Tell everyone about the time you went to Cadbury. Tell me what's the best chocolate they've made. Personally, I think the chocolate tastes different now. Sunrise Tasmania Future Retro Tee Buy Now thenandnowhobart.etsy.com/
I remember going through there pretty much every year with the school, they used to give us an extra hair net to put the chocolates in, better than melted chocolate in you pockets. At the end of the tour they had a shop where you could buy cheap chocolate, we used to buy alot of factory seconds, blocks that had small imperfections or wrappers that were not applied correctly meaning they could not be sold at full price, or the big 5KG boxes with a great mix of factory seconds. Something that todays kids dont get to experience, its such a shame the new OH&S rules put an end to this. The chocolate does tast differnt these days, remember they tried replacing cocobutter with palm oil in their plain Dairy Milk blocks, after public backlash they reverted back to using coco butter but the plain Dairy Milk block never went back to the original taste. Small error @2:30 "by 2022 they were sending chocolate bars to market, very fast by todays standards" assume you meant to say 1922. Edit: the way its been corrected makes the error more obvious.
I remember going on a tour of the factory as a kid, there were big vats of shiny chocolate being stirred and further in, chocolates coming off a production line. You could buy a box of seconds to take home. It was magnificent.
I remember going on the tour twice as a kid once with my family and once with my class at school. It was great back then it was much cheaper to buy it at the factory. Especially when I went with my class
We flew in from Melbourne on a school tour of Tasmania for a week in 1973. One day we visited Cadbury. So not just Tasmanians toured the factory. Another tour was of Mt Wellington which was sometime snow covered, I was told that snow was fascinating to visiting Queenslanders.
I remember as a kid in the 70s when people would use the husks of the cocoa bean from Cadburys as mulch and their gardens would smell strangely edible. Angus' vids have a strange habit of plucking out forgotten memories of my youth growing up in Hobart.
Thanks for the Cadbury review. I’ll never forget touring the factory as a kid, watching as an old Italian worker put his hole arm past the elbow in a vat of melted chocolate, to mix the ingredients away from the sides. He withdrew his excessively hairy arm wiping the chocolate off on the edge of the vat. Ironically he was totally bald, but thankfully was wearing a hair-net.
I worked in this factory for a few months in the early 1980's before I went to the mainland for a while. It was a great place back then. so many families worked in the place. People always seemed in a good mood, always talked to you & always happy to help with tasks. I have nothing but positive memories of the place from back then.
Two memories for me. My father did business with Cadbury's and each Christmas they would give him a box of chocolates that was the size of an archive box full of mixed dairy milk and roses chocolates. Only the strawberry roses lasted by March! Second was a good mate in my teens took up golf at Claremont so I played there pretty often in the mid 80's. I will never forget the smell going down the 1st hole. Pure chocolate goodness. Now I'm hungry. As always, thanks Dog and Angus for the memories and a shout out for your excellent twitter page filled with amazing Tassie photos.
LMAO at how the southwest is shown on the vegetation map from 1:37. Horizontal, scoparia, bauera, mature buttongrass. WTF indeed! Not a big chocolate fan, but toured the factory with three generations of the family nearly 20 years ago. Carried my 2-3 yo son most of the way, for a sore arm afterwards - he must have been heavier than dog. Son was most impressed with the robots and is now studying mechatronics as part of an engineering degree. Cause and effect? Dunno. Always enjoy your vids, keep em coming. Cheers
Another great episode Angus! I did a bit more research and found that mondalez is owned pretty much by vanguard, blackroach and state street, other shareholders i didn't recognise are pretty much major share holders in Microsoft/apple/Google/Amazon. So its now owned by big food who invest in big pharma when all their toxic foods make people sick and they own the banks, the airlines, the fuel, the houses (yep they're buying loads in Australia too). It seems what started out as a lovely ideal, they quickly sold out to the world's most toxic companies polluting humanity and our planet. I can only imagine it isn't such a lovely place to work anymore either. Thanks again for your well researched and informative production. 🙂
It's how financialisation works; get companies and individuals to over extend themselves then take possession of the assets. Have you read David Graeber's book, "Debt" the first 5000 years"?
We visited Cadbury in the 1970s when I was 13 years old on a stinking hot day, about 38 degrees. My Dad was wearing a jacket and we all thought he was mad. Finished the tour and he emptied his pockets - they were stuffed to the brim! The samples were stingy so he decided to take matters in to his own hands. The only time I ever knew my Dad to do anything somewhat wrong! My favourite moment of the tour was when they gave us a sample of the 'chocolate eclair' lolly, straight after it was made. Warm, soft and chewy - it was utterly divine. Thanks for a very informative video.
Making me homesick again Angus, Cadbury tours in the sixties, no bags allowed but all pockets bulging, kids getting sick in the school bus back to South Hobart. Uncle was a train driver and I went in the engine with him on a few Cadbury runs, always came home with a big bag of Pascal toffees, and played soccer on the Cadbury grounds, always smelt like cocoa.
I can remember travelling to the factory on the train, getting the guided tour which followed the production process (the only part they wouldn't show you was how they make Flake chocolate) and then back to Hobart on the train again. Such an adventure for a child in those days.
Grew up in Austins Ferry during the late 60's and 70's. Will always remember when the sea breeze was in, and being down wind from Cadbury, the air was laden with the rich scent of chocolate. So much so you take a "bite" out of the air and taste the chocolate.
