Back when I mentioned my $50 Cadbury prize haul, I hinted that I might have a go at writing one or more of my Cadbury chocolate reviews in poetry form. After all, it worked fairly well when I used limericks to associate Plamil chocolate with getting high, right?
Maria voted for the first review to be done entirely in haiku, so… Maria? This one’s for you. Which, translated, means I’m going to blame you if I fail horrifically at this whole poetry-writing gig.
Here goes.
Cadbury Top Deck Dairy Milk™ Milk Chocolate with Dream™ White Chocolate
When I was a kid
Growing up in Canberra
I earned cash through chores.
But I never bought
Cadbury with my money
(I liked Trolli Worms.)
Nevertheless, when
Yesterday I ate Top Deck
I felt I was 12.
The interplay of
Sweet with sweet and vanilla
Tastes like memories.
Top Deck’s not too bad.
The milk choc has cocoa notes
(More than this nut bar.)
The Dream white choc is
Also fine: plain not cloying.
Both types balance out.
I would not buy this
often, but it’s not nasty.
Just a sugar hit.
Ahoy me hearties!
Scrub that Deck! (At least its Top…)
Have I lost the plot?!
Hang on Cadbury!
There is something tactless here
(Think of equal rights…)
Does anyone see?
Here the white’s on top always…
Uh oh! Gosh! Uh oh!
Comment in haiku:
Cadbury’s gonna regret
Giving you that prize.
Loving your comment
But after all what is life
Without some regrets?
*giggles*
Ahh you’re awesome.
Thank you m’dear! Back at you
Fabulous post, thanks for making the quotidian reach for the stars.
And thank *you* for reminding me that the word quotidian exists!
Hehe.. very creative
This used to be my fave chcocolate as a child.. now I find it a tad too sweet, but eating it gives me fond memories 
It’s definitely crazy-sweet, but I think most of us liked that as children!
hehe
ahh the memories of the ol top deck! I didnt even know they still made it!
Indeedy they do! And it tastes just the same as it used to, I bet!
Haha! LOVE this post. Haiku poetry, a chocolate that I bet I’d really like, AND political incorrectness? Well done!
I carefully wrote the last part so that it wasn’t explictly defamatory
See my mad poetry skillz?!
Well there’s a lesson in inequality and privilege for your sociology students, hey?
Absolutely! Too bad we had our tutorial on race and ethnicity last week…
Fun times Hannah.
Thanks Anna!
Well done! A veritable literary feast!
Thanks Jonathon
I love it when white and milk choc is mixed, but then, it sorta depends on if its done correctly. My biggest fear with milk or white chocolate is how sweet it is. Toblerone’s white and milk with toasted almonds and honey was quite good–a more or less equality of white and milk and definite hints of crunchy almonds and chewy honey moments.
I’ll have to keep an eye out in case Cadbury bars show up where I live.
To be honest, I wouldn’t be too fussed about wanting to try Cadbury! It’s mostly just your standard mass-market chocolate, but at least is better than Nestle/Hershey’s in that it uses real cocoa butter and not vegetable oils and fats… (are you in the United States? No need to answer if you don’t want to!)
I don’t believe I’ve seen the milk/white Toblerone, but I do enjoy the dark one in a pinch!
Yup, I’m in the USA. I do not like Hershey (which is ironic, actually, as for my birthday parties, we’d actually go to their amusment park and factory). I can’t help but wanting to try Cadbury, only if to have the realization that other countries have blah chocolate bars.
The milk/white Toblerone was a special edition, so I don’t know how far it reached, world-wide or country-wide. I live on a college campus, so our convenience store gets all the test candies and sodas. Its actually pretty awesome, but then if there’s some I really like, it often means that I can’t get it in general.
Oooh, getting all the test candies and chocolates would be so much fun! I wish I’d got to experience that when I did my exchange year at UVA
I used to be able to find Cadbury every now and again at international food stores over there, but it was usually British, not Australian, Cadbury, which I think tastes worse… Perhaps one day you and I should do a candy swap 
Sorry for the late reply, btw, but I was sick with a cold for a bit, ever so much fun, haha.
