Comments on: Green & Black’s Dark 70% Easter Egg

By: Daniel Wighton

Daniel Wighton — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:45:27 +0000

Hi There,

I find it interesting that you noted that it tastes quite sweet for dark chocolate. I Can’t help but think that the Cadbury effect has crept into the ingredients as well by including more sugar.

It would be interesting to see a Pre-Cadbury’s wrapper Vs a Post-Cadbury’s wrapper to see if sugar might have moved up the pecking order somewhat…

Dan
Dan’s blog on chocolates

By: river

river — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:41:21 +0000

Flat pack egg!! I love it!

By: Kath Lockett

Kath Lockett — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:23:53 +0000

Crikey, it makes you wonder why they bothered. Just get the normal block and say it’s a flat-pack egg from IKEA.

By: happy

happy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:26:48 +0000

yummy! love chocolates..it’s good to discover the chocolates you’ve got there.

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:03 +0000

I should have said actually. The egg weighs 110g. A bar of G&B’s 70% is 100g and costs £1.68 at Tesco.

So basically, you’re paying a 30% premium for having it egg-shaped. I would imagine part of that is down to the packaging and part of it is down to the extra cost of transporting a significantly bigger box.

So yeah, it’s a rip off, but I doubt Cadbury are making a vast amount more on these than the bars.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:22:44 +0000

So for £2.39 you get the Green & Black’s 70% bar repackaged into an egg, with additional cardboard and gold foil? Pretty pathetic really. Have you seen the G&B eggs they have too? I saw them yesterday in Asda in their little boxes for about the same price, looked like an absolute rip-off.