Looking forward to this one! My grandfather VC Smith was the Chairman for 30 years but sadly passed away before I was born. My mum has many fond memories of her father and he was enormously well respected at work.
I love all these videos! as a person who moved too Hobart nearly 12 years ago, from SE Queensland, these videos are informative, helpful and very much appreciated, I've learned so much about Hobart and the surrounding area, that'd I'd have never learned on my own, thank you so very much for all your hard work and effort you put into these videos.
I worked at Cadburys in 1973 to 1975. Sometimes I'de catch the train from Derwent Park or drive the GT from Moonah..Did all 3 shifts the hardest was the morning shift having to get up at 5.15 am to start at 6.30 am..I'de go in with my lunch box full of sandwiches and somehow end up back home that day with a lunch box full of chocolates.The younger nicer ladies all stitched up their skirts higher than the other ladies.As I was doing body building then I got my karki work shirt sleeves cut and stitched half way way up the upper arm showing the 'guns'.Those were the days my friend We thought they'de never end..
My first job in NSW I worked for a lady who had a keyring from Cadbury which smelled like chocolate, I loved it! I later visited the factory myself, they weren't doing tours then but did a show and gave you some cocoa and milk solids. Was sad when they closed it all down, we've lost something 😢
Great video as always. It is also interesting that the site of Cadbury's happened also by chance. At the time - during WW1 - Cadbury's factories were being converted to manufacture for the war efforts, and the owners looked to diversify their operations internationally and as such, the decision was made to establish an operation in Australia. A Commission was dispatched to find a suitable site and visited Melbourne and Sydney before a chance meeting with the Tasmanian Premier, Sir Walter Lee, saw members travel to Hobart. Here they found an eager workforce, plentiful electricity, international and interstate shipping and a cooler climate. They were able to purchase a site at Claremont - an ex WW1 military camp site - which would enable them to develop an antipodean version of the Bournville 'factory in a garden' - the Quaker vision for modern industry. Today, 48 farms produce the milk for the production of the famous "Glass and a Half" chocolate, and they produce 600 tonnes of chocolate every year. Their factory is the largest in the southern hemisphere.
Did you actually watch the video before commenting? The visit was in 1920, not 'during WW2', and Walter Lee (if he had anything to do with them coming to Tasmania) was premier 1916-1922 (and also briefly in 1923 and 1934).
@@clasdauskas I did, and I also researched my statements. I made an error that it should have referenced WW1 and not WW2, but the rest is correct. My references are en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cadbury www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cadbury.htm www.gcc.tas.gov.au/2022/02/cadbury-in-claremont-100-years-in-the-sweet-spot/ Maybe a bit more tact with replies, rather than being holier than though and so abrupt with your faceless and sarcastic comment.
@@angusthornett I haven't watched the video as yet (tonight), however, the reason for Hobart selection over Melbourne, outside of UK, was that Australia was Cadbury's highest export nation, Australia had high import tariffs, Tasmanian had young Hydro Electric Commission seeking industrial partners, Tasmania has access to dairying and Tasmania was a relatively cool climate requiring little to no refrigeration (when that technology was only young, expensive and inefficient).
I went on the tour in 1998 as a Grade 6 from up north. This was at the height of the baggy jeans/cargo pants so I think the boys in the class snuck out a like a kilo each of samples.
The Cadbury factory was near the top of my 'must visit' list when I relocated to Hobart for work a few months ago - imagine my dissapointment when I found out that a) they don't do tours anymore and b) they don't have a factory outlet/shop anymore either :( On the bright side - still HEAPS of other places to head out to see and visit in Hobart and around Tassie ;)
Went there a couple years ago - the tours had closed down. Cadbury asked for $10 to go into Cadbury shop for discounted /rejected chocolate. I declined , would be the same price to pay at Woolworths and chocolate not be rejected. Silly to charge especially for those that live in Tasmania.
I remember being able to buy the 1 kg blocks of dairy milk. One school trip I remember the block not making it back to Burnie. I'm sure I must have felt pretty crook afterwards!
I loved the ‘proper’ tour of the Cadbury factory. Heaps of chocolates to eat, seeing how things are done, the smell not what I expected but didn’t turn me off chocolate …….. Great video and commentary thank you Angus
Fantastic video Angus. Everyone who grew up in Hobart has Cadbury chocolate factory memories. We last went in February 2007, I actually hadn't realised they had stopped tours since.
Frys turkish delight hands down the best. Dairy Milk tastes more like Hersheys now, with that butyric acid taste. If I remember correctly it was added to Hersheys so that older milk could be used. I doubt that'd be why it'd be in Dairy Milk though, more likely to be appealing to the American demographic.
I did the tour of Cadbury chocolate factory in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1998, and the Cadbury chocolate factory in Hobart in 1999. Hobart was the better tour as we were allowed to have samples of chocolate to take home. My favourite is the Roses chocolates.
Did a tour there years ago on my first visit to Tassie, I remember a bloody big block of Dairy milk Chocolate for sale in the shop, must have been 90x60 cm if not bigger ? Buying the factory seconds and scoffing them, one big guts ache😂.