I was able to find one Cadbury candy bar at so far, but I didn’t have time to buy it at the time. I’ll go back for it, though.
Candy swapping would be awesome! I have some Australian friends who are always talking about their chocolates, but I have never seen any of it over here. Its so disheartening. I did have a friend who was from Venezuala and whenever he’d come to the USA, he’d always bring a baggie of their unusual candies. It was all Nestle, not particularly good, but a blast to find all the unusual stuff. Whenever I find a new town that has a large foreign ethnicity, like Russian or Korean, I love scouring their grocery stores for something unusual.
You poor thing! Hope you’re feeling 100% better by now
If we want to do a candy swap we’d better get onto it soon, as it’s getting hot here in Australia and we don’t want to risk the chocolate turning into puddles! Have a think about what kind of Cadbury/Aussie chocolate you’re interested in, and send me an email sometime? I believe my email is on the about page 
Obviously you require a haiku-chocolate-review book deal of some sort.
Also: GREAT NEW LOOK. SAME GREAT TASTE.
Your new look is not great, and the taste need to be improved, not left the same! You stupid marketing people!
It shall be called:
Wayfaring Choc’late
One girl’s quest to sugar highs
And poetry lows.
((I may or may not have just made myself giggle with that one. I’m so lame.))
And actually, that gold “Great New Look” label IS insidiously clever marketing. I’m planning on mentioning this in my PhD, if I end up doing ethical chocolate, but Cadbury’s Dairy Milk has “FairTrade yadda yadda” written at the top with that gold background, and all the other bars have the “Great New Look”… which leads me to think that they’re trying to trick people, via patterning, into thinking that all the chocolate is fairtrade. Does that make sense? I’m not explaining myself very well…
Ah but don’t you see!
This could be your P H D,
So ethically.
(Hmmm…I tried)
*applauds* Brilliant! Now I see where I get it from. P.S. You should call me sometime to talk about my day. I had to go to an afternoon tea/forced networking, and now the head of school wants me to try and apply for a late submission to present a paper on my thesis at an agricultural conference in November. AHFKABFNAMVFNMBAVDNBAS.
Good for you… Why not? When in November? Will talk tomorrow I hope.
Ahahaha. I love you. You are hilarious. xx
Next time can we have a chocolate review in Cinquain, Rondeau or Shakespearean style?
Bravo Hannah! I think the next logical step is for Cadbury to hire you are a poet in residence
*laughs* Brilliant idea! I’d be a Chocolate Poet Laureate! (Gosh… dream job much?
)
Back in the U.S., a lull at work, and I have the scrumptious task of reading all the blog posts I missed. And twisting my chair and computer screen such that it isn’t visible to passers-by…
Are you suggesting that other people in your workplace would not be AWED and AMAZED by my blog’s brilliance?
So lovely to have you back – I can’t wait to hear all about your trip!!
ha!I love it! very creative!
Thanks!
Freaking cool! Hope you enjoy your cadbury prize!
Thanks Penny! I’m definitely enjoying writing the reviews
I wonder if there’s
people who just eat either
the bottom or top?
Ha ha, very good Conor…
Who knows? Maybe so.
But wouldn’t they just buy some
Dairy Milk or Dream?
It would be like those
for whom Neopolitan
has just two good stripes
Awesome haiku, love,
Surely you mean strawberry
is the one left out?
Why thank you my sweet!
Often the vanilla is
left to go icy.
Each to their own then,
I myself cannot stomach
Fraudulent berries.
Then you need a friend
to do the Jack Spratt thing with -
I may be that girl.
You’re always that girl,
Because you make me smile
And sometimes hungry.
I have to agree
the ice cream consumption thing
is just a bonus.
And these poems are
the hot fudge chocolate sauce
and cherries on top.
Congrats on your prize. How long before it was all gone?!
Actually, I still have a lot left! I don’t like Cadbury very much as it’s too cloying, so I have to spread it out. If I’d won $50 worth of, say, Valrhona, it would’ve been a very different story
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