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From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: OT: consuming dark chocolate linked to reduced risk of type 2 diabetes?
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:25:36 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

>On 10/12/2024 15:51, john larkin wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:36:35 +0000, Martin Brown
>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>
>>> We also had US Hershey bar available to taste - the world's only vomit
>>> flavoured "chocolate" (doesn't meet EU regulations to be chocolate).
>>>
>>> https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Hersheys-not-popular-in-Europe
>> 
>> The Hershey Special Dark bars are OK in an emergency, like stranded in
>> a life raft or a prison cell.
>
>Maybe... but I'd have to think carefully about it.
>> 
>> I won't forgive Hershey for buying Joseph Schmidt Confections and
>> killing it.
>> 
>> Cadbury is mostly inedible. As is Dove.
>
>Cadbury was better before it was taken over and ruined by Kraft. I think 
>to a large extent people think chocolate is whatever they grew up with.
>
>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cadburys-chocolate-fairtrade-fair-trade-mark-farmers-kraft-american-brand-abandoned-promise-a7445826.html
>
>Dove is a soap brand in the UK
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_(Unilever_brand)
>
>I wouldn't dream of eating it as chocolate.

Dove is a soap here as well.  Favored by some (mostly women) with dry
skin, far too greasy for me.


>I presume like Kenwood Hifi (foodmixers only in UK) the branding is very 
>different in the USA. I don't recall noticing Dove chocolate there.

Kenwood Hifi foodmixers look a lot like KitchenAid in the US:

..<https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/stand-mixers.html>

Maybe they both come from the same factory.

Joe Gwinn