Childhood memories! 🥰 Went there a few times with school. Also did a weeks work experience there in grade 10 in 1996. 😀 Awesome (Tasmaid) old stool T, btw. Love ya vids. 👏
I remember going on 2 tours of the factory, and it was just a short walk up the hill from school. We used to run along the fence between the school and train line when the trains went up and down too, and the drivers would make plenty of noise for us kids! My grandfather told me when the factory was being built he would wag school to drive a horse and cart carrying bricks for the construction.
Remember going on a tour with the school when I was a kid... I ended up getting sick because it was so hot in there and the chocolate smelled super strong that I thought I was gonna die. 😅😂
Love ya shirt! When we visited in the 80's, my younger sister thought it was mandatory to each the samples at each leg of the journey. By the end of the tour, she couldn't eat milk chocolate for the next 10 or more years! Easter had to be dark or white choc. Anything but the sickly resemblance of milk chocolate was impossible for her to eat 😅 I taste a difference today from back then. I went off Cadbury choc for a while once I realized it just wasn't up to the quality anymore. I go more for Nestle now, or other brands. That is, up until Cadbury released the 'Marvelous Creations' range. I am a massive sucker for the popping candy variety, which I buy occasionally (such as yesterday LOL).
An interesting look into Cadburys past. Many people i know worked there when i was a kid, i grew up in nearby Chigwell. Funninly enought i never went on a tour of the Cadbury factory but i got many treats at Easter.
Excellent video. Love how you framed the Quakers faith to the gardens and factory itself. When I was attending Somerset Primary School in the 80s our year 6 class done the Hobart trip of which the Cadbury was the absolute highlight. I still remember the pungent smell and grabbing chocolate off the conveyor belts even though we was told not to. So glad to have experienced that as a kid. Thanks for creating and sharing 👍
i went on the tour 3 times as well. my family works/worked at cadburys. the best xmas even was when i got reject picnic bars that were huge.. they were great.. great videos again gus..
Cadbury tour was a right of passage for most Tasmanians! My children have kids of their own now and it's such a shame they won't experience the excited anticipation of the factory tour and shop. We use to take paper bags with us for the factory visit, as plastic wasn't allowed. The kids would come home with so many free seconds, the workers were so friendly and as long as your 7 & 10 yr old boys obeyed the rules, they would load up the paper bags for them. It was always the highlight of our trips to Hobart from Launceston. Thanks again Angus for a great video xx🍫🍫🍫
Lost count of how many times I went on school and family trips to cadburys. Mum use to makes us line our pockets with bags to collect the chocolate on the way around. You forgot o mention the big seconds shop at the end of the tour. 4kg boxes of seconds roses chocolate 😂
I had been on the tour maybe 5 or 6 times before it closed, the last time was in 2006 with my brother and his wife so not long before they canned the tours. You used to be able to get a box of reject chocolates for maybe $10 or $15 from the on site shop but those eventually ended.
@@angusthornett though i hated it at the time due to intense heat in the factory and the chocolate was super strong... they should atleast bring back tourism. i remember leaving with a box of diabetes... i mean chocolate. haha
Thanks for the video. I like both your information and your lovely calm way of presenting it (my brain doesn't like overexcited presenters). I enjoyed touring the chocolate factory as a kid and was a bit sad they'd stopped the tours by them time I wanted to take my children .
A few of my friends here in Sydney visited the Cadbury factory and gave great reviews, said it was a great tour and well worth the visit. Upon my visit to Tas I made it one of my "must goto places". Upon visiting the tourist info center in Tas I was advised the "old style" tour which went through the factory had been stopped due to OH&S concerns and now only consisted of a visitor center. I was actually advised not to bother as it really disappointing compared to how it was, so I never visited.
Apart from missing the delightfully huge selections of chocolate Tasmanian people take for granted to be on the shelves in their ( increasingly maligned ) supermarkets,…I live in Japan, now, which has, frankly, dreadful, skimpy excuses for chocolate,…my late uncle spent a lifetime happily working in Cadbury’s. Upon retiring, he was presented with an absolutely gorgeous gold watch.
They had a cool museum area where you could view lots of old equipment etc. I never went on the school trips, but my husband went as parent help three times with our daughters. The seconds shop was open when I did finally go, but no tours were available. We bought a box full of hazelnut chocolate pieces for my husband's birthday! My fave chocolate was and still is Turkish Delight or Top Deck. Can you go into the foyer still? Or is it all off limits now?
Thanks Angus. Grew up on Cadbury estate and Dad worked there for a while (as did most of my neighbours). Sad to see what's happened to my old primary school down the road though 🥺
Nice doco mate. Something about that architecture, featured at 3:50 or so, hits me in the feels in a nostalgic kind of way. It's part optimistic and part, I dunno, horrid, bland, forbidding. Maybe it's just utilitarian. But there seems to be a bunch of similar bits round Tassie, from the same era I guess.
I agree I think the ever so slight cocoa bitterness that was in Cadburys many years ago is gone and overpowered by the sugar. I was so rapt quite some years ago when several million dollars was to be spent upgrading and reintroducing the Cadbury tours, then it all was cancelled. Such a shame.
Remember going on a tour there in the late 1980’s as a teen on holidays from Melbourne with my late father and still alive mother. I’m now 57. The smell of chocolate! Mmmm. And yes the chocolate does taste different. Less creamy. I always found English Cadbury was creamier. American was horrid. I assumed it had to do with climate and the milk/ diet of local cows.
