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.

Sorry Wrybread but your Cadbury source is talking out of their arse. Their creme eggs still contain palm oil.

www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-creme-egg-11467

Even if they have reverted to using dairy milk for the chocolate shell it makes no difference, as Dairy Milk is packed with palm oil too. It's not the shape of the bar. It's the ingredients. Palm oil is cheap muck which makes the chocolate taste like cheap muck.

It is a total scandal but Cadbury - or their parent company - don't give a shit. And people still buy it because it's a familiar, well loved brand.

They still taste nice to me but I can taste the difference and they are not as special anymore. The chocolate used to be so much creamier and thicker but now it's thin.

I had a crème egg last week and it tasted “normal” to me but seeing the list of ingredients puts me off having any more.

Do Lidl do their own version of crème eggs??

There was always a difference between the UK mass market chocolate with its vegetable oil ( pre palm oil) but it was nice to me in its own way

It's patently obvious that the chocolate has changed!

They can " truthfully" say that the recipe contains the same proportion of vegetable oil and so is the same recipe I guess.

Is there any chocolate that’s still nice ?

Okay, so being legally truthful, but still lying in reality.
It tastes different, nothing to do with the shape. It was already cheap chocolate, the changes have pushed it over to shite chocolate.
Sure some people still like it and eat it, but the press is full of articles about how sales of creme eggs have dramatically dropped. So many people no longer like them.
Cadbury's, in reality, have pissed away a much-loved brand that they have spent a lot of money advertising over the years. Crazy behaviour.

Is there any chocolate that’s still nice ?

Well obviously my idea of "nice" might not be your idea of nice but there are still some chocolate brands around without palm oil. Lindt bunnies and bars - but not the filled ones as the filling has palm oil. Aldi Moser Roth. Ritter Sport - but again not the ones with fillings. Divine chocolate is lovely, they sell it in Waitrose and Oxfam shops.

You just have to accept that in order to get better chocolate, you have to pay a little more. And avoid the mass market stuff by Mars, Cadbury and Nestle.

I've just googled and they did take palm oil out of dairy milk bars at one point.

If it's still out, what is still making it rank? The last Cadbury I tried was from my kids egg shells last Easter so I've not bought a bar in years. The shell tasted awful by the way.

Anna When I google it says dairy milk has palm oil in it? Maybe at one point it was simply labelled as vegetable fats?

Anna - a quick google would tell you that there is most definitely still palm oil in dairy milk. This information is out there, not difficult to find at all.

www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294

INGREDIENTS
MILK**, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, vegetable fats (palm, shea), emulsifiers (E442, E476), flavourings.

I think I saw a creme egg type thing in Aldi the other week but I don’t think they cover themselves in glory in terms of palm oil either

Thanks for the link to Love Cocoa! It looks divine!

Sometimes I actually want cheaper style chocolate. I buy the more expensive type, but it is rich tasting, and sometimes I want chocolate that does not taste so rich. That is when I used to buy cadburys, but not any more.

First Terry's Chocolate Orangeoff the list, now Cadbury creme eggs, woeful.

I was reading an Industry article from a few years back on palm oil use in a range of Cadbury products. They've clearly been tinkering with the recipes on and off.

I was interested in the timeline of the story of the source saying they had removed palm oil rather than wanting a break down of products today.

Silene my internet searching turned up what I was most interested in but thanks for your kind concern!

There is most definitely palm oil in the Dairy Milk. Here's Cadbury's own ingredient list.

www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294

I haven't bought any Cadbury products for years now and probably never will again

Have not bought any Cadbury’s products since the hostile takeover by kraft.

Vote with your purses.

Experience is enough to put me off buying their products!

We are trying to reduce palm oil usage at home but we are very fond of chocolate and snacks...90% of our favourites contain palm oil. All Cadburys Mcvitie's and Oreos...and a lot more besides. It's in Sainsbury's puddings (Sainsbury's being our local supermarket) and bread, and cakes even sodding ice cream...it goes on and on. If nothing else, we have reduced our snack intake which is no bad thing. Our bodies will be grateful for it. I think eventually we'll cut it all out, and spend the snack budget on posher bread and choccies.

Checking out the Easter eggs in Sainsbury's last week, even the posh brands had some palm oil or palm fat in them. You have to keep a beady eye out. Sainsbury's stock Montezuma's and Buttermilk vegan eggs, both palm oil free.

Green and black milk chocolate is truly lovely.
Co op fair trade also pretty good.
No longer buy Cadbury.

It's bloody BrEGGxit, innit?!

I think the change in Dairy Milk taste wasn't just down to palm oil - although that definitely did make it claggy and horrible - I read that Cadbury used to use a different manufacturing process which caramelised the sugar using specific machinery (insert technical term here) which is the thing that used to give Dairy Milk that distinctive rich taste unique to itself. When the company first changed hands it was deemed too expensive to replicate the worn machinery and so that method of sugar treatment within Dairy Milk ceased and the flavour was never "right" again. I did hear that the Irish Cadbury factory that made Twirls still had its original sugar caramelising machinery and that is why they continued to taste like proper Dairy Milk. Not sure if this is still the case though.

I had heard of the magic Twirls that had somehow escaped the switch!

Love Cocco is the new Cadbury's, I think they still follow the older chocolate recipes.