Cadbury's Creme Eggs - How Do You Eat Yours?

If given the chance, I will refrigerate Creme Eggs before eating. I like them cold cause they're less goopy and messy and take longer to eat so I can enjoy them more.

RS thought this was one of my weird habits but turns out other friends of ours do this too. I also know someone who eats them with a spoon.

So, how do you eat yours?

bite off the top, lick out the middle, eat the rest. Don't refrigerate them.

Although that is an idea.

p.s. - I realize that a lot of people think they're gross (I once did) but please try to keep the hate out. This is a creme egg appreciation thread!

two bites, gone

i do the freezing thing too! i also will let them get warm and then chop them up and mix them w/vanilla ice cream

i haven't had one of these in like five yrs tho :/

I used to refrigerate whole cartons of creme eggs for use year round. At the pharmacy near my high school, the day after Easter we'd routinely pick up a few boxes for just a couple bucks apiece. If you have the room in the fridge, I can't recommend it enough.

u might turn into fattey though.

adding them to ice cream sounds like an A+ idea!

I just shove them into my mouth in one go.

McDonalds in England has Creme Egg McFlurry's which are pretty damn good.

Ian - I could eat these suckers every day but only allow myself one a week in the spring (ok two if I'm feeling particularly gluttonous) otherwise I'd be in trouble.

sausage unpretentious eating style otm

dozens at a time

To those who haven't had them refrigerated - try it!! It's a whole other creme egg experience.

My mother-in-law sent me a couple of these a few months ago and they were pretty great too: http://www.cremeeggtwisted.com/

there's two places in NYC that do DEEP-FRIED cadbury eggs around easter time and it is pretty phenomenal.

I tried my hardest to make that not sound like OMG BACON OMONOMONOM, but it's difficult considering the subject matter.

anyway, the best part about it is the texture, when the creme part gets all melty inside the dough shell.

it's pretty much one of my favorite things on earth

i prefer them room temp, i like the extra goopiness of the creme filling

x-post Wow. I don't know if I could handle a deep-fried one but I'd try it just to say I had. I think they did that at that Chip Shop place in Park Slope if I remember correctly.

McDonald's in Scotland too...

deep fried creme egg sounds next level.

in past years, i have actually bought entire boxes of them (contains ~40) right after easter and eaten them all within a few days

i prefer them room temp, i like the extra goopiness of the creme filling

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^^^ i also like the caramel-filled ones--i will usually buy 2 creme and 2 caramel at the same time and alternate.

if i bought entire boxes of them i think i would die of sugar shock because i would surely eat them all immediately

WW - I don't know whether to laugh or cringe at your new screen name. I forgot about BBs so was sort of confused at first.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could demolish a box over the course of a couple days or ok maybe a week.

What do you think about the orange ones?

oh ya, the caramel ones are pimp, i think the chocolate filled ones are p. alright too

xxxp, yeah at Chip Shop in Park Slope and Salt And Battery in the East Village. Pretty much as good as food gets.

I think I've got the first ENBB parody display name.

i didn't know there were orange ones! like, filled with orange-flavored goop? i don't know about that...

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What do you think about the orange ones?

marketing failure imo altho the caramel ones sound a+

this is my favorite seasonal candy and i genuinely go a little five years old when it starts appearing in stores.

Me too horseshoe, me too.

Yeah orange goop. I like chocolate orange stuff usually but it just doesn't taste right in this case.

Wait - canks - there are chocolate filled ones?!

I'm totally buying one on my lunch break now, btw.

hell yeah there are! i usually mix n match w/the other kinds, as horseshoe delineated above

CCE are why halloween doesnt have shit on easter

^^^ was just thinking i need to break my lenten fast and buy all the new flavors of creme egg i've been missing out on. even the truly awful sounding orange one

the orange one sounds p intriguing, it sorta makes sense in my head anyway

I've never seen the chocolate filled ones! I guess I have a new mission to fulfill this weekend now. Must find chocolate CCE.

one of my fav things about them is the orange 'yolk' in the center of the creme - they don't have to throw that in there, it's just a lil somethin extra to drive home the experience

oh and i just bite my way through it, trying to keep a steady ratio of chocolate outside to filling.

guys i never want to leave this thread

cadbury should employ us

sometimes i will try to split them down the middle, along the seam, but then i just resandwich it and eat normally

it's all y'alls fault if i'm found dead in a week, one hundred empty foil wrappers surrounding me in my bed.

sometimes i will try to split them down the middle, along the seam, but then i just resandwich it and eat normally

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my mind is blown

lol

Orange eggs for reference:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/rjg42/CadburyOrangeCremeEgg.jpg

Whether or not they're refrigerated I short of bite them in half length wise then lick out the creme then house the chocolate.

okay ENBB or anyone on the east cost i am going to buy all the CCE in t-minus 90 minutes research into which tells me there is also a mint version????

sometimes i will try to split them down the middle, along the seam, but then i just resandwich it and eat normally

That's what I meant by biting them in 1/2 lengthwise - I do it down the seam.

