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In this video we react to a walkthrough tour of Cadbury World in Birmingham, UK. This is a chocolate lovers dream! We can't wait to take Sophia here. Not only is Cadbury World a great place to learn about the history of Chocolate and how it's made, it also has a ton to do. From a chocolate tasting and interactive activities to the 4d ride and World's Biggest Cadbury Shop, Cadbury World looks like a blast.
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Best Cadbury ad has to be the drum playing gorilla 🦍
Definitely
They do or at least did have the gorilla in there playing his drum kit.
Agree love that ad
Sure that was Phil Collins dressed as a gorilla playing the drums
I heard that Phil Collins was the guy inside playing the drums. Don’t know if that’s true ??? . I love that ad. I love Cadbury chocolates too ❤
The Cadbury family were Quakers and built an entire village around their factory. The village was called Bournville. They believed in taking care of their employees and provided sporting facilities within the village. Everything was there except pubs and alcohol were not allowed. Quaker families were the major pioneers of making chocolate in the UK. Similar large manufacturers were Fry's in Bristol and Rowntrees in the North.
And still not allowed. Despite the supermarket's protests.
Wow, definitely didn't realize that. Very interesting!
Not just chocolate, the Lever Brothers manufacturers of soap and other cleaning products was founded near Liverpool in C19th, they also built a village for their workers called Port Sunlight, named after one of their soap brands. The village was designed with good housing, community centres, sports and leisure facilities, a theatre ( where the late Glenda Jackson first trod the boards), public gardens and churches. There's also a magnificent art gallery at the centre of the village.As nonconformists they didn't allow pubs, so all the hostelries are just outside the village boundary, as is the Catholic church, something else of which they disapproved.
The land like many such places has a restrictive covenant which prevents the building of pubs etc..
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They dragged us off to see a model village in school. The likes of Cadbury came up with such notions of "people should be able to read" and "surely poo shouldn't just be left in the streets with not even a means of washing away."
Quality progress
No drink but at least you get a day off and green spaces to spend it in.
The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory-inspiring Dahl's idea for the recipe-thieving spies (such as Wonka's rival Slugworth) depicted in the book. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story.
Cadbury World is a must visit on the School Trips for children in the UK ... they have a wonderful day out. I found an old film 1935 or 1936 when clearing out my Grandfather's House made by Cadbury and was, i understand, shown in local villages and towns to encourage young people to come and work in the Factory? I had it made digital - it doesn't have the sound track but shows life on the River Severn and the journey the beans make from port to factory - please enjoy - ua-cam.com/video/aE2a8VrrSwU/v-deo.html
It's not the factory just special part made made up foThe public and show the making off the chocolate the factory is a giant plant and I don't think the public are allowed in the factory its next door to Cadbury World
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That totally makes sense! Pretty crazy to think of undercover chocolate spies :)
No it was not inspired by Road Dahl, Cadbury has had factory visits going on since the early 1960's or earlier where you could vist tthe Cadbury factory in Bournville Birmingham and watch the Chocolate being made and also bring home loads of misfit choclate bars, when food health and safety rules got stricter in the UK Cadbury built Cadbury world which was expanded under the ownership of Mondolaze International
@@peterwilliamallen1063 what are you talking about? The book was written by Roald Dahl... 😂
Yes the BOOK Charlie and the chocolate factory was in fact inspired by Cadbury and Rowntree
The book was inspired by Dahl's own experiences with chocolate as a young boy and the fierce rivalry between two principle English Chocolate makers, Cadbury and Rowntree. The book was, of course, (edit) also adapted into the cult classic 1971 film called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Hate to be that guy but the 70's movie wasn't called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Just sayin s'all.
Roald Dahl: watches Cadburys and Rowntree fighting it out. Thinks "Hmmmmm."
Cadburys: watches the film adaptation of _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ . Thinks "Hmmmm."
@@smeechdog1 I wasn’t talking about the movie if you look it clearly says the book the book is called Charlie and the chocolate factory
@@samjimmypenguin452 The last sentence in your initial comment is. FILM OF THE SAME NAME.
Roald Dahl’s school was near a chocolate factory and the school would be sent boxes of chocolate bars to try and then review. This is where the inspiration for the book came from.
As a kid, Roald Dahl, along with other kids from his school, was a tester for Cadbury's chocolate.
Would love you guys to react to the Black Country Living Museum! Think it’s something you would find very interesting!!
Yes!
Agreed!
My cousins go there a couple of times a year for a whole day. The grandparents, parents and offspring all enjoy it.
Absolutely! It’s a fab place!
It's been 35 odd years since I've been there and it's still my absolute favourite museum!
Mostly it's because Cadbury was invented in Birmingham 😋🍫
And the new owners ruined it.
They did indeed @@cannyexplorer5357
@@cannyexplorer5357werent the new owners Americans?
Yup
Mondelez now part owns Cadbury not kraft
My dad use to be truck driver for cadbury,s and used to bring mis shapes home for free 😂😂
One of my mom's exs worked at cadbury world, we could buy big boxes of chocolate (like loads of flake pieces) for so cheap. Was so good!
Got my misshapes of my uncle who worked there, somehow it tasted better knowing I had something few could get.
Lorry driver
@@keithdeley7236behave
Check out the social history of Cadbury, how the workers were treated by the Cadbury family who were quakers..
Also they should look at New Lanark Mill too. This site was a forerunner for a way to make sure people were looked after. The Cadbury brothers based their ideal on the New Lanark mill. Both fascinating places and they make you realise how people should behave even now
@@KarliNewtonNew Lanark is amazing!