@@angusthornett I'm almost at 1.k subbs with no sookbook or Instagram etc maybe one day I'll bump into ya and have a beer just gotta look for ya cute little dog lol 😂
Another good one Angus. I used to enjoy the Australia Day picnics the company put on for the workers. My father and many of my relatives worked for Cadburys over the years. I avoided it. Dog ear Point was a good fishing area too.
Grew up in Tassie and the weekly family treat was a bar of Cadbury chocolate shared between our family of 4. The chocolate was world class then, not fine like the Swiss and Belgium stuff, but still equal to them. Nowadays it's oversugared junk. Haven't bought Cadbury for probably 20 years, there's much better stuff available in Aus.
Hanging out for the new vid- there's some planned community quaker history there right? I bought a 2kg bag of green halloween coloured creme eggs from that shop once. There was also a kiwi rugged fruit and nut called "scroggin" you could get there which must have been made in Hobart but is now discontinued.
The tours were brilliant, remember having the privilege of a tour as a school kid. Before OH&BS and the sue everyone culture killed it off. Very fortunate to be alive in the good old days.
I was in high school in a NSW regional town during the 90s and it was tradition for the annual Year 10 trip to go to Tasmania. Except by the time I got to Year 10 in 95, our teachers decided Canberra was a great option...🙄...So missed out going to Tassie, which I was really looking forward to. And a trip to the Cadbury factory would have been amazing back then. Agree though that the chocolate tastes awful now, not like the Cadbury's of my childhood. UK Cadbury's tastes way better. Thanks for your excellent videos, a trip to Tassie is still on my bucket list someday.
Recipe hasn't changed and the crumb process and conches are exact same as Bourneville . . . so, within statistical confidence, same. Recall, our palates do change.
Oh and I forgot to say that it’s so funny that they still advertise a glass and a half in every 200gm block but they don’t make a 200 gram block, it’s now 180gm. So shouldn’t it be something like a glass and three eighths in every 180gms ?!!
Great video as always Angus. I remember going there after the tours were discontinued and they had only a history and tasting centre 👎 So the seconds shop is also closed, if you can't get in at all?
I worked at the factory for 35 years and it was a wonderful place to work in the early days , but the last 5 years it went down hill and nowhere near as good. I haven't been there for 15 years and people I speak to who are still there say it is a very unpleasant place to be.
The tours were shut down by the union as a means of hitting back at management under the guise of enforcing safety regulations and for no other reason.
Tell everyone about the time you went to Cadbury. Tell me what's the best chocolate they've made. Personally, I think the chocolate tastes different now.
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Everything tastes different these days ..cost cutting tales away it original taste
I agree about the taste, maybe only 1/2 a glass of powered milk.
I remember going through there pretty much every year with the school, they used to give us an extra hair net to put the chocolates in, better than melted chocolate in you pockets.
At the end of the tour they had a shop where you could buy cheap chocolate, we used to buy alot of factory seconds, blocks that had small imperfections or wrappers that were not applied correctly meaning they could not be sold at full price, or the big 5KG boxes with a great mix of factory seconds.
Something that todays kids dont get to experience, its such a shame the new OH&S rules put an end to this.
The chocolate does tast differnt these days, remember they tried replacing cocobutter with palm oil in their plain Dairy Milk blocks, after public backlash they reverted back to using coco butter but the plain Dairy Milk block never went back to the original taste.
Small error @2:30
"by 2022 they were sending chocolate bars to market, very fast by todays standards"
assume you meant to say 1922.
Edit: the way its been corrected makes the error more obvious.
...I think MANY things taste, and ARE different now sadly. I enjoyed my visit to the cadbury factory years ago!👍
@@trevorsneath4665 youtube upload glitch, they should have corrected it by now
A bloke, his dog and a freddo frog......gold
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I remember going on a tour of the factory as a kid, there were big vats of shiny chocolate being stirred and further in, chocolates coming off a production line. You could buy a box of seconds to take home. It was magnificent.
It was magnificent.
I remember going on the tour twice as a kid once with my family and once with my class at school. It was great back then it was much cheaper to buy it at the factory. Especially when I went with my class
We flew in from Melbourne on a school tour of Tasmania for a week in 1973. One day we visited Cadbury. So not just Tasmanians toured the factory.
Another tour was of Mt Wellington which was sometime snow covered, I was told that snow was fascinating to visiting Queenslanders.
I remember as a kid in the 70s when people would use the husks of the cocoa bean from Cadburys as mulch and their gardens would smell strangely edible. Angus' vids have a strange habit of plucking out forgotten memories of my youth growing up in Hobart.
Thanks, mate.
I don't know how you keep doing it, But keep doing it !!
Thanks, mate. Appreciate you continuing to tune in.
Thanks for the Cadbury review. I’ll never forget touring the factory as a kid, watching as an old Italian worker put his hole arm past the elbow in a vat of melted chocolate, to mix the ingredients away from the sides. He withdrew his excessively hairy arm wiping the chocolate off on the edge of the vat. Ironically he was totally bald, but thankfully was wearing a hair-net.
I worked in this factory for a few months in the early 1980's before I went to the mainland for a while.
