Fun Comes In Yellow Boxes (Cadbury's Flake)

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Product:	Cadbury's Flake
Date:	04/04/03 (425 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty, Plain, Novel

Disadvantages: Messy

It’s a slogan for tortillas, but it could just as well apply here. I used to work in a newsagents and on a Sunday my boss’s partner would go to the local cash and carry to stock up on chocolate, crisps and drinks. He’d arrive back about an hour before we shut and my job for that time was to stock up the counter shelve things and make it all look nice and neat. We would invariably have Flakes for sale, and these came packed in big yellow boxes, a blown up, cardboard version of the flake wrapping. What fun could be derived from just one of those little sticks.

Cadbury’s flakes are, erm, flakes of chocolate, formed into a long finger like chocolate bar. They taste like Dairy Milk, or like Dairy Milk would if you grated it down and then stuck the bits back together again. Smooth. Creamy. Sweet. Delicious. Untwizzle (what? It’s a word) the end of a flake wrapper and a gorgeous inviting smell creeps out to tease your nostrils. Flakes smell like Flakes and they taste like Flakes, but what deliciously smelling tasty Flakes they are.

They’re messy though, too. That’s the flaking bit, you see. Little shards fly off with every bite you take unless you’re careful, leaving you coated in quickly melting chocolate crumbs. They’re also too long to eat from a dish unless you break them in half first, and plates don’t have those helpful raised edges to keep the crumbs in. This is the only thing wrong with Flakes, but it can be a biggy – Galaxy have the right idea with their Ripples – a version of flake coated with a thick layer of chocolate to keep it all intact – but that’s another op. There’s a way around the flaking problem, though. You eat it from the packet, only pushing as much out of the wrapper at once as you can eat in one bite. Sure, you may end up with the odd mouthful of wet plastic, but this can be quite fun. Unless that’s just me.

Things To Do With
A Flake:

· Stick it in an ice cream

Or rather, break in half and stick a piece in an ice cream. I grew up by the seaside, and eating Whippy 99s (Mr Whippys, a fluffy vanilla ice cream, topped with a small flake) was a way of life. It’s a great way to get chocolate in with your ice cream without eating chocolate ice cream itself (which is gross, minging, barf inducing etc) and tastes delicious. Easy to recreate at home too – spoon some ice cream into a bowl, and top with a flake. Simple as.

· Use wherever grated chocolate is required

I am torn between liking freshly grated Parmesan and liking my finger nails. I’m not a good grater, so having a food that comes pre-shredded and tastes just as nice is a huge bonus for me. Crumble the flake between your fingers and you’re left with hundreds of small fragments for any baking purpose. Fantastic.

· Eat with hot drinks

Coffee or hot chocolate perhaps. Stir it round the cup then bite of the melting end. Repeat. Chocolate flavoured coffee, and coffee flavoured chocolate. What more could you ask for?

· Use for decoration

Flakes, like chocolate fingers, are one of the simplest things to use to jazz up a dish or drink. Sprinkle over cappuccino foam for an extra chocolate kick. Use small pieces for decorating fairy cakes or spell out words or numbers using these to make the letters. Versatile in every way.


I’m not quite sure what it’s doing on a Bath University site, but this page has some nice recipes involving the chocolaty goodness that is Cadbury’s Flakes: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma9sja/recipesweb.htm



Flakes. Made by them there Cadbury’s people. 30-40p, wherever their chocolate is sold. Ergo not Germany. Sympathy? Please?

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