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OMG this video is hilarious! I'm surprised the tempered, molded chocolate bars they were eating didn't have the Cadbury logo on them. So, so wrong in so many ways!
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OMG this video is hilarious! I'm surprised the tempered, molded chocolate bars they were eating didn't have the Cadbury logo on them. So, so wrong in so many ways!
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EEEWWW!! This looks much less attractive than the real thing!
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Samantha, you said it right --> what a doozy!i love how they are pouring chocolate bars
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Samantha,Your comments regarding the vitality of cacau under shade are bang on. One of the most serious problems existing in the cacau industry of Brazil today is the battle between cacau farmers and environmentalist. There exist farms that were extremely productive in 1920 that today are completely abandonded. If you review the farms records, it is likely that you will find the attempts made generations ago to integrate rubber and cacau.......today you need a battery powered lamp to find the cacau trees because of shading.The best producing portionns of our farms are those that have been DRASTICALLY opened to sunlight and trimmed to permit infiltration of light. There's a new breed of cacau farmers that have begun to apply technology instead of "fairy tales".Keep your commentary coming...it's a breath of fresh air.Best regardsJim Lucas
Total Travesty
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I hadn't considered the insult but yes I can see that. With the huge budget they had they could have gotten a decent consultant on chocolate, right Clay.I think that showing the pod as it really is would have been more intriguing for the viewer, and a damn site less difficult that inventing and fabricating that piece of crap.
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Cadbury sources their cacao in Ghana and their toxic milk powder in China. Hopefully, the As & Ks will catch on and quality chocolate will gain market share.
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It's just not wrong and misleading in every aspect, it's very insulting to anyone born in the Mesoamerican region.
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If this weren't so very wrong it would be funny. You're right, Tom, it's harder to pick out what's right with it than it is to pick out what's wrong with it. Time to mount Facebook and Twitter campaigns to point out how ludicrous it is.You can copy and paste the following in your Facebook and Twitter accounts:This Cadbury advert "takes the gold" for being the stupidest commercial about chocolate in the history of chocolate: http://bit.ly/P2Xw That said, let's use this forum thread to dissect the commercial and point out what's historically and technically wrong with it, as an exercise in understanding the history of chocolate. And don't forget the "explanatory" texts that accompany the video.
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Watch the video at www.oldgold.co.nz this is advertising Cadbury's dark choc range for Australia and New Zealand. Aussies and Kiwi's are generally pretty uneducated in chocolate and this is doing no favours. Instead of trying to work out what is wrong with it, try and pick things that are right with it - nothing!
updated by @Tom: 12/13/24 12:16:07
Small time cacao and fruit grower in Costa Rica
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Hi JesseWelcome to the group. I would be interested to hear any comments you have on your experience of restoring your plantation. There are a lot of abandoned trees in the South Pacific, so rehabilitation is an interesting topic for us and growers we are involved with.Also, do you do your own fermentation and drying?
Small time cacao and fruit grower in Costa Rica
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Hi Jesse,I think there will be no shortage of folks hoping to buy good-quality beans, nuts and fruit from you! Talk to Clay, see if he will market your beans.Good luck,Duffy
Small time cacao and fruit grower in Costa Rica
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Hi new friends,This is interesting, a forum for chocolate fans. While chocolate is my favorite candy, my main interest is getting my maybe 800 or so trees which I planted in 1984 back into shape after being abandoned for some 15 years. I'm on the south Pacific side of Costa Rica, 400 meters altitude, 200 inches of rain with a jan-march dry season. I won't bore you here with the details, but feel free to ask anything you want about growing.As we know, great chocolates are often combined with great nuts, and sometimes dried fruits. I have a great collection of tropical fruits and nuts, some of which would be great in chocolate, like dried rambutan or langsat, paradise cream (monkey pot) nuts, pili nuts, etc. I do not have enough land to be a major producer of these but am looking for crops that my neighbors could plant, a market for those crops, or to help any cacao farmers in other areas diversify into complementary crops, or exchange rare fruits native to their areas.
updated by @Jesse Blenn: 04/17/15 19:00:03
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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Thanks, I aspire to professional, but I am afraid I am still very much an amateur as you will see by my question I ask here on Chocolate Life
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I am in the field of chocolate since 1995. People often asks questions about making chocolate, keeping chocolate, making any particular chocolate dessert etc, so I decided to build a website to help those people who want to make chocolate desserts at home but lack necessary experience ( more frankly for those, who are just amateurs , not professional chocolatiers).
