@@timhannah4 doesn’t matter it’s still an English traditional. It always will be . Money can’t buy something that’s great but now bought by a different company.
Fun fact starburst was invented in the uk and was originally called opal fruits and was sold in strawberry, lemon and lime flavours. Double decker is nougat top and rice crispy and chocolate bottom.
The honeycomb you had the opportunity to buy that was like $25 for a tiny thing might have been *actual* honeycomb, like, from bees. I can't think of another reason for it being so expensive. The "honeycomb" in a crunchie is completely different, just solidified sugar foam. You might like one if you don't like the other!
Embarrassing a fully grown woman confused the filling in a crunchy bar with actual genuine honeycomb they're so damned different I don't understand how anyone could confuse the two.😂
I’ve watched quite a few of these kinds of video and finally an American who appreciates the beauty of the Double Decker! It has to be the most satisfying bar ever and I’ve often thought it is quite an American style bar. You might be able to find a British food store locally for ex pats to get your fix. ☺️
Double Decker is my favourite but they were even better when they first came out in the early 80’s I think. The top nougat was less chewy and melted in your mouth better. Still love them to this day.
All Cadbury chocolate in America is made by Hershey's under licence. The same applies to Nestle's Kit Kat which is why, in both cases, you do not get the range of choice. Hershey's went to court to stop the import of Cadbury chocolate, so in affect any Cadbury chocolate found in America that says made in the UK, or elsewhere, is illegal. The reason UK chocolate tastes richer is probably because, in America chocolate contains a minimum of 10% Cocoa solids, whereas in the UK the legal minimum is 20%
Yes but Cadbury changed their taste in the UK when it was taken over by the American company. It no longer has the same taste as before. Its very noticeable to old lovers of Cadbury but youngster wouldn't know.
@@vickytaylor9155 definitely not true! I always thought the same but just marketing. They told us at Cadbury World that dairy milk has always been made with powdered milk!
I Love a good rhubarb crumble / pie especially with custard or even cream, but apple pie / crumble is still my favourite personally and again with either custard or cream.
I am so happy to have a fellow double decker in the fridge fan. My family think I'm crazy as it's the only way to eat one .. in fact all my chocolate has to be in the fridge first lol
Same for the US mini eggs, not sure if it’s Hershey’s for them too. My wife, American, prefers the UK mini eggs. I think the only US sweet I’d miss in the UK is peanut butter m&ms, other than that the UK has the better sweets/candy.
I remember the first (and only) time I tried a Hershey’s bar: I was so disappointed. When I was a student my university campus had a shop that sold food and sweets from all over the world. They got some Hershey’s and I’d heard so much about it from American films and TV so I was itching to try some. It tasted of vomit; that’s the only word I can use to describe it. The aftertaste stayed with me for some time. I wondered if something was wrong with it so I got my Canadian friend to try some: he assured that it was fine and that that’s just what Hershey’s tastes like. He added that his experience was that most English people couldn’t stand it. Made me sad as I wanted to like it.
And me , I was expecting more 😮 very sickly and yeah smelt strange . The only thing I liked was the wrapper, foil paper and a outer sleeve . Like Cadbury used to be,
Trivia : The 4th Doctor Who, Tom Baker (the one with the long scarf and hat in the 1970-80s) always carried around a bag of Jelly Babies with him. Blackcurrants were banned in the USA in 1911 as they carried a plant disease that destroyed Pine trees. There are now disease free plant varieties and some fruit farms are slowly reintroducing these back to the USA. As well as Blackcurrants, there are Redcurrants and Whitecurrants as well with different tastes.
@@MillerWright-mb1ob It could be. I'm not old enough to remember the second doctor and the first time I saw the bag was with Tom Baker. Jon Pertwee never mentioned them. It would make sense that some of the previous doctor's quirks would pass onto later reincarnations.
One thing to appreciate, uk stuff prizes natural flavours over artificial. Artificial stuff just won’t sell here. Colours are the same, natural colours, make food mor appealing.