Didnt America cast off the shackles of experimental deep-frying along with dead weight 'u's and parliament? Sounds grim but I'd give it a go.

x-post MINT?!!!

Who knew?

We might have to start some kind of CCE exchange here.

yeah i just read about the mint vers on wikipedia.... intriguing~

Has anyone here actually seen these mythical mint eggs?

have u guys ever had the mini-eggs? i bought some once, out of desperation cuz the store didnt have any 'real' CCEs - thoroughly unsatisfying experience

how i think i'm going to eat them: nip off the tops getting mostly milk chocolate, then bite the bottom leaving a thin amount of chocolate and most of the creme intact. then one giant bite thats all goopy filling to finish

yeah the mini-eggs suck and disgrace the good name of the cream eggs.

what would be perfect, is a dark chocolate egg

when i was a kid i remember some kids preferred the mini-eggs! pod people.

I wonder when I should make my yearly trek to get my deep-fried egg. I'm dieting pretty hard right now (LOL 30 CALORIES OMG HAHA MEME) and i think that deep-fried mystery goop is probably not one of the food groups I should be focusing on.

yeah, mini are not as good.

OK - wtf? http://www.ivorysky.com/creme-egg/index.php

fuck a mini

i am watching what i eat too - *glumly eats a banana* - but lil creme egg on a special occasion never killed no one~

i think those dudes in that link are fronting

all that unwrapping for such meagre reward

that link upsets me

cankz, according to wikipedia they made (make?) a white chocolate creme egg. but a dark choc would be ~!~ amazing ~!~

goddamn i might have to go get me a creme egg today

I am also trying to be good foodwise right now but will like have a salad at lunch so I can have an egg later. I know where my priorities lie.

They're not too bad actually. I mean for that much goodness and all:

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-cadburys-creme-egg-i100092

i am a hueg white chocolate fan but i am not sure i would enjoy that

i'm not watching what i eat THAT much, i mean i ate a fistful of bacon for bfast this morning - all holding it like a bundle of twizzlers

yah no frontin' my lunch most days is just brown rice and veggies so i will eat some creme eggs 2day regardless

White chocolate creme egg would be too much. I think it would be sickly sort of like the white chocolate peanut butter cups were imo.

hah i like the white choc pb cups - i think the thing is there needs to be a counterpoint for the white chocolate and the creme goop seems too similar to it

I see what you mean. I wanted to like the wc pb cups but it was just too overwhelmingly sweet for me.

A childhood favorite that has not translated into adulthood pleasure. Cadbury's chocolate mini eggs, though, are delicious.

i cannot support this talk of a white chocolate creme egg.

o eric h why?

The creme is just overwhelming.

omg hs tell me u arent a white choc h8r

white chocolate + the creme filling seems like it would make your teeth instantly leap from your head is the issue

yeah that's honestly what i feel more guilty about when i eat CCEs - i feel like i am committing dental genocide

ade i gather from elsewhere on ilx that this makes me retarded :(

white chocolate + the creme filling seems like it would make your teeth instantly leap from your head is the issue

that sounds like a scene from a horror movie

yeah the caramel egg actually manages to seem less sweet than the original, which is quite a feat since caramel is just sugar.

I love the creme and always lick it out leaving just a chocolate shell. God, writing that down looks disgusting, sorry.

my favorite thing from that white chocolate thread was when vahid said some DUMB BULLSQUID like 'oh white chocolate is basically just hardened lard does that sound appealing to u' and i was like motherfuck yes it does

I love the creme and always lick it out leaving just a chocolate shell. God, writing that down looks disgusting, sorry.

only if you then chew up the shells and use the resulting etc etc intact shells

xp: hahaha otm

two bites, gone

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wish I had a clever anecdote, but..

yeah that's honestly what i feel more guilty about when i eat CCEs - i feel like i am committing dental genocide

+1

I'm still wondering about the mint ones. One hour until I can go grab (a non-mint) mine. YAY!

