Cadbury facts

[Neil H]

Plotloss said:

500 million eggs, a third of which are exported.

That means the British people consume nearly 1,000,000 Cadburys Creme eggs a day, every day.

That's fking madness!

I thought they only made Creme Eggs for Easter anyway? Do they do them all year round now?

[JB!]

mmmm. creme eggs.

[Arese]

Plotloss said:

That means the British people consume nearly 1,000,000 Cadburys Creme eggs a day, every day.

I don't think I believe that. 1 in 50 people eat a Creme egg each day?

I've just shouted out in our open plan office (300 people) and nobody has had one this week.

Edited by Arese on Friday 20th August 13:04

[the-gofer]

Plotloss said:

500 million eggs, a third of which are exported.

That means the British people consume nearly 1,000,000 Cadburys Creme eggs a day, every day.

That's fking madness!

Depends how you think of it. Assuming the population of the UK is 70m that means (on average) only 1 in 70 people each day eats a Creme egg - doesn't sound that high to me.

The trouble with interpretation of bulletins like this is people look at big figures and think of the absolutes - you have to think in relative terms.

Statistical mis-representation can be great fun:
In la-la-land:
Crime rate in year 1 is 0.1% per capita
Crime rate in year 2 is 0.2% per capita
Newspaper A states "100% increase in crime rate, leave the country, turn the lights out, calamity calamity, think of the children".
Newspaper B states "Crime rate increases by 0.1%".

It depends what you're measuring against...

[badgers_back]

emicen said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I worked with a woman who admitted she could eat 1 Kg of Dairy Milk in a sitting.

Dairy Milk

only 5250 Calories

if she did that every other day and didn't eat anything else not a problem

[SeeFive]

illmonkey said:

DaveL485 said:

If all the Boost bars sold each year were placed end to end, it would take Michael Schumacher two and a half days to drive his Formula 1 car flat out from one end to the other.

That's if he finishes.

[fanboy mode] pffft! Lewis would do it in a day in the McLaren, and without pushing anyone into the wall[/fanboy mode]

[allgonepetetong]

DaveL485 said:

Enough Cadbury’s dairy Milk chocolate is sold each year to cover all 92 premier and nationwide league football pitches five times over.

To a depth of what? 1 micron, 1 centimeter, a meter what?

rubbish statistic

I'm taking this a bit too seriously, sorry.

[MaximumJed]

allgonepetetong said:

DaveL485 said:

Enough Cadbury’s dairy Milk chocolate is sold each year to cover all 92 premier and nationwide league football pitches five times over.

To a depth of what? 1 micron, 1 centimeter, a meter what?

rubbish statistic

I'm taking this a bit too seriously, sorry.

Five times the depth of one bar I should think

[working class]

Another cadbury fact, I live 3.8 miles from the factory

[RV8]

cal72 said:

Thank crunchie it's friday.

I love polar bears, if that polar bear stuck it's head through my window I'd grab it's chops either side and go wubawubawuba.

[Matt Black]

RV8 said:

cal72 said:

Thank crunchie it's friday.

I love polar bears, if that polar bear stuck it's head through my window I'd grab it's chops either side and go wubawubawuba.

A pound says you wouldn't!

[sleep envy]

Plotloss said:

500 million eggs, a third of which are exported.

That means the British people consume nearly 1,000,000 Cadburys Creme eggs a day, every day.

That's fking madness!

blame McD's for that

[sleep envy]

DaveL485 said:

If all the Boost bars sold each year were placed end to end, it would take Michael Schumacher two and a half days to drive his Formula 1 car flat out from one end to the other.

if he was in a half decent car, how much faster could he cover the distance?

[Neil H]

Matt Black said:

RV8 said:

cal72 said:

Thank crunchie it's friday.

I love polar bears, if that polar bear stuck it's head through my window I'd grab it's chops either side and go wubawubawuba.

A pound says you wouldn't!

I reckon he would, as the bear would be eating his face.

[Morningside]

snotrag said:

Neil H said:

DaveL485 said:

The amount of milk used in a year’s production of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate would fill nearly 14.4 Olympic size swimming pools.

That doesn't sound very much to me, given that they make 250m bars a year.

Do the maths. A glass and a half in every kilo, isnt it?

Would need to make some assumptions on which standard size 'bar' they are referring to, and the size of the glass. Volume of Olympic swimming pool can be obtained presumably.

Thats annoyed me as well. What standard is this glass? 500ml? A Quart? Quart?

[RV8]

Damnit, I thought they preferred Caburys cream eggs.

[SeeFive]

Neil H said:

Matt Black said:

RV8 said:

cal72 said:

Thank crunchie it's friday.

I love polar bears, if that polar bear stuck it's head through my window I'd grab it's chops either side and go wubawubawuba.

A pound says you wouldn't!

I reckon he would, as the bear would be eating his face.

Surely the PB is after the Fox's Glacier Mints? If I am not mistaken, according to the frequently repeated 30 second documentary that was shown between longer, 30 minute or more ITV programmes, that is all they eat.

[Piersman2]

MaximumJed said:

allgonepetetong said:

DaveL485 said:

Enough Cadbury’s dairy Milk chocolate is sold each year to cover all 92 premier and nationwide league football pitches five times over.

To a depth of what? 1 micron, 1 centimeter, a meter what?

rubbish statistic

I'm taking this a bit too seriously, sorry.

Five times the depth of one bar I should think

I'm with pete tong here, my immediate question when seeing this stat was to question to what depth.

They don't state that it's in bar shape and could equally apply to the chocolate being poured over the grass.... but to what depth???

We demand answers!

[DaveL485]

Piersman2 said:

MaximumJed said:

allgonepetetong said:

DaveL485 said:

Enough Cadbury’s dairy Milk chocolate is sold each year to cover all 92 premier and nationwide league football pitches five times over.

To a depth of what? 1 micron, 1 centimeter, a meter what?

rubbish statistic

I'm taking this a bit too seriously, sorry.

Five times the depth of one bar I should think

I'm with pete tong here, my immediate question when seeing this stat was to question to what depth.

They don't state that it's in bar shape and could equally apply to the chocolate being poured over the grass.... but to what depth???

We demand answers!

I believe it applies to placing an unwrapped bar right in the very very corner of the pitch. Lay another right up to it, then again and again until you have, effectively, paved the pitch with dairy milk bars.
Repeat for five layers, and then repeat the five layers another 91 pitches. Alternatively lay 460 layers on one pitch.

[DaveL485]

Landlord said:

They're grotesque statistics when you think about it.

Also, why are some numbers written and then explained "2 million (2,000,000)" but others not? This kind of slackness annoys me. Could you let the author of the bulleting know? Ta.

And, as JAYB said, kick the fk out of the person who say "lays" WRT Créme Eggs.

Said author has been chastised. In fact I did it before I posted, knowing the spelling and grammar police would be speeding up the ringpiece of PH as soon as I hit 'submit'