Outrage as Cadbury’s owner changes Creme Egg recipe
The Cadbury’s Creme Egg was first launched 43 years ago in 1971.
Fans of the sickly-sweet fondant-filled snack may be shocked to learn, however, that the company’s US owner has quietly changed the recipe. It’s no yolk!!
The American food giant that owns Cadbury’s is facing strong criticism for “secretly” rolling out a new “cheap-tasting” Creme Egg. Kraft Foods has replaced the hugely popular Cadbury’s Dairy Milk shell with one made from a standard cocoa mix chocolate, according to The Sun newspaper. Apparently this new recipe makes the Creme Egg taste like ‘cheap chocolate’.
To add insult to injury, this year they are reducing the numbers in the multi-pack box from 6 to 5, however the price all remain unchanged!
Are you a fan of the Cadbury’s Creme Egg? Are they one of your guilty pleasures? Do you love them or hate them?
How do you feel about the recipe change?
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What chocolate do you find is the best value for money?
This is yet another example of us becoming a country reliant on others to keep our nation alive.
We are in Europe's Pocket!
We are in America'a Pocket!
Are we going to leave Europe?
And become the next STATE OF AMERICA.
I am Scottish through and through, I support Nicola Sturgeon because I think the UK should be able to decide as a separate nation i,e. Scotland :Northern Ireland:Wales >England. Perhaps with a thing similar to a united group able to trade with the World and not be beholding to them,
I'm all for changes for the better, but this isn't better Cadbury, bring back our British Custom "egg" immediately or I will not be buying them anymore.
bought Cadbury in the first place.
Should have just opened Kraft in the UK and left Cadbury alone. John Cadbury must be turning in his grave!
Give us back our original cream eggs (complete with yokes) - they are a british institution. They can keep their tasteless rubbish for the American market and their sneeky way of increasing profits by reducting the number in the egg boxes from 6 to 5 stinks. If the sellers of chicken eggs did this, there would be total outrage. We are British and proud to be so and we sell our eggs by the doz. or 1/2 doz.
I have eaten cream egg all my life and will miss them (or at least the real thing) sadly, but will not be buying this rubbish in future.
they have always expected when buying a Cadburys cream egg.
I knew this would happen...........!
So please do NOT change the recipe charge us a couple of pence more if you must but "Hands Off" !!!
I have always been a Cadburys fan but now I only buy them when they are on special offer at the supermarket. Why change something when there was nothing wrong with it other than to line their own pockets.
I also refuse out of principle to buy any Cadbury's product that they have decreased the size of the weight.
An American company, but I bet any money that the american's are still getting the quality and much bigger bars, because if they weren't than they would boycott the company and the product.
We as consumers pay more and the Americans consumer pays less.
What we need to do as a community is everyone boycott the products where we have been forced to except the change and then watch the company's have a change of heart.
My old dad use to say " if you don't buy the product they are selling / offering, than the company has three choices that being.
One : Convert back to how the product was.
Two : Sell cheaper or increase its size ( which ever is applicable )
Three : Go out of business
The third option does not really come into it, but watch them bitch when there profits are down.
So basically its down to us the consumer. I know of a company that has lost on average £400 per week because of its greedy were untouchable attitude and other people have followed in my footsteps ( some through word of mouth others because like myself have had enough of them ) now the company is bitching about their losses. Once you lose a customer its very hard to get them to revert back to using you.
I personally cant taste the difference and neither can my customers, (and yes they are fully aware that there have been changes to the ingredients).
I think that if you liked them then, you will like them now. Do not listen to everything that you hear or read in the papers, you need to make up your own mind whether your now a 'love it' or 'hate it' kind of person.
Make your own judgement about the chocolate.
Hands off our confectionary yanks !! Stick to your smelly Hershey's and stop changing our great British legacys !! I'm so annoyed
Shame as Cadbury was iconic.
Creme eggs were something I eagerly anticipated after Christmas, and frankly I felt like my taste buds were malfunctioning! Do the folks at Kraft think we wouldn't notice? Cadbury was successful because it made delicious confectionary, it didn't change recipes that worked. The great British public are a force to be reckoned with, if we don't like something we just stop buying. I'll be saving lots of money this year as sadly Kraft have ruined a Great British icon 🙁
For the first time in 50 years or more I won't be buying any.
I am very surprised that Cadbury did not insist that Kraft kept to the same recipe.
Why change a successful recipe!
Can't stand American chocolate -Cadbury's is in danger!
Probably better health wise, I eat less but better quality chocolate now.