I tried the orange kind the other day and just wished I had gotten a regular one instead. But I need to try the mythical mint flavor like immediately.

i've spent a bunch of time looking for a store that carries the mint flavor and cannot find one. they've got the caramel and the orange but thats it

starting to think it might by uk only?

Maybe. Boo!!

These are kind of gross. But I don't really like chocolate, so I guess I'm not qualified to say.

Sweets are a lot better when they're salty.

gross

E, i freeze mine. i cant eat them all room temperature because the chocolate gets melty. i love these things and feel a small amount of grief after easter every year. its a long stretch to the xmas ornament version.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/ptotheenguin/Sugar%20Savvy/CadburyOrnEgg.jpg

BTW - RS urged me to start a poll about this because he was convinced that refrigerating an/or freezing CCE was just plain wrong. lol.

Creme eggs are disgusting.

pssssssssssst LC and Chap:

p.s. - I realize that a lot of people think they're gross (I once did) but please try to keep the hate out. This is a creme egg appreciation thread!

TY! ;-)

wow @ bj novak investigative candy hoarding

oh they HAVE to be frozen of refrigerated

Haha, didn't read down that far. I'll leave you to your delightful confectionaries.

xxpost

I feel like a yay or nay creme egg poll would be almost as heated as the aniston/jolie one.

i feel like the orange and caramel varieties have done irreparable damage to name the good of the creme egg

I don't know - consensus here is that the caramel ones are pretty good. I've never had one myself but may have to try it now.

Had the orange one for first time last week - not a fan.

for a while i wouldn't try the caramel ones out of loyalty to the original, but i love them.

caramel is just too much for me

Creme eggs are disgusting.

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this is some "suggest ban me" shit on par with tuomas's most misguided efforts

ok where can i get the caramel ones in the US?????

in nz we have the chocolate creme-filled ones but i don't like them as much, and we have the mint ones.

will see if i can convince my mum to post a bunch of mint ones over and then i will distribute to you deserving ppl (altho last time i promised nz treats to ilxors they got ate)

(also postage from nz is fuckin expensive)

They're everywhere in the US! It seems like it's easier to find the caramel ones than just the regular creme eggs.

just1n3 i think you can get the caramel filled ones pretty much anywhere seasonal candies are sold

xpost

Yep. I stopped at CVS on my way home and they had the orange ones and caramel ones but no regular ones!! I bought two caramel ones for RS and I for later tonight. Will report back after I eat it.

okay having no regular ones is shameful

i hope the caramel ones are the same as 'caramello'... see, nz cadbury is made in nz, but the cadbury you get here is made in canada (i think? or maybe england?)

so sad i never went on the factory tour of cadbury for the 28 yrs i lived in nz :( :(

ok i just put out a call for mint eggs on my fb, this will be a test of how many real friends i have, willing to send me them

The caramel in the eggs is much less chewy than caramello, it has a texture close to the one of the creme eggs.

I went on the cadbury factory tour when I was in nz, I am sad.

Yeah most Cadbury we get here is from Canada and tastes slightly different (ie. not quite as good) as the kind you can get in the UK. I haven't noticed it so much with Creme Eggs but it's obvious with things like Dairy Milk bars etc. I hope you find and like them.

Horseshoe - they had a display for them but they were all gone!

ooooh good to know!

So Cadbury World (http://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/CadburyWorld/theexperience/Pages/TheExperience.aspx) is like 40 mins. from where RS's family lives in England. I think I'm gonna make him take me when we're there this summer.

horrifying and erotic thread

I was in Bournville to-day! (going to see these houses) - If i'd known I would have popped in and taken my picture next to the creme egg car.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2282/2578743884_e3b80b8d64.jpg?v=0

xp to ENBB.

HAHAHAHA. That's AWESOME.

OK, mind blown...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3317/3333328985_f5efc9885f.jpg
I knew it!

I thought so too - HA!

btw - had the caramel egg. It was pretty good but nothing beats the original.

I like the idea of taking the regular egg and dipping it in a thin layer of white chocolate to make it look like a real egg. Then again, maybe I'm in a sugar stupor because I just ate one.

as with most candy, i horde it, telling myself i'm going to eat it when the time is right.
By the time i think about it it's too old to eat.

Refrigerating chocolate is wrong.

