Irish Chocolate?

Chong

Why dont the Irish have their own chocolate brand?

Just Wondering

rugbug86

i thought cadburys was irish...

what about butlers IRISH chocolate

Hagar

rugbug86 wrote:

i thought cadburys was irish...

Cadbury's is as Irish as Guinness...

Chong

I am afraid Cadburys is by no means Irish.

RobertFoster

Butlers Irish Chocolate.
Chez Emily.
Colleen's.

Ruu_Old

butlers ftw

Hagar

Willem D wrote:

I am afraid Cadburys is by no means Irish.

That was my point.

rugbug86

Willem D wrote:

I am afraid Cadburys is by no means Irish.

thats why i said i THOUGHT :rolleyes:

Tree

o'connaills are based in carraigaline
(cork for those of you not from the people's republic)

real_484

lily O'Brien is your only man

http://www.lilyobriens.ie/

minimum 30% cocoa, real chocolate

memphis

There are loads of irish choccies.

Lilly O'Brien
Lir chocolate
Butlers

I'm sure there are more just can't ring them off at the top of my head. And by the way.... Cadbury's is British

Saruman

As memphis said.. honestly i cant understand how Willem D did not know.. i mean all he had to do was look in the chocolate section in any supermarket or all the duty free areas in the Airports.

Lir is based in Navan after moving from east wall to much bigger place.. One of my customers so i soemtimes get free chocs Lir do a great Baileys truffle.

There are others less well known too... umm google

memphis

Another piece of useful (useless) info regarding Cadbury!!

Roald Dahl's book "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" is based around the Cadbury's factory in the UK.... as far as I recall!!!

rubadub

cadburys cannot be called chocolate in some countries. Doesnt have enough % of cocoa or something, like why cooking chocolate is called "chocolate flavoured", like cheapo easter eggs

delly

I get the Butler's Bertie Bunny every year at Easter and 'tis very tasty.

Attol

Oooh, this thread reminded me to go visit the Cadbury's factory... I live a 40 minute train ride away from Bournville and have to visit before I move back to Ireland! I imagine the whole area to be all magical and Roald Dahlesque... Totally not going to live up to my expectations at this rate!

rubadub

LadyLotts wrote:

Totally not going to live up to my expectations at this rate!

Its meant to be pretty good. More for kids I think, but the people who went were in their 40's and enjoyed it.

Stop drinking de chocolate Agustus Lotts!

Saruman

Noticed Gallaghers chocolates too in Finglas business centre but never noticed any of their stuff in shops

Kolodny

memphis wrote:

There are loads of irish choccies.

Lilly O'Brien
Lir chocolate
Butlers

Not strictly 'Irish' though. Having worked for one of these companies many years ago, I can tell you the chocolate used is imported from Belguim. It's simply melted down, moulded and packaged in Ireland so it's not genuine Irish chocolate.

memphis

Kolodny wrote:

Not strictly 'Irish' though. Having worked for one of these companies many years ago, I can tell you the chocolate used is imported from Belguim. It's simply melted down, moulded and packaged in Ireland so it's not genuine Irish chocolate.

Interesting slant on it, that is. Wasn't aware of that!!

Was under the impression that they were all 100% irish chocolates!!


Learn something new every day, eh?

delly

Kolodny wrote:

Not strictly 'Irish' though. Having worked for one of these companies many years ago, I can tell you the chocolate used is imported from Belguim. It's simply melted down, moulded and packaged in Ireland so it's not genuine Irish chocolate.

Without naming names, would it be 1st 2nd or 3rd?

Kolodny

delly wrote:

Without naming names, would it be 1st 2nd or 3rd?

lol

Well, when I worked there I was told that they all ordered their chocolate from roughly the same source. That's supposedly why it tastes so nice. Strictly speaking Cadbury's chocolate made in the Dublin factory is more authentically Irish - I think it tastes very different to how it did in the UK when I was a kid, always thought it was something to do with Irish milk having a 'richer' taste but I could be wrong.

dundalk cailin

mmm..chocolate!!