Noticed these near the checkout at Big W in Calalaba today. Normally around $1.50 ach from my less than reliable memory.
They are, in my opinion, the best Easter egg available ever.
Yeah, they do taste different to before. As a kid they were my favourite treat. As an adult I still enjoy them but thought I had built them up in my mind to be greater than what they actually were. However, you have confirmed it is not just me getting older.
your not alone mate, a few years back someone on reddit came across a 250g block when they went to 220g and did a taste, texture etc comparison and found they'd not just shrunk the size but changed the recipie to an inferior one, and then there was another one when they changed them to the current form.
I built them up as well as I still like the occasional boost bar but as i found out when the article about the creme eggs being downgraded it became apparant different products get different types of chocolate.
The wierd thing is, if you go to mcdonalds and ge the creme egg mcflurry….. the chocolate in that tastes like the creme eggs used to be.
Yep everyone is getting older
As a child who grew up with a parent working in Cadbury Australia's head office in St.Kilda Rd I think I became a connoisseur over the years. Products have definitely had formulae changed and none of them for the better. The current generation has no idea of what they missed out in terms of taste and product range compared to what was available in Australia, for example, in the 80's.
They only think that came from the takeover by Kraft was the brand mixing of Cadbury/Vegemite and Cadbury/Oreos. Hardly innovative.
My biggest disappointment is with Picnic.It was one one of my favourites and I could tell the difference between a fresh product from the factory and one that had sat on shelves for a whie. Now I don't even bother with them they are so disappointing in comparison.
If you want to really disappoint someone…Buy them a Creme Egg McFlurry. Pathetic.
i heard the same thing….. wierdly enough my local's chocolate in them tastes amazing.
I heard it depends which flake mix they are using whether its new or old stock or some thing.
what could they get sued for, surely a manufacturer can change their recipe - even if it is worse.
it's the world of suing people try anything.
I think it had something to do with false representation or no reasonable person would have purchased it had they known of the quality decline or some crap.
I see.
do they still advertise the blocks as aglass and a half of full cream milk?
@PVA: i remember a while ago that being changed to a glass and a half of happiness….
That could have been out of a law suit haha, atm they def arent a glass and a half of full cream milk.
Good to see another article about Cadbury UK. Cadbury UK and Cadbury Australia market different products made to different recipes.
@scorpionsa: aren't all creme eggs made in the UK?
last I heard they had moved production from tasmania to a factory in the UK that just makes creme eggs all year for easter as the global factory for them.
Correct me if i am wrong on this one
@scorpionsa: wow we never even made them, they were done in nz and since the first quality decline they've been exclusively made in the UK as I thought.
Yes they are but Cadbury Creme Eggs don't contain Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate anyway. Cadbury Australia still claims that there is a glass and a half of milk in every xgrams of the dairy milk chocolate, I think it is 250 g from memory. Most of Cadbury's products are made here.
@typhoonadventure: My apologies if this came across as harsh, i'm getting too worked up on the other Cadbury thread.
@scorpionsa: I dont blame you for getting fired up…. im in the same.
Here in adelaide they used to have a factory behind my old work place, towards the end of it none of it was "made" here.
They were pulling an exploit of the system, and sadly using 457 visa's to have a whole bunch of brits come here (yeah last thing you'd think of) and stripped the business down.
It got to a point where they were ordering in everything from the UK and NZ in "part" boxes, where they were either assembling part a into part b for some stuff, slightly modifying stuff here, or even just packaging it here and getting it all marked down as product of australia, I cant even remember if it had the made from local or imported ingredients bs on it.
the last few years of it remember visting there a few times and seeing all this chocolate making gear gathering dust it was really sad then about a year ago they shut it all down and just stuck to having a warehouse here and got told 90% of the stuff they were selling was all imported.
I still remember one of the highlights being yougner was visiting the cadbury factory in tasmania, from what ive heard from a few friends theyre doing a lot of the "assembly" and modification crap there as well now and not as much making.
@PVA: Nope not on our blocks because it wouldn't be true given the size reduction. They do use the picture still to sneakily imply it though
http://www.just-food.com/news/cadbury-insists-glass-and-a-ha…
Advertising Standards Bureau case regarding a complaint https://adstandards.com.au/cases/2009/November?ref=501/09
At least you can still get it, even if it's not quite the same. Sunnyboys are gone now (I was a 'glug' person FWIW), and I still miss my Polly Waffles. (killed off partly as it was a rival for Kit Kat…. yes, someone - https://www.chocolateworks.com.au/the-great-aussie-waffle-lo… - started making something similar but they are more expensive and hard to get). I also remember when they changed the recipe for Twisties many many years ago - thankfully they went back to the original very quickly. Sort of like what happened with the infamous "New Coke" and more recently here with Shapes. I also remember when the Bertie Beetle show bags stopped being sold at the Royal Show(s), and then were brought back due to demand. Shows that if enough people want something, then manufacturers will listen….
i've seen them this price for a while at big W
Not national - $1.50 each at BigW Belmont. No discounting.
Not the best ever dude, should have tasted them like all cadbury products 5 years ago.
They switched to lower quality ingrediants, worse mouthfeel, meltier and cheaper taste :(
Even got sued in the UK for it.