Any port in a storm, I suppose, and at least if they ruin the brand
\nthey’ll do it by importing American chocolate-making techniques, rather
\nthan the strategic thinking and know-how behind Velveeta. Hershey and
\nCadbury already cross-distribute each other’s products, as I understand
\nit, so at least there’s some relationship there. <\/p>\n
But boy, does a Cadbury\/Hershey deal seem unlikely. Cadbury is more than twice the size<\/a> of Hershey, and the Hershey board is said to be split<\/a>, It’s surprising how often Europeans comment on the relative awfulness of American chocolate. They are, of course, entirely correct. My personal favorite is Belgian chocolate, but almost any European chocolate is better than the waxy substance available here. When I was at the Economist, my trips to Britain always meant I’d be eating at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwith some of the directors concerned about the implications of the debt
\nthey’d need to take on. As well they should be. Taking on big debt to
\nbuy another company is risky in the best of times, and these are not
\nthe best of times. Though perhaps candy bars are countercyclical, as
\nthe world rushes to drown its sorrows in chocolate.
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