@@anny1_232 it is great
I lived 3 miles away from this iconic Cadbury factory. It is interesting to look at the history of the Cadbury family and how they created a whole little town, Bournville, for the benefit and well-being of their workers which still remains today. A beautiful area of Birmingham with purpose-built houses to help the workers and their families thrive and be happy. The factory on this video produces some of the chocolate but also has the Cadbury World tour and the biggest Cadbury chocolate shop on the same site. When the wind was blowing in the right direction, I could smell the chocolate from my garden!! I must also add that I’ve been eating Cadbury’s chocolate for over 65 years and that since the company was bought by Mondelez International, the recipe and therefore the taste of the chocolate has changed (for the worse) It used to taste EVEN BETTER than it does now!
Hi this was a good video to watch. Did you know, in 1879, the Cadbury family also built homes for their workers while building their chocolate factory? I think they called it Bournville. In 1895 they bought more land to build more homes and again in 1950 they added more still - called 'sunshine' homes because they were designed to capture as much sunlight as possible. It seems Cadbury's did what they could to take care of their employees even way back then. Some other English companies did the same too in the 19th century.
Cadbury World is in Bournville, and the ward population of Bournville in 2011 was 25,938.
From the Transport section of the Bournville Wikipedia article:
Bournville is served by Bournville railway station on the Cross-City Line to Birmingham New Street, Lichfield and Redditch. Bournville railway station is painted in Cadbury's purple.
@@RWL2012 Thank you for the info - nice of you.
there is a brand of dark chocolate called Bournville, and there is a town next to the factory of the same name, created for the workers by the factory owner.
It's the town it's in that they built and named the chocolate after.
@@suepoole8323 I was responding to the comment it's a town over. It's a technicality I couldn't be bothered to call out, good job there are people that DMC here.
I live a mile away and my family has ties to the company, I'm well aware of what it is.
@@mxclaireharris And it was never a town just a villiage which is a part of the City of Birmingham now
@@peterwilliamallen1063 again. It wasn't me who called it that. Are you that DMC you have to pull someone up on a month old post.
@@mxclaireharris It might not of been you, but the comments go to every one in the cahain on a certain comment, but you may not of said that but when some one wrute a comment in the section every one gets the answer.
The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products
The chocolate shoes is to show skills of the chocolate makers. It’s not all done by machine now. In old days it needed lots of decorating skills etc
Bournville in Birmingham is where Cadbury was first made. The Cadbury family were Quakers and even today if you live in Bourville you have to live by Qhaker rules.
There are no quaker rules to live by apart from there are no pubs to this day in the Bournville village suburb… it’s actually a very green and nice part of Birmingham
@@jamesanthony3072no fast food places either
no you do not, living in Bournville is no different to living anywhere else. if you own a property on Bournville village trust land which is separate to Cadburys then there are a few rules you have to agree to in respect of your property
I tried some years ago to get social housing in Bourville they asked me to declare my religion and sexuality. As a teen gay who was athetist I was scared and walked away from the application. Yes Qqaker rules do apply.
Perhaps it was simply down to others having a higher priority?
I have stood by the Cadbury factory gates one freezing snowy day............ and the smell of the chocolate was just divine!!!!!
Cool fact - Roald Dahl was part of what became MI6 during WWII. The Cadbury family were interesting because they were Quakers, they built Bournville (an area of Birmingham) for their workers, it's really pretty and has more of a village feel even though it's in the middle of the Birmingham conurbation. Their competitor Rowntree created Port Sunlight ( for correction see comment below,)
Just a minor correction Port Sunlight was created by Lever brothers , Lord Leverhume .
Rowntree is based in York , they were also Quakers .
My brother worked at Rowntrees when I was a child , I was favourite at school as I could get weird colloured smarties , the ones that did not pass Quality control .
@@lesleyriseam1282 Also the Frys (of Turkish Delight and Chocolate Cream fame) were Quakers too.
Another 'fascinating' fact, Bournville railway station on the outskirts of Birmingham is painted Cadbury's purple throughout.
@@jackethangs5570 Also, Fry's were the ones that invented the first solid chocolate bar.
@@jackethangs5570it's the only station that's allowed to not be in the standard colours
Cadbury world has a website it shows what you can do, the attractions, prices etc, in the exclusive chocolate range there is also a chocolate teapot lol as well as the shoes. Yes apparently the book was inspired by Cadbury and Rowntree 2 big British chocolate companies at that time, sadly Rowntree no longer exists as it was as they sold the company to Nestle so now all those chocolates have the Nestle name on them such as Kit Kat, Rolo, Smarties, Lion bars etc
Created in Birmingham
Nestle ruined all the stuff Rowntree used to make...especially Quality Street. Toffee Crisp, Lion bars, Rolo, Yorkie...all garbage.
@@thetruth9210 It will always be British regardless of owners as will all of the old Rowntree's products
Off peak it is£ 16.80 per adult and £12 .40 for children and weekends and school holidays its £ 18.90 for adults and £ 13.95 for children.
Free chocolate is included
Seems expensive for what it is...if what's shown on the video is the total sum of it all.
@@vallejomach6721 They didn t see it all because they were there later in the day they said.
@@vallejomach6721 They said they didn't see it all and that it would be easy to spend the whole day there so for that price I'd say its good value.
There is so much more, especially if you go in October as there is also a panto in the outdoor bit too.
There are Cadbury shops in many UK shopping malls. The 1kg bags of 'mus-shapes' are particularly fun.
You should also check out the Black Country and Iron Bridge museums, both in the Birmingham area.
The Black Country Museum and Iron Bridge are not in the Birmingham area, they are no where near to Birmingham
Shout out to all here who are West Midlanders!! And no, I've still never been to Cadbury World!! 😂
You need to come to the UK - best wishes from a Silihillian living in Wiltshire x
Bournville is not only a type of dark chocolate bar produced by Cadbury but is also the name of the model village located on the south western side of Birmingham not far from Cadbury World.
