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Help a yoghurt knitting ethical buyer old hippy chocaholic please
Cadburys sold to Kraft foods, recipe changed and now its disgusting and no longer fair trade and despite assurances manufacturing has been moved out of the UK and Kraft is a rapacious unethical entity
Green and blacks are now part of the same group although the chocolate is still good who wants to support such an unethical firm
Rowntrees now belongs to Nestle - another company on the boycott list for unethical behaviour
Mars - another company with dubious ethics
Co op - chocolate is not great and now there is not a shop near me.
Lindt is over packaged. another no no
Help me please before I am reduced to eating organic freetrade hummus all the time and I will get so grumpy without my chocolate fix - you wouldn't want to see my patients suffer would you?
All the chocolate.
Chocolate knows no boundaries.
FFS
Just get on with it.
Make yer own, fussy knickers.
Hotel chocolate.
Willie's
I've had this whole 'ethical supply' problem for years with coke and hookers.
My base desires quickly overpower my conscience though, so... whatevs....
ramsbottom's very own [url= http://www.chocolate-cafe.co.uk/ ]Chocolate Cafe[/url] make their own, and have a very nice large selection to choose from...
just down the hill from chez binners too...
+1 Hotel Chocolat (no e on the end)
Ta chaps
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trouble with that ethical stuff is its not available in my local shops. Bulk buying by mail order won't work - I have no self restraint. Interesting ratings tho
I think sulking may be the best idea
Kryton57:FFS
Just get on with it.
Kryton telling people to stop overthinking things?
Eat some deliciously ethical and healthy carob? mmmmmh
Perchy thanks for that. altho this post was not entirely serious thats a fine answer and one I will use. Even localish manufacturing.
Carob? its not chocolate Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
waitrose used to sell Willie's chocolate. Nice stuff.
Co-op chocolate is just fine, particularly the dark ones. Commonly available. Good price.
Unfortunately no co ops near me now. 🙁 Taken over by tescos
Perchy thanks for that. altho this post was not entirely serious thats a fine answer and one I will use. Even localish manufacturing.
Not only is the chocolate delicious, they also have an enormous plastic dinosaur in the outdoor play area. It's next to the maze and the pirate ship.
A quality product all round.
hasn't stopped every other yoghurt knitting ethical buyer old hippy trying to pass it off as such for EVER!Carob? its not chocolate Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Lindt chocolate in bars isn't over packaged? Usual foil and cardboard sleeve... my personal favourite:
[url= http://www.lindt.co.uk/shop/our-brands/excellence/excellence-orange-intense-100g ]It's certainly not Terry's[/url]
(no e on the end)
Chocolate is ammmaaaazing with though 😀
the carboard sleeve is the over packaging!
Hotel Choclat, always. I can't be trusted in that place.
Cadburys sold to Kraft foods, recipe changed and now its disgusting
I think that was only creme eggs where they did that. Normal Dairy Milk is the same.
Anyway - chocolate has lots of food miles - so you can't eat it at all.
Normal dairy milk is now disgusting. It used to be OKish. Its now foul.
food miles is a huge issue you are right. Its one of the few things I eat with excessive food miles but I think its shipped not flown which makes it less of an issue
Lidl Fairtrade stuff's nice.
**** Cadbury's, Rowntree and Mars all [i]right [/i]off.
could try the Chocolate Tree up Bruntsfield - cost will cause you to cut down!
Cafe Direct possibly.
Surely Real Foods will have a supply non ?!
Any of ours.
What could be more ethical than making sure I can buy bike bits.
I'm just restocking and eating all the ones I drop.
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Zippy - where is that? Your company? I will be round as soon as I can
although shipping uses that nasty bunker oil stuff, so it all gets far too complicated 🙂
Normal dairy milk is now disgusting. It used to be OKish. Its now foul.
I think that might be your palette that's changed - tastes the same to me. Unless I've been dieting, then it tastes worse.
Nope - its definitely the chocolate. Its all greasy from the amount of non coca fat in it and coats your mouth. Horrid - like american "chocolate"
Nope.
Tj. We don't make them just sell them.
There's about 6 different companies we deal with and we buy the best that they have.
Each flavour has to get the thumbs up from me and the ladeeez before it gets in the cabinet.
Tough job...
Divine chocolate is sh*te. NomNom i'd like to try, also Mackie's now do chocolate, so worth a look.
Cadbury's was never great, but now is dreadful.
zippy - what is your company?
Strange no one mentioned Aldi yet.(STW slipping)
They do seem to have a choice seems ok to me better than Crapbury's.
We are a gift shop in deepest darkest surrey.
A bit out of your manor I'm afraid!
The Divine stuff is sold in Oxfam - you must have one of those in town?
