Either way, I still love them.

Especially during those 75% off after easter clearances!!!!

Sugar Coma!

I thought you guys would be interested in this. Working together and, most importantly, with Conan, we can fix this Cadbury issue in no time.

However, the back label on my bar of "Cadbury Royal Dark" chocolate reads, "Mfd. by The Hershey Company (address) Under License from Cadbury Ltd."

I do believe that for things like the Creme Egg the proportions are important and mucking with it does actually change the product. (I don't think it's that big of a deal for a solid bar.) Personally, I prefer more chocolate shell than filling, but I see other people's points about not being able to fit their tongue into the smaller shell now. The change in size has removed a "feature" besides giving them less product.

The remedy is a class action suit that will offer plaintiffs either larger eggs or tongue reduction surgery.

How do you know that's not a DOG dressed up like a cat dressed up like a bunny?

You should expect your initiation information in the mail shortly. Welcome to the cult of RKT.

I haven't been able to find RKT Cereal out in OR, so my mother-in-law sends me a box a couple times a year (she gets it at Meijer in MI). It's so delicious.

talk about PR sunshine up the consumer's rear end.

This debate has been going on for YEARS back in blighty and is now fairly common knowledge that the egg size shrunk around 5-6 years ago. I then came here and noticed that you had a mix of small and large. The diffrence is the small ones are UK born and large are US born (hershey made). I guess hershey finnally updated their molds and now your getting 100% small creme eggs.

Welcome to getting old and things not being as good as when you were a kid.

Easter has the best candy of the year. Valentine's has the worst by far.

I was quite shocked when I saw them, Im positive they where smaller.

Last year they were 1.38 ounces, they are 1.2 ounces this year.

What's the big deal? The candy got smaller.

Drug companies do it too. Rather than raise their price a few cents per unit, they just put less in the box.

This is not a new marketing scheme, but for the Cadbury company to deny it outright is pretty shoddy.

Welcome to my life quest-which has a happy ending. For years I have searched everywhere for this cereal, which is the unquestionably the greatest cereal ever made. I checked every store I went in to. NOTHING. It even got to a point where I had to tell myself that it wasn't that good, but my memories of how good this cereal was were romanticized and fictional.

I looked on the Kellogg's website, thinking that they no longer made it. Nope, they still make it. They even had a store locator. No luck, No stores in Washington. Or Idaho. Or Oregon. Then I was guided to check amazon.com. They do sell it, but you have to buy a case of it, and though I could easily go through a case if it was good as I remembered, I feared that it wasn't, and it wouldn't be worth the extra money for shipping and a large quantity.

Then, the unthinkable. A few weeks ago, when coming home for lunch like on any other normal day, I was greeted by a daughter who was giddy and clamoring for me to check my email. I went to my office, and to my extreme delight, there sitting in front of my iMac, was a big purple box that contained Kellogg's Rice Krispy Treats Cereal.

Let me tell you, it was every bit as good as I remembered. And then some.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my local Wal-Mart for being the one place that carries this cereal with the perfectly balanced amount of chunch, sweetness, and taste.

There is hope, my friend.

Uggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Hulk mad. Must Smmmmmassssshhhhhh!!!!!

In my blog post, I noted:

Despite the fact that the site says the eggs only look smaller because you've gotten bigger, that fact sheet has been around since 2003 or earlier. From Internet Archive Wayback Machine, the earliest cache of this page is on October 28, 2003, and even then it has the same FAQ, so I don't think this question was posted up to address the size change this year, but most people aren't going to see it that way.

Amen to that!

There is no other issue in this age so deserving of our crusade, we must devote all of our efforts for the very near future to making Cadbury correct the size of the creme eggs, admit their malodorous misinformation campaign, and send us all caseloads of free creme eggs. And perhaps some insulin.

That is all.

-- Mr. Shiney
http://mrshiney.froppy.com/blog/

You know what? Those eggs are already way too sweet for me, and giving that to a kid is just asking for a sugar rush nightmare (for you). But it does seem true that the eggs sold in muti-packs are smaller than the ones sold individually, or vice versa... I just can't recall which way it goes.

People would immediately notice when something costs more, but companies are hoping that people don't notice if they keep the price close to what it was, but give you less. Obviously, it would be very bad marketing for a company to put a huge "Now 25% Smaller!' on a package..so I can't really blame them for not doing that, but for the most part, it certainly feels like manufacturers are trying to trick people and hope that nobody notices that they're getting less for their money.

It's also interesting to watch who leads and who follows. I noticed on the ice-cream that some of the brands were still half gallons, and some were 1.75 quarts..and in some cases, the same company would have half gallons of frozen yogurt, while they're Super Peanut-Butter Fudge Deluxe ice cream was in the smaller container. I've also noticed that if one company does it and appears to get away with it, the others will follow (like the airlines do when ticket prices go up).

Of course, this has nothing to do with cutting fat or calories, and everything to do with costs and profit.

It's one thing to downsize a product and be perfectly honest about it, but I can't believe that Cadbury would out and out deny it.

Last year Nestle made a crunch based easter egg. Crunch on the outside, caramel on the inside. I got addicted to those, but they disappeared a couple weeks before Easter with no warning.

This year, despite the easter candy being out for what seems like 2 months, I've been looking around for those Crunch eggs. No dice. =/

What is surprising is that Cadbury would deny it. I thought this was common knowledge.

So we want our cake, and eat it for our fat-asses, too?

But Twinkies are smaller, Milanos are smaller... those little bag of M&M's have so few M&M's in them now it is almost comical.

Have you seen some of those smaller boxes of breakfast cereal that have come out? I don't mean the ones for single-size eating, I mean the ones that are supposed to be replacing the regular box. Are they out of their minds?

I'm going off really fuzzy memory on this, but I believe a few years ago I noticed the ones in the 4-packs were smaller than the individually wrapped ones, probably to justify 4 packed eggs costing less than 1 individual egg. Anyways, at that time I just bought individuals due to the size.

Well this year, the individuals were the same size as the 4-packs, so I didn't think about it. Something was nagging, though, and this explains why!

This is part of the problem with products that only come out once a year. Your memory gets fuzzy, and people forget, so companies think they can slide a fast one by ya.

K