Bring back proper Creme Eggs!

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

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

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

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

Granjura, I envy all that Swiss chocolate! xx

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

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.

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.

Yes Ariadne I think it may well be!

Is this the end of civilisation as we know it?

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Quite

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

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.

Really?
How shocking!

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