It was a great place back then. so many families worked in the place. People always seemed in a good mood, always talked to you & always happy to help with tasks. I have nothing but positive memories of the place from back then.
It's a unique factory. The vibe is still good today.
Two memories for me. My father did business with Cadbury's and each Christmas they would give him a box of chocolates that was the size of an archive box full of mixed dairy milk and roses chocolates. Only the strawberry roses lasted by March! Second was a good mate in my teens took up golf at Claremont so I played there pretty often in the mid 80's. I will never forget the smell going down the 1st hole. Pure chocolate goodness. Now I'm hungry. As always, thanks Dog and Angus for the memories and a shout out for your excellent twitter page filled with amazing Tassie photos.
LMAO at how the southwest is shown on the vegetation map from 1:37. Horizontal, scoparia, bauera, mature buttongrass. WTF indeed!
Not a big chocolate fan, but toured the factory with three generations of the family nearly 20 years ago. Carried my 2-3 yo son most of the way, for a sore arm afterwards - he must have been heavier than dog. Son was most impressed with the robots and is now studying mechatronics as part of an engineering degree. Cause and effect? Dunno.
Always enjoy your vids, keep em coming.
Cheers
Another great episode Angus! I did a bit more research and found that mondalez is owned pretty much by vanguard, blackroach and state street, other shareholders i didn't recognise are pretty much major share holders in Microsoft/apple/Google/Amazon. So its now owned by big food who invest in big pharma when all their toxic foods make people sick and they own the banks, the airlines, the fuel, the houses (yep they're buying loads in Australia too). It seems what started out as a lovely ideal, they quickly sold out to the world's most toxic companies polluting humanity and our planet. I can only imagine it isn't such a lovely place to work anymore either. Thanks again for your well researched and informative production. 🙂
It's how financialisation works; get companies and individuals to over extend themselves then take possession of the assets. Have you read David Graeber's book, "Debt" the first 5000 years"?
We visited Cadbury in the 1970s when I was 13 years old on a stinking hot day, about 38 degrees. My Dad was wearing a jacket and we all thought he was mad. Finished the tour and he emptied his pockets - they were stuffed to the brim! The samples were stingy so he decided to take matters in to his own hands. The only time I ever knew my Dad to do anything somewhat wrong! My favourite moment of the tour was when they gave us a sample of the 'chocolate eclair' lolly, straight after it was made. Warm, soft and chewy - it was utterly divine. Thanks for a very informative video.
Making me homesick again Angus, Cadbury tours in the sixties, no bags allowed but all pockets bulging, kids getting sick in the school bus back to South Hobart. Uncle was a train driver and I went in the engine with him on a few Cadbury runs, always came home with a big bag of Pascal toffees, and played soccer on the Cadbury grounds, always smelt like cocoa.
That would have been awesome.
My great grandfather died building the factory. Unusually family link.
Sorry to hear that. Construction was very dangerous a century ago.
I can remember travelling to the factory on the train, getting the guided tour which followed the production process (the only part they wouldn't show you was how they make Flake chocolate) and then back to Hobart on the train again. Such an adventure for a child in those days.
Grew up in Austins Ferry during the late 60's and 70's. Will always remember when the sea breeze was in, and being down wind from Cadbury, the air was laden with the rich scent of chocolate. So much so you take a "bite" out of the air and taste the chocolate.
Looking forward to this one! My grandfather VC Smith was the Chairman for 30 years but sadly passed away before I was born. My mum has many fond memories of her father and he was enormously well respected at work.
Thanks mate, hope you enjoyed it.
I love all these videos! as a person who moved too Hobart nearly 12 years ago, from SE Queensland, these videos are informative, helpful and very much appreciated, I've learned so much about Hobart and the surrounding area, that'd I'd have never learned on my own, thank you so very much for all your hard work and effort you put into these videos.
Aw beautiful, wished I saw you.
I lived across the river. Winder mere, lots of stories here.
I worked at Cadburys in 1973 to 1975. Sometimes I'de catch the train from Derwent Park or drive the GT from Moonah..Did all 3 shifts the hardest was the morning shift having to get up at 5.15 am to start at 6.30 am..I'de go in with my lunch box full of sandwiches and somehow end up back home that day with a lunch box full of chocolates.The younger nicer ladies all stitched up their skirts higher than the other ladies.As I was doing body building then I got my karki work shirt sleeves cut and stitched half way way up the upper arm showing the 'guns'.Those were the days my friend We thought they'de never end..
I specifically remember the Turkish Delight production line. And the big white boxes of mixed chocolate you could purchase in the gift shop.
Good times.
My first job in NSW I worked for a lady who had a keyring from Cadbury which smelled like chocolate, I loved it! I later visited the factory myself, they weren't doing tours then but did a show and gave you some cocoa and milk solids. Was sad when they closed it all down, we've lost something 😢
Interesting.
Great video as always. It is also interesting that the site of Cadbury's happened also by chance. At the time - during WW1 - Cadbury's factories were being converted to manufacture for the war efforts, and the owners looked to diversify their operations internationally and as such, the decision was made to establish an operation in Australia.
A Commission was dispatched to find a suitable site and visited Melbourne and Sydney before a chance meeting with the Tasmanian Premier, Sir Walter Lee, saw members travel to Hobart. Here they found an eager workforce, plentiful electricity, international and interstate shipping and a cooler climate. They were able to purchase a site at Claremont - an ex WW1 military camp site - which would enable them to develop an antipodean version of the Bournville 'factory in a garden' - the Quaker vision for modern industry.
