R.I.P. Creme Egg

the groutch · 12-01-2015 2:19pm #1

bad enough they have been made smaller over the years, and the recent reduction from a 6 pack to a 5 pack with no change in price.
but now they've changed the chocolate to some Americanesque muck.

http://www.newstalk.com/Eggsclusive:-Creme-Egg-recipe-has-been-changed

can't see myself buying them again any time soon.

Menas · 12-01-2015 2:20pm

Say it ain't so Groutch....

Gummy Panda · 12-01-2015 2:20pm

Creme eggs have long been filth along with most of cadburys chocolate.

It'll never taste as good as when we were kids

Gbear · 12-01-2015 2:21pm

Why do companies always **** up perfect sweets?

They did it to Loop-the-Loops by making them mealy and rubbish, they did it to Cadbury's Caramel by putting the same dog**** caramel from Caramello in them and now this.

How is making your product ****ter a sound business decision?

Tzardine · 12-01-2015 2:23pm

I will reserve judgement until I actually taste the new ones.

Steven81 · 12-01-2015 2:25pm

How do you eat yours?

BoJack Horseman · 12-01-2015 2:26pm

Cadbury "chocolate" is essentially twice fried vegetable oil & soy milk, with a dash of cocoa.

(Sadly).

shamrock55 · 12-01-2015 2:26pm

They have never been the same since they fecked around with the goo inside a few years back, its horrible muck now

o1s1n · 12-01-2015 2:27pm

Damn you Kraft!! Damn you to hell

Menas · 12-01-2015 2:28pm

shamrock55 wrote: »

They have never been the same since they fecked around with the goo inside a few years back, its horrible muck now

Yup, when the 'cream' actually looked and tasted like cream. Not the translucent e-ridden muck they have in there now.

Greenmachine · 12-01-2015 2:28pm

Steven81 wrote: »

How do you eat yours?

With a knife and fork. Not going to use chopsticks am I. That would be silly. :pac:

shanered · 12-01-2015 2:28pm

Pun heaven!

Eggs-ordinary eggs-ample!

SweetChaos · 12-01-2015 2:32pm

Anyone seen the ad with the guy chatting up a creme egg ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj6Xoj8uEBg

I fell asleep with the telly on woke up to his face scared the cr@p out of me

Creme eggs are not the same anymore I wont be buying them this year

Kim Kardashi Un · 12-01-2015 2:33pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Yup, when the 'cream' actually looked and tasted like cream. Not the translucent e-ridden muck they have in there now.

Now that's what I call yokes!! Deadly buzz!

oppenheimer1 · 12-01-2015 2:34pm

Gbear wrote: »

Why do companies always **** up perfect sweets?

They did it to Loop-the-Loops by making them mealy and rubbish, they did it to Cadbury's Caramel by putting the same dog**** caramel from Caramello in them and now this.

How is making your product ****ter a sound business decision?

The decisions are made on the basis of cost. Cadbury roses are gone to ****e because they've slashed the amount of chocolate, and therefore cocoa in it. The price of cocoa had doubled in the last 10 years.

Producers know the changes will put some people off, but they know they can make up for this loss by increasing the profitability of the product they sell to the remaining customers, overall they will be up. Kraft foods took on huge debt to buy cadbury, so they will sweat the asset for as much as they can before they flog it.

anncoates · 12-01-2015 2:43pm

It's the Spice Burger phenomenon.

People just get nostalgic about them despite not actually eating one of the wretched things since about 1984.

The Backwards Man · 12-01-2015 2:45pm

The last time I had a creme egg I still believed in the tooth fairy. Horrible yokes.

Pumpkinseeds · 12-01-2015 2:47pm

They're awful. I had one a few years ago and it was so sweet it hurt my teeth. Cadburys chocolate is filth.

Yakult · 12-01-2015 2:49pm

As a person who only eats the goo, their is a massive change from years ago. So much that I've literally no interest in them or any Cadbury product. Much better chocolate out there for cheaper or same price. Not average ****.

Gatling · 12-01-2015 2:52pm

There are a few websites and youtuber 's That show you how to make your own creme eggs ,

the last few years there gone downhill the last one I had about 12 months ago the fondant wasn't mixed properly left it grainy

shanered · 12-01-2015 2:53pm

Kim Kardashi Un wrote: »

Now that's what I call yokes!! Deadly buzz!

Up Yokes!

KilOit · 12-01-2015 2:53pm

Isn't there a world shortage of cocao or something?
Started buying the chocolate in aldi, its 85% cocao, tastes great if you're into dark

The Diabolical Monocle · 12-01-2015 2:55pm

shamrock55 wrote: »

They have never been the same since they fecked around with the goo inside a few years back, its horrible muck now

Few years since I had one, just remember it being sickly sweet. burning sweet.

MonkstownHoop · 12-01-2015 2:55pm

KilOit wrote: »

Isn't there a world shortage of cocao or something?
Started buying the chocolate in aldi, its 85% cocao, tastes great if you're into dark

Also the lidl version of magnums are delicious

Gbear · 12-01-2015 2:57pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Yup, when the 'cream' actually looked and tasted like cream. Not the translucent e-ridden muck they have in there now.

It's a popular food myth that E numbers are bad.

They aren't some sort of industrial effluent.
They're a designation used for chemicals that include naturally occurring compounds like vitamin C (E300).

Cee-Jay-Cee · 12-01-2015 2:59pm

I haven't eaten a cream egg in years as they ruined thrm years ago. They recently ruined cadburys dairy milk bars by introducing their new improved recipe. It tastes like ****e like the rest of their chocolate.

derb12 · 12-01-2015 3:27pm

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

The decisions are made on the basis of cost. Cadbury roses are gone to ****e because they've slashed the amount of chocolate, and therefore cocoa in it. The price of cocoa had doubled in the last 10 years.

Producers know the changes will put some people off, but they know they can make up for this loss by increasing the profitability of the product they sell to the remaining customers, overall they will be up. Kraft foods took on huge debt to buy cadbury, so they will sweat the asset for as much as they can before they flog it.

Is the whole kraft thing the reason why there were some toblerones in box of roses recently? I think I am down to just one Rose that I actually like now.