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Cadbury's Bournville Factory

Cadbury’s Bournville 1920’s loading / dispatch area , the trolley loaded with Bournville Cocoa
Source historicengland.org.uk
 

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A Sparks said:
Your previous comment about the taste has reminded me that someone I worked with had relatives in Canada who always asked her family to bring them Cadbury's chocolate from the UK as it was much better than what they could buy there!
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Following on from this post I made, I have just seen this article about chocolate made in the USA which mentions Cadburys :(
www.theguardian.com

Why is American chocolate so disgusting? You really don’t want to know | Arwa Mahdawi

It tastes like sawdust that’s been drowned in sugar and soaked with baby vomit – and I’ve finally discovered why, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
A Sparks said:
Following on from this post I made, I have just seen this article about chocolate made in the USA which mentions Cadburys :(
www.theguardian.com

Why is American chocolate so disgusting? You really don’t want to know | Arwa Mahdawi

It tastes like sawdust that’s been drowned in sugar and soaked with baby vomit – and I’ve finally discovered why, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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This is your writer:
History becomes legend, legends become myth. So goes the popular saying by literary legend JRR Tolkien. In the world of the mainstream media, with the passage of time, truth becomes lies, fiction becomes fact, journalists become a joke and when enough time has passed, ‘legendary’ journalists turn into something more. They become a meme. Such is the story of The Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi.

According to her bio on The Guardian, Arwa Mahdawi is a “Guardian columnist and brand strategist based in New York.” In addition to these, she is also a gargantuan hypocrite and the stereotypical media hack whose sole objective is to peddle propaganda. The headlines of her column which have gone viral on social media recently illustrate it beautifully.

On the 16th of May 2020, one of her columns was published with the headline, ‘Men are less likely to wear masks – another sign that toxic masculinity kills’. She said in the column, “A number of men (including Trump) think masks make them look weak – a reminder of how damaging gender stereotypes are”. A couple of months later, she published another column, this time with the headline, ‘Shaming people who refuse to wear face masks isn’t a good look’. And no, this is not a joke.
Be VERY careful when you read her writings!
 
Sounds rather a dubious person, though the comment she makes about Hershey deliberately reacting their milk for their chocolate with an enzyme, (lipolysis) is true (though as far as I know only for the Hershey Bar)
 
mikejee said:
Sounds rather a dubious person, though the comment she makes about Hershey deliberately reacting their milk for their chocolate with an enzyme, (lipolysis) is true (though as far as I know only for the Hershey Bar)
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Yes Mike her reputation proceeds her. You maybe right about Hershey (I am not a fan) however when I read an article that is supposedly pragmatic and the word “allegedly“ is used bets are off!
 
Richard Dye said:
This is your writer:
History becomes legend, legends become myth. So goes the popular saying by literary legend JRR Tolkien. In the world of the mainstream media, with the passage of time, truth becomes lies, fiction becomes fact, journalists become a joke and when enough time has passed, ‘legendary’ journalists turn into something more. They become a meme. Such is the story of The Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi.

According to her bio on The Guardian, Arwa Mahdawi is a “Guardian columnist and brand strategist based in New York.” In addition to these, she is also a gargantuan hypocrite and the stereotypical media hack whose sole objective is to peddle propaganda. The headlines of her column which have gone viral on social media recently illustrate it beautifully.

On the 16th of May 2020, one of her columns was published with the headline, ‘Men are less likely to wear masks – another sign that toxic masculinity kills’. She said in the column, “A number of men (including Trump) think masks make them look weak – a reminder of how damaging gender stereotypes are”. A couple of months later, she published another column, this time with the headline, ‘Shaming people who refuse to wear face masks isn’t a good look’. And no, this is not a joke.
Be VERY careful when you read her writings!
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Thanks, I only spotted the article with the mention of Cadbury on the internet, I've never actually heard of the woman and I don't read the newspapers, as you say, you have to take a lot of it with a pinch of salt!
 
Eric Gibson said:
I think the days of the 'journalist' have slipped on by, all we get now is the editor saying "I need a page filler write me a thousand lines, any old rubbish will do."
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Eric, I think you add to that something shocking to increase readership. Unfortunately as you infer there is no accountability for what is said!
 
Would be interested if anyone knows anything about the Cadbury’s distribution centre called ’Parkside’. Where it was? When it was opened? Any photos or stories. Thanks
 
That‘s interesting as it was my dad who worked at Parkside and his dad was an engine driver on the Cadbury’s railway line. If you do have any photos that would be fantastic.
 
It's a great item. I like the idea that even today you can sniff the same chocolate scent that surrounded Cadbury employees over 120 years ago. Viv.
 
But they won't taste the same. I once tasted soem chocolates that had been found in the back storeroom of a shop and were about 25 years old. Virtually no taste .I think the one I tasted was a creme centre, but was hard as a rock
 
Don't think this whole booklet has been posted. Look at all those sports pitches ! Viv
 

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Hi Lyn, it must have been,truly a marvellous place to work, in the 50's and 60's went many times with the school visit program, lots of free goodies to!!
 
paul stacey said:
Hi Lyn, it must have been,truly a marvellous place to work, in the 50's and 60's went many times with the school visit program, lots of free goodies to!!
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yes paul aunt june loved it there...when she came to visit us 6 kids down villa st she would always bring us a couple of brown boxes of those little penny bars of choc i think there was 100 in a box..what a treat that was :)
 
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