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.
August 8, 2008 : 3:17pm
I love Bournville like anything . It gives me a pleasure.But i hardly find it in India.I live in mumbai.please have them available here.Or at my address.Let me know if you can via email i ll forward my address.
August 8, 2008 : 3:17pm
Yummyyyyyyyyyyyyy
September 8, 2008 : 10:39am
Please be sure that Bournville again become available in the local stores of Kolkata. It will be more cool if with an added bitterness and less sweetness.
February 12, 2009 : 7:40pm
I bought two bars of Bourneville chocolate today and it is the best chocolate on earth. The taste is perfect whereas Cadbury’s milk chocolate is imperfect.