I want to like this. I really want to like this…

Divine is a Fair Trade chocolate from Ghana which bills itself as “Heavenly chocolate with a heart”.

According to their web site, “Fairtrade aims to build dignified trading relationships between consumers in the North and producers in developing countries. This involves changing the way that conventional [...]

Late last year, Mars announced somewhat triumphantly that they would be discontinuing their king sized ‘Big One’ Mars and Snickers bars due to public concerns about obesity. But what they did next was a master stroke - they simply chopped the bars in two and called them ‘Duo’ instead. Inspired.

The idea, so they say, is [...]

Cadbury has just announced that it’s recalling over a million chocolate bars in the UK due to a salmonella scare.

In all, seven products are affected:

250 gram - Cadbury Dairy Milk Turkish
250 gram - Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel
250 gram - Cadbury Dairy Milk Mint
Cadbury Dairy Milk 8 chunk
1 kilogram - Cadbury Dairy Milk
Cadbury Dairy Milk Button [...]

Continuing with my “back to basics” chocolate bar campaign, the next on the shopping list was the Bounty Bar.
Now, I must be particularly susceptible to advertising as just the glimpse of the split coconut, azure waters and leafy palm trees on the wrapper sends me off into my own little daydream where I’m lying in [...]

Sometimes it’s nice to have a change from the usual. You spend ten minutes browsing the vast array of chocolate in the local sweet shop, but nothing really grabs you.

And then you see it. Something new.

Doesn’t look British. Or American. It must be good!

You grab it from the shelf and run home like a little [...]