There are few perfect products in this world, but I would argue that Mini Eggs were one of them. Beautiful, delicious, attainable, versatile. Imagine my surprise when sampling my first of the season (I try to limit myself to avoid too many pounds and too few pounds) to find they have been ruined, a poor facsimile of something I shouldn't have taken for granted.

The smell was the first shock. Gone was the light, powerfully sweet candied aroma on which to transport yourself back to happier times, replaced by something more akin to some old wine bottles found in a dusty attic. Then I take a bite and the pain does not abate, there is no crisp crack and release of the shell, but instead a mushy unsatisfying bite that offers very little contrast to the chocolate within. Have they also become salty? No, that's just the tears rolling onto my lips.

Is nothing sacred any more? If anyone has the ear of someone important at Cadbury I would appreciate if you could pass on a message "Take these Mini Eggs and shove them up your arse". Thanks.

by WoodBGood

43 comments

  1. …did you accidentally eat some of last year’s eggs?

    Because have to say at no point have I encountered mushy shells, and I’ve consumed a *lot* of mini eggs already this year.

  2. Agreed. No longer the chocolate snack of choice for the Easter tide.

  3. Your disappointment was immeasurable and your day was ruined?

  5. Yeah I was eggsasperated by the taste of them i’d be eggstatic if they changed them back.

  7. I emigrated a few years back. Was back for a family funeral a couple of weeks ago. After having mini eggs for the first time in nearly a decade, it transpired to be that the funeral was the second saddest happening of the trip.

  8. Did you get them from Sainsbury’s? I bought some from there and they tasted awful, my son bought some for me from the co-op for mother’s day and they tasted normal!

  9. People still eat Cadburys? Kraft ruined it years ago.

  10. Wait until he realises Wagon Wheels are much smaller than they used to be

  11. I had a pack recently that were a disappointment but others that were fine. Loss of crunch, I reckon it’s a bad batch.

  12. I absolutely love mini eggs, but I refused to pay the insane prices this year. Then on Saturday, I went into the local one stop to get some milk. They had a special offer, mini eggs for £1.25. I now have more than a few bags in the cupboard.

  13. My first bag of the year (a small bag) were awful. I then switched to the medium bags and they were all much better and like normal

  14. Noticed nothing wrong with them when i had them a few weeks back, same as they always are

  15. M&S “mini” eggs are far superior and not so mini the orange ones slap

  17. I haven’t noticed anything different and I have them every year as part of my “demands” on what I want for Easter: Cadburys mini eggs THE SMALL BAG THEY ARE NOT FOR SHARING, YOU FOOL one small Lindt bunny NOT THE BIG ONE ITS NOT CUTE IF IT IS AS BIG AS MY FIST, and one ONE TOO SWEET Cadburys creme egg, that in latter years I have vetoed for being to sickly. If the mini eggs quality diminishes what is left in this worrld!

  18. Eaten plenty this year and they are normal mate, you had a bad bag

  19. I switched to the Smarties mini eggs last year for this reason. They have changed the recipe. Since the American buy out all cadburys chocolate that isn’t a “dairy milk” product has had a new chocolate recipe.
    I haven’t eaten Crème eggs since they change that recipe either, they just aren’t the same. I’m ND and very much notice the differences.

  20. I had a similar experience, didn’t taste or smell the same as normal

  21. These changed a few years back, and I’ve not even bothered for the past 2 or 3 years.

  22. I had tge same, filled in an online form and they credited my account with the purchase cist. Tried another bag and they were fine.

  23. “Have they also become salty? No, that’s just the tears rolling onto my lips.”

    Hahaha wonderful writing

  24. I just ate a whole baggie. Speaking as an alcoholic, It’s the only thing that still makes me feel alive anymore. Sorry you got a bad one. I think id off myself if that happened. 

  25. I wouldn’t describe my experience in exactly the same way, but the packet I had earlier this year was very disappointing. The chocolate had that weird chemically taste you get in galaxy or some of the cheap brands. I put it down to that business with the Cadbury takeover and them bringing in cheaper-made chocolate from overseas. Sad times…

  26. I spoke to the manager of the Cadburys Keynsham factory before it shut. Turns out his favourite thing to do was grab a handful of these on the factory floor before they put the shell on.

  27. I had a bag last night, they were perfectly normal. I think you had a defective pack.

  28. That’s why they lost the royal mark. Greedy ceos and shareholders cutting corners. Stop buying and destroy thier profits. Teach the vampires a lesson. Don’t mess with our mini eggs grrr

  29. I think you got a wank bag of mini eggs tbh, I had some the other day and they were fine 🤷‍♂️

  30. Aldi’s are decent and a fraction of the price. Don’t support Zombie Cadbury

  33. I recently bought some M&S crispy mini eggs – they’re so much bigger than Cadbury’s – and they were excellent. Cadbury has fallen off the cliff for me now

  35. I live in Spain and I haven’t had mini eggs in a few years, the other day I bought a bag and straight away noticed the immense difference in what they used to be to what they are now.

  36. I’ll never understand the people that act as if Cadbury’s is borderline inedible now. I can’t say I’ve noticed any significant decrease in quality and I don’t think anyone I know has ever mentioned it either.

    It seems to be some sort of Reddit thing

  38. My kids have been munching the usual size bags of these, they smell exactly the same as they have for the 35+ years I remember. Think you’ve had a bag bag/batch and jumped to conclusions.

  40. Price and quality have gone to shit, genuinely frustrates me. Fuck you Cadburies all you had to do was keep making them.

  42. Had a bag a few weeks ago and had to search online to see if they had changed the recipe as the shells were really soft and as you say “mushy”. Maybe a dodgy batch or something?

  43. Just get them from Lidl. They do their own version that tastes the same for cheaper

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