Cadbury facts

[DaveL485]

Totally unimportant, useless, but mildly entertaining factoids about Cadbury Chocolate stolen from one of our bulletins.

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

250 million (250,000,000) bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk are produced every year.

Over 1 million Cadbury’s Crunchie bars are produced every day at a rate of 1,200 bars per minute

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.

Cadbury lays 66,000 Cadbury’s Crème Eggs every hour and 1.5 million a day.

Over 500 million Crème Eggs are made in a year, one third of which are sold overseas.

More than 160 million (160,000,000) Cadbury’s Crème Eggs are sold in the UK between January and Easter – if they were stacked on top of one another, they would be over 900 times as high as Mount Everest.

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.

It takes over 60,000 tonnes of cocoa beans to make a years supply of chocolate; enough to fill the Albert Hall twelve times over.

Edited by DaveL485 on Friday 20th August 11:19

[DaveL485]

Justayellowbadge said:

DaveL485 said:

Cadbury lays 66,000 Cadbury’s Crème Eggs every hour and 1.5 million a day.

I want to kill you.

Thankyou. I would also like to kill you too

[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'

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NoNeed said:

working class said:

Another cadbury fact, I live 3.8 miles from the factory

I live 4.9 miles away


But I work 500 yards away from the massive warehouse in minworth

Hozelock? I served 4 years @ Minworth before moving to BV. 80 thousand pallet capacity!

Grey Ghost said:

DaveL485 said:

Wrote some trival stuff about Cadbury's chocolate from their marketing department

Can anyone at Cadbury's explain why the taste has changed since those bloody Yanks bought the firm

Don't be ridiculous of course it hasnt, you're making it up.
The stock you are eating now thats 'changed' would have been made WAY before the takeover. We're currently months into production for next easter!

DBSV8 said:

you should try a Russian cadburys bar ...vile like a Hershey bar , no resemblance to Uk Cadbury at all !!

having said that in Russia you can still get Kingsize Snickers / Mars not those crap Duos

Regional recipe's change. Irish CDM tastes different to UK CDM, and Australian CDM is different to USA CDM. Hotter climates, for example, would demand a waxier chocolate to prevent it melting in ambient temperatures.
I send UK stuff to mates in the USA on occasion cos it's far tastier that the chocolate they get over there.