TIL Milka is now American owned.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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It's produced by Kraft Jacobs Suchard, now named Mondelez since the 90s.
I had no idea either. I always associated it as being a European chocolate, especially since it's basically impossible to find in the US outside of import stores.
Europe is not lacking at all in good local chocolate brands though, so it should be a no-brainer for replacing US brands.
Though I'd hope that they also work more on obtaining ethically-sourced chocolate beyond the base requirement of not being American-owned, since the global chocolate industry as a whole has a lot of problematic business practices such as the tacit support of slavery and child labor.
I think it gets tricky trying to support multiple causes. If you've watched the Good Place you probably know what I'm talking about, but if you try to do everything perfectly all the time, then you're just going to be miserable agonizing over every decision. I'm starting to think that it may be better to focus on causes that are higher priority to you and do what you reasonably can for lower priority causes where you have the bandwidth for.
Oh yeah, absolutely! No one could survive if they tried to champion every just cause. Sometimes triaging is the best we can do.
Just that I think it would be good for European goods to not only be alternatives, but better alternatives. Basically, don't settle for Nestle just because they're headquarted in Europe and not the US, find better alternatives within Europe (or the EU specifically) to further promote if they exist.
Reducing child labor in cocoa farming requires legal changes in Ghana as to how you purchase cocoa. Currently everything is bought from brokers who can obscure the labor practices involved.
Feodora Edelbitter Sahne (IDK what the international name is) is really good if you like higher cocoa content (it's milk chocolate with 50% cocoa IIRC). The company seems to be Danish.
Also Tony's Chocolonely, it's fairtrade and from the Netherlands. Love the caramel one.
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When my father was young, he used to live close to a chocolate factory. Built during communism, privately owned by a local company following the collapse. I looked it up out of curiosity.
It's now owned by fucking Nestlé.
Makes me wonder if there's an EU manufacturer of shaped charges.
Feastables are a freaking joke to begin with.
Ritter is absolutely amazing, so long as there's no marzipan. Tried one with marzipan once, my first experience with marzipan, and I absolutely hated the marzipan. It's one of the few food related things I absolutely hate the taste of. Otherwise, they are perfectly acceptable to me.
France has all the best biscuits ! So many more I can think of. Let me know your fav!
LU is owned by Mondelez (https://www.mondelezinternational.com/our-brands/lu/). They still work in Russia: https://www.mondelezinternational.com/russia/
:( no more LU then
You seem to have left Prince biscuits out by accident!
They're already in the meme!
Ha, so they are. Didn't recognise the fancy ones!
Don't forget Tony's Chocolonely!
Sorry, but no. There are lots of European chocolate makers to choose from, that make chocolate that actually has the chocolate taste.
Definitely not less chocolatey than OP's Prinzen Black and White or Corny bar. And it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure it beats Ritter Sport Alpenmilch, too.
Nah, Oreo's are great. I don't eat any candy bar because they are all trash in America, but no matter if the other brands are made of cocoa blessed by the smoothest chocolate goddess in Ghana and mixed by the deftest elves in Switzerland, Oreo is better.