Peter,
On our last trip to the Island State (2010) we visited their factory (again).
Things have changed.
Not only do they now use ‘chocolate compound’ rather than pure chocolate, they have also halved the time it spends in the roller (which is necessary to reduce the dry chocolate to a powder consistency before the rest of the mixing, cooking & moulding.
We no longer buy Cadburys. Didn’t take up their offer to discount purchases at the factory.
Stopped even before the trip, as we’d noticed the change. The last tour was to find out what they were doing differently.
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Regards & God bless,
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Clearly some time back Ray, they stopped doing tours back in 2008. I worked in a bus yard back in 1980 that was about 1 km away from the factory and never actually did the tour, when the wind blew in the wrong direction, the smell was enough of a turn off for me .... not the smell of fresh chocolate ..... it smelt worse than when I worked close to Homebush abattoirs when they rendered down the scraps to make lard ....Greynomad wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:26 pm Peter,
On our last trip to the Island State (2010) we visited their factory (again).
Things have changed.
Not only do they now use ‘chocolate compound’ rather than pure chocolate, they have also halved the time it spends in the roller (which is necessary to reduce the dry chocolate to a powder consistency before the rest of the mixing, cooking & moulding.
We no longer buy Cadburys. Didn’t take up their offer to discount purchases at the factory.
Stopped even before the trip, as we’d noticed the change. The last tour was to find out what they were doing differently.
T1 Terry
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Yes T1,
It was pre-motorhome days, which means pre-1996.
Can’t remember the actual year, but Son-&-Heir was in Primary School… he’s now 43.
It was pre-motorhome days, which means pre-1996.
Can’t remember the actual year, but Son-&-Heir was in Primary School… he’s now 43.
Regards & God bless,
Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
Ray
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Daughter was born there in '80, I think we left Tassie in '81. I remember looking across the water from the bus yard and thinking it just looked like another factory with smoke and steam billowing out of it, certainly nothing inviting about it.
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This company blotted its copy book with NZ when it closed all its factories but before that changed the base product by using palm oil. There was a large hue and cry over here and sales slumped.
We now have a well known local manufacturer who makes real chocolate not the poor substitute the other mob make.
Just goes to show big corporate conglomerates don't always k ow how to keep the customer satisfied. (There's a song there somewhere)
Cheers
Robin
We now have a well known local manufacturer who makes real chocolate not the poor substitute the other mob make.
Just goes to show big corporate conglomerates don't always k ow how to keep the customer satisfied. (There's a song there somewhere)
Cheers
Robin
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