Back to the 80s: Cadbury Creme Egg Commercials - Kickin' it Old School
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Back to the 80s: Cadbury Creme Egg Commercials - Kickin' it Old School
One dude's point of view on popular culture with special attention paid to the great decade of the 80s |
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posted by: PirateGirl (reply) post date: 03.29.10 (6:05 pm) Awesome quote of the day OS! LOVE these!!! I always look forward to the Cadbury commercials every year! They always crack me up ( no punn intended lol) - My fave out of them are the Cadbury Try outs! *laughing already, just thinking about them!* posted by: auntconi (reply) post date: 03.30.10 (2:11 am) Oh yes! Cadbury Chocolate Eggs - yummy! Actually I liked them better when I was younger, and for health reasons thank goodness just the memory of them seems to be very satisfying. The commercials are always winners! Thanks! posted by: Amy (reply) post date: 04.23.11 (5:57 am) We lived in the UK in the 80s, they had an add where you see 2 sedan chairs pull up side by side at a medieval "stop light" (wood with green or yellow or red dots on them, hinged). The occupants go through all this signalling & stuff to race, so the poor guys charge off with the sedan chairs. One guy pushes a button that says "Turbo" on it, & poles slide out of the top of the chairs with a Cadbury's creme egg on them & his bearers just take off like bats out of Hades & leave the other guy in the dust. There was, I believe, no talking at all until at the end, when they showed a close-up of the sweet & this calm London-accent voice says, "Wouldn't YOU do anything for a Cadbury's Creme Egg?" I wish I could find it online; I wonder if Cadbury's has it archived & would put it on YouTube? (maybe they did & I just missed it). Brits make some darned hilarious ads, & this one was one of the best. If my husband was watching TV & I was in another room, he had standing orders to call me for that ad & one more that advertised hard cider. There were more good Cadbury TV ads from the 80s, too. Also, Cadbury eggs in the UK are MUCH MUCH BETTER than what we get here. They were already sweet enough in the UK, but the US dumped so much sugar in that the treat is grainy with it, not smooth like the ones I got overseas. I won't buy them here anymore |
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With Easter almost here, there is one commercial that I always remember and that is Cadbury Creme Eggs. 
it comes to Easter candy, some people think of jelly beans, some think of Peeps, but I always think of Cadbury Eggs first. It is not necessarily because I like to eat them, but more because of the commercials from when I was a kid. This candy only comes around during the Easter season. 
They are made to look like real eggs with a milk chocolate shell and a white filling with a little yellow to look like a yolk. They originate from and are more popular in the UK, but are also made by Hershey in the United States under license from Cadbury. While filled eggs were first manufactured by the Cadbury Brothers in 1923, the Creme Egg in its current form was introduced back in 1971.
Interestingly, during an interview on the April 4th, 2007 episode of Late Night with Conan O' Brien, actor B. J. Novak (from The Office) drew attention to the fact that American market Cadbury Creme Eggs have decreased in size from previous years, despite the claim on the Cadbury's website that the eggs were not getting smaller, but rather, "you've just grown up!" The site has since been updated to clarify that only American eggs have altered in size having gone from 39 grams down to 34 grams (while in the UK they remain at the original 40 grams). I guess I have not gotten any in a while, so I did not even notice myself.
