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I gave up eating Cadbury’s after they were taken over by Kraft who promised they wouldn’t shut the factory in England. 12 months later it had gone and production moved abroad. I was outraged, they callously did away with a part of our heritage. To rub it in, they sold the company on to Mondelez so it’s not remotely connected to the Cadbury tradition in any way, certainly not the original chocolate. Hateful. I’ve no idea why people still buy it, I can only think they’re the same people who buy ultra processed shite too and just aren’t bothered what it does to them in the long term.
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@Melahi65919940 @benonwine Will do, but tip; don't ever trust what AI says, 7 times out of 10 it's wrong.
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While you were looking at "lab-grown" meat, the chocolate industry pulled off the ultimate heist. Major companies are quietly funding lab-grown cocoa for 2027, but the truth is, they stopped giving you real chocolate years ago. In 27 countries, Cadbury's "Dairy Milk" isn't legally chocolate. Why? Because the Cocoa Butter—the very soul of chocolate—has been stripped out.
How the Heist Works:
Cocoa butter is expensive. To save money, companies replace it with a blend of six industrial oils. But oil doesn't taste like chocolate, so they add PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) to keep it from separating and petroleum-derived vanilla to mask the waxy taste. They do this in tiny steps—changing the recipe by 1% every few months—so your tongue never realizes the "real" taste is being erased. In 2026, you aren't eating a treat; you’re eating a cleverly flavored chemical slab.
The Check: Look for "PGPR" on the label. If it’s there, it’s not chocolate.
The Survival: Real chocolate has five ingredients or fewer.
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"Every national leadership has an obligation to its own citizens to try to become as energy independent as possible, and the politicians in Dublin have betrayed that ambition and betrayed the Irish people".
Swedish MEP reacts to Ireland's ban on offshore oil exploration.
WATCH: youtu.be/2DqKgBDoxdI
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he doesn’t feel his leadership of Fianna Fáil is under threat “in any shape or form” following criticism of his handling of the fuel protests last week.
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‼️ WTF? Whilst you were distracted …
Labour has just voted through powers to FORCE pension funds to invest your money in UK government ‘priorities’.
Meaning Labour effectively takes control of up to 10% of your private pension to invest in bollocks.
I call that theft. How dare the government take MY money for their projects. WTF?
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Fuck off back to America and leave Irish citizens and residents living their lives in our beautiful city alone.
Citizen or resident they belong here, doing their best for themselves and their families.
Much like your ancestors did going to the US.
Kev Posobiec@KevinPosobiec
DUBLIN TODAY: When Americans visit Ireland, we want to see Irish people. Walkability downtown has tourist destinations sure, but local citizens see the decay and dulling of their capital city via migration, fraud and fronts. Sound familiar? Small business owners can't afford the corporation rates to city council for even pubs and restaurants if they're not in the hottest attraction areas. Touring Mt. Joy Square, O'Connell & Parnell Sts. I came across the New Irish lads coming in. Some couldn't understand my accent! Some didn't know where St. Patrick's cathedral was. Time for a good cleanup! Time to get up and vote out these crooks and fraudsters!
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Every Irish queer, woman and outcast is surely feeling Sinéad’s passing tonight.
Back in 2017 when I worked for TENI we got a call from her management asking could she donate her closet to us to as she was downsizing and wanted the clothes to go to trans folk in need.
An icon.
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DUBLIN TODAY: When Americans visit Ireland, we want to see Irish people.
Walkability downtown has tourist destinations sure, but local citizens see the decay and dulling of their capital city via migration, fraud and fronts. Sound familiar?
Small business owners can't afford the corporation rates to city council for even pubs and restaurants if they're not in the hottest attraction areas.
Touring Mt. Joy Square, O'Connell & Parnell Sts. I came across the New Irish lads coming in.
Some couldn't understand my accent! Some didn't know where St. Patrick's cathedral was.
Time for a good cleanup! Time to get up and vote out these crooks and fraudsters!
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Us big bad men, growing and delivering food, how dare we!
Rob Carry@RobCarryBray
The attempts to discredit the fuel protesters on the basis on their gender (this is the second such article from the @IrishTimes doing just that) is really something to behold. 'But... but... they're mostly men!' Seems to be the extent of their argument. Calling them Far Right didn't work. Classism didn't work. So now they're breaking out the old reliable. It comes on the back of McEntee's bid to haul @independent_ire TDs over the coals for supposedly sexist heckling of female Government ministers. Laughable, lads.
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A key tactic from the far-right is to constantly question the position of any centrist or socialist leader. What is happening to Micheál Martin is also happening to Keir Starmer. The idea is to make them look weak despite recent election victories & prevent them doing their job.
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@amandaregan2024 Was it ai of the killarney Gard calling protesters "spastic" with her oaf of a husband saying Irish citizens should stick our flag "up our holes"? And brazenly, openly posting it on Instagram, a known paedophile hang out.
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Gardaí launch crackdown after threats to officers on front line during fuel protests
Online attacks have included doxxing, targeting of female gardaí and use of AI to doctor images #selection-4447.0-4451.95" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archive.is/0wknV#selectio…
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🇮🇪 Ireland - 16th April 2026
More than 1,300 asylum seekers allowed to remain in Ireland went straight into emergency accommodation over the last two years 💰 🏠
Just 42% of people in emergency accommodation in Dublin are Irish 🇮🇪
36% came from outside the EU 🇪🇺
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Hope this goes to the Supreme Court. It will potentially lift the lid off the Pandora's box of the IPAS racket. Connolly is questioning it because the SF/PBP/SD/Lab coalition that elected her thinks it goes too far. Everyone else knows it does not begin to tackle the problem.
gript@griptmedia
MATT TREACY: President Connolly is considering referring the International Protection Bill to the Supreme Court. The Bill gives effect to the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, due to take effect June 12. A referral puts that deadline in jeopardy. gript.ie/president-move…
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We're not dealing with an isolated cock-up here or there - there's a clearly identifiable pattern of consistently underestimating how unpopular certain things are with the public. There's obviously a lack of understanding among senior politicians as to how certain things come across to the median voter.
A sample of things Government has badly misread the room on in recent years:
- Hate speech legislation (expended huge political capital trying to get it passed and ultimately had to abandon the speech element entirely - Regina Doherty, when she was leader of the Seanad, said she'd never received so much negative correspondence about a piece of legislation in her political career)
- Family and care referendum (lost comprehensively, biggest defeat margin for a referendum in the history of the State)
- Immigration (had to radically change their policies and rhetoric after years of sustained protests)
- Blocking Maria Steen for the Presidency (backfired horribly, caused both Government parties to bomb in the election, historically awful result that led to unprecedented vote spoilage nationwide)
- Running Jim Gavin (self-explanatory)
And now, most recently, the fuel protests. And that's all in just a couple of short years, all in quick succession, one after another. You can't look at that and tell me it's not a pattern.
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