Cadbury chocolates - going, going gone from NZ

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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 6:37p.m.

The British Creme Eggs are not going down well

The British Creme Eggs are not going down well

Cadbury are no longer a lovely old British company - last month, they were bought by the American food giant Kraft.

The price - US$19.6 billion.

Kraft are now looking to save money, so they are closing one of Britain's historic Cadbury factories, earning the word "despicable" in a BBC News headline and the anger of the British government.

Not that kraft will be unduly concerned. Business is business, for a company until recently controlled by the tobacco giant Philip Morris.

Meanwhile in New Zealand, Cadbury are staging a retreat. Wine gums, Moros, Crunchies, party packs, Minties - they were all made here, but not any more. And Cadbury chocolate blocks like Dairy Milk were made in New Zealand too – but not any more.

All of them, gone.

But Creme Eggs - they're still made in Dunedin, right?

Not any more.

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05 May 2010 12:17a.m.

Julia wrote:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Brit eggs! I have been living in London the last three years travelling and I immediatley noticed the difference and have been waiting to get back to NZ to once again taste the tastey goodness of creme eggs that we all grew up on...what a sell out.

04 Mar 2010 11:55a.m.

Scott wrote:

Can anyone give me details of the music used at the beginning of this story. Name of song, artist,etc???

27 Feb 2010 10:09p.m.

mark wrote:

that uk one is the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OIOI CHIEF CREAM EGG TASTER OF THE WORLD !!

17 Feb 2010 12:13p.m.

Craig wrote:

I had one the other day and found it to be very cheap tasting and the chocolate was very thin and bland. I have noticed over the past year or so even this company's solid bars of chocolate lack that rich flavor that they have claimed for all those years. I will certainly be supporting local chocolate makers from now on. Cadbury should change their name to cheap'n'nasty.

16 Feb 2010 04:22p.m.

Christine wrote:

If you think choc eggs from Britain ridiculous, how about Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate, made in New Zealand, packaged in Australia to come back to NZ. How's that for a waste of energy/food miles? Guess who won't be buying any more.

16 Feb 2010 03:40p.m.

Shannon wrote:

The UK creme eggs are disgusting and besides being 'egg shaped' resemble NOTHING of the once dreamy guey yolky creme eggs we all use to know.

Whittakers for me this easter...

16 Feb 2010 02:54p.m.

Megs wrote:

The creme eggs are now crap, bouycott and go with Whittakers, local and keeping it local. An ianno, the news it always filled with rapes and murders so it nice to a lighthearted story about chocolate than constant doom and gloom

15 Feb 2010 10:30p.m.

ianno wrote:

peopleare being raped and murdered in this country and you want to talk about chocolates???.
get real, must have been a bl00dy quiet day for news in nz today

15 Feb 2010 08:55p.m.

Melissa wrote:

I LOVE my Creme Eggs, and can't wait for that time of year to roll around when they pop up in supermarkets and local shops. But this year I definitely noticed a difference, they are not the Creme Eggs I've grown up with and love so dearly. I will not buy anymore Creme Eggs until we are back to making them in good old New Zealand.