{"title":"Cadbury","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhy this tastes different to the Cadbury in American shops\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCadbury sold in the United States isn't made by Cadbury. It's made under license by Hershey, to American standards, in American factories. The name on the wrapper is the same. The chocolate inside is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of that is the law rather than anyone's choice. British milk chocolate has to contain at least 20% cocoa solids. The American standard is 10%. The two countries also permit different fats, which changes how a bar melts as much as how it tastes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest of it people argue about, and I'll leave them to it. What I can tell you is that anyone who grew up with the British version knows within one bite, and that is the whole reason this shop exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything here comes from the UK, in date, packed by hand, and sent anywhere in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cadbury-twirl","title":"Twirl","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo twisted fingers of thin, crisp chocolate wrapped around delicate flakes, similar to a Flake but with extra crunch and structure. Light and crumbly, with a satisfying snap before it melts away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCadbury Ireland worked out how to wrap Flake in a coat of milk chocolate and put it out in Dublin in 1985, with Britain following in 1987. The name came from a competition in the Beano (a British anthology comic magazine), won by a child in the West Riding, which is a better naming process than most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Flake you can eat without consequences, which rather misses the point of a Flake, and is exactly why people buy it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742088818971,"sku":null,"price":2.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Twirl.jpg?v=1787964149"},{"product_id":"cadbury-wispa","title":"Wispa","description":"\u003cp\u003eVelvety Cadbury milk chocolate whipped through with a fine mesh of bubbles, so it gives way rather than snaps. Lighter than it looks, and gone sooner than planned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaunched in the North East in 1981, national by 1983, then discontinued in 2003 and replaced with something called Dairy Milk Bubbly. The public declined to accept this. A campaign on Facebook and YouTube pushed hard enough that Cadbury relented in 2007, and it came back for good the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is still the bar people turn oddly defensive about, which is what tends to happen when you have had to fight to get something back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742100484379,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Wispa.jpg?v=1787964134"},{"product_id":"cadbury-flake","title":"Flake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMade from folded, crumbly layers of Cadbury milk chocolate, Flake is light rather than dense. It crumbles and melts away almost as soon as it touches your tongue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCadbury have made it since 1920, and by their own account nobody set out to design it. A worker at Bournville noticed that the excess chocolate running off the molds was settling into folds as it cooled, and somebody had the sense to see a product rather than a mess. A century on, it is still the only bar that cannot be eaten without leaving evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest eaten over a plate, standing up, or pushed into the top of an ice cream - at least that's how the Brits like it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742106186011,"sku":null,"price":2.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Flake.jpg?v=1787964119"},{"product_id":"cadbury-crunchie","title":"Crunchie","description":"\u003cp\u003eGolden honeycomb toffee, crisp and light and full of air, under a generous coat of Cadbury milk chocolate. Delicately brittle - it shatters on the first bite, then melts away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFry's launched it from Bristol in 1929 as a copy of the Violet Crumble, an Australian bar that had got there sixteen years earlier. Fry's had merged with Cadbury a decade before that, so it was a Cadbury bar from the start. Britain spent the 1980s being told to get that Friday feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe honeycomb goes everywhere and sticks to your teeth, which is the entire appeal and not a design fault.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742113296667,"sku":null,"price":2.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Crunchie.jpg?v=1787964166"},{"product_id":"cadbury-curly-wurly","title":"Curly Wurly","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderfully chewy lattice of golden caramel covered in Cadbury milk chocolate. Stretch it, twist it, bite it - there's really no dignified way to eat one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvented at Bournville in 1970 by David Parfitt, a Cadbury research confectioner who was playing about with toffee left over from another job. What he arrived at was less a bar than a problem of engineering: a caramel ladder thin enough to be mostly holes and still strong enough to survive a factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe caramel wins every time, and that is rather the point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742121816347,"sku":null,"price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Curly_Wurly.jpg?v=1787964103"},{"product_id":"cadbury-double-decker","title":"Double Decker","description":"\u003cp\u003eA soft, chewy nougat base topped with crispy cereal pieces and wrapped in Cadbury milk chocolate. Two very different textures that have absolutely no business working this well together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCadbury launched it in 1976 and named it after a London bus, which is the whole idea in one word: two decks, nougat riding above a layer of cereal crisp. Most bars pick a texture and commit. This one refuses, and has been getting away with it for fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bar for when you want chewy and crunchy in the same mouthful and will not be made to choose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742160580891,"sku":null,"price":2.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Cadbury_Double_Decker.jpg?v=1787962732"},{"product_id":"cadbury-marvelous-creations","title":"Marvelous Creations","description":"\u003cp\u003eCadbury milk chocolate packed with colorful candy pieces and little bursts of popping candy. Crunchy, fizzy and gloriously unnecessary, which is rather the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCadbury launched it in Australia in 2012 and brought it to Britain the year after, on the back of an advertising campaign that leaned hard on the idea of a chocolate factory run by somebody faintly unhinged. The bar lives up to it. Jelly, candy shells and popping candy, all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who thinks plain chocolate is a missed opportunity. Nobody eats one quietly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53836961579291,"sku":null,"price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Cadbury_Marvellous_Creations.jpg?v=1787965031"},{"product_id":"cadbury-fruit-and-nut","title":"Dairy Milk Fruit \u0026 Nut","description":"\u003cp\u003eCadbury's milk chocolate with raisins and almonds through it, added to the Dairy Milk line in 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the most divisive bar in the shop. People reach for it first or avoid it entirely, and almost nobody is neutral. The fruit is the reason: a raisin in chocolate is either a welcome interruption or an intrusion, and which one it is appears to be settled at birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you remember the advert you are already singing it. 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