The white powder around the Jelly Babies is actually cornflour (corn starch) it is used as the mould in which to pour the liquid in before it dries, the sweetness you taste is the actual Jelly Baby flavour. BTW, Double Deckers are my favourite too!
The honeycomb in Crunchie is easy to make, but you have to be careful as it is like napalm when hot and can seriously burn if it gets on your skin. It is sugar melted in a saucepan, then you mix in bicarbonate of soda (baking soda for you Americans). It then foams up and you pour it out onto a lined baking sheet and let it go cold.
Love this vid, we get some American bits in the UK we love mike n ikes, reeses etc but everytime we've tried hersheys here we've all agreed it tastes like vomit. Really strange strong vomit flavour
You should try to get your hands on Galaxy Or Lindor Chocolate. So creamy and they come in different flavours. Yum, yum…..Try and get the old flake adverts on RU-vid from 1970’s they used *ex to sell them very provocative.
The middle of a Crunchie is an acquired taste, I personally don't like it but know other people love them. The advertising for this used the phrase 'thank crunchie it's Friday'. You hear this now in normal conversation when people are glad it is the end of the working week.
I love crunchies. You can buy bags of mini ones too. And you need to be introduced to peppermint Aero, which is a brand of chocolate with bubbles in it, and Maltesers.
Apparently the main difference between U.K. and America chocolate is in the U.K. we use whole fresh milk and in the U.S. you use heat treatment milk because it has to travel long distances between through various temperatures and fresh milk would be unstable. First time watching you guys, I really enjoyed watching you taste our sweets & chocolate. Thank you for sharing this.
Bounty is available in dark chocolate too, tastes even better ! The Bounty, Wispa, Crunchie and Double Decker are called Chocolate Bars in the U.K. and the other packet items you tried are called Sweets.
Loved those reactions. We're very lucky in the UK to have such good quality confectionary. Your Wispa bar looked rather flat, I'm sure it'd taste even better if it hadn't suffered in the heat. Though the Cadbury Dairy Milk Bar is good, I'm a big fan of the Galaxy Bar. The chocolate is even smoother than Cadburys and they have a chocolate bar called the Caramel Bar that's to die for. Interesting aside, the little dinosaur on the side of the Chewits pack was the result of a TV advertising campaign from the early 90's (I think...) It featured a Godzilla type monster destroying a city because he couldn't find anything chewy enough to satisfy his craving for something chewy. After sampling a number of buildings he's given a giant packet of Chewits. He is very pleased by their chewiness and wanders off into the sunset with his packet of sweets, or candies if you prefer. The tagline was "Chewits, chewier than a ten storey building".
I love English / European Chocolates as compared to American Chocolate, as they taste really good. English / European chocolates are way richer in terms of dairy richness and flavor of cocoa and very smooth. Regular Kit Kat is way way better than the American Kit Kat , which is Bland tasteless.
I'm English. Wispa is my favourite. I often send chocolate to my girlfriend in Texas (when the weather is cold enough to mail it) she loves Wispa best too along with Topic and Ripple.
The crunchie isn't make for bee honeycomb it's made with sugar golden syrup (corn syrup) and has bicarbonate of soda which makes it bubble up....you may know what cinder toffee is and that's what is in the Crunchie...there is nothing freeze dried in it...
Cadbury's are based in Birmingham England. The Cadbury Family were Quakers and were the first people outside of Switzerland to learn how to produce milk chocolate, it took them five years to do so. They were also famous for looking after their workers building houses, schools, libraries etc in the Bourneville area of Birmingham for them, but because they were Quakers no pubs. They are now owned by
@@kentldubz No, it is true. Literally all sweets/chocolate bars in the UK say "No artificial colours or flavours." They were banned years ago. As for US Cadbury products, they're made in the US by Hershey's. Hershey's do not want English chocolate in the US, as it tastes better and they'd lose too much revenue.
