1963
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1963
Introduced in 1963, the crème egg. Originally named Fry’s Crème Egg, the product changed its name to Cadbury’s Crème Egg in 1971. The egg consists of a thick chocolate shell containing a sweet white and yellow filling that mimics the albumen and yolk of a soft boiled egg. If you like your sweets very sweet, this one’s for you.
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@HannahHowe I’m old enough to remember the Duncan’s Walnut Whip - much superior to the Crème Egg, and, in my mind at least, much superior to its subsequent Rowntrees/Nestlés iterations
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Em-squaredreplied to Gareth Morrell last edited by [email protected]
@GarethMorrell @HannahHowe Don't remember that but remember the coffee flavour Walnut whip. My OH loves Creme Eggs. Bit much for me. Remember Roald Dahl had when each UK chocolate bar was launched off pat so he could trot out the facts. BBC archive clip of an 80s interview with him saying as such. Remember watching it at the time.
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Simon Greenwood with all spiders and thatreplied to Em-squared last edited by
@emsquared @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe Wasn't that because he worked on a lot of their advertising campaigns? I can't eat a Creme Egg any more but I used to have far too many, which probably partially why I can't now.
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Em-squaredreplied to Simon Greenwood with all spiders and that last edited by
@simon @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe Oh is that why? He seemed to maintain (at the time) that the most established confectionary in the UK all launched pre WWII. Only Wispa was recently launched then (80s)
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Em-squaredreplied to Simon Greenwood with all spiders and that last edited by
@simon @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe They are somewhat like a lake of fondant. Lindt eggs please.
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Simon Greenwood with all spiders and thatreplied to Em-squared last edited by
@emsquared @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe Oh perhaps not then, although the Creme Egg would seem to give that the lie.
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Em-squaredreplied to Simon Greenwood with all spiders and that last edited by
@simon @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe He obvs didn't rate it but yeah surprised it's a 60s thing.
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Simon Greenwood with all spiders and thatreplied to Em-squared last edited by
@emsquared @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe I have heard the story about Wispa before, it was a major innovation in the world of chocolate and the cost of tooling up for it was probably a good indicator of why there weren't that many new chocolate bars.
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Em-squaredreplied to Simon Greenwood with all spiders and that last edited by
@simon @GarethMorrell @HannahHowe Don't get me started on bars that are now an entirely poorer formulation than decades back. Double Decker I'm looking at you.
