunity to by UK candy in America.
Hershey brings in the lawyers-
Hershey argued that the black and orange packaging of Toffee Crisp too closely resembles that of its Reese’s brand. Hershey says consumers might also confuse the U.K. brands Yorkie and Maltesers with its York and Malteser products.
LBB also imported British-made Kit Kat and Rolo candies, though Hershey has the right to distribute them in the United States.
“Given the immeasurable value of our brands, we work hard to protect these important intellectual assets and defend them against infringement,” said Hershey spokesman Jeff Beckman.
Beckman said LBB recently signed an agreement to stop selling the forbidden confections and the lawsuit has been dropped.
13 January 20
The news broke that instead of UK Dairy Milk chocolate, the shell of each 39g Creme Egg will now be made of “a standard, traditional American Cadbury milk chocolate for its shell."
27 January 2015
A lawsuit seeks to bar imported Cadbury goods in US and has caused British expats to rebel against the American chocolatier: ‘Eating Hershey’s is like a dare’
Eating Hershey’s is like a dare,” snarled Brooklyn-based Scottish painter Catriona Herd.
(It would be answering a dare, to eat something that had an odor like stinky feet and a mouthfeel like plastic.)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/27/hersheys-lawsuit-ban-imported-cadbury-from-us
"...bad news about a Hershey lawsuit designed to ban Cadbury goods imported from the UK."
Hershey spokesman Jeff Beckman said major Cadbury importer LBB Imports “was importing products from the UK that were not intended for sale in the United States and infringe on The Hershey Company’s brand trademark rights and trade dress”.
Profits are one of the things that keep them alive.
I would never "open wide for Chunky, again.
Because the taste of cocoa butter, the taste of chocolate was missing. It was hard and waxy. It had a strange flavor. The label had new ingredients.
(butyric acid, the odor of vomit!) The formerly beloved square became teeth aching sweet.
The smooth, luxury feel of the small fragments bitten off of the chunk were missing.
It was no longer irresistibly delicious.
The conglomerate entity killed my childhood treasure.
Clay, gasoline, and weird lab experiment chemicals. How delicious!
The most monolithic, gargantuan, Godzilla- like corporations feasted on small, independent,high quality production based companies in America.
And converted the sought after delicacies into artificial obscenities.
(Because high profit was needed to back up the buy out, and payoff the bankers, investors, stock holders, execs.)
The corporation needed more Golden Geese to kill for Golden Eggs, so they attacked Cadbury.
Cadbury's is owned these days by Mondelez, which in itself is a new name for Kraft Foods.
(gsgs comment- Kraft, manufactures of shelf stable, chemical flavored garbage for human consumption.)
It was confirmed that Hershey manufactures Cadbury’s iconic Dairy Milk bar for the US market as part of a licensing deal but uses a slightly different recipe.
(My Ogre Husband and I loved the UK Dairy Milk bar, in the 1980s.)
An American company was so bold as to give UK ex-pats the opportunity to by UK candy in America.
Hershey brings in the lawyers-
Hershey argued that the black and orange packaging of Toffee Crisp too closely resembles that of its Reese’s brand. Hershey says consumers might also confuse the U.K. brands Yorkie and Maltesers with its York and Malteser products.
LBB also imported British-made Kit Kat and Rolo candies, though Hershey has the right to distribute them in the United States.
“Given the immeasurable value of our brands, we work hard to protect these important intellectual assets and defend them against infringement,” said Hershey spokesman Jeff Beckman.
Beckman said LBB recently signed an agreement to stop selling the forbidden confections and the lawsuit has been dropped.
13 January 20
The news broke that instead of UK Dairy Milk chocolate, the shell of each 39g Creme Egg will now be made of “a standard, traditional American Cadbury milk chocolate for its shell."
27 January 2015
A lawsuit seeks to bar imported Cadbury goods in US and has caused British expats to rebel against the American chocolatier: ‘Eating Hershey’s is like a dare’
Eating Hershey’s is like a dare,” snarled Brooklyn-based Scottish painter Catriona Herd.
(It would be answering a dare, to eat something that had an odor like stinky feet and a mouthfeel like plastic.)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/27/hersheys-lawsuit-ban-imported-cadbury-from-us
"...bad news about a Hershey lawsuit designed to ban Cadbury goods imported from the UK."
Hershey spokesman Jeff Beckman said major Cadbury importer LBB Imports “was importing products from the UK that were not intended for sale in the United States and infringe on The Hershey Company’s brand trademark rights and trade dress”.
