Cadbury Dairy Milk Top Deck
I am, it seems, officially stupid. Either that or blind.
There I was, standing at the bus stop 100 yards from my front door. Out of chocolate and needed to go and find some review material. I idly stared into the window of the South African butchers shop next to the bus stop. My eyes flicked across all the weird and wonderful meats hanging up, and there it was. The South African butchers shop has a South African chocolate shelf!
Needless to say, I immediately went in and bought everything they had.
So what is Dairy Milk Top Deck? Simple. It’s a bar of Dairy Milk with the top half of each “chunk” (or ‘Sticky Uppy Bit’ to give it its technical name) made out of white chocolate.
It looks a bit odd, and frankly it is a bit odd. I’m not sure who came up with this idea, but I can imagine a board meeting where some bright spark suggested “Let’s make Dairy Milk even sweeter!”. Because that’s pretty much all the white chocolate ads.
The interesting thing for me is that when eaten separately, the white chocolate isn’t as creamy as Cadbury Dream - Cabdury’s British white chocolate offering. And the Dairy Milk has a distinctive but subtle cocoa flavour which I don’t get from the UK version. I wouldn’t say it’s better or worse than the Cadbury chocolate I’m used to - just noticeably different.
So while this is an interesting novelty for a Brit, it’s not something I’d want to buy regularly. I’m sure there are kids who would love it, but it’s just too sweet for my taste. And at £2.25 for this imported 100g bar, I don’t think I’ll be buying more in a hurry.
Posted by Dom | 04-25-2008 | 10:04 AM in Reviews | Leave a comment
April 25, 2008 @ 2:26pm
I remember when these were available in England, and I have to say I was a little disappointed when I tried it then. I’m not big on putting different types of chocolate together anyway, and it just all seemed to blur into one, getting - as you said - too sweet!
April 25, 2008 @ 5:53pm
Crikey, isn’t this available in England? It’s been freely available in Australia for years now. They also have a triple version with dark chocolate in it which is a guilty pleasure.
April 25, 2008 @ 6:55pm
Actually as a CHOCOHOLIC who prefers milk and white chocolate to dark, I must confess that this chocolate bar is rather divine. Granted it is SWEET, but you only need a little to achieve satisfaction.
April 25, 2008 @ 11:09pm
Dairy milk outside of the UK is always different.
American one is way too sugary, taste of sick, made by hersheys
South American one is just flavourless, made in Argentina and distributed throughout.
Why cant they just make it like we do! I dont get it!
April 26, 2008 @ 12:51pm
Wow I literally picked up this bar the other day too and was thinking of reviewing it this evening on Chocolate Mission. I best leave it a days now - im sure everyone will be too ‘Top Decked’ out if I do it too.
If anyones intrested in getting hold of South African/Aussie/New Zealan Cadburys bars there a few good sites out there…alternatively you could always enter the competition thats being run on Chocolate Mission at the minute.
http://chocolatemission.blogspot.com/2008/04/april-23rd-competition-time.html
April 28, 2008 @ 9:31am
Oliver: I guess the difference is partly down to sourcing ingredients from different places - that can make a huge difference to the taste of chocolate. I’ve no idea if the Dairy Milk “recipe” is the same worldwide.
April 28, 2008 @ 5:21pm
One would think that Cadbury’s would have some pride in a universal tasting product. Imagine if Herhsey’s produced Lindt with their own American definition of “chocolate”..
May 3, 2008 @ 5:42pm
ACTUALLY, this chocolate is - and has been since I can remember and I’m 23 - available here in Australia. I’ve loved it since I can remember.
May 6, 2008 @ 9:58pm
i remember when this was around in england and i loved it
it reminds me of the marble a bit aswell
bring back the marble