[Edited to remove what is potentially a spam link.]
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We have just surfaced from the rush and waved the white flag yesterday! Nothing else in stock on our site until after Easter.My eggs this year were a mix of funky and traditional, with a nod to the spring fashion colours of vivid orange, green and pink.We had some great coverage on national TV and a good link in from Nigella Lawson's site which really boosted sales.Pics attached!
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LANA!!!! WOW! I have been waiting to see your works of art and just knew they would be perfection. Absolutely lovely! I am truly excited for you. I am also thrilled that you gotit right with the wine!!! I would love to taste your things. Everything has days and days of thought put it-every detail. I am so happy for you!!! HUGS and congrats!!
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Thank you Lana! Indeed, baby, wedding, and seasonal favors are given a lot of thought in terms of design, color schemes etc...and take a LOT of love , care and hours to put together
It sure is a happy business to be working with chocolates though!In turn, i wanted to let you know that I love your white bunny....adorable! what a cute idea to have the dalmatian-like spotting! this should be a bestseller in my view!!
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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Thank you Clay!
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Lana,The chocolates are beautiful.The flavors sound great and the hot cross bun really provokes the image of a real one.Did you use white chocolate for the piping or something else.I love the bunnies too, where they fun to make?
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Lana- These are so creative! I love the idea of the "bread and wine" chocolates...very classy designs to represent each. And they sound very delicious. Your "herd" is just adorable.
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A simple thing, the chocolate Easter egg - elevated by an elegantly beautiful presentation.
updated by @Clay Gordon: 09/16/15 11:07:51
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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I like your style.........
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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Well!! I will reveal that I am making blood puddles using freeze dried pomegranate powder to color the white chocolate red=the Nile turns to blood...Each family member will get a frog upon a blood puddle and a pyramid.Oh and thanks Lana and Jeff!
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they are cool....shall we do the sacrificial lambs next?
updated by @Jeff: 01/28/15 21:12:15
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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My best selling and tastiest Easter chocolates are my Easter Truffles and the Bunny Bar. The Easter Truffles feature Bittersweet Caramelized, Spring Raspberry and Merlot centers, in addition to the traditional dark, milk and white chocolate. The shells of the truffles are molded with lovely flowers colored with luster dust, great not only for Easter but any spring gifts. The Bunny Bar is a nice alternative to traditional bunnies - it's over 6 ounces and nearly 8" high, and comes in solid or crispy milk chocolate. I'm still taking orders at http://www.laurieschocolates.com
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Hey man, I'm no prude...The religious value of Easter is pretty lost on me as well. I don't read the Bible or believe in Jesus. But many customers do and I respect that. Maybe you make so much $$ you don't care who you offend but I do care who I offend .
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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As I mentioned, frogs (for the plague) and pyramids (Egypt)
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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I'm making macaroons drizzled with chocolate...for Passover. This is rich, flavorful and a real treat. I drizzled "enjoy life" chocolate chips, melted. They're dairy, soy, and gluten free and as a plus-pareve. I'm experimenting so they got tested out. Any dark chocolate 70%, preferably kosher for passover, would be great as a compliment to the almond flavor. Want the recipe? Check out Recipes with Chocolate
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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I'm making chocolate bars for Easter.
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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why thank you sir....I really cant believe how well these dumb things are selling....I sent you one for A.........
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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Jeff:You are one sick puppy. But I mean that in the nicest way.:: Clay
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ok.....its getting sicker.....by the minute.....these sold today....to a nurse..........
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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Those are pretty. I have looked at your site for years and coveted many of your molds....wish list stuff...
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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Its all about the marzipan and cocoa butter paint......
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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I am scared to imagine what you will come up with for Halloween... With your imagination! And I thought green frogs with strawberry ganache (blood?) would be daring... innocent me...
Calling all Chocolatiers: What are YOU Making Special for Easter This Year?
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My kitchen is staffed by pagan reprobates with a penchant for hard work whiskey and chluthlu. The religious value of easter is lost on us.
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you can rest assured we have tried to crucify a few but they just dont stand up.....
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thank you artisan....much ado about nothing. We plaan on having a ball with halloween this year.
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Wow they are spectacular!
updated by @Tom: 09/07/15 15:49:19
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That's the beauty of all of us having our own businesses is that we can all do what we want product wise.Some might find it sick and others fantastic, but in all cases it makes the choc world more diverse and that's worth celebrating.For my part i think these would be great for Halloween more than Easter but well done for the idea!