Cadbury Conspiracy

One of the world's greatest mysteries is about to be solved. I'm not talking about the Bermuda Triangle, the Pyramids, or even Sanjaya.

I'm talking about the Cadbury Creme Egg. Did it actually get smaller? Last time I ate one, I thought, "Man, that's a lot less ooey-gooey-goodness than last year." But I didn't think much more about it.


Last night, BJ Novak did some great investigative reporting on Conan. He says that most of his life he's saved Easter candy, because he loves it so much, in his freezer for the rest of the year. Great idea! This year he went to buy them and they looked smaller to him, too. So he looked on the website, which says, "No, they haven't gotten smaller, you've gotten bigger." (Nice marketing by the way, telling candy lovers they've gotten bigger...) So he dug around at his house to see if he had an old one, and surprise, surprise, it WAS bigger before. I hate when companies downsize products, or change flavors you really love.

So why doesn't Cadbury come out and say they're ripping us off? We may never know, but I think it has something to do with the same guy who changed the cream filling in double-stuffed Oreos to make it easier to scrape it off with your teeth. (Now you have to work even less to be fat!) Run and hide Cadbury egg man. Run and hide.