Hershey vs Cadbury: cast your vote here!
Posted by Jon on Mon 27 Apr 2009Categories: Food | [5] Comments
UPDATE: Cadbury emerges the clear winner in our tasting. You can still cast your vote at the bottom of the post!
Over 300 people came to our chocolate tasting this morning, and a resounding 74% of participants said their preferred chocolate was Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Interestingly 71% of people raised in North America preferred Cadbury chocolate – so it’s not just “what you grew up with”!
Here’s a few photos from the morning’s event:
On Tuesday 28 April the RSC will host the bout of the century: Hershey’s vs Cadbury. Which is the public’s preferred chocolate?
The venue: the courtyard of Burlington House, Piccadilly, home of the RSC.
The contenders: in the purple corner, and weighing in at 49 g, Cadbury Dairy Milk. In the brown corner, at 43 g, Hershey’s Milk Chocolate.
The referees : the general public, who will express their opinions of their preferred chocolate in a blind test. A team of chemists from Keele University have analysed the chocolate and its different chemical properties, and will also analyse the results of the opinion poll on the day.
It would hardly be fair to limit this poll to the lucky few who walk past Burlington House at 10.30 on Tuesday, however. So we’re throwing the poll open to the entire world! Speed your preferred chocolate to success by casting your vote below:
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Tue 28 Apr 2009 at 11:49
will you also test some chocolates?
Thu 7 May 2009 at 22:43
Cadbury vs Hershey is a second league contest.
Why not add some Belgian and Swiss chocolates?
Fri 8 May 2009 at 14:28
Michael Taylor says it. Before I had scrolled down to his comment I had already thought what the outcome might have been if Lindt had been included.
As you know, the UK (i.e. the UK confectionery lobby) forced the EU to accept its vegetable-fat-containing products to be permitted to be sold in the EU as chocolate.
Quote from a 2003 BBC report:
“The dispute started 27 years ago when Britain, Ireland and Denmark joined the EU and refused to adopt the standards requiring chocolate to contain only cocoa ingredients.”
Fri 8 May 2009 at 14:31
PS. Sorry, here is the link to the BBC report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2664877.stm
That Nestle welcomed the ruling (assuming the report is accurate) is not entirely surprising, given their extensive UK interests.
Sat 9 May 2009 at 11:34
Living on the other side of the pond, my vote on main stream manufacturers, is based on the taste of Cadbury products in the UK. The same products (if available) lack something in North America that would probably even out the vote.