blackcurrants hardly grow in the USA, certainly not enough to be used commercially for products. in the UK we have drinks, sweets and other stuff with blackcurrant. Double decker n bounty are probably two of my favourites...but i don't have double decker very often anymore. crunchie are also really nice though
I've seen quite a lot of American reactions to British sweets and this is my favourite. I like your personalities and the fact that you didn't spend too long talking about each individual sweet. Cadburys is definitely English. I've been on a tour of their factory in Birmingham, England. I got a lot of free sweets but didn't see any Oompa Loompas. 😉
I''m from the west midlands, England. Where the Cadbury factory is, it was family owned business for years, but they did sell the business a few years ago to a German owned company. They must have sold it for a bomb! The German company have kept everything true to the original recipe and added some new cholate bars of their own, which don't seem to be as popular as the original bars
Hersheys put extra additives in their version of Cadbury, one of them being an enzyme found in vomit. Which is why it tastes so chemical and "cheap " 🙂
I feel your pain with the heat. I live in the Valley of the sun in Arizona. I have a cooler in my car to keep cold stuff when I go grocery shopping. I work nights & I do most of my shopping @ night after it cools off a little.
I live in England and if you can provide me with a po box or address to send to I can send you the other squashes flavours as well as some of your number 1 choices also 😀
Noooooo! Soft melty chocolate is the best. I wouldn’t even eat chocolate that’d been in the fridge. I won’t even get McFlurrys that have chocolate in 😅🤢
I love Double Deckers, along with Twirls they are my go to chocolate bar when I have a craving, Snickers comes in a strong third. We have so many lovely chocolate bars and jelly sweets in the UK we have a very sweet tooth or at least I do.
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It must be the bicarbonate of soda that makes em so addictive, that's why they use it to make crack ! Lol Personally I'm completely addicted ( to crunchie bars ) so I'm of to rehab with the crack heads
I'm sorry to tell you that America doesn't allow real British chocolate to be sold in America. Cadbury USA chocolate is nothing like as good as the real thing from the UK. If you visit the UK try the real thing. The difference will blow your mind.
I remember my visit to the US I was so excited to try a Hershey bar and was so disappointed. What I didn't realize at the time was the American chocolate manufacturing method is different and liberates small quantities of butyric acid the compound responsible for the taste and odour of vomit. As a result to Brits and Europeans American chocolate tastes faintly of puke Americans wont notice this because they are used to it but for me it was an unpleasant surprise.
I'd love to see your reaction to one of Scotland's best sweets, 'Lee's Macaroon Bar'. It's a white fondant centre, covered in chocolate, then sprinkled with toasted coconut. The twist in this tale is, the fondant centre contains actual mashed potato!! Yes! Mashed potato!!! 😲😲😲 Funny thing is, I'm a 61year-old Scot, so I've eaten many many macaroon bars in my time, but I've just found out what's in it!! I still love them though! 😋😋😋
@@ruthmaxwell60 When I first heard about the potato bit, I didn't believe it, but Google has loads of recipes to make your own macaroon bars, & they ALL contain mash!! 😲
We always keep chocolate in the fridge, l love Cadbury's Fruit and Nut. My problem is that once I've cracked a bar open, I cannot stop eating it until it's all gone, no willpower at all, so I have to ration myself to one bar a month!!😂😂😂🇬🇧
The reason you may not have tried blackcurrant before is because when they were first taken to America the plants were diseased, so America banned them from being grown anywhere in the whole country. Some states are now allowing them to be grown as you can now buy disease resistant plants, but they are still not very widespread in America. If you manage to find Ribena, it is delicious. It is a squash (cordial type drink that needs to be diluted with water) and tastes so blackcurranty.
