Whoopsie

[Griff]

No go not real.


24 hour news is often make believe.

[Clodfobble]

The first apology was solid. The vocal delivery of the second was bullshit. "There are no... formal... designations of no-go zones... There are areas of high crime, just as there are in America..."

Translation, "you know how we have to call black neighborhoods 'high crime,' nudge-nudge-wink-wink?"

[xoxoxoBruce]

To even call it an apology is bullshit. It's back pedaling from their normal outrageous distortions, because of business pressures. They couldn't care less about truth.

Oh wait, this just in, we retract that retraction. We were forced to do it because a negro Muslim made the producer's office a no-go zone, threatening to cut his head off.

[infinite monkey]

wtf is wrong with her face?

[Griff]

Looks like nerve damage from all the work she had done.

[Sundae]

Speaking as one of the "people of Britain or France" I can say I was not offended in the slightest. I just sniggered. A whole city is a no-go area? And because of a religion?

Even The Troubles only made neighbourhoods no-go areas.
And the last I remember they were based on different flavours of Christianity.

I'll tell you what, we're FAR more offended about what the nasty new owners (American, but that's incidental) are doing to Cadbury's Creme Eggs.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Sundae

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I'll tell you what, we're FAR more offended about what the nasty new owners (American, but that's incidental) are doing to Cadbury's Creme Eggs.

It's a fucking outrage!

It's been headline news ffs.

[monster]

Oh Noes, what are they doing to creme eggs? We can finally get them most places here.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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[Carruthers]

This has the potential for being the worst Anglo-American disagreement since that unfortunate business in 1776.

Hershey's has blocked British-made Cadbury chocolate from entering the US.

The chocolate company struck up a deal with Let's Buy British Imports to stop imports of Cadbury products made overseas, reports Tatiana Schlossberg at The New York Times.

The company will also stop importing British Kit Kat bars, Toffee Crisps, and Yorkie chocolate bars.

Fans of chocolate manufactured in Britain say it tastes better than American-made chocolate.

A Hershey's representative told The New York Times that the company has the rights to manufacture Cadbury chocolate in America using different recipes, and that importing British chocolate is an infringement.

The New York Times broke down the major differences between the kinds of chocolates.

"Chocolate in Britain has a higher fat content; the first ingredient listed on a British Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (plain milk chocolate) is milk," Schlossberg writes. "In an American-made Cadbury’s bar, the first ingredient is sugar."

The American version also contains preservatives.

Furious Cadbury fans have started the hashtag #boycotthershey.

Andrew Baker at The Telegraph speculated that Hershey's is afraid of Cadbury chocolate.

"It will seem more likely to anyone who has ever tasted Hershey's own-brand products, and its approximations of Cadbury's, that they are instead preventing consumers from buying products which taste much better than Hershey's own," Baker writes.

Hershey/Cadbury

[xoxoxoBruce]

Cadbury sold, and Hershey bought, for what I would speculate to be a very big pile of filthy lucre, the rights to Cadbury brands in the USA. Whether it was moral is personal opinion, but it was legal.

Now LLB Imports of New Jersey, brings in Cadbury products in direct violation of the Hershey/Cadbury agreement.
What's a corporation to do? on the bastards, that's what.

So people are upset? Cadbury doesn't care, they have their pile of filthy lucre. Hershey doesn't care, they have it, take it or... take it.
The web whiners can piss and moan till the chocolate cows come home, but the power of corporate interests and the politicians/judges they've bought, shall not perish from the Earth.

[Clodfobble]

What Hershey has is the right to sell Cadbury-branded chocolate in the US, right? So they could still import chocolate under any other brand name, right?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, as long as the name and packaging didn't conflict with Hershey's rights. Getting Cadbury to produce them would be a problem, and if they got someone else to produce them they wouldn't be Cadbury's and couldn't use Cadbury names/labels. If that were the case and they wouldn't have stepped on Hershey's toes to begin with.

[Lamplighter]

It seems to me Hersheys may be getting an undeserved bad rap here.

Kraft is the corporation that has had the 5 yr fight for hostile takeover of Cadbury,
and just recently (1/15) succeeded in a buyout for $19+ billion.

Many years (1980's ?) earlier, Hershey had purchased the U.S. marketing rights from Cadbury.

The Kraft deal did not change the Hershey situation.

Now (Jan 2015) it is Kraft that has announced the changes in sourcing
and ingredients (powedered milk) of the chocolate for the Cadbury easter egg
AND the reduction in the number of eggs/package from 6 to 5.

At least that's the way I understand the situation here
in the US from this article and other I have read.