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Friday, May 2, 2014
Cadbury Dairy Milk Pebbles
Now Cadbury has a shell candy for all year round consumption, completing their entry into the world of morselization. I’ve also seen that Cadbury’s parent company, Mondelez (once part of Kraft) has created bagged mixes that include the Pebbles, mini Oreos, and Maynard’s gummi candies. Kind of like the M&Ms Sweet & Salty Snack Mix that came out from Mars. Like most Cadbury chocolate products in the United Kingdom, this is not real milk chocolate. It’s what’s commonly called “family chocolate” which is a nice way of saying, “We don’t need to waste expensive cocoa butter on children, we’ll substitute some oil in there.” So it’s a quasi-mockolate product that uses some cocoa butter and some vegetable oil. Still, it’s not like it’s R. M. Palmer mockolate, it’s made from 23% milk content and 20% cocoa content ... then, you know, some sugar and a few oils, natural colors and shellac.
Instead of going with the typical lentil shape, the pieces are like flattened Cadbury Mini Eggs. They’re kind of like guitar picks. The colors are plain, for the most part when I dumped them out of the bag they were a little chalky looking but polished up pretty easily with a paper towel. (I figured they deserved a little spa treatment after being carted partway around the world.)
The yellow ones are a bit strange though, because of the all natural colorings, the ingredients on this particular one is a little odd. It’s kind of like curry ...a little grassy. The chocolate center is smooth, a little malty but with a thin punch of chocolate flavor. The shell is wonderfully crunchy, outside of the odd yellow one. The whole combination is really a great candy, I enjoyed eating them, though it certainly didn’t satisfy my desire for chocolate. I would be interested in trying these in some sort of mixed bag with mini Oreos and perhaps a few nuts. I doubt that Cadbury will attempt to license this to Hershey’s for production under their deal. So American’s will have to content themselves with imports or just stocking up in the Easter version. They contain milk, corn and soy. There’s no statement about nuts or gluten. Though Cadbury has started certifying some candies with sourcing information, the Dairy Milk Pebbles did not have a the Fair Trade or Rainforest Alliance stamp. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:48 am
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Heather on 5/02/14 at 12:30 pm #
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alan on 3/20/15 at 4:37 am #
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.I love how the names of candies from the United Kingdom always sound so British. I imagine people on the street with their significant others saying (use your best British accent here) “Shall we munch on some Pebbles, love? Just to tide us over til tea time.”
Heather, they would be if Mars hadn’t changed a Marathon to a Snickers or Opal Fruits to Starburst.
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I really do dislike this ‘mockolate’ nonsense, our chocolate certainly isn’t mockolate. Mockolate has no cocoa butter in it, whereas our chocolate certainly does. We don’t know it as the rather patronising ‘family chocolate’ either.
The foul stuff Hershey’s churns out can’t in any way shape or form be classed as proper chocolate, just because it happens to contain ingredients that the US claims constitutes ‘real’ chocolate. It tastes like wax for the most part.. in fact it’s very much what we’d call ‘cheap chocolate’ which is found only on the very cheapest and nastiest products, and even they have upped there game when you do see them .
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