Hershey block uk chocs

[Levo-Lon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31120182

that cant be right can it? My Mrs hates the us version of chocs ,creme eggs for starters.
One less reason to go State Side I guess.

protest eating fruit and nut as I type..

 

[ianrauk]

Heshey are just running scared as they know that once Yanks try Brit choccies they dump Hershey's.

 

[ianrauk]

no, not really Reg.. more like.......soap.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I'm not a great fan of Belgium chocolate as its too rich but hershey is pants

 

[mcshroom]

I'm willing to boycott Hershey's products in the UK. It wouldn't be a great hardship considering the few Hershey 'chocolates' I've tried in the past.

 

[Spinney]

protest eating fruit and nut as I type..

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3518456, member: 259"]I can't say I've ever tried Hershey's version of Cadbury's, but Reese's peanut butter cups are bloody gorgeous.[/QUOTE]

I once bought several bars of Hershey's chocolate from the American wares shop at Duxford air museum. After one bite from a bar, I discarded the remainder of the bar and gave the remaining bars to someone that I didn't like.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Hershey bar

 

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 3518456, member: 259"]I can't say I've ever tried Hershey's version of Cadbury's, but Reese's peanut butter cups are bloody gorgeous.[/QUOTE]


You are not wrong Morty.. they are the only things that Hershey's do get right.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I seem to recall that Hershey's stuff does indeed taste like it was delivered along the eponymous highway...

 

[ianrauk]

I don't eat chocolate. That's why I'm so thin and fit.

I eat choclate like it's going out of fashion.. that's why I am so thin not fat and fit

 

[swee'pea99]

There's a great bit in Bill Bryson's book about travelling in Europe where he describes his first encounter with non-American chocolate, in Belgium. Can't find the actual quote, and I'm sure he says it far more wittily than I can manage, but it's along the lines of 'I thought my whole head was going to explode with the flavour of it! I thought I'd been eating chocolate all my life, but I'd been wrong. This was chocolate!'

(I did do a bit of googling in search of the original, coming across quotes like:

• I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.

• I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

• I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called "Mr Ed", which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.

I must read him again...)

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I don't eat chocolate. That's why I'm so thin and fit.

Oh you were being serious ..................

 

[ianrauk]

There's a great bit in Bill Bryson's book about travelling in Europe where he describes his first encounter with non-American chocolate, in Belgium. Can't find the actual quote, and I'm sure he says it far more wittily than I can manage, but it's along the lines of 'I thought my whole head was going to explode with the flavour of it! I thought I'd been eating chocolate all my life, but I'd been wrong. This was chocolate!'

(I did do a bit of googling in search of the original, coming across quotes like:

• I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.

• I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

• I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called "Mr Ed", which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.

I must read him again...)

My favourite Bill Bryson Passage was when he describes the Dutch talking.

"Martha, what stirs in your leggings, are you moist?”
“No, but I tingle when I squirt!”
“Are you of assorted odours”
”Yes, of beans and sputum”
“And what of your pits, do they exude sweetness?”
“Truely”
“Shall I suckle them at eventide?”

It had me laughing like a Hyena on a beach in Greece.

 

[swee'pea99]

He really is a comic genius. Here he is on the Swiss-German language:

“You know you are entering the German-speaking part of Switzerland because all the towns have names like someone talking with his mouth full of bread: Thun, Leuk, Bülach, Plaffeien, Flims, Gstaad, Pläfflikon, Linthal, Thusis, Fluelin, Thalwil. …

It really is the most unattractive language for foodstuffs. If you want whipped cream on your coffee … you order it mit Schlag.
Now, does that sound like a frothy and delicious pick-me-up, or does that sound like the sort of thing smokers bring up first thing in the morning?”