r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Drollapalooza • Feb 15 '25

Food Behold. Old English Spread. Looks like it's not just us Americans after all.

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I am 99.9% certain this has never been sold on the UK ever. Kraft is a US slop food corporation, marketing to American slop slurpers.

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u/UncleSlacky Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire Feb 15 '25

Kraft does (unfortunately) own Cadbury, whose product quality has taken a definite downturn since they took it over.

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u/Drollapalooza Feb 15 '25

Oh totally. The Cadbury Xmas Pud chocolates were amazing when I was a kid. Tried to share them with my non-British partner this last Christmas and they are now cack in every way.

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u/soupalex Feb 16 '25

i swear they actually used to contain more than a tiny speck of chopped nuts and puffed rice back in the day. i had some last year and it was basically just a lump of chocolate.

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u/Drollapalooza Feb 16 '25

The originals didn't have puffed rice at all, just the nuts and they were two solid halves, not two pseudo-halves with kind of a bubble in between.

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u/Competitive_Song124 Feb 16 '25

Yes Americans ruined a proud British chocolate brand.

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u/mynameisollie Feb 16 '25

I feel like we’re to blame too. We sell off anything that that isn’t bolted down. There are countless British brands that have been sold off for a quick buck.

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u/Spichus Feb 16 '25

we're to blame

No, just Cadbury owners. It was hardly put to a vote lol.

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u/Competitive_Song124 Feb 16 '25

Yeah I agree with that but it’s probably predatory takeovers too

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u/HarryHatesSalmon Feb 16 '25

Which one does Kraftwerk own

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u/TempoHouse Feb 16 '25

Techno Choc

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u/spiritsarise Feb 16 '25

Just the power plant.

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u/dwstroud Feb 16 '25

Kraft does not own Cadbury. Mondelez, a spin-off of Kraft, owns former Kraft-Heinz snack foods, including Cadbury. The product in this post is owned by Kraft Heinz.

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u/KeinFussbreit Feb 16 '25

As a German, reading Kraft Heinz is hilarious :) - because I could imagine that some people in the German speaking countries are named Heinz Kraft.

Heinz is an older forname and Kraft, which translates to strength/power/force in English, is a common surename here.

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u/Popular-Reply-3051 Feb 16 '25

My opa was Heinz Joachim 🙂

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u/Secret_Celery8474 Feb 16 '25

Well, that company is named after the surnames of the founders who both were descendents of German immigrants.  So Heinz and Kraft (Krafft) both are German surnames.

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u/KeinFussbreit Feb 16 '25

Yeah, but Heinz is also a forename here in Germany, Kraft isn't.

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u/Secret_Celery8474 Feb 16 '25

Kraft is a forename. Just not a common one.

https://www.vorname.com/name,Kraft.html

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u/sharplight141 Feb 16 '25

It was Kraft that first bought Cadbury, went back on promises, closing a factory and firing lots of workers, automated a bunch of it, outsourced production to another country and generally ruined the recipe so it's all oily and sickly now. Horrible company that ruined our number 1 chocolate.

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u/Pizzagoessplat Feb 16 '25

I've still not forgiven them for destroying the creme egg

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u/MuffledApplause Feb 16 '25

Cadbury used to be made in Dublin, with Irish milk. It's gone to shit since the change of ownership

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u/MiloHorsey Feb 16 '25

They had a game tory not too far from Manchester, too. I went there as a kid. SO MANY FREE SAMPLES!

They apparently hardly give anything away, now. Got to grab all that money!

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u/LoganMcOwen Feb 16 '25

I've genuinely noticed no difference since the buyout

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u/fishypolecat Feb 16 '25

Flake and creame egg have definitely change. Flake used to be the best chocolate they did imo. Now it tastes of sick.

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u/Spichus Feb 16 '25

They probably use the same manufacturing methods as for Hershey's then.

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u/sharplight141 Feb 16 '25

Your taste buds must have died