Me and my friends have developed somewhat of an addiction to Cadbury Fingers recently.
It’s become our biscuit of choice whenever we hang out and as an Easter treat, my friend Chef bought us a giant Fingers Easter egg to try.
While the egg itself was truly quite sensational, I was disappointed to see that inside, instead of regular size Fingers, there were two bags of the mini ones. You know, the kind you’d put in a child’s lunchbox.
My disappointment didn’t come from being a size purist, but from previous experience. Knowing that unlike their bigger sister, mini Fingers taste like arse.
Thankfully, we had both sizes available. So, I asked my friends to do a taste test, to confirm or deny whether my hatred of Mini Fingers, was unjust.
Relief washed over me, as they agreed the mini guys tasted “Cheap”, lacked flavour and overall tasted nothing like a regular size baton.
Like the skincare expert she is, Lucy P then decided to compare the ingredients and immediately spotted that milk was the first ingredient on regular Fingers, but not the mini ones.
Then it hit me.
I remember reading how Cadbury had changed their recipe for Creme Eggs by changing the chocolate from “Dairy Milk” to regular chocolate.
I then noticed the packaging. Sure enough, on the standard size pack it says ‘Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers’, but on the minis, it just says ‘Cadbury Fingers’.
Do you see what I’m saying?
Mini Fingers aren’t made with Dairy Milk and that my friends, is why they taste like arse.
Ever since this revelation, I’ve been forced to question everything I knew. I always thought Dairy Milk was Cadbury’s chocolate. I didn’t realise there was an alternative.
I’m now scanning every Cadbury pack I come across, for those two symbolic words.
I noticed, it doesn’t say Twirls are made with Dairy Milk. Where they ever? Is that why they don’t taste as good anymore?
You know I’m all about sharing the knowledge and this public information needs to be readily available.
So, remember, if in doubt, look for ‘Dairy Milk’.
And don’t buy Mini Fingers.
Downloaded this app specifically to tell you I thoroughly appreciated your cadburys fingers investigation.
Thank you for drawing this to our attention! I still haven’t forgiven them for turning Time Outs into a wafer. Absolute sacrilege 😡