Important news: Cadbury’s changed the Creme Egg recipe

It’s January, and so Cadbury’s has released the Easter-themed creme egg (naturally) - but customers are not happy. AT ALL

After some customers reported the taste seemed different, journalists called up the chocolatier to check if anything had changed - and found out they've removed the Dairy Milk chocolate in favour of "standard cocoa mix chocolate".

"It's no longer Dairy Milk. It's similar, but not exactly Dairy Milk," a Kraft spokesperson told The Sun.

"We tested the new one with consumers. It was found to be the best one for the Creme Egg, which is why we've used it this year."

@CadburyUK putting 5 cream eggs in the same size box that last year had 6 in #badtimes #shuntheegg pic.twitter.com/lrvASVeOPt

— Barry Clegg (@BAZ8465) January 11, 2015

Shock and horror gripped fondant egg enthusiasts at the news - but even worse, they've cut the multi-pack size from six to five eggs, for the same price. That's just silly - everyone knows eggs are sold in multiples of six.

But the company blames "rising commodity costs" for the change.

@BAZ8465 We've had to make this change because of rising commodity costs to ensure our Creme Eggs are as awesome as ever!

— Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) January 11, 2015

Creme Egg fans are very, very unhappy, with the kind of passion that only die-hard fans can muster.

Boycott the creme egg, it's the only way!! #cremeegggate

— Glenn Macandrew (@GMac1985) January 12, 2015

Rumours suggest there's now only 5 eggs in a box! HELLO!?!? Eggs come in multiples of six. This is the work of the devil. #cremeegggate

— Chris Hall (@christhall) January 12, 2015

Creme egg news causing Facebook outrage. People saying it's the worst thing to happen since Freddos went up to 20p http://t.co/6LEFbLs3Z5

— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) January 12, 2015

This publication, however, reserves judgement until we conduct extensive testing of the new product.

In the name of science.

HT: breakingnews.ie