Bournville model village was built by the Cadbury family who were Quakers to house the employees and their families who worked in the factory.
Still the best chocolate ever
It's not a model village it's an actual real one!!!
Not that kind of model village!
Google says model village in terms of model way of living.
Because the Cadbury family were Quakers and built Bournville, there was no pubs built and no alcohol was allowed to be served in Bournville.
The Cadbury family also started social clubs for the workers and built such as tennis courts for them to socialise.
A model village is one of two things. Either a miniature model of a village or a full size, mostly self contained community with standards others outside could aspire to.
It depends in which context the word model is used.
In Bournville case the word model is used to describe the fact when it was built it they built high quality housing, lots of local amenities for the workers etc.
@@stuartfitch7093 I took it as a miniature model village but I only live a few miles away so know it’s an actual village, although back in the day it might have been an aspirational place, not so much in modern times with Birmingham City Council being bankrupt 😥
My one and only time visiting Cadbury World must have been more than 30 years ago now. I seem to remember the first part - a walk-thru history bit with various tableaux - followed by the factory production bit, from bean to finished product. And the final bit was the shop where you could "load up" with various Cadbury's products at slightly advantageous prices, although it was mostly stuff with a short shelf life left on it. Back then, I seem to remember outside the visitor centre building they had a number of cars styled to resemble Cadbury Creme Eggs.
I must have gone about the same time as you. I remember being handed a different chocolate bar as you entered each area, rather than all at once as in the video.
_What is certain is that the Fry, Rowntree and Cadbury families in England, began chocolate making and in fact Joseph Fry of Fry & Sons (founded 1728 in Bristol, England) is credited with producing and selling the worlds first chocolate bar_
Cadbury 1824.
Hershey 1894. _By 1900, we sold our very first candy bar_
Chocolate bar😂🇬🇧
@@amandasmith3716 Anti-static mat, now we're through making random statements, a little context please...
@@daveofyorkshire301 sorry I mis-read the Hershey statement. I thought you wrote it and went all American😂
@@amandasmith3716 It's why it's italic, it's a quote from the web not my own assessment.
@@daveofyorkshire301 yes I understand I was multi tasking at the time I read it and wasn’t concentrating.
You should deffo look at the history of cadburys, it’s a really interesting story of the beginnings of minimum wage and worker’s rights and philanthropy. Very sadly they were bought out by Kraft foods USA a few years ago and lost the ethos that was built for 100 years by the founder. Still eat their choc every day 😅 Went to Cadbury World for my 31st birthday 😂
My late elder son went to Birmingham University for 3 years and in certain days all you could smell was Chocolate in the air days and all you could smell in the air was Chocolate.y also did tours of the fact
If you can Steve, I think you guys would love to see “the sweet makers” it’s a set of 4 episodes taking 4 confectioners/bakers and taking them back in time in England to see how things were done over different centuries. The first covers Tudor times and then it evolves to present day. Very interesting.
Tempering make the chocolate smooth and shiny, to give the gloss coating on dipped chocolates outside of aero or an individual chocolate in a box. It Also helps give a snap to the finished coating
It's done by heating and cooling. The marble table provides a stable cool temp.
I live about a quarter of a mile from here. Can smell the chocolate when the wind blows in the right direction!
I would stay in Birmingham for afew days, definitely visit Cadburys world, Lego land, Birmingham museum and art gallery, library of Birmingham which is biggest public library in Europe with amazing roof terraces for views across the city, worlds biggest Primark has a cool Disney cafe in it and just the sightseeing of the city architecture from very old buildings to ultra modern ones and people are mostly very friendly and welcoming, brilliant restaurants/pubs/cafes throughout the city also. Lots of smaller museums especially in the jewellery quarter which is where lots of the Queens/royal family crowns etc have been made, big Irish community also, the back to back house museum is great to see how people used to live that’s in the southside ( china town/gay village ) area and a short journey away in Dudley is the Black Country Museum which is a village with people in character showing how people used to live and work ( was used in the filming for Peaky Blinders )…. There are lots more things from free art festivals throughout the city also to amazing art/theatre shows… Definitely a city to explore for a couple of days
ThinkTank is apparently good too...
We have a friend who lives on the Bournville estate and used to work at Cadbury's in the accounts office. On the estate built by the company there are a number of schools, shops, sports fields and swmming pools. Due to the founders being Quakers all facilities were duplicated so one for the boys and one for the girls. No pubs. All the buildings are only allowed to be renovated under strict rules. Opposite my friends house at the top of Lyndon Road is the hospital where wounded soldiers from overseas conflicts are air lifted to. Central Birmingham is 10 minutes away. Well worth a visit.
To answer Lynsey’s question, tempering chocolate is how you cool it so it’s shiny but the crystals don’t form; it’s done on marble because it’s cold as well as easy to keep clean.
Every once in a while, Cadbury would come up with a new chocolate concoction, and give out free samples to local kids to see if they liked them. That memory stayed with Dahl, and years later in 1964, he published a book titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Didn't Roald Dahl grow up in Cardiff before he went to boarding school in Repton though?
In his autobiography Cadbury would send samples to Dahl's school for the kids to try@stevelknievel4183
Fraserhorne was basically correct, but Cadburys actually sent boxes of various chocolates to a few schools across the country, including Repton, where Dahl spent some of his school days.@@stevelknievel4183
I am from Birmingham, and let me tell you, Birmingham has so many places to go to from the black country museum to the 2 fun parks that are in the West Midlands.