I unwrap it and put the whole thing in my mouth at once. I then roll it around my mouth for as long as I can stand, so it warms up, softens, and intensifies in flavour. Then I squish it against the roof of my mouth with my tongue, an chew, taste, taste, chew, taste, swallow, think about having another.

I have bought a number of competing creme eggs for research purposes.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3335965123_4175e387c8.jpg

I am addicted to these. If I take up the three for £1 offer I'll eat all three before the end of the day. Usually two within the hour, and then I tell myself I'll leave the other until tomorrow, but that doesn't work for long. And I take up that offer three or four times a week, having to restrain myself on the other days. P.S. I am not enormously fat. Not until they start selling them all year round.

bite off the top, lick out the middle, eat the rest. Don't refrigerate them.

I do this too.

Dairy Milk Caramel is probably my second-favourite chocolate, but I'm not a huge fan of the Caramel Egg! Maybe I just don't appreciate the crass ploy to get my money.

Another vote for refrigeration!

Orange sounds like an abomination.

hey, that rhymed!

ok i just tried the caramel one, and i have to say that british cadbury is inferior to new zealand cadbury. sorry ;_;

Maybe that was because it was an American/Canadian one? Actual British Cadbury from UK is pretty yum. Like I said yesterday I don't notice a diff between the reg creme eggs UK or US version so I don't know. Any word on the mint ones?

Ned - What's the one second from right?

the ones i got from walgreens were british - the caramel is waaaay different! if i can convince someone to send me some from nz, i will send you one, erica :)

Ned - What's the one second from right?

That's a Princess Marshmallow egg. It's actually quite good. Although none of the gloopy fun to be had from a CCE.

:(

i generally make a practice of not buying CCE's until after easter, since i'm a tightwad, but last night (in a drunken frenzy) i went to wal-mart and attempted to buy an unopened box of 48. and they wouldn't sell it to me!!!!!!!!!!!! when the guy rang it up the display just said 'item not found.' what the fuck i thought this was america!!!!!!! it occurred to me that i could've just had him open it and had him ring an egg up x48, but i took it as a sign of my folly and just bought a handful of a few different varieties (including orange, my first time sampling them - not bad, but i won't be getting them again) anyway i just wanted to express my fury at not being able to buy these in bulk

I can't believe they wouldn't sell it to you - ridiculous!! They shouldn't leave those boxes sitting around on their shelves if they're not for sale. Hmpf. Also awesome that you tried to buy it.

whoa ade that is some bullshit.

What do people think of the Reeses Eggs?

reeses eggs are a snake oil, a sham - they're just cups in a different shape!!!!!

What's the consensus on the Creme Egg Twisted bars?

I'm a fan but given a choice between the two I think I'd still pick an egg.

i think i'm the first person with the MO of smashing them up and eating the gooey pieces one by one.

Yeah, that's strange. You freak. ;-)

only gene wilder can judge me

OMG I love these eggs.

Where in NY can you get them deep fried?

I just got this off ebay. Sadly inedible.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3569/3343339223_3a8c603985.jpg

you could fill it with the creme

Yeah, I've already ruining it's resale value by taking it out of the box, might as well go the whole hog.

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/images/projects/cremecream/Picture17.jpg http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/images/projects/cremecream/Picture19.jpg

no way. i head rumours that those full sized creme eggs existed, but i didn't dare hope

I think the most amazing thing about that egg is that they went to the trouble of painting the wrapping!
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/images/projects/cremecream/Picture16.jpg
Some of those pimped snacks look so gross but I would completely buy a full-sized egg.

ooops - here is painted wrapper...
http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/images/projects/cremecream/Picture16.jpg

I just tried a US one. Smaller, and the chocolate is... American. I have not yet found American chocolate I like other than peanut m&ms, but I'm sure it's out there, calling to me.

the woman who runs a store here in little rock called 'everything australian' told me that american chocolate tastes different because they put wax in it so it will keep its shape.

chocolate doesn't keep its shape? how hot is it out there?

well its all a lie anyway:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/31004.html

D) Do they really put wax in their chocolate?
No, Hershey doesn't use paraffin wax to achieve the correct
consistency, unlike many home recipes. Instead, they use cocoa butter
to achieve the nice sheen and texture. According to the following page
from Cornell University, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not
approved the use of paraffin as a food additive:
http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/nutriquest/paraffin.html

hersheys still tastes terrible

I hate then now, and I'm not just saying this to be controversial. I must have eaten so many as a kid, that I've become immune. The same with Galaxy caramel.

i managed to convince someone from nz to send mint creme eggs! sadly, there were only 2 (BUT there were also 4 reg creme eggs), and my fiance is a mint addict so i had to let him eat both. sorry guys.

having had both nz and US creme eggs recently, i can repeat that nz's are superior: better chocolate, thicker chocolate.

