Bring back proper Creme Eggs!

Really?
How shocking!

I have been resisting buying any, so I will let others do the taste testing!

What can you expect from a company now owned by the Americans! No sense of history or continuity. It's bad enough that they have got smaller but to change the recipe of the chocolate is terrible.

Quite

It so SO wrong! I appreciate it's a little thing in a world full of bigger things but what were they thinking?

The American buy out of Cadburys has ruined the chocolate so I don't buy it anymore so its good for the diet but sad overall I think.

Thanks for letting me know- won't buy any!

The traditional six-egg container now only contains five creme eggs, apparently!

I don't buy Cadbury chocolate any more. I work on the theory of eating less chocolate, but of a better quality. x

I think the chocolate has deteriorated as well , I'll buy something else for the littlies..

Me too J52 but having a bit of trouble with the 'eating less' bit

I never did like Creme Eggs anyway, too sickly. But I'm very partial to the Mini Eggs with crispy speckled shells! They better not have buggered changed them!

I still call it Cadbury's not Cadbury and I say Nestles not Nestlay and I don't care who knows it

Is this the end of civilisation as we know it?

Yes Ariadne I think it may well be!

loopyloo and J52, with you all the way- well I would, wouldn't I ;)

Our favourite at the mo is Lindt 70% with a pinch of salt (in the chocolate, with don't sprinkle salt on it, lol, it is amazing and 2 squares are sufficient, suck slowly, every evening).

I'm afraid that the original Cadbury's milk chocolate didn't contain much chocolate in the first place- even less under Kraft's- and what little left replaced by USA Hershey's- yuk- it's all palm oil and no cocoa butter- and practically no chocolate either.

But a Cadbury's cream egg? Sorry, but no never, even in the days when I had a sweet tooth, it was absolutely and totally sickly inedible- sorry.

There is a huge shortage of chocolate beans, for environmental, weather/hurricanes and now Ebola- and the price is going through the roof- hence the changes happening in the cheaper ranges. Criollo chocolate beans from South America are the very best for luxury chocolate.

The Cadbury family sold the business quite a long time ago- sadly. What an interesting Quaker family, like the Rowntrees and Bournvilles- who employed and looked after whole comminites- with houses and veg gardens, schools and infirmaries, etc.

I've always enjoyed Creme Eggs but not sure whether to get one/some now. I quite fancy trying these though :

www.thegrocer.co.uk/fmcg/rr-to-launch-creme-egg-ice-cream-for-easter/352650.article

Granjura, I envy all that Swiss chocolate! xx

Bournville is still a lovely part of Birmingham. My mother worked for the Cadbury family many years ago.

granjura, Lindt 70% with sea salt is my favourite (until I find another!) too, and, as you so rightly say, just 2 squares hits the spot, but also love their milk one too.....
To eat 'proper' chocolate makes it a real treat and far more enjoyable too

I prefer the Galaxy ones anyway, not as sickly sweet.

You have educated me granjura as I have never heard of the Bournville family

ooops KatyK- thanks for educating me back ;) sorry.

One of the Cadbury's daughters was my neighbour for a long time. Amazing woman and so down to earth, and a great gardener.

J52- you'll have to come and visit, lol.

Of course, here in the Neuchâtel area, we had the Suchard family- also with a community, family houses with veg gardens, schools and infirmary- based on the British model.

Why did all these chocolate manufacturers prove to be such generous and ground-breaking philanthropists? Very curious.

From what I can gather, it is because chocolate as a new product was seen as a means to fight against the evil alcohol- by Quakers mainly. They were not allowed to go on to Uni because of their religion (as Uni were run by the Anglican Church)- so business was the way forward. They also believed, in the paternalistic tradition- that those who had the intelligence, vision and means to put together good businesses- had a duty to do this so they could provide employment, good living conditions, education and health services for others (from top of head).