Sweets or chocolate

[AnnieS]

@Percy_Vere

Anyone asking for a skinny cappuccino or even one made with semi-skimmed milk wants their heads looking at in my opinion simply because you need the full fat content in the milk to make a decent head of foam.

nooo it’s the opposite with a latteo milk frother. skim milk is better for bubbles

[Harbal]

@JBR

So they “have always used vegetable fats and palm oil”.
OK, can they confirm that they don’t use a great deal more than when it was real chocolate?

I bought a 4 pack of Cadbury Dairy Milk bars two weeks ago. I have eaten I piece from one bar, and haven’t been even slightly tempted to eat another. On the pack it says, “Made under licence from Cadbury UK Ltd.”. I don’t know what exactly that means, or if it is significant, but I would have expected it to simply say, made by Cadbury, if it was made by Cadbury.

[AnnieS]

@JBR

I’m afraid that Cadbury’s isn’t Cadbury’s any more since it was taken over by an American company.

yes that was a tragedy.

[Bruce]

You’ll be pleased to know that all Cadbury’s products are Halal. If they use gelatin it is derived from beef.

Good news eh?

[AnnieS]

@Bruce

You’ll be pleased to know that all Cadbury’s products are Halal. If they use gelatin it is derived from beef.

Good news eh?

thanks Bruce, I will sleep better tonight

[Percy_Vere]

@AnnieS

skim milk is better for bubbles

Professional baristas in Italy only use full fat milk (unless specifically asked not to by the customer) simply because the fat holds the bubbles in the foam together for much, much longer (longer lasting foam head) than they would if semi- or skimmed-milk were to be used. I based my answer above (post 65) on my 14 years experience of visiting many coffee bars when we lived near Rome. (Likewise with cocoa powder, in Italy you have to ask for it to be sprinkled on in most bars.)

[Harbal]

@Percy_Vere

Likewise with cocoa powder, in Italy you have to ask for it to be sprinkled on in most bars

I don’t see how they can make you ask for it, especially if you don’t want it.

[Percy_Vere]

If you want it sprinkled on, you have to ask for it to be sprinkled on. Sorry I didn’t make that clear enough for you.

[Harbal]

@Percy_Vere

Sorry I didn’t make that clear enough for you.

You did make it clear enough, actually, I was just being me.

[AnnieS]

@Percy_Vere

Professional baristas in Italy only use full fat milk (unless specifically asked not to by the customer) simply because the fat holds the bubbles in the foam together for much, much longer (longer lasting foam head) than they would if semi- or skimmed-milk were to be used. I based my answer above (post 65) on my 14 years experience of visiting many coffee bars when we lived near Rome. (Likewise with cocoa powder, in Italy you have to ask for it to be sprinkled on in most bars.)

Living in Rome must have been fabulous. The coffee preparation in Italy is probably the best in the world. It’s an art form for them.

[Percy_Vere]

@AnnieS

Living in Rome must have been fabulous.

It was for the first year or two then it was just like living in England but with better weather.

[Bruce]

@Percy_Vere

then it was just like living in England but with better weather.

Then why on earth did you leave? Just curious.

[logan1]

We have the chocolates that’s called celebrations heroes and roses. They’re small chocolate so we have one every day. If I eat more than that I know that I will put on weight.

[LionQueen]

Thats disipline for you, good on you…we are lucky, I can discipline myself too where chocolate is concerned./…well, most times anyway lol

[Percy_Vere]

@Bruce

@Percy_Vere

then it was just like living in England but with better weather.

Then why on earth did you leave? Just curious.

Aged parents for one thing, bureaucratic madness another, more interesting job offer a third.

[Harbal]

3-year-old's priceless response after mom "ate all his candy"

[Muddy]

@Artangel

I worked with a woman once and she used to eat three Mars Bars, one after the other. I couldn’t eat one at once, only about half as they are too sweet.

Yuk!
Very very occasionally maybe once in a year or too I will sucomb to a mars bar . Usually when I’m out shopping feel weak and need a sugar hit . ( going to B and Q with Mr M is one such occasion as he ponders over nails and fixings)
As soon as I have eaten it I wish I hadn’t .

[Surfermom]

@OldGreyFox

Very rarely eat sweets or chocolate, unless the chocolate is on a biscuit or mini roll.
Mars bars are nice to take on my long walks.

There is a little known secret that Mars sells a very high-quality line of hand-dipped chocolates and truffles called Ethel M, named after Mars’s wife. They are heavenly: https://www.ethelm.com

[Bruce]

@Artangel

I worked with a woman once and she used to eat three Mars Bars, one after the other. I couldn’t eat one at once, only about half as they are too sweet.

Not really about chocs or lollies but I used to work with a bloke who would order, every day, for his morning tea, two hamburgers with the lot and, to bring a sense of moderation to the event, accompanied it with a diet coke.

[Surfermom]

Harbal, that video is one of my favorites, As cute and expressive as this little guy is, I like the parents most of all because they are clearly rearing him exceptionally well.

If someone took my Ethel M dark chocolate lemon creams, I don’t think I would be as forgiving, and that’s got nothing to do with my parents