My friends mother worked for Cadbury and was looked after really well. She was allowed to eat any open chocolate in the factory and they had "bins" full of chocolate that either was not "good enough" for selling or was extras that couldn't fit in the multi packs. You weren't allowed to take anything offsite. I used to work for Shires Accident repair centre just outside of Solihull and we had Cadbury's land rover come in for some repairs. It was a 1998 defender that was bought brand new and only used on his Estate (he didn't have a licence and was not allowed to drive on the road!) It was used to.go from his home to the factory and back.
Cadbury is such a huge part of my history, I was born and grew up in a place called Keynsham on the river Avon between Bristol and Bath where Cadbury had their second factory. It was originally built for Frys chocolate producers in 1923 but was later taken over by Cadbury. It shut down about 8 years ago, now a housing estate sadly
As a Bristolian too, Fry's in Keynsham is where chocolate was invented.
@@paulhenleyFrys created the first chocolate bar. Chocolate was first used in Mexico as a drink several thousands of years ago. The Dutch created a way to make cocoa solids and Frys made the first bars.
aww memories for me too . my mum used to do tupperware parties in a outhouse place in the Cadbury factory grounds in keynsham and the factory amazed me .. had chocolate from there a few times . now its gone that makes me sad
I used to go to cub scout jamborees in the Cadbury Community Theatre there (I lived in a village near Keynsham)
My hubby used to work in the old chocolate factory as he calls it.
If you're in that neck of the woods, check out Bournville, the village founded by the Cadbury family for their workers.
Cadbury was bought by the American Kraft corporation and production was moved to Poland some years ago. It was a pure act of spite. Sales fell here in Britain after the recipe was changed. Cadburys were Quakers and they looked after their workers by building a town and providing homes and schools. We'll never see the like again.
It wasn't out of spite at all, it was a temporary move with a lot of the production moving back to Birmingham in 2022. The fact it was 3 times more expensive to make over here than continental Europe was the main factor.
Ya don't touch Cadbury anymore since they changed the recipe it's not the same
They closed production. The Kraft head was Called to Parliament, she refused to attend, get your facts straight.
I live near The Cadburys factory in Birmingham production moved back to Birmingham in 2022
The original Birmingham factory is still used as well
The Factory has been open for years , took my children and they are now 40 and 38.. Looking at this it has so grown . I will have to take the grandchildren…
When I was 10, our whole school (all 32 of us boys) visited the earlier Cadbury park at Bournville, outside Birmingham. We toured the factory and different manufacturing halls. In each, we were given free samples, and each of us also was given a tin with a selection of items to take home. The smell of chocolate was overwhelming. Being boys aged 8-13, we obviously over-indulged. So much so, most of us couldn't face another chocolate for weeks. 😂
Bournville is not outside Birmingham it is a district of Birmingham about 3 miles from the city centre.
Yes when I was a child we went on a bus trip to Cadbury. They took us on a tour of the factory and a tour around Bournville village. We had afternoon tea in the canteen and a free tin of assorted chocolate.
I went to then, and yes, you could over-indulged. I had that tin for years.
'In 1824, John Cadbury began to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate from his premises in Birmingham. Cadbury developed the business with his brother Benjamin, and later his sons Richard and George. George developed the Bournville estate, a model village designed to improve the living conditions of company employees.'
'Mondelez International has fully owned Cadbury since 2010 and is one of their parent organisations. The Kraft Heinz Company, and Kraft Foods UK LP & Production Holdings Limited are the other two parent organisations of Cadbury.'
My kids loved it. They asked me to take them to a car show at the NEC. Once there my eldest with his friends went to the car show, my youngest (about 17) said 'Can we go to Cadbury s' he is a chocolic!
I've taken school trips too, all enjoyed it!
It was a hostile takeover, Cadbury was not up for sale, but they sold more shares than they owned.
@@peterbrown1012 It was the Cadbury Shareholders that put Cadbury on the market, originally Hershey's were going to purchase Cadbury but Kraft Foods put in a hstile bid greater than the Hershey bid and the rest is History
I used to live very close to the Cadbury factory, which is situated in one of the nicest parts of Birmingham called Bournville(named after a Cadbury product.) Bournville was originally built by Joseph Cadbury to house his workers. And because he was a Quaker no pubs or places selling alcohol were allowed in the village.That still applies today despite several attempts to overturn it. When I was there Cadbury World didn't exist. It was simply the factory surrounded by glorious gardens and playing fields, although they did run tours around the factory for school groups and the like.
I started watching this and realised I had a half bar of Dairy Milk in my drawer so I have eaten it. So good! 😍
Yes Cadbury World is at Cadbury's main factory, in Bournville Birmingham, Bournville was a village built by John Cadbury, the owner of the company, in 1861 Cadbury built it's main factory and living settlement for their workers, it's become the main headquarters for Cadbury in the UK. It even has its own railway station. Back in the old days Cadbury chocolate was shipped by rail. Cadbury's even named their own dark chocolate Bournville, and the Bourbon biscuit got most of its name from Bournville, since the inventor of the biscuits was a former Cadbury's employee, who worked at Bournville.
It's open from 10 am. Get there early as it can get chaotic, particularly at weekends and school holidays.
CW is open all year Bournville is the village Cadbury built for its workers with gardens to the houses still protected today you can’t make changes without permission also Quakers don’t drink alcohol so no pubs at bournville village allowed it’s a beautiful place to see with a campanile bell you can have played for a special occasion
I'm 33 and remember going here in school, its been there ages!
Cadbury do all sorts of stuff, even being from the UK, I wouldn't even like to guess how many product lines they have.
Cadbury World is based at the original factory. It would be worth you looking up the Cadbury family. They essentially set up an entire town for the factory and its workers.