Today, 48 farms produce the milk for the production of the famous "Glass and a Half" chocolate, and they produce 600 tonnes of chocolate every year. Their factory is the largest in the southern hemisphere.
Did you actually watch the video before commenting?
The visit was in 1920, not 'during WW2', and Walter Lee (if he had anything to do with them coming to Tasmania) was premier 1916-1922 (and also briefly in 1923 and 1934).
possibly a typo@@clasdauskas
@@clasdauskas I did, and I also researched my statements. I made an error that it should have referenced WW1 and not WW2, but the rest is correct. My references are
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cadbury
www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cadbury.htm
www.gcc.tas.gov.au/2022/02/cadbury-in-claremont-100-years-in-the-sweet-spot/
Maybe a bit more tact with replies, rather than being holier than though and so abrupt with your faceless and sarcastic comment.
@@angusthornett I haven't watched the video as yet (tonight), however, the reason for Hobart selection over Melbourne, outside of UK, was that Australia was Cadbury's highest export nation, Australia had high import tariffs, Tasmanian had young Hydro Electric Commission seeking industrial partners, Tasmania has access to dairying and Tasmania was a relatively cool climate requiring little to no refrigeration (when that technology was only young, expensive and inefficient).
I went on the tour in 1998 as a Grade 6 from up north. This was at the height of the baggy jeans/cargo pants so I think the boys in the class snuck out a like a kilo each of samples.
Souvenirs.
The Cadbury factory was near the top of my 'must visit' list when I relocated to Hobart for work a few months ago - imagine my dissapointment when I found out that a) they don't do tours anymore and b) they don't have a factory outlet/shop anymore either :(
On the bright side - still HEAPS of other places to head out to see and visit in Hobart and around Tassie ;)
You can still go to the gardens. Worth doing.
👌👏😋. The WW1 thing I had no idea about, so thank you for that 👍. Lovely drone work again 😊
Thank you. There's quite a bit of information displayed on the ground out there.
Great childhood memories of the gift box you were given. Thanks Angus
Thanks, Andrew.
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most informative. relating to history of hobart. I will have a cadburys chocolate to remind me of this programme. thanks Angus.
Went there a couple years ago - the tours had closed down. Cadbury asked for $10 to go into Cadbury shop for discounted /rejected chocolate. I declined , would be the same price to pay at Woolworths and chocolate not be rejected. Silly to charge especially for those that live in Tasmania.
Nope, that's a bad deal.
I remember being able to buy the 1 kg blocks of dairy milk. One school trip I remember the block not making it back to Burnie. I'm sure I must have felt pretty crook afterwards!
Had to be done.
I loved the ‘proper’ tour of the Cadbury factory. Heaps of chocolates to eat, seeing how things are done, the smell not what I expected but didn’t turn me off chocolate ……..
Great video and commentary thank you Angus
great vid brought back some memories of weekends at nans when I was a kid :)
Fantastic video Angus. Everyone who grew up in Hobart has Cadbury chocolate factory memories. We last went in February 2007, I actually hadn't realised they had stopped tours since.
Frys turkish delight hands down the best. Dairy Milk tastes more like Hersheys now, with that butyric acid taste. If I remember correctly it was added to Hersheys so that older milk could be used. I doubt that'd be why it'd be in Dairy Milk though, more likely to be appealing to the American demographic.
Turkish Delight rules. Yeah, I don't know the specifics of why it tastes so different now.
I did the tour of Cadbury chocolate factory in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1998, and the Cadbury chocolate factory in Hobart in 1999. Hobart was the better tour as we were allowed to have samples of chocolate to take home. My favourite is the Roses chocolates.
Roses rule.
Did a tour there years ago on my first visit to Tassie, I remember a bloody big block of Dairy milk Chocolate for sale in the shop, must have been 90x60 cm if not bigger ?
Buying the factory seconds and scoffing them, one big guts ache😂.
Childhood memories! 🥰 Went there a few times with school. Also did a weeks work experience there in grade 10 in 1996. 😀 Awesome (Tasmaid) old stool T, btw. Love ya vids. 👏
I remember going on 2 tours of the factory, and it was just a short walk up the hill from school. We used to run along the fence between the school and train line when the trains went up and down too, and the drivers would make plenty of noise for us kids!
My grandfather told me when the factory was being built he would wag school to drive a horse and cart carrying bricks for the construction.
Remember going on a tour with the school when I was a kid... I ended up getting sick because it was so hot in there and the chocolate smelled super strong that I thought I was gonna die. 😅😂
Yeah, it was warm too.
love the Tasmaid milk t shirt! Spewing they don't do the tours anymore...LOVED going on it as a kid....would love to take my kids on it now!
Love ya shirt!
When we visited in the 80's, my younger sister thought it was mandatory to each the samples at each leg of the journey.
By the end of the tour, she couldn't eat milk chocolate for the next 10 or more years!
Easter had to be dark or white choc. Anything but the sickly resemblance of milk chocolate was impossible for her to eat 😅
I taste a difference today from back then.
I went off Cadbury choc for a while once I realized it just wasn't up to the quality anymore.
I go more for Nestle now, or other brands.
