Comments on: mini egg off

By: Ivana Safin

Ivana Safin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:58:05 +0000

Hello,

In Toronto we also have the dark chocolate mini eggs. Just letting you know :)

By: JustPassingby

JustPassingby — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:26:08 +0000

The reason that american chocolate tastes different is the amound of wax content...seriously. Buy a Hersey bar and scratch it with your fingernail. It looks like flakes of wax because it is. The orig. cadbury in england does not use wax, or uses very little of it. Im not sure what the canadas do. But if Cadbury is using Hersey for their chocolate in the US, Hersey is the most notorious for using the wax. It is so odd that I was having this conversation yesterday with a scotish lady who is a friend of mine and had chocolate shipped over just to prove the difference. Good stuff. It's amazing we think about these things.

By: Maryam in Marrakech

Maryam in Marrakech — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:33:51 +0000

This entry just made me very happy. You are so fun!

By: Suzi

Suzi — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:39:01 +0000

Canadian chocolate is typically better than it's American counterpart. The Canadian versions tend to be more milk chocolate in flavor, creamier and smoother. IMO

You should also compare chocolate Smarties to M&M's.

By: Yam

Yam — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:32:50 +0000

A friend taught me this trick for Cadbury mini eggs, which I am now trying to perfect with the Hershey's version: put a few chocolate eggs on a paper towel and microwave for 10 seconds. The shells will crack open and the chocolate inside will get slightly gooey. Delicious! For some reason the Hershey eggs aren't as amenable to the microwave. I tried three rounds of 10-second microwaving and still no shell-cracking...

By: pondhopper

pondhopper — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:19:55 +0000

I could send you some UK mini eggs! I live in the UK at the moment.

By: Kappy Liu

Kappy Liu — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:20:03 +0000

Generally, Cadbury chocolate is my favourite (except for Galaxy Minstrels from the UK - yummy!! - like huge Smarties with way better flavour - http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Minstrels_Chocolates.html); however, in egg form, I much prefer Hershey Eggies to Cadbury's mini eggs.

From your pictures, it would appear that the Eggies that we buy here in Canada are from the same batch as the "Cadbury Mini Eggs" that Hershey is selling in the US.

By: amanda

amanda — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:00:52 +0000

Oh, thank you for the comparison -- I always thought that the mini egg was so much not as good as the ones I got in England. It never crossed my mind that they'd have a different maker and chocolate. Duh. Now I can stop buying them and being disappointed.

By: michelle

michelle — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:08:02 +0000

um, jen ... if you ever leave your job, i would like it, please! ;)

By: jen

jen — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:36:30 +0000

oh, mini egg fun fact: (at least the ones made here in Toronto) Mini eggs are coated in candy using the same process that covers almonds, peanuts and raisins in chocolate, which is called panning. The chocolate eggs go in a large metal drum (the pan) and are slowly rolled around while being misted with candy coating. The eggs here are misted with approximately 60 layers of candy coating over 9 hours.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:32:20 +0000

Hee hee. I started working at the Cadbury chocolate factory in Toronto last October (I give factory tours to school children,) and I must say, they're a lovely employer, and I love telling people about them.

All of Canada's Cadbury chocolate is made here. In the US, Cadbury settled for Hershey making and selling its brands under licence, so, yes, it is different.

Someone else mentioned the milk. Canadian Cadbury milk chocolate uses the milk from Irish cows. British Cadbury milk chocolate uses milk from English Jersey and Gurnsey cows. Dunno what Hershey does.

I think Cadbury chocolate smells much better than Hershey's.

As someone posted above, we do indeed have dark mini eggs in Canada, as well as mini eggs with popping candy. These were just launched in January. Regular mini eggs, we make a sell year round.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:14:59 +0000

Hi there,

I read somewhere a long time ago that we here in Canada can actually make the claim that we have chocolate bars because they are actually made with chocolate whereas in the USA they legally have to refer to them as candy bars because the mixture isn't the same and can't "really" be classified as chocolate.

They are delicious though aren't they!

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:41:04 +0000

It's the Cadbury chocolate that makes them! Cadbury's is a beautiful, delicious, smooth, amazing chocolate. Cadbury anything would kick Hershey's butt everytime!

By: willa

willa — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:38:50 +0000

in defense of cad mini-eggs vs. hershey's eggs, candyblog gives them BOTH a highest rating of superb. seems they leave it to one's personal milky/sweet vs. chocolatey preference to make the call.

By: Notsocrafty

Notsocrafty — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:15:16 +0000

The taste of the american cadbury eggs are horrible. They are not the ones we ate when we were kids. They have an odd aftertaste.