Oh, I wish I could get someone to send me an orange egg (hint hint - ljubljana...better make it a box, ok?)

xpost Ned - I am on the case.

Those eggs are second only to ribs in the pantheon of delicious/irresistable yet practically inedible/impossible to eat without making a disgusting sticky mess. Putting 'em in the freezer helps to contain the stickiness somewhat, but that first bite has to be taken beforehand, while the chocolate is still room temperature and fairly pliable, otherwise I injure my palate. Generally I restrict myself to 3 or 4 of 'em every April, soon as the price inevitably drops to $0.25.

hersheys still tastes terrible

Why is this though? I didn't want to appear to be a UK choco snob (god knows the UK has produced so horrible chocolate in it's time) so I dutifully bought a hersheys bar the other day and it was...well I wouldn't say terrible, just kind of "nothing-y".

(oh, and thanks ljubljana!)

I would imagine that the Hershey's odd taste is down to it's (lack of) cocoa content but their website is sadly lacking in detail on that point (while very detailed on everything else). It's got quite an aftertaste as well.

its pretty gross. i cant work out why either.

Craving a creme egg right about now but it's raining and I'm too lazy to go out and get one. :-(

I still haven't seen any chocolate filled ones, btw.

re: hershey's

apparently (IIRC) the big problem with making milk chocolate in the 19th/early 20th century was you had to use soured milk for the chocolate to take? And Nestle employed a thousand scientists working at a thousand typewriters to try to solve the problem and they did, so Nestle started making milk chocolate with regular (i.e., not gone bad) milk and Hershey's, like the anti-intellectual Americans they are, have kept on using the sour stuff.

a better explanation of the above is in Bill Buford's piece on chocolate in the NYer a few years ago that I can't access online 'cause my subscription ran out.

Nick's description of eating a whole creme egg is oddly TMI.

Also not a fan of the new wrapper, where instead of the logo on a yellow bubble, it's in some kind sloppy splooie stain. This is not appetizing, you guys.

Just to clarify, though -- I love creme eggs. I await Ned Trifle's brand comparison, and hope it arrives in chart form.

a better explanation of the above is in Bill Buford's piece on chocolate in the NYer a few years ago that I can't access online 'cause my subscription ran out.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lzhzfb

Cheers, caek!

Here's the bit I remembered:

Chocolate had become a wholly different food--a mass-market global confection--because a way had been found to make it with milk, previously impossible, owing to the fats' absolute intolerance of anything with water in it. (People had been trying to mix chocolate and milk since cacao beans arrived in Seville; the model was probably coffee.) The trick was in manipulating the boiling point. In 1867, Henri Nestle, in Vevey, on Lake Geneva, trying to create an infant formula that wouldn't spoil, put milk in a sealed container, removed the air with a crude pump, and heated it until the water content evaporated. In a vacuum, milk boils at a lower temperature and doesn't curdle. Nine years later, Daniel Peter, the town's chocolate manufacturer, fed the formula to a newborn baby and understood an essential implication: a dried milk would not be rejected in cacao. Chocolate now had a populist formulation, its intensity diluted and dulled by sweet fats. It was an indulgence (fat + fat + sugar) and it was cheap (because milk was the principal ingredient), and by the time Peter's Chocolate won a gold medal at an Amsterdam exhibition in 1883, people couldn't get enough of it. By 1901, Peter's Chocolate had a U.S. distributor and an unobstructed horizon to expand to. No American had figured out the boiling trick, although many tried, including Milton Hershey, whose milk kept curdling, until finally, after years of experiments, Hershey settled for what he could get: milk chocolate that was slightly soured but not entirely ruined. (To this day, American milk chocolate makes Europeans gag.)

Everything makes sense now!

my best friend just arrived from NZ with 15 creme eggs: 8 regular, 4 caramello, 3 mint

3 mint you say??

you'll have to ask jordan for one of those, i'm afraid

I got six in the post today from the UK! I had to donate four so that I would only eat two. Otherwise I'm afraid I really would have eaten all six in one day. Yes.

I can't find any orange ones in DC to despatch to Ned T. Anyone know any likely places to look?