That is, up until Cadbury released the 'Marvelous Creations' range.
I am a massive sucker for the popping candy variety, which I buy occasionally (such as yesterday LOL).
Another great video. Cheers. Wish more factories would do a similar thing. People aren't robots :-)
You're very much right.
Things have changed drastically. Too many restrictions and rules to follow but cant complain as I bloody love chocolate. Happy to be working here❤
An interesting look into Cadburys past. Many people i know worked there when i was a kid, i grew up in nearby Chigwell. Funninly enought i never went on a tour of the Cadbury factory but i got many treats at Easter.
Found that very interesting Angus. Thank you for sharing the story.
Thank you, Denise
Thanks for all your efforts over the time ❤
Thank you very much for the support, Russell. It’s rather encouraging.
Excellent video. Love how you framed the Quakers faith to the gardens and factory itself. When I was attending Somerset Primary School in the 80s our year 6 class done the Hobart trip of which the Cadbury was the absolute highlight. I still remember the pungent smell and grabbing chocolate off the conveyor belts even though we was told not to. So glad to have experienced that as a kid. Thanks for creating and sharing 👍
Thank for watching, mate. Yeah, the gardens are still impressive and pleasant.
Yea did the tour in school a few times was great manage to get in the shop pretty sure that's closed to the public as well
i went on the tour 3 times as well. my family works/worked at cadburys. the best xmas even was when i got reject picnic bars that were huge.. they were great.. great videos again gus..
Zebra in the house. Thanks mate, to the number one OG.
Cadbury tour was a right of passage for most Tasmanians! My children have kids of their own now and it's such a shame they won't experience the excited anticipation of the factory tour and shop. We use to take paper bags with us for the factory visit, as plastic wasn't allowed. The kids would come home with so many free seconds, the workers were so friendly and as long as your 7 & 10 yr old boys obeyed the rules, they would load up the paper bags for them. It was always the highlight of our trips to Hobart from Launceston. Thanks again Angus for a great video xx🍫🍫🍫
Thanks, mate. Yeah, everyone liked it.
Lost count of how many times I went on school and family trips to cadburys. Mum use to makes us line our pockets with bags to collect the chocolate on the way around. You forgot o mention the big seconds shop at the end of the tour. 4kg boxes of seconds roses chocolate 😂
Diabolical.
I had been on the tour maybe 5 or 6 times before it closed, the last time was in 2006 with my brother and his wife so not long before they canned the tours. You used to be able to get a box of reject chocolates for maybe $10 or $15 from the on site shop but those eventually ended.
8:50 One of the most relatable things. 😅😂
Make Tasmania Chocolate Again
@@angusthornett though i hated it at the time due to intense heat in the factory and the chocolate was super strong... they should atleast bring back tourism. i remember leaving with a box of diabetes... i mean chocolate. haha
Great video. Thank you.
I have good memories on going on a tour there as a young kid, maybe in 2007.
I don't think they taste great anymore, but maybe I've just grown up.
Chocolate has changed, you would have changed.
Thanks for the video. I like both your information and your lovely calm way of presenting it (my brain doesn't like overexcited presenters). I enjoyed touring the chocolate factory as a kid and was a bit sad they'd stopped the tours by them time I wanted to take my children .
A few of my friends here in Sydney visited the Cadbury factory and gave great reviews, said it was a great tour and well worth the visit. Upon my visit to Tas I made it one of my "must goto places". Upon visiting the tourist info center in Tas I was advised the "old style" tour which went through the factory had been stopped due to OH&S concerns and now only consisted of a visitor center. I was actually advised not to bother as it really disappointing compared to how it was, so I never visited.
We had the same advice, but went anyway. I think the enthusiasm of the young lady doing the tour made up for any perceived shortfalls!
Tours ceased due to stricter Food Handling standards and removing risk of Joe/Jill citizen being within production areas.
Top quality video once again
I remember going there in primary school to see Julius Sumner Miller. I use to enjoy playing little league for Claremont Bulldogs.
He actually showed up and held court at the factory? I didn't know that.
Wow! Had no idea the fella from the adds would have actually hung out there.
Thanks
Apart from missing the delightfully huge selections of chocolate Tasmanian people take for granted to be on the shelves in their ( increasingly maligned ) supermarkets,…I live in Japan, now, which has, frankly, dreadful, skimpy excuses for chocolate,…my late uncle spent a lifetime happily working in Cadbury’s. Upon retiring, he was presented with an absolutely gorgeous gold watch.
They had a cool museum area where you could view lots of old equipment etc. I never went on the school trips, but my husband went as parent help three times with our daughters. The seconds shop was open when I did finally go, but no tours were available. We bought a box full of hazelnut chocolate pieces for my husband's birthday! My fave chocolate was and still is Turkish Delight or Top Deck. Can you go into the foyer still? Or is it all off limits now?
What a beautiful yarn full of fond memories and new facts. Thank you.
Thanks, Phillip
Thanks for the time and effort you put into this excellent video. Fantastic to watch 👍🏻
Such a great video, love that wee dog too.
Thanks Angus. Grew up on Cadbury estate and Dad worked there for a while (as did most of my neighbours). Sad to see what's happened to my old primary school down the road though 🥺
Thanks. Yeah, it is a sorry sight at the moment.
