The new Cadbury Creme Egg pack size – what a yolk

Never a fan of Cadbury Creme Eggs I noticed a pack of 6 Cadbury Creme Egg Limited Edition Biscuits selling at 99p per pack in my local convenience store. I have to say I found them more eggcceptible and less messy to eat with a similar interior as the egg with a yolk and white. Will they be reducing the next edition to a pack of 5? I wonder………

That’s the end of the crème egg trail for me, and I’ve been eating them for over fifty years. Too small, too sweet and no longer milk chocolate – no thanks. It’s enough to drive a man to eating Snickers – except have you seen them lately? They’re tiny too.

Those in Canada can continue to enjoy a six-pack of Creme Eggs enveloped in Cadbury’s Dairy Milk: http://www.thestar.com/life/2015/01/21/canadians-spared-creme-egg-choco-horror.html

Emigrating seems a bit eggstreme.

My Daughter, loved crème eggs, before this American Company, completely changed the standard of ingredients(most definitely Cheaper, less Quality) horrible She said. She’s had Me out searching for any of the old ones still left on the Shop Shelves & luckily I managed to find Her some. When are the people of this Country going to stand up for themselves, We are being Cheated & thrown scraps , in place of most of our quality products. Were these mega companies can trick our taste buds with artificial, most probably genetically modified, chemicals/additives to make as much profit possible they will. They do not care one hoot, about supplying the customer with anything of quality or which is good for them, oh no, they do not care at all. I remember when those tripe Haribio 1st came over & flooded the UK sweet Market, pushing our beautiful Yummy Confectionary out of the market. Even as A child, I thought it a terrible disgrace, those Haribio Sweets are nothing in comparison to the sweets we had before they took over. In fact 2 Years ago in Blackburn I was lucky enough to find & purchase some sports mixtures, midget gems & wine gums, which were in fact the real deal, from My old School Shop, well the shop all the children from our school Used to Go. My Daughter said they tasted quite lovely, better than any She had ever tasted before. I examined the Jar, the maker:’The Good Sweet Company’
Alas try as I did, not even online could I trace were this company was located. Honestly the sweets which our now being sold to our children, are chemically laced, plastic tasting frauds, which are definitely bad for their Health & the Bottom line is: They DO NOT taste Good, No where near the absolutely scrumptious offerings that filled the Shop keepers shelves when I was a Child & that’s so terribly Unfair. If You would like to treat Your children, purchase good old fashioned wholesome, preferably organic(gmo’s, artificial additives & chemicals, or waste products, are NOT aloud) & make some sweets Yourself. Its really easy & the Result, You know what went into them & Your not going to risk their Health in any way. I’m a real foody, always have been & I say this, I find it quite impossible to offer anyone a plate of food which could potentially harm them. Cooking for someone is a total Love thing, a personal gift from Yourself, Untested, Risky, Poisonous components ought NOT to be Allowed.

Ainsley Harriets World Kitchen Packet Cup of Soups. Currently in supermarkets in two packing formats. – Old style contains four sachets, and sells at £1.26 reduced temporarily to 63p. The newcomer contains only three sachets currently selling at £1.64 reduced to 82p. What is Ainslie up to?

Latest ploy in some branches of Sainsbury’s is to replace at check outs the 10p carrier bag for life
with a 40p version, with the 10p version kept under the counter to be produced only on request!

M&S carrier bags – the 5p one produced several years ago, flaunted its green credentials by declaring the a percentage of the profit was going to green charities. Since M&S withdrew provision of free carrier bags, savings of £17 million accrued in the first few years may have been stuffed into their own pockets. Several requests to M&S for further information re this merely produced stock responses that “The question is not understood”. Does anyone know whether flourishing their green credentials has led to any change of heart, as all proceeds of carrier sales plus the mony saved by not providing carrier bags should have been donated to green charities?. I know some other shops had copied their example, and at one time Halfords bags were endorsed that a percentage of the profits went to charity. Those praising shops which refuse to provide free carrier bags might well ask “How green is their wallet?”
John C

When Kraft made a hostile takeover bid for Cadbury it had to borrow £7 billion in order to finance it, it seems to have passed this bill onto Cadbury customers by progressively shrinking it’s products (without apparently reducing it’s wholesale price) and appearing to change the recipe to cheaper ingredients, fudge bars, chomps and Freddos appear to have halved in size and doubled in price recently. Also this was not publicised to the customer and inventive packaging was produced to appear to hide the size reduction from their customers (remember none of this happened until Cadbury were bought out) here is a sample of this from a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30wsqtiBrVw
Also Cadbury at the same time Kraft appeared to have moved the weight of the product to the back underneath the wrapping flap or fold from where it was at the front. At the time all of this was being exposed Kraft changed it’s confectionary arm name to Mondelez and if questions are asked about it’s size shrinkage it refers them on to Mondelez and say it’s nothing to do with them. Crafty! I’ve asked Kraft a number of questions about this over the last few years and I always receive spin back (and mainly same templated stuff). So there you fo, that’d Kraft for you! I’m surprised Which haven’t held them to account yet!

It’s about time all shops not just supermarkets are made to show price per 100g in law, this will stop these unscrupulous cheating companies from trying to trick the consumer like this.

I agree that the best way for consumers is to sell in packs that show the minimum quantity – weight or volume. Therefore all packs will in practice be above this level, by the negative tolerance of the measuring plant plus, with allowance for any weight loss in storage. The price will increase accordingly to cover the average wight of production packs.