Swizzels used to be a customer of mine and every time when I went to visit them in High Peak they gave me a bin bag (an actual bin bag) full of sweets! 😍😜 no I'm not diabetic yet! 😂🙈
Reason why Cadbury isn't sold in the us is because hersheys has the monopoly over there and the only way you get Cadbury is with hersheys themselves making it and using Cadbury brand which is why if you find Cadbury over there it tastes different. Also the reason why Cadbury tastes so much better /different dates back to world war 8 believe and hersheys would send chocolate in the rations packs and back then the milk they used had different fermentation and tasted off , after the war hersheys did use Normal milk but too many Americans had got used to so hersheys switched to adding butyrate acid into the milk which made it taste more like the old sour milk chocolate but without using gone off milk in their chocolate. This is why Americans like hersheys and the majority of the world hate it with so many people saying it tastes off or like vomit. Also, blackcurrants was ban in the us for more than a century and was only legalised in 2003. The Reason for the Ban was because growing blackcurrants spread a fungus that effected few different trees. The us ban blackcurrants and most of Europe just got rid of the trees.
My favourite British chocolate/candy bar is the (Topic) it’s a chocolate bar with caramel and nougat and whole hazelnuts inside! They’re only small though that’s the problem 😅 I do like the double decker too 👌
Chunky Kit Kat peanut butter flavour is delicious and if you like double deckers then you’ll love star bar and boost bar, the original squashie raspberry and milk are the best 😋 enjoyed your video so I’m going to have some chocolate lol might even be a double decker 😉
You both are going to have such a massive sugar rush after eating the Jelly Babies, made the mistake of letting my nephew have them while baby sitting, never again!
Hi enjoyed watching your tasting of our great British sweets. In the summer chocolate belongs in the fridge and it tastes so much better and yes Cadburys is English and the Company when it started up built houses etc for all their Emplyees.
Yes of course Cadbury is from England. Its from Bournville just outside Birmingham. nfortunately we are not allowed to sell Cadbury in the States. Hershey is the only supplier in US for their brand of Cadbury. Sorry blame your government and the FDA!
Cadbury is now owned by Kraft a American company based in Chicago. I'm surprised they have not bought Cadbury's to the American market as it is better chocolate. those Squashies are amazing its so easy to eat the whole bag especially if your just watching tv or Netflix ect.
Jelly babies and gingerbread men, are eaten head first. Them's the rules 😆. Oh and the inside of the crunchie, we call cinder toffee. Well we do where I'm from.
Nice to see you liking our sweets. Wait till you come over to UK and try fish and chips, roast dinners, sausage and mash, meat pies, sausage rolls, sticky toffee pudding, Eton Mess, 99 ice cream, oyster shells and cream teas.
The problem with the heat is..it changes the texture of some of the chocolate bars. This takes away one of the features of the bar which adds to the experience.
Jodie how dare you - Cadbury German? Its a UK institution with its HQ in Birmingham. If you come to UK book a factory tour, you'll love it, lots of tasters and even more freebies
You mentioned Cadbury creme eggs, but since Kraft bought it, they replaced the chocolate with really bad stuff. The generic dairy milk is also meandering towards Hershey’s. Luckily, Hershey’s can’t.legally be called chocolate here, so we have some protection.
@@sandybrand9882 It has! I remember the way dairy milk used to taste back in the 1990s. It had a stronger cocoa and dairy taste. Now it is more sugary with less flavour!
When I was a kid I had a job in a cash&carry. A sale's man gave all the staff to try a new chocolate bar. It was a whisper. It was bloody lovely. Nice.
terribly sorry but since Hershey (spit) flexed their corporate muscle and leaned on their friends in Congress we're not allowed to sell you genuine made in Bournville UK Cadbury chocolate anymore you can only purchase over the counter Hershey made versions of the real thing. If you want to buy through specialist shops Jelly Babies, Wine Gums or liquorice Allsorts you have to get the original brand which is Maynard Bassett other versions are not as good, the centre of the Crunchie bar is also known as Cinder Toffee. oh and BTW Blackcurrants have been banned in US since 1920s for agricultural reasons my personal belief is that is why Grape is such a big flavour over there
