When news broke that the Cadbury Creme Egg recipe that many Brits know and love was “secretly changed” under its new US ownership, many Brits saw this as a clear case of shots fired. The Telegraph simply called it “outrage,” while the Independent talked of a “nation in shock” and called the move “a bilateral attack on the glory of Easter.”
The Sun learned from a Kraft spokesperson that the chocolate egg shell had indeed become something else.
The Independent was not impressed, and responded,
Unsurprisingly, UK Twitter users were outraged—the hashtag #CremeEggGate was spawned to to vent displeasure.
https://twitter.com/DrPhilipMurray/status/554640871187300352
https://twitter.com/THEJamesWhale/status/554633414201344000
https://twitter.com/MartyMtweets/status/554626025557352448
https://twitter.com/theskibeagle/status/554620163451269120
https://twitter.com/AnnieMurray/status/554616907442454528
https://twitter.com/Vitt2tsnoc/status/554603448801701888
https://twitter.com/chrisq_1/status/554601188394823680
https://twitter.com/MandaJJennings/status/554638460368470017
https://twitter.com/MandaJJennings/status/554636804033609728
At least one Twitter user just shrugged it off and saw it as an opportunity:
https://twitter.com/CrypticJim/status/554605989094510592
Another Twitter user drew a reasonable conclusion about the change:
https://twitter.com/SethBarton1/status/554656616436752385
Still another user did a taste test between the two and declared that she didn’t taste a difference:
https://twitter.com/EmzFinn/status/554636260288237568
One thing’s for sure: Creme Eggs are serious business, and evidently not to be fucked with on pain of severe side-eye.