14 Things You Didn't Know About Cadbury Chocolate

​1. Cadbury were the pioneering company that first started not working on bank holidays​, so you've got them to thank for that extra lie in.

2. In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Birmingham and he sold cocoa and drinking chocolate, which he prepared himself using a pestle and mortar.

3.Over 250,000 Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons are made each minute, ​which is equal to 15,000,000 an hour and  400,000,000 every day. That is a LOT of buttons.

4. At the Bournville factory on present day, 1.2 million Cadbury Creme Egg, 5.5 million blocks of Cadbury Dairy Milk and 1 million Wispas are made every 24 hours. WHAT. THE. HELL.

​5. The 'Gorilla' advert, ​which features a primate drumming along to Phil Collins, ​has been viewed over 10 million times on various YouTube channels. ​It's not on Cadbury's official page, though, which is ​a lot ​of missed views.

6.Cadbury wasn't always the signature purple and gold wrapping it is today. Until 1920, it was actually pale mauve with red script​.​

7. The first Cadbury Easter egg was made in 1875. It was dark chocolate and had a smooth, plain surface, filled with sugar-coated chocolate drops known as 'dragees'.​

8. There are 530 calories in 100g of Cadbury Dairy Milk, 240 calories in a 45g bar, and about 25 calories in a single square of choc. SO WORTH IT.​

9. Creme Eggs dropped a massive £6 million in sales figures in 2015 after parent company Mondelez revealed they had sneakily changed the recipe. More about that here.

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10.  The first bar of milk chocolate was made in 1897, when Cadbury had lots of cocoa butter left over from making Cocoa Essence, so they used it to make bars of chocolate.​

11. 350 million bars of Dairy Milk are sold every year, ​which is almost one million per year. We're willing to admit to approximately 4 of those.

12. ONCE UPON A TIME SPICE GIRLS CHOCOLATES EXISTED THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Look:

13. The purple colour Pantone 2685c​ was initially owned by Cadbury, until Nestlé took them to court over it. Despite winning the 4 year court case, they eventually lost the rights to the purple hue when Nestlé challenged the ruling in 2013.

14. Dreamy White chocolate buttons were launched ​before ​Giant Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons.  launched in 1999. The white ones were launched in 1989, whilst the giant ones were launched in 1999.​

Now can we go and eat our own body weight in Cadbury chocolate or what?