{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Cadbury was founded in 1824 in Birmingham by John Cadbury, a Quaker tea, coffee, and drinking-chocolate merchant. The family was part of a generation of British Quakers (Fry, Rowntree, Cadbury) who saw cocoa as a temperance alternative to alcohol. In the 1890s, the company moved production to Bournville, a model village built outside Birmingham with worker housing, schools, parks, and no pubs. Bournville is still where the chocolate is made."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Cadbury Dairy Milk launched in 1905 and remains the UK's most-recognised chocolate. The Milk Tray, Roses, and Heroes assortment tins have been Christmas-table fixtures for a century. The Quaker family ran the business until the 2010 Kraft acquisition, which was controversial enough in the UK to prompt regulatory scrutiny of foreign takeovers of British companies. Now part of Mondelēz. Strong with the SKN Commonwealth diaspora. The chocolate UK-raised Kittitians and Nevisians grew up with."}]}]}
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