Cadbury - Original Chocolate Fish chocolate bar - Sept. 1, 2024

Chocolate of the Day

Cadbury 
Original Chocolate Fish chocolate bar
Good+
Weight: .7 oz. (20 g.) in total bar
Calories: 78.4 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $17.40 + shipping for 1 box of 6 bars
Purchased from: (AshRoseHampers, Etsy store, online order)

Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate and The Sea Theme Week, including craft chocolate bars, a few sea-related novelty chocolates, and this Chocolate Fish candy bar,

This "Original Chocolate Fish" (chocolate covered marshmallow fish) "As Kiwi as..." from Cadbury was "Made In Australia From Imported And Local Ingredients."

Aroma notes included: chocolate and spun sugar.

The highlight of this fish-shaped candy bar may have been the texture of its light, spongy pink (strawberry) marshmallow center that was covered by a thin layer of smooth dark chocolate. (Happily it was 43% cacao dark chocolate, a higher cacao percentage than in many candy bars.)

Flavor notes included: sweet marshmallow (think a light, creamy, sponge-y version of cotton candy or spun sugar) and dark chocolate. Yes, it was very sugary sweet.

I'm featuring this sea-related chocolate fish because I'll be teaching families about fish and birds today at a marsh nature center, and to honor an Australian colleague (who does a great job teaching children to net fish). 

Note: for those interested, supplies of this bar may be limited, as I've read that Cadbury may be discontinuing their 20-gram version of a candy bar classic*. (Although "smaller 'sprat' versions may still be available.)

Ingredients: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Cocoa Mass, Invert Sugar, Gelatine, Cocoa Butter, Milk Solids, Emulsifiers (Soy Lecithin, E476), Colour (E120), Flavours, Cornstarch. (Dark Chocolate Contains Cocoa Solids 43%)

Allergen-related information: "Contains Milk, Soy. May Contain Peanuts, Tree Nuts."

*Fish-shaped chocolates have been around for well over a century. The first chocolate fish I was able to find information about was produced in 1903. Later versions with marshmallow filling appeared in Scotland in the 1930s. While there are schools of other chocolate fish in the chocolate sea, Cadbury's Chocolate Fish is perhaps the most well-known in this century.