14:26 Since 2010 Cadbury has been fully owned by Mondelez International. They also own Milka, Côte D'or, Toblerone, Green and Blacks, Freia Marabou and Fry's. Chocolate Brands.
I came to the comments to find out myself, I didn't know, it's never crossed my mind 😊💕
Frys used to be independent, we had the factory on Bristol
They also owned Terry's until recently when the brand was sold to a french company. (I forget the name)
@@SeasideBandit Carambar Poulain Krema, (CPK) who are owned by Eurazeo.
In 2019 they set up a subsidiary. In Finchley, London. Called Terry's Chocolate Co. To market the Terry's Chocolate to the UK.
Hi both, my son whent on a school trip to Cadbury 's world. Thay left school at 9am and got back home at 6pm at night .SO it's a FULL day out .Take care and all the best. 😊😊😊👍👍💟
Cadbury's advert from back in the day, using Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight" - ua-cam.com/video/Rs2z7OA3XKI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=AdvertCommercial
BTW, a lingerie company did a spoof of the Cadbury's advert - ua-cam.com/video/s-3kW0wEQIQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KarmaTiger 😆 I remember an interview with Phil Collins some years ago and he was OK with both ads. It wasn't Phil in the gorilla suit but it was another drummer so magaged to be credible, I'm not so sure about the woman in the bra ad. Phil's interview was where I heard about that one, I don't remember seeing it on TV
Cadbury World was first opened in the 1980s by Cadbury. But in 2022 a takeover deal was done with Merlin Entertainment who own theme parks in the UK like Alton Towers, Chessington World of Adventures and visitor attractions like Madam Tussauds. This must be the reopening after they have refreshed it,
Or after coving.
Actually it opened in 1990
My kids loved this when they were younger, especially the cocoa bean ride. Wonderful history, and the way he treated his workers in the beginning was amazing. So beautiful too, Bournville I think. The York story is good too.
It has definitely changed since I went on a school trip back in the 90's. It was more of a factory with a big shop. I was fascinated by the little cars that were shaped as Cadbury Creme Eggs. Not sure if they are still there though. Even back then, it was a great experience. I want to go back now 😂
My neighbour worked for Cadburys in the 90s. He would bring back box's of chocolate and let us kids have loads of free chocolate 😊
Sounds pretty sweet! Pun intended :)
I used to play Sunday league football as a teenager against Cadbury Athletic. They played on perfectly cut grass with under heating on the grounds of the Cadbury factory and you could always smell chocolate when you played them.
I'm from the black country in the west midlands , about 6 miles away from Birmingham, here it's pronounced " berminum "
Or ‘’Brummagem’ even.
@@MrPercy112 true
Oh give it a rest, as a Brummie of 68 years I can tell you it has never been pronounced " Bermium, it is pronounced "Birmingham2 this comming from a Black Country person who can not even pronounce " DUDLEY" correctley calling it " DUDLAY" just give your brain a rest you don't even live in Birmingham
Oh give it a sodding rest mate how can you tell some one how to pronounce BIRMINGHAM if you don't actually live in Birmingham and you openly admit you live 6 miles away from Birmingham in the Black Country which is not a part of Birmingham even though like Brum it is a part of the West Midlands, It is officialy promounced BIRMINGHAM and omly deviates away from that by Dialect and speed inpediments, and that is from a true Birmingham Citizen of 68 years, for gods sake you lot can't even pronounce Dudley correctly by calling it Dudlay, so NO IT IS NOT PROMOUNCED BERMINUM, christ I have heard the lot now
I live in Birmingham all of 5 minutes away from the Cadbury factory. I adore driving past and through Bournville village. It's currently closed for maintenance until next month and a couple of the experiences aren't open again until March. @reactingtomyroots let me know when you and your family come over for your UK trip and it would be a great to experience it with you guys
I wanted to do an Augustus Gloop when I visited but unfortunately they wouldn't let me swim in a chocolate river 😢😂 love from Bristol 🏴 guys 👍🏻🍫🤤
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I live walking distance from the factory.
Bournville is the village that the Cadbury family built for their workers. They were Quakers so they built it with enrichment in mind. There's sports fields, a church, village hall, they had a theatre group. There's no alcohol though, no pubs and no one is allowed to sell it there. Tesco has appealed it but didn't get anywhere.
The factory is still there, in use, and the tour is going through it. It's fun for adults too! You get lots of freebies (although not as much as you used to lol). And yes everything is their own brands, they're part of a few now. Cadbury world is also part of Merlin now who own a few good attraction across the UK. When that video was made they didn't have it finalised but now it's part of group and you can use the pass to get in and get discounts.
My grandad was a draftsman who worked for Cadbury and invented the curly wurly.
If you ever get to the UK, you must pay Birmingham a video, there's lots here your daughter would enjoy. If you'd like a Birmingham roving reporter I'll happily do a tour for you.
Well done your Grandad 😊 I have quite recently re-discovered Curly Wurlies and they are just as nice as I remembered (somewhat smaller though...as are most chocolate bars I am sure 🤨)
@@nightowl5395 they're one of my childhood favourites and I still have them occasionally now. Even without the background!
Random thing not even many people know in Birmingham. The Cadburys themselves lived in Edgbaston, which isn't too far away. That's also a Quaker area and although you can buy alcohol there now, there's no pubs in their area.
The wonderful Roald Dahl wrote Charlie and the chocolate factory- his parents were Norwegian and apparently Cadbury and Rowntree inspired him to write the book - Sophia would love the Cadbury experience, but methinks parents would be the most excited! I would be! Take care folks x🏴
What has his Norwegian parentage got to do with the price of fish? He was a British author🙄
@SeeDaRipper
This channel is about Steve reacting to this roots, Dahl's parents being from Norway are an interesting fact.
