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to think cream eggs have totally changed?

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ClaudiaSchiffer · 13/01/2010 05:25

I've just had my first Cream Egg of the year - ok, if I'm honest it's my first two [greedypig emoticon].

Anyhoo, is it just me or are they different this year? Sort of more fluffy inside rather than squidgy and gooey as I remember.

To be honest I'm not sure I really enjoyed them it that much.

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sheepgomeep · 13/01/2010 05:37

I don't like them at all sadly, the adverts for them make me feel sick.

StealthPolarBear · 13/01/2010 06:08

I've thought this for a few years, they don't seem the same as they used to, they also seem smaller

rumpleteaser · 13/01/2010 08:27

Send me some and I will test them for you!

Ronaldinhio · 13/01/2010 08:37

oh bloody hell, now i'll have to try one in the interests of testing on your behalf
i'll report back

Bicnod · 13/01/2010 08:39

I'm sure the yolk and the white used to taste a bit different to each other as well when I was little. And they were definitely bigger as they used to sit in the egg thingy in the fridge and they fall through it now.

On a similar subject, does anyone remember when milky ways were BROWN inside not white? They were so much better - too sickly sweet now...

TeamEdward · 13/01/2010 08:41

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StealthPolarBear · 13/01/2010 08:42

R how did monday go? (that was you, wasn't it? apologies if wrong person)

PfftTheMagicDragon · 13/01/2010 08:43

I had one yesterday and it was runny. I think you sometimes get fluffy ones, where the filling is firmer. Maybe it's down to storage temperatures?

RatherBeOnThePiste · 13/01/2010 08:43

they are smaller, no matter what anyone says

NorbertDentressangle · 13/01/2010 08:45

I'm sure they were much bigger when I was a child. I seem to remember eating theem like you would a boiled egg but you'd never get a teaspoon in the ones around now as they're much too small.

The inide was also much runnier

PfftTheMagicDragon · 13/01/2010 08:46

but most chocolate is smaller. I bought a packet of boaster biscuits the other week (hadn't had them since they were first on the shelves) they muct be half the size now!

RolandButter · 13/01/2010 08:46

i had my first yesterday too

TeamEdward · 13/01/2010 08:48

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Longtalljosie · 13/01/2010 08:54

It'll have been off. You get a fluffy creme egg occasionally. Don't let it put you off. Maybe it's the cold weather changing the makeup of the goo?

CarmenSanDiego · 13/01/2010 08:59

Don't they have sunset yellow or tartrazine in now?

I hate that.

They have a phase of 'No artificial colours!' marketing and then when no-one's looking, they slip it back in. There was a phase when nothing had tartrazine in and now it has sneaked back.

ScaredOfCows · 13/01/2010 09:19

Some years ago I had a creme egg that I thought might have gone off - I wrote a letter to Cadburys and they sent me back a box of about 2 dozen back. I was only about 14 at the time, so was very, very pleased.

Yummy!

Ronaldinhio · 13/01/2010 09:24

stealth I am literally too much of a wreck to go
signed off

thanks for asking

Original poster
ClaudiaSchiffer · 13/01/2010 10:54

Bicnod, you are SO RIGHT about milky ways. They used to be delicious, but now waaaay too sweet.

What is happening to the world? Madness!

ScaredofCows my mum once wrote to cadburys about an off buttons easter egg and we got loads of buttons back. It was a memorable day at our house.

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wildfig · 13/01/2010 10:57

I used to prefer Yorkies when they came double wrapped in foil and paper. It felt like more of an event.

highhorse · 13/01/2010 11:16

Creme Eggs used to have foil wrappers in red, green and blue. I reckon they got smaller when one of the colours disappeared (green I think?)

I don't like it when they make shaped chocolates in different shapes - eg Terrys chocolate orange bar. I've a suspicion I've seen a fiddled-with creme egg something-or-other too. I would ask, "what's the point?" but the answer is obv ££££££.

spilttheteaagain · 13/01/2010 11:52

They have definitely shrunk, but otherwise the four one I have had so far seemed normal, runny not fluffy. They go powdery if they're old, I think the sugar crystallises or something.

inchigh · 13/01/2010 13:03

they are definatley smaller than they were i had to try errm some just to see..i still havnt forgiven john spicer who gave the cream egg i bought him as a love token for 2.5p..he gave it to julie rose of the long flowing un-birdsnesty hair..now i'm not bitter you understand..but cream eggs..well if i eat a few more it might cleanse the memory for me what do you think

southeastastra · 13/01/2010 13:06

no they're exactly the same

MistleSnail · 13/01/2010 13:07

I thought they were put on the shelves so the pectine / suger or whatever makes them set and perfect for around Easter time. Their middles will change in the next couple of months.

Of course no one ever eats them before Easter

southeastastra · 13/01/2010 13:07

if you miss milky was just cut a mars bar in half, exactly the same

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