- It banned imports of British-made Cadbury chocolate in 2015.
- British expats claim that Cadbury's chocolate in the US tastes nothing like its UK counterpart, but according to Hershey, there's barely any difference in ingredients.
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I'm British and can't stand American chocolate — and it's Hershey's fault
Hershey banned imports of Cadbury's British-made chocolate into the US in 2015, and Americans have been deprived of higher-quality chocolate ever since.
There's nothing that makes you feel more homesick as a Brit living in the US than when you're shopping for chocolate.
And it turns out that Hershey is to blame for this.
In 1988, Hershey for the US operations of the British candymaker Cadbury, which included Mounds, Almond Joy, and York Peppermint Patties, as well as Cadbury products such as Dairy Milk and Carmello. At the time, Cadbury used this as a way to enter the US market, which was dominated by Mars and Hershey.
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In 2015, Hershey took legal action to ban US imports of Cadbury products that had been manufactured in the UK. T
British version of Cadbury has a higher fat content, as its main ingredient is milk. In an American-made Cadbury bar, the first listed ingredient is sugar.
But according to Hershey, this is an incorrect interpretation of the bars' ingredients.
The Cadbury bars' contents appear to be different on each side of the pond because of different labeling standards in the EU and the US.
A Hershey spokesperson told Business Insider: "Our Cadbury Milk bars start with quality ingredients we get straight from the Cadbury plant in the British Isles. Our 'chocolate crumb' – the core mixture of chocolate, sugar and milk – are made at the Cadbury plant using the same amounts of milk, sugar and chocolate as the UK version. In fact, it's the same milk sourced by Cadbury from cows in Europe. We add cocoa butter and mould the milk chocolate into bars for sale in the United States."
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The only difference is the amount of cocoa used in each bar. The US
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