They have them at CVS here. If you can't find any I will happily send some to Ned.

Will try there, there's one not too far off my route - so far been diving into Rite Aids, supermarkets and newspaper shops. Rite Aid has, you know, coathangers and mops and god knows what else but no orange eggs. If CVS don't come up trumps I will admit defeat and ask you to step in - thanks!

xpost - collected some other stuff along the way though for you, Ned.

I saw some orange ones at Walgreen today.

I WANT AN ORANGEY CREME EGG!!!

I haven't seen a Walgreens since I got here.

Ned, go and sit on the naughty step while I run to CVS and when I come back we're going to be calm or we won't get any of the other nice things I picked up.

Target has the orange creme eggs.

I fucking hate this thread.

:-(

One in my mouth right now. Mmmmmmm.

Two more on my desk; THAT'S the problem. Help me through this, ILX; you're my only hope.

None on my desk. Fuck.

I like to freeze 'em.

Tried to purchase one (damn Tesco checkout aisle temptation) with my lunch yesterday - guy couldn't scan the barcode off the foil. He ended up taking ten eggs from the display, trying to find one where the foil was sufficiently uncreased to allow the scan, and none worked. "Oh, forget it."

Oh that's so sad. Try again today. Hopefully you'll have better luck.

Had one for dessert last night. SO DAMN GOOD.

How I eat them is by crying during.

That'll end up on out of context thread.

OK, I just choked on my tea.

Ned don't get too excited about the orangey ones. I agree it's something to be tried but I haven't met anyone who loves them. I'm a big choc/orange fan and I think they're just . . . meh. Sort of a waste of a Creme Egg.

Thanks for the Target tip-off, tr. Ned, if I trek out to Target for you you will owe me. I didn't make it to CVS today but will by the weekend at the latest, still in time for Easter!

My really well-meaning landlady just gave me a basket of British goods!! I'm not a big fan of most of them and can get them through work, but what a nice thought. No creme eggs though. Instead a Mars Bar - haven't had one of those for about 15 years... and Hobnobs.

I tried a Reece's Pieces egg (the flat ones) and basically they're just a humongous Reece's Piece, which is perfect as far as I'm concerned. I could drown in that stuff.

No orange ones in my nearest CVS - only caramel and classic. Will cast net wider at the weekend.

I'm still laughing at Abbott's comment.

ljubljana don't go to to TOO much trouble!

Ned can you get the caramel ones in the UK or do you want one?

He ended up taking ten eggs from the display

or he could have just typed in the 8 digit number underneath. he'll never make checkout supervisor with that attitude.

Ned can you get the caramel ones in the UK or do you want one?

The more the merrier!

> can you get the caramel ones in the UK

i haven't seen them. there are 10000000 non-Creme eggs around at this time of year (the lindt one i had the other day was nice, the Mars too) but no other flavours of CCE as far as i know.

I stopped for petrol this arvo & there was box of Creme Eggs on the counter. This thread sprung to mind and I wondered how the fuck someone (Cankles) could eat a BOX of (40) creme eggs. Good grief.

The box is MASSIVE. That is a shitload of chocolate.

i have probably eaten 25 creme eggs in the last 3 weeks

Dude, give me a 20-bag and Grand Theft Auto, that box would last about 2 hrs.

SCORE on the orange
Walgreen's, Alexandria.

the creme in these tastes like acidic glue to me, i'm really confused about how people can like them.

xpost - the orange ones or the classics?

Sorry, not sure why I made that an xpost

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/821832/mint%20creme%20egg.JPG

for ENBB!

Ned, Your Order Has Been Despatched

I just a 100g Lindt gold bunny. Milk chocolate, delicious. Might be fun to pour some Creme Eggs into one and pop it in the fridge.

nice display name fh (did u get my webmail btw?)

webmail? no! let me check.

there have been webmail problems round these parts as of late. I'll resend for good measure.

Check yr email!

A+++

I went to walgreens last night to pick up school easter party supplies and all had left in the way of creme eggs were the orange ones and those fakeass russell stover ones.

Justine that mint egg is blowing my mind. WANT!

and those fakeass russell stover ones.

The Russell Stover marshmallow and coconut chocolates are great.

Thanks ljubljana!

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My USA Easter sugar and additives stash has arrived...

oh flip...
here it is...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/3441843524_e7b4332ee4.jpg

Dude, give me a 20-bag and Grand Theft Auto, that box would last about 2 hrs.

