AIBU to wonder what the actual fuck they have done to creme eggs?

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I mean, first world problems and all that, but why have they ruined creme eggs? Just had one and the chocolate was rank (DH said this was a big thing a few years ago that Cadbury changed the chocolate to make it cheaper and it doesn't taste like dairy milk any more but this clearly passed me by) and the filling was... kinda chewy. I mean, is nothing sacred? Fucking Brexit fucking up our creme eggs.

Never experienced a chewy filling... Maybe it was a bit old

We have this exact same thread every two or three days on here. Palm oil, artificial sweeteners. It isn't a new development

I know, they are rubbish these days. I had one today against my better judgement .. so disappinting!

It's not because of Brexit - it's because a US company (Kraft Foods?) owns Cadbury's.

... and they use palm oil.

Yep, they’re now horrible. I used to eat about thirty million and now just don’t bother to even eat one.

Yep they are really gross now.

Probably for the best for my waistline mind you. I don't have the metabolism for 20+ crème eggs over Easter

They’re horrible. I don’t touch them any more. DM has bought some for DS for Easter and they’ll be going in the bin when she’s not looking.

They’ve cost engineered the shit out of it. They’re ruined and there’s no point in buying them any more.

They’re horrible now, greasy chocolate and horrible grainy, claggy insides 🤮

@nutsfornutella thanks, I am aware that of the many disastrous results of Brexit, the formulation of creme eggs is not actually one of them.

I used to love them as well, but haven't bothered in a couple of years, they're rank now!

They’re horrible now, greasy chocolate and horrible grainy, claggy insides

Yes! 'Claggy' is the perfect way to describe them.

Oh dear. Am I the only one who still eats them?

Basically when they were bought out they changed the recipe. I believe they don't use milk anymore, but milk powder, which is why it doesn't taste creamy anymore.

My OH works for Mondelez that owns Cadbury. He said the company culture has gone downhill like the chocolate.

All Cadbury chocolate is rank now. Waxy, sickly and full of palm oil.

The chocolate changed a few years back and Kraft claimed they'd never been labelled as dairy milk just generic Cadbury chocolate. Always tasted like dairy milk though. I used to eat loads of them, haven't bothered for about 3 years, and haven't had any Cadbury chocolate at all this year because it's all horrid.

I have it from a Cadbury source that the recipe is back to the one from 5 years ago.

Nothing to do with Brexit. It's all about the palm oil. I was very excited to win a big tub of Roses in a raffle last week, they were so disgustingly chewy, waxy and downright horrid that the kids got them.

Luckily the shops are full of Lindt chocolate bunnies, which are palm-oil free.

I won't eat them any more and I used to love them. I don't like Dairy Milk any more and it used to be my favourite. I wish companies wouldn't change recipes like this. I thought it was a result of Cadbury having been bought by a US company who changed the kind of milk they put in the chocolate.

The chocolate now tastes like Hershey's, it's revolting

There are lots of things that have gone wrong recently and some of them are to do with Brexit, but Cadbury's Chocolate being disgusting really isn't one of them. An American corporation is the culprit for this particular bit of destruction of our heritage and has been for some years now.

Jamie Cadbury, great grandson of the original, and now nothing to do with the company as it got sold while he was still at school, does wonderful chocolate on line or via Waitrose under the tag Love Cocoa. Very expensive though.

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Meanwhile Lidl own brand is rather yummy and palm oil free. And much cheaper. Just saying...

The chocolate is so hard, a real tooth-breaker. No thank you.

I know it's not really to do with bloody Brexit!!!!

As an ardent remainer
It's nothing to do with brexit - it's a LOT to do with the US