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Re: Unfathomable ads
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:26 pm
by Greynomad
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.
Re: Unfathomable ads
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:32 pm
by T1 Terry
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.
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 ....
T1 Terry
Re: Unfathomable ads
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:18 pm
by Greynomad
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.
Re: Unfathomable ads
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 1:21 pm
by T1 Terry
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.
T1 Terry
Re: Unfathomable ads
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:28 am
by Romany Rambler
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