Comments on: Mini Eggs, the Shocking Final Showdown

By: megan

megan — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:35:11 +0000

Hello Tim - There is Canadian Dairy Milk, see this article at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Milk

But there is no Dairy Milk in the US, the Wikipedia article says this: "Several reformulated versions are sold in the United States as the FDA does not allow products that replace cocoa butter with vegetable fat to be called chocolate."

It doesn't mention which bars are the reformulations. I'll report back if I see Dairy Milk in the stores here. However, I live very close to Canada and we see a lot of Canadian chocolate bars being sold here.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:28:17 +0000

We've recently done a taste-off of UK versus Irish versus New Zealand Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate - very interesting as they are all quite different - can't seem to get any US or Canadian Cadbury's does it exist ?

By: Melissa A.

Melissa A. — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:24:02 +0000

I was at Shopper's Drug Mart today (in Halifax, Nova Scotia) and they had a tonne of mini-eggs on sale. I immediately thought of you ;) I picked up all three kinds. The "Popping" ones are kind of interesting, but I think I'd rather just have poprocks.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:56:40 +0000

Interesting, both my girlfriend and I much prefer the Canadian Hershey "Eggies" to the Canadian Cadbury "Mini Eggs". I find the Cadbury eggs have a very nasty aftertaste. The Hershey eggies have a nice rich flavour and a better crunch too!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:38:54 +0000

Cdn. chocolate still uses cocoa, where a lot of American bars are called 'candy bars' because they have long since dumped cocoa from the ingredient list. As far as I am concerned, a lot of the states have 'chocolate flavoured' candy. BLEECH

Viva la Canadian

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:57:43 +0000

I found this mini egg taste off by accident, and i wouldnt normaly comment on such things, But UK mini eggs are sooo mooorish. Ive tasted cheaper mini eggs from pic n mix shops and have had to spit them out. Reminds me of that stuff the sweet shops used to sell us as kids, called ''chocolate''. Usually came in the shape of a mouse, IcccKKK.
As for the smarties mini eggs, I remember when they was a trial product here (uk)I never did like smarties, but i loved orange flavoured chocolate, so i would ask for other peoples orange smarties. (Now grown up i pinch/steal me niece's)*Grins* So when these smarties mini eggs came out, I had to give em a try. Bit sweet if i remember.. Still give em a try Annette. Got me wondering how good these canadian eggs taste now.. (sorry for the essay) lol

By: Annette

Annette — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:54:35 +0000

In Canada, Smarties also makes this type of mini egg? I have not tried them as I can only find big bags so far...I am not fond of smarties but hey, they might make a good egg...

Let me know if you want some.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:25:35 +0000

I'm coming into this a little late but after reading your review, I'm so happy to be Canadian! lol Not that I wasn't before but I can't imagine inferior mini eggs. They are my weakness.

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:55:55 +0000

It would be interesting to do a taste test of the plain bars of Cadbury's chocolate across the UK, US and Canada. Is this what makes the difference in the Mini Eggs or is there a difference in the taste of the coating? I love the smooth milky texture of the coating. It takes me back to primary school when we used to put them on top of Easter nest cakes made out of chocolate and shredded wheat.

By: brooke

brooke — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:12:18 +0000

my husband sent me this link because i LOVE mini eggs and i gave up sugar for lent .. sigh. i'd give anything for some of these, even knowing that the us version are the worst! better go stock up ..

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:41:49 +0000

The problem to me with this testing is that every single bag of U.S. mini eggs I've had this year has completely varied in taste, texture, thickness of candy shell, speckles, etc. Some have been phenomenal, others so-so.

By: At Home with kim vallee

At Home with kim vallee — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:10:01 +0000

I am a proud Canadian now. When I go to the USA, I do notice a difference in the food quality. I usually eat fine dark chocolate but I will go buy some Cadbury mini eggs this afternoon to try it. They are cute!

By: Keri

Keri — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:03:05 +0000

Must. Find. Canadian. Mini Eggs.

I have to say, though, I do like the gooey feel of the US eggs. Something about the almost sticky milk chocolate combined with the crunchy shell appeals to me.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:10:40 +0000

woot! Yay for our mini eggs!

By: Tasha

Tasha — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:09:44 +0000

I've heard that they allow greater quantities and different types of food dyes in the UK, so maybe that's why they make them darkest there? This is what happens with Lush products, apparently (which I only know thanks to obsessive forum reading O_o)