Cadbury Adams Brand

The Food Revolution Papers - It's All About The Chocolate

I really do not have much of a sweet tooth. It is rare that I eat cake or other sweet items, but I do have a great love for Chocolate. There is something unique about chocolate. Even the history behind chocolate is yummy.

As a child (many decades ago) a Christmas treat found in your stocking was ‘chocolate money’, little discs of chocolate wrapped in either silver or gold covered foil. What many people fail to realize is that this was not a Christmas treat invented at the whim of some company just out to make a few dollars, it was based in historical fact.

Chocolate at one time was used as a form of currency. We hear much about the ‘Silk Road’ and the ‘Spice trade’, chocolate was every bit as important.

Of course the chocolate of yesteryear was far different from today. Often it was used to make a black somewhat bitter drink, oh that would be where todays ‘Hot Chocolate’ has its origins.

Chocolate possessed a quality, it gave a sense of well being when consumed. Science now understands the process, chocolate hits some brain receptors and viola, life is better than it was before.

I guess in some ways I am a chocolate snob! Actually when given the opportunity (which is rare) I am a snob about Cheese, Cognac, Bread, and even Butter! But when it comes to Chocolate the real snob in me comes out!

I would be happy to take part in a blind taste test and I can spot ‘dollar store’ the worst. I can spot the difference between Hershey and Cadbury. Cadbury wins every time! And I know when I taste the ‘real thing’. Tobler and Lindt are the ones most well known quality companies, but there are hundreds of other great manufacturers, most of who are small.

Hershey produce the Budweiser of chocolate. It is cheap and cheerful, Cadbury the Sam Adams version, but the real chocolate comes from those small breweries that few people have ever heard of.

So why isn’t chocolate just chocolate? Well the answer is simple. Different manufacturers use different amounts of ‘chocolate’ in their recipe. They are in some ways akin to drug dealers, they ‘cut’ the drug with other products. Some manufacturers have reached the all time low spot of 23%. In fact there is a move to dilute the problem further by exchanging some traditional ingredients with GMO oops, I wanted to say, well researched and independently studied substances.

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As of May 2009, there are NINE flavors available: Winterblue, Spearmint, Forever Fruit, Sweet Peppermint, Nonstop Mint, Always Mandarin, Sweet Cinnamon, Sweet Berry and the newest, Uber Bubble. Stride was available only in the United States until January 2008, when the Spearmint, Sweet Peppermint and Forever Fruit flavors were made available in Canada. The growing gum market for Stride and other Cadbury-Adams brand Trident in the United States contributed to unexpectedly strong sales for the company in 2007.

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