"Whipped cream isn't whipped W cream at all if it hasn't been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night," cautions Willy Wonka in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Sweet-toothed, and currently mighty aggrieved, Britons appreciate the nicety: a Cadbury's Creme Egg, a beloved national treat, isn't a Cadbury's Creme Egg unless it has been made with Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate. A revelation that the egg's American owner, Mondelez International, is meddling with the recipe perfected by Cad-bury, a British confectioner, has therefore provoked outrage. The shell that enrobes the egg's sticky albumen-and-yolk fondant centre is henceforth to be made using "standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate" instead of Dairy Milk.
展开▼
