a question for our British colleagues

Do people not know that Cadbury's in the UK have had to recall millions of chocolate bars, including Turkish delight, because of salmonella contamination?

UK blames Cadbury for salmonella outbreak

Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:12 PM BST137

LONDON (Reuters) - The Health Protection Agency said on Friday that the consumption of products made by sweets and soft drinks firm Cadbury Schweppes was the key reason for a recent outbreak of salmonella.

"After carefully considering all the available evidence the (outbreak control team) concluded that consumption of products made by Cadbury Schweppes was the most credible explanation for the outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo," the agency said.

Cadbury said on June 23 it had recalled more than 1 million chocolate bars in the UK and Irish markets as a precautionary move because they could contain minute traces of salmonella.

The company said at the time it had identified the source of the problem and rectified it and was taking steps to ensure these products were no longer available for sale.

At 3:05 p.m., shares in Cadbury were down 1.3 percent at 517 pence at a time when the FTSE 100 index was 0.9 percent lower.

It's a gelled confection often flavoured with rosewater (sometimes mint or citrus)

dunno about that.

Bye. Jasen

Turkish Delight.

Yes, I find I get hooked on the stuff in real life too.. maybe there's more to that white powder it's rolled in than meets the eye.

There is something better than turkish_delight, it's turkish (or greeks) halva:

You have to try once the halva made by sesame seed with natural sugar inside.

greetings, Vasile

Yes, that was mentioned in another thread. And I pointed out that chocolate is an antibacterial, so one must conclude that Cadbury doesn't use much of it.

John

Eh, you aren't missing much on the poisoned ones. They have that bitter, metallic taste from the rat poison.

The writers and characters of these books come from a thin, stratified layer of British society. If a plot device requires some food poisoned, then no right minded gentleman/lady would be seen to have common chocolate or boiled sweets within the household, hence the Turkish Delight. Similarly, a poisoned drink would need to be "a good claret" and even a lowly sandwich would require Cucumber in it somewhere. john

"There were no cucumbers in the market, even for ready money."

-- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)

That'd be the neeps?

-- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)

Spot on!!.

Great stuff, thanks.

John,

a rabid cucumber hater