― NotEnough, 03 April 2009 15:13 (1 week ago)

oh, this btw. absolutely.

i'd be quite willing to send people irish confectionary, but tbh i'm not sure what we have that's worth a trade.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/images/2007/01/03/year_in_pix_14_350x470.jpg

too-shay

traumatised look of a chocolate butcher right there

"Yeah, I sculpted Chocolate Jeebus a semi."

uh...that's a pretty poor semi, tbh

especially allowing for loinwrappage

should have constructed the bell from a creme egg imo

2 creme eggs and a flake

you have that wild irish (i think that's what it's called?) organic chocolate that is utterly amazing. ilxor 'i know, right?' sent me some of the dark cherry and almond.

ah but he's a city boy. i live up in the mountains where we make our own chocolate from goat's milk and pig fat.

happy to send you guys some.

i would actually kill for some more of that stuff, if you're offering - it doesn't seem to be order-able online

mail me, and if i can find it (no guarantees, i really am out in hicksville) i'll get some out to you.

just to be clear, you're passing on the pig fat goat chocolate?

weird

as tempting as it sounds...

webmail sent. post here if you don't get it.

ok. gimme an indication of flavours and amounts to be getting on with.

i might have to get on to IKR and get the specific name, because google isn't finding 'wild irish chocolate'.

not on 'filter my search results' mode, anyway.

it's 'wilde irish'? if you find it, the cherry/almond dark chocolate would be AMAZING

http://www.goodfoodireland.ie/index.cfm/section/Members/key/233/

(their website link on that page doesn't actually work)

ok that should do for a start

just1n3 can you webmail me yr email address?- having problem sending webmail from here for some reason.

alternatively, let me know what you want exactly- i hope to have my brother pick up whatever you want over the next few days (these guys are kinda hardcore to make contact with, you pretty much have to turn up and bang on the counter)

just1n3 mail me that address again, the merchandise has finally arrived. i'm still struggling with the webmail function here.

's ok, found it.

RIP Cadbury

does the new deal with kraft mean more cadbury eggs for usians? say yes!

gonna start filling up those eggs with mac & cheese

velveeta cheese

It will probably be sub-hershey quality chocolate now.

still wondering: does this mean more eggs for us
y/n

I offer all you people most excellent deal on currently available ge-nu-ine Cadbury eggs, stateside, available at my place of work

bought my first of the season today: one traditional and one caramel. yay!

Just had my first US creme egg, the chocolate is an abomination. I truly don't know how I will survive Easter :(

I have probably had about 100 so far in 2010. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Currently stockpiling for the dry season. Last year I was too late so this year I'm experimenting with freezing them so they don't turn white and get stale.

fuck you, diet

Guess what I just had? MMMMMMMMMMMMM.

getting my folks to bring over a ton of them, then hopefully they'll still be around in may when we're in nz.

i have had two of these, and felt immensely guilty afterwards cos i'm meant not to be doing this kind of thing. brother left them on the table for me when i babysat. enabling bastard.

today I bought 24. I'll give them a week.

Haha, thought of this thread just an hour ago upon seeing the first ones of the season!

> upon seeing the first ones of the season!

we've had them in the shops since the start of the year.

and the local shop had them for 11p each at the very end.

what is the orange yolk-approximation made of? just food coloring?

my parents brought a whole bunch of them over from nz - caramello for me, mint-dark for ytth - but they taste DIFFERENT! they're no longer being made in nz (nz's stuff is now sourced from australia and britain) and i think they're going cheap on quality of ingredients. biggest noticeable change was the taste of the caramel.

Had my first of the season last night. They appeared at the beginning of February this year (!) but I made myself wait until the beginning of march. It was ~heavenly~.

lord help me

They appeared on the counter of my workplace coffee stand last week. I ate one this week. SO GOOD.

lord knows how many i've eaten so far. two or three a day since they re-emerged is how it's usually gone. workin on ma blubber.

> They appeared at the beginning of February this year (!)

it's usually the week after christmas in the uk

My work friend brought me in a 4 pk on Monday and I'm pretty proud that I managed to resist eating the one last night. Granted that's partly because I kept forgetting to bring them each night but I could have eaten them during the day!

I still want to try the mythical mint and chocolate varieties.

had no idea you all got cadburys in the US

i wonder if we'll see more of them now that sara lee owns cadbury

HM - we don't get all of the varieties you do over there but we get creme and mini eggs in the spring and some other bars (dairy milk/fruit and nut) year round but you don't see those that many places.

these things make me gag

You know you're not supposed to to swallow them whole don't you?