@@mancuniangamecat8288 Are Steves roots in Norway? It's a totally irrelevant 'fact' (you could harp on all day about authors/actors etc lineage when it bears no relevance whatsoever?) did you know, i have homosapien and neanderthal bloodlines? shocker eh!
@@SeeDaRipper...Chill. His parents were Norwegian and the first persons comment just simply said that…everyone knows he grew up British and considers himself as such. He spoke Norwegian before he spoke English which an interesting fact and also thought in the Royal Air Force for his country, The UK, in world war 2.
All nice interesting facts, nothing to cry about my friend. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Deano-Dron81 who's crying? Seems like everybody trying to justify the OP's insignificant ramblings are the ones in tears 🫣
Been to Cadbury World twice a while ago, it is def a family experience, had to pay at the beginning or there may be now an online ticket purchasing system. One time we went to Bourneville Village nearby where the workers used to live and another time there were carousels outside. Bourneville is dark chocolate. When I went in 2000 it was jointly Cadburys Schweppes. History: In 1824, John Cadbury began to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate from his premises in Birmingham. Cadbury developed the business with his brother Benjamin, and later his sons Richard and George. George developed the Bournville estate, a model village designed to improve the living conditions of company employees.
The white stuff inside a cocoa pod is called mucilage and is a protective layer inside the pod. It is also edible.
They were demonstrating tempering the chocolate. It’s the heating and cooling process that gives the chocolate a shiny stabilised finish. That’s how they get it ready for making individual filled chocolates so that they don’t melt in your fingers.
Tempering chocolate cools it slowly so it stabilises it so it can then be used into making different confectionery
Used in baking for decorating cakes
@@fayesouthall6604 some of the designs they make with tempered chocolate are incredible aren’t they? It’s fascinating to watch. I’m not a chocolate person.. can’t stand it, but I love watching it being manipulated into some amazing items
Did you notice the Aztec section at Cadbury world? That’s because the cocoa tree and pods were first used by the Aztecs to make a drink for them and it was made with hot peppers so it gave a hot spiced drink and was thought to govern health. This was made by the Aztecs for centuries in South America before the Spanish arrived. When I first went to Cadbury World way back when they actually made the drink which you able to taste, nearly blew my head off, well it certainly cleared my nasal passages and sinuses I remember it distinctly. The story of Cadbury’s is on Wikipedia about the family, the factory and how the Cadbury family looked after the workers and were probably the template for workers rites and welfare before it was thought of here.
Globalised businesses now means that Cadbury was bought and joined a family of businesses under the umbrella of a big named conglomerate.
Hope you come over here and little one gets to see the Chocolate Factory but keep Lindsey safe with a pair of boxing gloves tied onto her hands!!!!
Cheers both, have a good one. --- Have seen the Cadburys Gorilla TV. Ad it’s on you tube it’s so famous!
Cadbury use to send free samples of new chocolate to school children in the area in exchange for their opinions. This is probably where Dahl got his inspiration from.
Also, although Cadbury World wasn’t there back then, the original Cadbury factory opened in Birmingham in the late 1800s. About an hour away from Dahl’s home in Derbyshire.
21 years on it still sound 'wrong' for Cadbury's to be called just Cadbury, but the wikipedia article says:-
"In 2003, Cadbury dropped the 's' from its name and renamed the brand to Cadbury."
So I just have to accept that I'm an old-fashioned 'fuddy duddy'. 🙂
Is it bad I didn't notice they dropped the 's' 🙈🤣🤣
Notice on the educational videos (like around the 3:45 or 4:00 mark, early on) they have a sign language interpreter in the corner so deaf visitors can also enjoy the experience. Very cool.
Cadbury World is depending on if you book on line for a specific time or if you choose to add bits to the ticket it is around £30 per adult. Children over 5 is around £12.50 but again there are different options for families and what you include. I would budget for the shop as well! Cadburys was time was once upon a time Cadbury Schweppes which was then sold to Mondelez sadly. This is how they have Sour Patch Kids on sale.
You are correct! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl lived in Derbyshire and Cadburys would send out packages of new chocolates to school children to get their feedback on their new chocolate ideas.
I went there for a friend's birthday when I was about 8 or 9, it was fantastic. We tried so much chocolate we felt sick as a dog. They had a great park outside as well.
Cadbury really looked after their employees back in the day. Their history is an interesting read. The chocolate did change when it was taken over, but I still love it!
The Cadbury factory shop has definitely grown since my visit, some ten years ago. Sophia would love it, as did my daughter at her age.
The original 1970's film 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' with Gene Wilder as Wonka was mostly filmed in Munich in Germany. The 2005 remake 'Charlie & the Chocolate factory' with Johnnly Depp as Wonka was made at Pinewood Studios in Hertfordshire, with some scenes filmed in places such as Bath, High Wycombe, and Hatfield House. Some scenes were also filmed in Germany, the USA and Yemen.
Proper “tempering”-heating and cooling chocolate to stabilize it for making candies and confections-gives chocolate a smooth and glossy finish, keeps it from easily melting on your fingers, and allows it to set up beautifully for dipped and chocolate-covered treats. Untempered chocolate will be dull and not break cleanly. It will also have white streaks in it where the fat has come to the surface. It is still edible but the look and mouth feel is not attractive. I make chocolates and I had to take a course on the different ways to temper chocolate. I make chocolate shoes too. They are a great gift especially if filled with chocolate treats.