If you are a dark choc fan try http://www.amedei.it/en/
You can pick it up on Amazon and at quite a few local deli's. It will kill most suggestions here.
If you like milky fatty sugar and want to be ethical I actually think Divine is not that bad for what it is / beats Lindt and commonly available supermarket brands.
Lots of fake high end choc being paraded around where all you are paying for is nice packaging - especially at Waitrose.
If you like milky fatty sugar and want to be ethical I actually think Divine is not that bad
Divine make 85% dark so I doubt it's that milky fatty and sugary. You're not a chocolate snob by any chance are you?
My Mrs loves the Lidl stuff, but she couldn't give a monkeys about ethical-ness.
some lidl stuff is OK - I'll have to look into its ethics
Just be normal and eat Haribo 
Aldi and Lidl posh stuff is certified and good quality. Lindt is lovely too and the card sleeves are made from pine trees from Scandanavia and are very sustainably manufactured (low carbon footprint). They have to use non-recycled fibres as chocolate is very susceptible to taint (Google Robinson test), but the board manufacture is powered by renewable sources in the main, so provided you recycle the sleeves then be comforted that you are not destroying the planet, merely providing raw material for making Amazon corrugated boxes, newspapers and loo roll!!!
the standard dark chocolate at lidl about 33p is 50 per cent cocoa and is nice enough for me, grate it into half cooked pancake, ice cream and strawberries on top with glob of honey....yum!
Aldi milk is 30% cocoa solids and lovely stuff. The dark stuff is also good.
Alternatively buy the raw material from Rococo and make your own. EDIT They run courses to teach you.
Avoid mackies it's not nice.
@molgrips Na, I like all chocolate.
Just find milk doesn't get better if you pay more than what is on offer with Divine (they seem to have the sugar / fat / sweet mix just right) but dark can. The Divine 85 is great for the price and beats anything costing more at the supermarkets that sell it. An Amedei 70% Porcelana is better again imo and great for a one off treat / habit 🙂
Good news is even the really cheap stuff still tastes good but I'm thinking the op wouldn't be asking if he was happy with the usual.
tjagain - Member
the carboard sleeve is the over packaging
It's bloody cardboard, made from trees grown to make paper and cardboard from, and recyclable!
It's not plastic, or plastic coated board, and it's designed to keep the product fresh.
Overpackaged is what you get from Amazon, one piddly little object stuck in a sodding great box with plastic padding - hardly a comparison, to my way of thinking, and what about the extra packaging that will go around any other choccy product if you get it online.
🙄
Just find milk doesn't get better if you pay more than what is on offer with Divine
Agree.. I've tried lots of fancy milk chocolate and I just don't like it - milk chocolate to me is cheap, cheerful and Cadbury's. Preferably wrapped around some honeycomb or nougat and biscuity bits.
A few squares of 70 or 85 is nice with a coffee. The tastiest dark I had was the stall in Cardiff at Christmas that sells loads of sundry items cast in chocolate (including spanners). Nice but I suspect quite sugary, maybe 60%.
I don't like any flavoured chocolate except G&B's Maya Gold which is just wonderful.
+1 for Aldi
The moser Roth sour cherry & chilli chocolate mouse bars are to die for, and their 75% cocoa fair trade Dominican Republic suff is easily as good as Lindt IMO
Aldi dark is good
Lidl dark is good
Willies cacao is fab
Hotel chocolate is good
Creightons is amazing.
Don't do ladies chocolate but every now and then a star bar or reeses nutrageoeus hit the spot.
Montezumas is good, particularly the 100% Cocoa but for bargaintastic quality chocolate you can't go far wrong from Sainsburys Belgian Cooking chocolate.
[url= http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/cooking-chocolate/sainsburys-belgian-cooking-chocolate--plain-200g ]Dark[/url] [url= http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/cooking-chocolate/sainsburys-belgian-cooking-chocolate--milk-200g ]Milk[/url] [url= http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/cooking-chocolate/sainsburys-belgian-cooking-chocolate--white-200g ]White[/url]
Here's a challenge for you: try to buy some Golden Tree chocolate, manufactured in Ghana and if you find a source in the UK please tell me. It's formulated so as not to melt in for tropical weather so it has very low levels of fats and cocoa butter, meaning it's unusually hard and dusty, which we find strange being used to our chocolate being filled with fats. However the cocoa flavour is just superb and it even has a slightly gritty texture, which I believe comes from the cocoa beans. Here:
http://elsbro.com/blog/2009/06/11/chocolates-from-ghana/
I've just finished a couple of boxes given to me by my Ghana agent and I'm desperate for some more, it really grows on you.
Lindt for the win! The dark chocolate with salt is divine.
Packaging schmackaging - it all goes in my recycling!
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