Nice doco mate. Something about that architecture, featured at 3:50 or so, hits me in the feels in a nostalgic kind of way. It's part optimistic and part, I dunno, horrid, bland, forbidding. Maybe it's just utilitarian. But there seems to be a bunch of similar bits round Tassie, from the same era I guess.
Now owned by a multinational, how times change. My brother worked for them as a country sales rep here in Victoria for many years.
Yeah, very different now.
I agree I think the ever so slight cocoa bitterness that was in Cadburys many years ago is gone and overpowered by the sugar. I was so rapt quite some years ago when several million dollars was to be spent upgrading and reintroducing the Cadbury tours, then it all was cancelled. Such a shame.
Another piece of magic removed from the world.
I went there to study their filling machines for my 4th year mechanical engineering project
Very cool doco, thanks.
Thanks, mate.
Remember going on a tour there in the late 1980’s as a teen on holidays from Melbourne with my late father and still alive mother. I’m now 57. The smell of chocolate! Mmmm. And yes the chocolate does taste different. Less creamy. I always found English Cadbury was creamier. American was horrid. I assumed it had to do with climate and the milk/ diet of local cows.
American chocolate isn't great IMO.
Awesome video, thank you! :)
Thanks, mate
Awesome
Thanks
Well this was very different Cobba lol no convicts here lol 😂 support local Tas TH-camrs 💪🎉🍻
Thanks, mate.
@@angusthornett I'm almost at 1.k subbs with no sookbook or Instagram etc maybe one day I'll bump into ya and have a beer just gotta look for ya cute little dog lol 😂
Another good one Angus. I used to enjoy the Australia Day picnics the company put on for the workers. My father and many of my relatives worked for Cadburys over the years. I avoided it. Dog ear Point was a good fishing area too.
Interesting. Didn't know that about Dog Ear Point.
Grew up in Tassie and the weekly family treat was a bar of Cadbury chocolate shared between our family of 4. The chocolate was world class then, not fine like the Swiss and Belgium stuff, but still equal to them. Nowadays it's oversugared junk. Haven't bought Cadbury for probably 20 years, there's much better stuff available in Aus.
Another great video, thanks.
Thank you.
LOLed at the map describing Tassie as EW and WTF.
yeah, a bit of guesstimation going on
Hanging out for the new vid- there's some planned community quaker history there right? I bought a 2kg bag of green halloween coloured creme eggs from that shop once. There was also a kiwi rugged fruit and nut called "scroggin" you could get there which must have been made in Hobart but is now discontinued.
Never had scroggin'
2:30 "By 2022 they were sending chocolate bars to market"
Took them over a hundred years! Must have been perfecting the recipe.
"22"... as in 1922 ;)
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The tours were brilliant, remember having the privilege of a tour as a school kid. Before OH&BS and the sue everyone culture killed it off. Very fortunate to be alive in the good old days.
Yeah, a good experience.
Timeless
Fascinating as always Angus.
My family went on the factory tour when I was a kid, I wasn't much of a sweet tooth which might explain why I don't remember much about it.
Lots of things experienced by kids aren't remembered by them.
I was in high school in a NSW regional town during the 90s and it was tradition for the annual Year 10 trip to go to Tasmania. Except by the time I got to Year 10 in 95, our teachers decided Canberra was a great option...🙄...So missed out going to Tassie, which I was really looking forward to. And a trip to the Cadbury factory would have been amazing back then. Agree though that the chocolate tastes awful now, not like the Cadbury's of my childhood. UK Cadbury's tastes way better. Thanks for your excellent videos, a trip to Tassie is still on my bucket list someday.
Recipe hasn't changed and the crumb process and conches are exact same as Bourneville . . . so, within statistical confidence, same. Recall, our palates do change.
Oh and I forgot to say that it’s so funny that they still advertise a glass and a half in every 200gm block but they don’t make a 200 gram block, it’s now 180gm. So shouldn’t it be something like a glass and three eighths
in every 180gms ?!!
It's a very good logo.
Great video as always Angus. I remember going there after the tours were discontinued and they had only a history and tasting centre 👎 So the seconds shop is also closed, if you can't get in at all?
It is no more.
Is there a giant pool of water on top of one of the factory roofs? See aerial footage at 10:05
Remnants of an old cooling system
Reflection doesn't always look like that.
10:05 Is that rooftop a pool or just full of rainwater?
Not a pool. Reflection doesn't always look like that.
I worked at the factory for 35 years and it was a wonderful place to work in the early days , but the last 5 years it went down hill and nowhere near as good. I haven't been there for 15 years and people I speak to who are still there say it is a very unpleasant place to be.
Is there a connection between Friend’s school and Cadbury’s ?
Why is there water on a roof of one of the factories
2:30 Is it meant to be 1922?
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The tours were shut down by the union as a means of hitting back at management under the guise of enforcing safety regulations and for no other reason.
My grand father and grammdmother worked there gram dad worked there for 50 years
They would have been part of a lot change.
William Cadbury = Real life Willy Wonka.
Good produce , cheap power , no wasps then unlike now , that's why cadbury paid $5 for each nest years ago
Interesting
@angusthornett no european wasps in tassie till the fifties, they are a real nuisance when making chocolate
Is there a Tasmanian school kid in the 90s who didn't visit cadburys at least once?
Not many around Hobart.