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General / Re: can someone identify this chocolate bar?
« on: November 04, 2013, 03:42:45 pm »
Unfortunately stopping the mass distribution of these bars has proven difficult when it's seemingly not just one source. Trading Standards may remove the chocolate and fine stores, but judging by media reports, the source simply sell to another store, or go it alone via their favourite distribution centre, ebay.

Your assumption that I have not questioned the safety of these bars and that no one been informed from the very start is a poor one, so judging by your arrogance in general I have to agree in that I am sure someone out there is more helpful regarding chocolate. A bad day at work no doubt.

You could have actually helped and lowered the amount of spam in these forums by posting your last sentence as your initial reply, but thanks anyway x

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General / Re: can someone identify this chocolate bar?
« on: November 02, 2013, 05:49:33 pm »
.. you seem to be a little confused :o I am afraid before they hit the news, no one knew anything about these bars. From late last year onwards, they have been made and sold in large quantities online and all over the uk, and even on the high street. I bought the bars, both labelled as 'wonka', before I knew anything about them. I am the one questioning where the chocolate content inside these bars might come from. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22134617

I bought the first bar. No barcode and incorrect labelling and dating on the wonka wrapping on the back (after purchase), was obviously suspect. I then decided to buy one further bar (from another source-online) to compare and to see if they would match. They did not. Different chocolate inside both, slightly different information shown on the back of the wrapper in comparison. This hinted towards the idea that people are just printing out wrappers and putting cheap chocolate inside, to sell at a high price. I then read and saw the media reports on these bars, which also believe that to be true. The wonka labels can even be found online to print if you use google. One bbc tv documentary mentioned them as being either rewrapped cheap chocolate or imported 'home-made' chocolate made from suspect sources, in unknown hygienic conditions, produced on a mass scale. 

I thought there would be more people knowing what bar the chocolate from the wonka one above might truly belong to in here, if it was just rewrapped cheap supermarket chocolate. Upon inspection this would seem to be a chocolate forum (ignoring the amount of forum spam). As a chocolate forum, most would assume it to therefore be the home to more chocolate fans that would have a higher likelyhood of purchasing from multiple sources, and therefore be more likely to know the answer, but thanks anyway.

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General / Re: can someone identify this chocolate bar?
« on: November 02, 2013, 12:58:33 am »
Sorry for the late reply. yes, its one of those dodgy wonka bars. They are being sold on the high street and on the bay, and I didn't realize they were all unofficial until after purchasing (supposedly only nestle are allowed to make them). I knew they would be just cheap chocolate rewrapped, I had no problem with that, but after watching a program on tv telling me to avoid them completely for hygiene reasons, and the fact that they may be home made or very low quality chocolate sold at a high price to con the public,  I just had to try and find out if the bar above was from a true brand or not. You can tell the wonkas I have are not right when you notice the best before date on the silver foil does not match the date on the back of the wrapper.

The chocolate inside is not always the same either (i bought online and high st to compare). Sometimes its the star lidl-like bar inside, other times its the lined one above. The generic lined mold and very flakey chocolate heavily suggests a home-made job made in questionable conditions, but theres still a chance it may just be an unknown to me european cheap ass chocolate. I have actually found the exact chocolate pattern online, labelled as european 'cooking chocolate', but the site does not give it a name. Nice.

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General / can someone identify this chocolate bar?
« on: October 10, 2013, 11:45:12 pm »
Its around 100g, around the same size as a galaxy bar,here in the uk.
Is it a supermarket value brand or another? I am trying to find out specifically which.
Thanks for any help :) ..as shown here:




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