I've been to Cadbury world a couple of times and highly recommend it. I once took a party of Cadbury workers out on a trip on the party boat I was the skipper for. And they gave a box of 300 cream eggs as a thank you. Great memories
At my son's wedding, he and his husband, had gifts for their Mum's, and they were the chocolate shoes, and had "Thank you Mum" written on them in icing and a beautiful presentation bag. They were very thick chovolate. I wish we could upload photos on here 🙂
There is also a museum that shows the chocs I had as a kid 70 years ago. I liked the place so much I would take the grandkids twice a year whether they wanted to go or not.
Cadbury had it's own fleet of cargo narrowboats & port. They were the first canal carriers to use steam driven motorbarges.
Mondalez (formerly Kraft) own Cadbury Schweppes and many other companies. Cadbury was originally a Quaker owned firm renowned for building model housing for their workers in Bournville, from the 1860s
From the age of 4 to 24 I lived fairly close to Cadbury World and if the wind was blowing in the right direction. You could smell a faint smell of chocolate in the air from my backyard.
My first job after I finished secondary (high) school was a Demonstration Assistant on the Cadbury World tour.
17:25 - The floor of the building that appears to be level with the guy's nose and mouth is where I worked.
I can't remember much because it was over 20 years ago. But my job involved making and giving out samples for the visitors and making certain hand-made chocolates as visitors watched and passed by. I remember making Hollow chocolate Santas that were about 6 to 8 inches tall and made with milk chocolate and a bit of white chocolate for the beard, and fur trim on his hat, sleeve cuffs and trouser cuffs.
After a little while of working there I lost the ability to smell chocolate and the appetite to eat it because I was around it so much. Haha.
We went a few years ago to Cadbury World. The smell is heavenly. You can smell the chocolate from a few streets away. 😋
I went to college right next door to the Cadbury factory, and would get the waft of chocolate on the breeze every day! I think you would really enjoy the experience and the little Bourneville village area which you can find a very pretty public park too. Many people here once worked there as it has been there forever! It is a beautiful area of the city as it was built by the Cadbury family who were Quakers and firmly believed in having a social conscience and built a lot of the housing to far better standards than elsewhere. Bourneville chocolate is their dark chocolate version, and my favourite.
I grew up in Birmingham (near the N.E.C), and every now and then my dad and I would take the bus (the 11, "Outer Circle") to Bournville to have a little day trip around Cadbury World and the local area - It was always such a good time every time. I highly recommend going; and also exploring Bournville itself (not just the factory), as there's some good history to be found. For example, one of the more major Bournville sights to see (and hear!) is the Bournville Carillon - a sort of organ made of bells. There's only 15 of these instruments in the UK, & the Bournville Carillon is the largest of these. I hope you get to hear it being played as it is a sound you very rarely get to hear in everyday life. Also, depending on which way you arrive there (and if the wind is just right), you can smell the wafts of chocolate being produced from the outside of the factory - and every time it happened my father and I would get quite hungry haha :D So yeah, highly recommend 10/10! (Final side note: I don't think they do them anymore, but on the handmade shoe thing, I remember they used to make full size (1:1 scale) footballs and rugby balls - though of course they were hollow haha. And also you could get a 1kg and 5kg(!) dairy milk bar! Those were the days...)
Cadbury world is a visitor centre and the main factory and original village..
Cadbury started in Birmingham UK. Cadbury World is 4 miles from my house. My son plays football against Cadbury FC and they play on a Football Pitch in front of the Factory. My other kids usually go into Cadbury World while we are watching the game. The shop is open to anyone without a ticket for Cadbury World. Discounted Cadbury Chocolate is great. They also have an outlet on site but you need an invite to use it. Employees and Emergency Service workers can go. Ultimate bargains in the outlet. Last offer was an over productions of Twirls for the Cadbury Heroes tubs. 4kg of mine Twirls for peanuts. Still got hundreds left. 😂
I wonder if any Americans have also watched this video, and think it's in Alabama? 😁
My daughter was looking for a wrestling club for her young son in Derby. She found an amazing one and emailed them but it turned out to be Derby in Alabama😂.
There was a Cadbury Chocolate factory here where I live, in Dunedin, New Zealand. It was a fantastic place to work and a wonderful place to go for a tour. They took things seriously - no cameras allowed, protective hair nets had to be worn, and you got to see the whole process. The taste testing was regular and everyone came away with pockets full of full-size chocolate treats. The last phase was going into the silo where there was a chocolate waterfall. It was great. Note the past tense.
When Mondelez took over, they closed down our factory, putting hundreds of people on the dole. They didn't consider the history or the heritage. They then took production over to Australia - and it's not the same. The climate here in Dunedin is very similar to the UK and the traditional methods worked.
It was interesting to see this vlog, but I don't buy Cadbury products now. I have loyalty to the original but now only get it as a gift occasionally, from family in the UK! Sad, having grown up on their excellent products, but it's just not the same. I guess that's much the same as the USA.
Ok it's Cad-bree not Cad-berry and Buh-ming-um not Birrr-ming-ham. I grew up quite close by. It's great to take kids to. Sophia will love it. Parts of the tour are closed during certain months due to temperatures and it closed down during "the time that shall not be mentioned" for obvious reasons.
Chocolate has to be tempered to change the crystal formation as it sets, otherwise it doesn't snap or get shiny. It's dull and sort of bends and breaks but you don't get that nice bite or snap.
