please empty your brain below
next stop, tomorrow; an in-depth exploration of M&Ms world in Leicester Square.

amber | 05.05.18 - 7:07 a.m. | #

Cast your mind back.....
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/m-world-london.html

Gordon | 05.05.18 - 7:35 a.m. | #

Disappointed by both my visits to Cadbury World (the kids insisted on going). Not enough free chocolate.

MKIan | 05.05.18 - 8:40 a.m. | #

My great-grandma ran a shop on Bourneville Green in the 1940s

None | 05.05.18 - 9:37 a.m. | #

Oops Bournville!

None | 05.05.18 - 9:38 a.m. | #

You should have walked back into Birmingham along the canal. But then, perhaps you did and we shall hear about that soon. The 'more canals than Venice' is a bit of a rash claim - even if it is factually ture on distance' - but they make for some very interesting walks.

Martin | 05.05.18 - 12:00 p.m. | #

"a 4D Adventure hosted by Freddo and the Caramel Bunny which features a virtual ride down a Dairy Milk river"

Was that before or after the drugs kicked in?

drD | Homepage | 05.05.18 - 2:11 p.m. | #

I'm sure you were right to miss the £17 experience. When I last went, a few years ago with some young relatives, it was a bit less than this, though still expensive. But about half the tour was genuine-seeming visits to bits of the factory where you could see apparently real chocolate items being made and packed. The other half was, even then, interactive hogwash - I'm sorry to learn that this has taken over completely.

I don't think George Cadbury and his contemporaries had any idea that chocolate could do any health harm whatever - that perception is, I reckon, a post-1970 phenomenon.

Malcolm | 05.05.18 - 3:09 p.m. | #

I prefer to call it "Calorie World"

NickK | 05.05.18 - 6:52 p.m. | #

I was there a few weeks ago...

Did you walk up to the top end of Bournville - where, for some reason, this wonderful architectural gem has been utterly spoilt by generic everything-on-top-of-each-other brand new housing?

How this development was ever allowed I have no idea. Such a missed opportunity to create something really great, and in-keeping, missed.

I had to drive past 3 times as I just could not believe how awful it was.

dg writes: Thankfully I didn't get that far.

Blue Witch | 05.05.18 - 8:08 p.m. | #

And in news from the other side of the world, the only other Cadbury World is closing, to make way for a hospital: see https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/cadbury-world-close

Betterbee | 06.05.18 - 2:39 a.m. | #

Hard to work out exactly what happened with NZ Cadbury World, but it would appear that Mondelez did the usual thing and sold the assets, no doubt making much profit in the process.

I didn't realise that Cadbury actually still made stuff in the UK. Ever since Cadburys was taken over and the asset stripping started, I've only bought Cadburys if I've been really desperate

Rogmi | 06.05.18 - 5:54 p.m. | #

Cadbury's closed their factory in Dunedin, moving production to Australia but leaving Cadbury World, but that looked as if it wasn't going to be a particularly sustainable arrangement. Then the government decided it needed to site for the hospital, and that was that. Not sure that Mondelez was too fussed, and Cadbury's had lost a lot of goodwill with their continuing use of palm oil, which local competitors don't use.

Betterbee | 07.05.18 - 7:13 a.m. | #

I went to the Dunedin Cadbury World a few years, I can't imagine it would have meant that much as a visitor attraction without the associated factory, especially if production was shifted to Australia...

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