Ignore the Clarkson commentary they've attached to it, just enjoy the creme egg car actually moving...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDRDggpt8E

the ones you get here in the US taste pretty disappointing - iirc they were/are made under license by hershey's. but then, NZ cadbury's has totally changed its recipe (cost cutting) the last couple of years and their chocolate tastes like shit now too.

ritter sport should make a creme egg

I think the ones we get here taste fine tbh.

Would like to do a side by side US/UK CCE taste test. Then maybe a difference would become obvious.

another event for the worldFAP agenda

yeah i don't like UK cadbury's either - NZ's was always the best but now it's shit

I think the Rolo egg might have supplanted the plain Cadbury one for me.

McDonalds in England has Creme Egg McFlurry's which are pretty damn good.

Canada, too!

I saw and bought a chocolate creme egg for the first time tonight! It was good but somewhat disappointing because, well, no creme. Why the hell does 7-11 have Creme eggs in January anyway? Strange.

Kraft changing the recipe of UK eggs....They've been fucking with the Cadburys brand since they bought it.

from now on they'll be filled with mac and cheese

I heard they'd be filled with live mice. Surprise!

I fucking hate creme eggs.

im about to eat the first of the season

What the heck is "dairy milk"? I've always completely ignored this as a weird Britishism but the article implies it's NOT the same thing as "milk chocolate"?

Or, per the article, "diary milk." I know typing is hard, guys.

Cadbury's Dairy Milk. it's a type of chocolate.

https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/dairy-milk-2360?p=2360

IO - it is milk chocolate. It's what cadbury's call their plain milk chocolate. Like if Hershey's had a name for their plain bars instead of just Hershey's bars. Does that make sense?

So it's Cadbury's specific milk choc recipe. I guess what the article is saying is that they've tinkered with it so that it's not exactly like the standard DM one they've used in the past.

ALSO YAY IT IS ALMOST TIME.

I won't have one until at least March though. It's just too early.

been in the shops here since BEFORE christmas.

(which makes you wonder why it's only blowing up now. i've had one (or two) and didn't notice.)

(3 for a pound in tescos btw)

I'll withhold judgement till I've eaten one - whole foofaraw sounds like a "we're discontinuing salad cream"-style PR fib tbh - but I must admit I'm anxious. This better not be some New Coke bullshit. The Creme Egg is perfection, and shouldn't be monkeyed with.

I was hoping the only change Kraft's ownership of Cadbury would herald was the insertion of Oreos into their every brand.

I'm sure Kraft is trying to cut costs by using worse chocolate or something.

I brought one back specially from the UK two days ago and this thread caused me to eat it ahead of schedule. It's all true. The chocolate is flat and powdery tasting. That will be my last Creme Egg. I sucked out all the goo though, obv.

at least we still have mini eggs

FOR NOW

If these now taste like american "cadbury" Creme Eggs they can shove them up their arse

^^^^ this guy might be a plant from a rival egg company tbh

does the phrase "something to play with, and some chocolate" sound familiar to you, Mr Kinder?

Creme eggs are nast, but I will eat a whole bag of mini eggs in one sitting every time.

iirc americans aren't allowed kinders due to risk of arse-shoving

they get 'candy treasure'

kinder eggs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>creme eggs

Wrong.

Lab should pledge a renatiolisation of Cadbury should they get in - vote winner.

i am a long-time lover of creme eggs but last year i found myself joylessly and mechanistically shoveling them into my face. this year i'd gotten more pleasure from my first few, then i found out about the change of recipe. in conclusion, i do not fear progress.

i swear to god if somebody has fucked up creme eggs i have a very specific set of skills and i will find you and i will kill you

The plot for Taken 5.

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4988658.ece/alternates/s615/Pizza-Hut-Cabdury-Creme-Egg.jpg

wtf is that and why are there peppers involved?

not ok

is that a creme egg pizza crust? holy god

... and onion.

That's plain wrong.

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

LOUIS IS THIS YOUR DOING?

lol

Cadbury Creme Eggs are the king of "candy I used to mythologize but eventually the incredible novelty wore off and I realized I don't even like them anymore at all."

relax guys it's a hilarious 'hoax' by pizza hut uk

tbh the addition of creme eggs to pizza hut pizzas might be an improvement