No take it from a Brummie, it is BIRMING HAM not Buh-ming-um, god what scool did you go to. it is called Birmingham as it is named after a family who were the first lords of the Manor when Birmingham was a small viiliage centered arround the Bull Ring and the Family were the De Bermingham family, there is no Buh or um in Birmingham other mandimood where ever you are from it would be spelt like that.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 from Birmingham or buuuuuuurmingum our kid, y'alright Bab? Had your chips and scraps and panda pop? I went to a scHool that taught spelling and was writing it phonetically for an American who pronounces phonetic spelling differently to a Brummie you clod
the movie was based on a book by Roald Dhal. Who wrote Childrens books
And the screen play of Ian Flemings Bond movie You Only Live Twice with Sean Connery😉
I have been on several occasions, you can rock up and pay on the day but if you book online and choose an early slot this is probably the best way to go. Allow around four and a half hours to take in everything. The Cadbury family had their workers at heart and as such built a whole village next to the factory called Bournville. They offered housing and other amenities for their employees and generations of single families have worked there. It is a working factory and you can see them making everything and anything Cadbury. Well worth a visit, five stars.
In 2010 Cadbury was purchased by Kraft, which then changed the recipe to reduce costs (sound familiar!). The resulting product was panned in the UK.
in 2011/2012 Kraft split into two entities, one of which was called Mondelez International, which currently owns Cadbury.
We went to Cadbury world about 30 years ago, although less to do back then I preferred it. The darkness of it all doesn't appeal to me.
We came home with a free bar of chocolate made just for visitors, and a few bits from the shop, including a full box of Creme Eggs.
I rarely eat Cadbury anymore, the taste just isn't the same.
I heard the cocoa used to make Cadbury is named after the town of Bournville, which remains a popular residential area of Birmingham. (Pronounced Birmingum) Cadbury is still one of Birmingham's main employers, and continues to make chocolate products.
Birmingham is prenounced Birmingham, and Cadburys is definately not one of Birmingham main employees never was
@@juliaperry2812 You need spell check. 1) Pronounced, not prenounced. 2) Definitely not definately. I said Cadbury's was ONE OF Birmingham's main employers (not employees), I didn't say it was the only one. Also, having worked in Birmingham I KNOW nobody uses the 'h'. Everyone just says Birmingum. Find someone else to criticise.
@@sharonmartin4036 my goodness you do have your knickers in a twist, I was half a asleep when I replied to you, I worked and lived in Birnmingham all through my nursing career, my mum worked at Cadburys in the trade office I have her bible given to her on her retirement. and I do use thge h and everyone I know. I live in Stourbridge now onm the south staffs border and birmingham is said with the h over here
@@juliaperry2812 I was unaware that one had to be fully awake in order to spell correctly. I have been taking good spelling for granted all my life, thinking that it was because I had a good education, when it was really just because I was awake. Oh, yes, btw I have untwisted my knickers and feel a lot better for it. Thanks.
@@sharonmartin4036 so pleased you feel better, but we may have both been educated in Birmingham and spelling was important in my day and especially in nursing as patients documents could be used in legal matters , but I do know how to spell I make a lot of typing errors , sorry it made you so mad but to have a go at someone you do not know or have never met says a lot. I was not born in Birmingham born in oxfordshire moved to birmingham as a child when we grew up my parents moved to solihull where they remained. I presume you live in Birmingham. I do not completely like what it has become , I was a volunteer at the commonwealth games at Sandwell had a wonderful two weeks really enjoyed it
There is also a giant M&M store near Leicester Square in London, it's quite the store to behold! Sadly, it isn't a full tour thing, you just turn up, buy some M&Ms, or customize your own, and buy.
Wow, absolutely fascinating...😒
@@SeeDaRipper... More fascinating than making sarcastic replies.
@@AdamTaylor-RDL Ooooh (grabs handbag)
SeeDaRipper: Adam is correct; and your sarcasm here, and elsewhere, is inane and amateurish. 😘
@@MrPercy112 My point was, was that i'm sure that there's a multitude of M&M stores throughout the world (especially in the states) and that it bears no real interest in a one off experience like Cadbury's. P.s my sarcasm is far from amateurish (I'll give you inane though)🤫
Merlin is an entertainment group, they run lots of different attractions around the UK so you can usually get an annual pass giving you unlimited access to all of their attractions.
First sold in the UK, they would later be sold in Ireland, Australia, South Africa and other nations. The later product, Cadbury Twirl, has two Flake-style bars covered in milk chocolate. Flakes are no longer manufactured at Bournville and are now made in Dublin, Ireland, and 10th of Ramadan, Egypt.
My mother in law went to Cadbury’s world in the 80’s/90’s and she was able to go into the factory itself and walk among the conveyor belts, people on her tour group were taking a piece or two of chocolate as they passed. When she went again in the 2000’s, health and safety stopped everyone from going on to the shop floor.
Yes, I was just thinking how different this seems to when I went... 🤔 It is much more of a visitor centre now, with lots of 'hands-on' for the children, which is good. However, as you say, we were able to see more of the factory processes up-close and at every point we were being handed full-sized chocolate bars; we needed a carrier bag to put them all in before we could go back to the car!
I have been to Cadbury world. Theres more to do than expected. A tour and history of the factory and Bournville town. Activities for the kids. Its all disabled friendly too. Well worth a visit. The kids get goodie bags of chocolate too.
My brother was in Sandhurst (where Army officers are trained) with a guy called Cadbury. Apparently he was a great laugh.
Come one of their weeks off from training, Cadbury asked my brother and one or two others back with him. Turns out he was the grandson of the owner of Cadbury at the time (this was I believe earlier the same year the company was sold to Kraft). He took them to Cadbury World one day, everything was free to them, so they packed their bags full of chocolate and I'm guessing became very popular when they went back to Sandhurst. 🤣
I know one guy hid chocolate around the area he knew was a common endurance march area or something, so he'd have a secret energy boost. Apparently it's not unusual to do that sort of thing.
My brother still keeps a big box of chocolate on standby at all times. He doesn't eat massive amounts, but he's keeps the sort of tradition among his small group alive. Very handy when I stay at his place!