So Cadbury, Britain’s tastiest success story, a small family business selling coffee and cocoa drinks which grew to become one of the world’s most renowned chocolatiers, stands accused of defiling Easter. Two thousand years ago Jesus died to save our sins, and no matter how sticky or jumped up on sugar, lest you or I or indeed any of us forget….
For a whole year now you’ve been gazing fondly at last year’s heart-shaped box of Valentine’s chocolates, fingering tenderly the hollowed out plastic insert and the curved piece of red card, and remembering how the treats tasted and the surprise on the face of your lover, and the night of tender romance which swiftly ensued. Of course your partner would never toss…
Archaeologists continue to quarrel over the construction of the pyramids, and the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn has taken a million years to complete. But what conceit of engineering, or what tectonic shift, has robbed us of our humble Toblerone, bars of nougaty chocolate in triangular peaks? In fact neither the Alps nor the Egyptians dictated the shape of the Toblerone, the bar’s…
Sometimes it simply can’t be helped. You’re enjoying a nice bar of your favourite chocolate, you’re pulling those button-shaped and candy-covered treats out of their too-small packages one by ever-loving one, you’ve got your fingers all in the wrapping paper and your tongue is making it clean, and somehow some of that chocolate has ended up smeared all over your…
