Cadbury Bournville
When I was a kid, Bournville was my first and pretty much only exposure to ‘dark’ chocolate. A small bar of Bournville was a real treat for me.
These days, with all the wonderful dark chocolate on the market, my tastes have changed. Whether Bourneville has changed too I don’t know, but it just doesn’t appeal to me in the way it used to.
Part of the problem is the cocoa solids content. At 39%, it’s not what I’d class as dark chocolate these days. It’s more of a halfway house between milk and dark.
It’s also very, very sweet. Hardly surprising, given sugar is right at the top of the ingredients list. To me, it tastes a little like drinking chocolate or cocoa powder mixed with sugar and water. It’s not an offensive taste, but it’s slightly artificial and has none of the bitterness you’d expect from a good quality dark chocolate.
I think the wrapper for this bar says it all. Cadbury call it ‘plain chocolate’ rather than ‘dark’, and the back is mostly taken up by a recipe - as well as an advert for Stork margarine (I don’t know anyone who has bought Stork since the 1970s!). It appears Cadbury see this more as a cooking chocolate than an eating chocolate.
I’ve probably just grown out of Bournville. If you think of it as a kind of ‘beginners dark chocolate” then it works, but if you’re expecting a high quality, bittersweet experience, then this isn’t it.
Posted by Dom on 20 Apr 2007 at 12:04 PM
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April 21, 2007 : 5:14pm
off topic a little i thought i would ask who everyone’s fave choc manufactures is
A:Cadbury
B:Nestle
C:Masterfoods?
i have to say mine is nestle god bless nestle lol :P :) ;) :D
April 28, 2007 : 8:11pm
Everyone buys Stork margerine - I bought some today!!
May 2, 2007 : 6:05am
To be honest I hate chocolate, but when it comes to white chocolate it is a different story!
Very nice site :)
September 18, 2007 : 8:57pm
thats it!! it tastes exactly like drinking chocolate powder. Not that i resort to eating this. Not in company anyways.