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[โ€“] skisnow@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's distressing how many British sweet brands now have a chain of ownership leading to the US. Mondelez famously bought Cadbury's, and Bain Capital (y'know, Mitt Romney's company) own most of the "classics" like Barratts, Fox's Glacier Mints, Poppets, Tavener's, Mojo chews, Barker & Dobson etc. The only big non-American company left is Nestle, and they can also fuck wayyyyy off.

It's only Terry's and Tunnocks left now, and even then Terry's are owned by the Fr*nch.

[โ€“] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fr*nch.

Barry we're not on 2we4u

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I guess not so much in the grander scheme of things, but itโ€™s astonishing and depressing in equal measures that Britain doesnโ€™t seem able to have kept hold of any of its own beloved home-grown brands.

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