You 'Krafty' lot...

Tut, tut, fancy trying to buy Cadbury for £10 billion!!! You 'Krafty' lot obviously don't realize how much we love our chocolate here in the UK.

But is chocolate that bad elsewhere in the world that they have to nick our manufacturers business? Tell us what you're chocolate is like members, and then just maybe we will understand.

What is all this about Ron, you mean Kraft foods trying to buy out Cadabury I take it?...havent' really read up much on this as yet. I know an local candy store up the highway is and has been fror sale for an couple of years now...make an great "new" local Boy Scout camp as "new" housing is trying to push them out and off "Scoutters Mountain". This is an service organization for kids, not an big money operation of land developers, so they aren't lookig to survive in years ahead without some help. Maybe they could run the candy making to pay their taxes every year. I think the best chocolate we have around here is See's Candy..but its local I think also, Cadabury they sell at World Market though...it's "ok" by me. Kraft foods, I think of cheese, not chocolate....Hershey' s I think of chocolate though. Fill me in better on it all...in what your meaning.

Yeah, Kraft is trying to buy Cadbury Shirley. I also think of cheese if the name Kraft is mentioned, maybe they should stick to what they know best eh?

Kraft had been trying to make a hostile takeover bid for some time now, continually rejectyed by Cadbury's. Last I heard, Hersheys--who I think are licened to make a variation of Cadbury's in the US; and Cadbury's aren't allowed to call their chocolate, chocolate in the US thanks to the FDA--might be making a more acceptable takeover bid. But it does wonder why Kraft Foods are so keen on Cadbury's as they clearly are, and Cadbury's have so far been equally keen they aren't goung to get the company. Where will it end?

I think there's one ingredient in Cadbury's that the FDA considers does not consitute chocolate, hence the word is left off the packaging.

Hi Paul..good to see you here. I had an question I was thinkig to ask you about history...been some time ago. I was thinking it dealt with when the templar knights left England for America..if you knew where I could get ahold of some of that information...or else an particular name...I'll think on it again.  Merry Chirstmas by the way....hope things are going well for you.

Keep your hands off my favourite chocolate Kraft!

I studied at Bournville School of Art for 2 years - every morning I would get off the train at Bournville station and cut through the grounds of the chocolate factory to get to college. I used to stop and smell the chocolate at every vent and then buy some for breakfast from the little shop in the village! Cadburys is part of true British heritage, Bournville is a very special place in the middle of a sprawling mass of Birmingham suburbs. The factory site is lovely - there are little walks around it as well as areas for recreation. Bournville itself is a very pretty village - looks very alien next to the surrounding towns of Selly Oak and Northfield. There are no pubs - as the Cadburys were Quakers no pubs were allowed. As students we used to have to travel to get to a pub! I do hope all of this does not get ruined.