One food gets better every year. The chocolate ice cream or dessert on Singapore Airlines (March 2022). The airline has had a series of delicious ice creams and this latest mousse was wonderful. An intense chocolate flavour, a thick, creamy, lip-smacking mousse.
It appears that the company was founded in the 1990s in Kildare, which is to the west of Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland (southern Ireland for simplicity's sake). Kildare means church of the oak. The company was bought up by a Polish group but still has the O'Brien family involvement. O stand for of, meaning descendant of.
If the name O'Brien sounds familiar to you, apart from chocolates, maybe that is because it is in the top ten of Irish names, or because you have read about one of two well-known Irish authors, Kate O'Brien and Edna O'Brien.
I watched the video about the origin of the country. The enterprising and enthusiastic lady who started it had tasted wonderful chocolate at a hotel in South Africa. She was so impressed by the chocolate that she spent the whole of the rest of her stay there in the hotel kitchen learning about chocolate from the hotel's expert.
On returning to Ireland, she started experimenting. Her creations were so successful that she went into business, and named the company after her small daughter. The first major development was supplying to the Irish flight company Aer Lingus. The products are not static. The team in Ireland meet up regularly to review the products and find new tastes and combinations for the customers' enjoyment.
Useful Websites
https://lilyobriens.co.uk/all-chocolates/by-type/boxes
https://www.facebook.com/LilyOBriens
(ie is Ireland or Republic of Ireland or Eire)
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2017/1222/929272-lily-o-briens/
https://www.irelandroots.com/obrien.htm
https://lilyobriens.ie/blog/blog-post/chocolate-salted-caramel-mousse-cakes-recipe
https://lilyobriens.co.uk/our-story/how-it-all-began
for chocolates sent from the USA to Singapore costing 80 dollars (plus postage?)
https://www.desertcart.sg/products/22945453-lily-o-brien-s-ultimate-chocolate-collection
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