Much like Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, and just about everything else made of chocolate, I’m sure the ones you get there taste better than the ones sold here, though. You just can’t make good milk chocolate with pasteurized milk.

Which sounds like a guy who’d stalk 1930s Brooklyn and do in people with chocolate syrup and a seltzer bottle.

“Is he dead?”

“You bet!”

Man i was just going to post a comment about that.

and now i have that cute little song in my head.

Truth in advertising plays a role here; were it advertised as Cream, it would have to contain real cream. Hence the marketing of sound-alike Creme, which is free of such tedious obligations.

This applies elsewhere – in Starbucks franchises across the US, a Vanilla Creme (formerly Vanilla Steamer) is steamed milk with vanilla flavouring. No cream, other than the fake whipped-cream stuff. In the UK Starbucks, the “Vanilla Cream” is a cold frappucino drink. With cream. And you’ll have to ask for your steamed milk some other way.

It’s the kind of artificial distinction of wording that only a professional writer would care about.

ew!

It’s funny, without ever explicitly thinking of it, I would have had a similar assumption about creme eggs being UK & Ireland exclusive.. (or commonwealth at least, I had em in Oz)

I don’t even know if I knew there was Cadbury’s in America, I think assumed it was all Hershy and Reese’s. Then again, maybe I’m making that up.. I probly never gave it a thought.

I want some chocolate.

So if truth be told, this contraption should be refered to as a Heath Robinson sort of affair.

No big thing, just in the UK we have Heath Robinson wher our Yanke amigos have Rube Goldberg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Robinson

Someone’s not getting their security deposit back!

Tom? God damnit, are these nail holes? There’s like, 800 of them, all over the apartment! What the hell..? I thought you were going to look for a job today?

..and what’s this sticky shit all over the bottom of this wall

why couldn’t it have done something constructive, like made ramen or beat off a dog?

And thanks for the post. That is impressive, and these damn things make me proud to be alive.

I don’t know how British they are, but there are zillions of them sold in every possible store in the US for somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter every March and April.

Even when I was a kid, they were too sweet to eat more than partially.

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How very odd, I was absolutely sutre that the humble creme egg was only in Britian and the Republic Of Ireland.

Here they are not an Easter treat but are used year round.

Thanks for the correction BTW.