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Sure, when I was a kid, I loved Cadbury Creme Eggs. Sugar stuffed with sugar in a different form, I was SOLD! But as an adult, after eating one I cannot help but think “ack, why did I do that?” Plus, the gooey center is just… weird… like some bizarre alien species. I’ll stick to peeps and robin eggs.
Speaking of peeps, I have to give some credit to my buddy Ryan Fisher of Gin & Comics, for his latest comic inspired me to take a closer look at my Easter candy. Swing by to check out his take on peeps!
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Even as a kid I always hated those things…ewww.
I think the gross-factor was what was appealing to me as a kid. Now it’s just… gross.
I promise I’m not being the detractor just to be the detractor, but I started loving Cadbury Eggs in High School and I still love when Easter (or the days right after when they’re cheap and still around) comes around for those! I have a box sitting on my bar right now! But I’m also a stone cold Duckie-lovin’ weirdo – I sighed when families would hand out those. Cheap black and orange wrapped candies on Halloween (or actually, they never handed it out, they were always the ‘please take one’ doors) because I thought those were gross as a kid, but now I’ll eat ’em… And I’ll also eat black jellybeans, even though I never liked those as a kid, either. I think I feel sorry for the lesser appreciated candies or something! Peeps scare me a little bit, and I think the alien goo/Gobitark comparison is hilarious! Now each time I eat one, I’m gonna think of this strip and smile. And this has been Winnie’s Candy History Hour!
LOL, I always enjoy your brain purge, Winnie. I am also a fan of black licorice, or black jelly beans (that’s the flavor they’re supposed to be, right?). However, that buttered popcorn jelly belly flavor is awful! Hmmm… other “generally disliked” candies I enjoy: those sugary valentines message hearts, circus peanuts, candy corn, necco wafers.. to name a few.
I concur on the black jelly bean flavor = black licorice. I love circus peanuts and candy corn (and the pumpkins that come around Halloween!). I’ve never tried Necco Wafers, so I’ll have to do that (keeping up with the Dawnses)… Secret Shame: I mix that Jelly Belly popcorn with the caramel and like it…
It is a little known fact, well more known now thanks to Mark Summers and UnWrapped that long Cadbury Eggs are actually modeled after the Gobitark. Back in 1960 there was an unexplained event (landing) outside of Birmingham, UK which is actually the site of the Bournville Factory. The owner of the property, Franklin Cadbury, II. Mr. Cadbury states that one night he was awoken by a sound unlike any he had ever heard before, and a light coming from the rabbit thicket where he used to hunt for Hosenfeffer. Upon reaching the thicket it was evident that something had occurred here, all the rabbits were in the middle of some strange glowing circle bawking like chickens and laying brownish colored eggs, which later turned out to be what the bawking rabbits called Gobitark. Being not the brightest of the Cadbury family, Mr. Cadbury actually tasted one of the Gobitark’s and found them to be creamy and delicious, but the exterior was of a substance that struck him ill for several days with what some would describe as chicken like tendencies, wearing rabbit ears and bawking like a chicken.
Mr. Cadbury would later build a factory on these grounds and use the Gobitark specimens he had collected as examples of what he wanted. In 1963 his chocolate covered, creme filled Gobitark’s were to be introduced to the populace, but not before a very smart creative mind took control of his marketing campaign and decided that instead of being called Creamy Gobitark’s that with their unmistakable egg shape, and a way to promote the Cadbury name they should be called “Cadbury Creme Eggs”. Later as marketing continued this same great mind would later use parts of the Gobitark’s to make other animals act as Mr. Cadbury did all those years ago for commercials. The lion he stated was the hardest, but after 3 1/2 Gobitarks they had him bawking and wearing those rabbit ears with pride.
OK, some of that story may not be true….the one who ate the Gobitark may have not been Franklin Cadbury, it may have been his dimwitted brother Darren on a dare. 🙂
sheesh! you just picked it up ad RAN THE FRIG OUT OF TOWN with it, Todd! LOL!!!!
Best. Webcomic. Post. Ever.
And when is the Todd’s book of fascinating made up facts going to be available to the public. I know that was an excerpt.
Bo, Winnie… I totally agree! Todd is bringin’ the goods!
Aww man, Cadbury’s Creme Eggs are amazing! Not sure if they taste the same on both sides of the pond, but most Brits are addicted to them. Seriously, we smoke em, snort em, take em intravenously, it’s a serious health problem on a national level!
I have a friend here who has family in England… she has her Easter candy imported every year! LOL.. yes, I hear Cadbury is a bit different over here, and yours is far superior!
I have a friend who goes to the States twice a year and she brings me back American candy – you guys don’t know how lucky you are! In fact if I lived over there I’d be as big as a house after a single trip to Dunkin’ Donuts! Haha!
I still have every piece of candy I ever ate. It is all around my midsection.
I hear that….. ugh. and I think it takes running a marathon to work off 1 jellybean. What kind of justice is that?
If you see me runnin’ come help me. It means somethin’ real bad is chasin’ me.
My mom used to do homemade chocolate peanut butter for Easter that I liked…. but non-smokers that didn’t live in our house who received the chocolate as a gift discovered that it tasted like cigarettes… having no sense of smell after growing up in a house with four smokers, it tasted fine to me!
I wish Cadbury Eggs weren’t banned in the United States 🙁