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Iconic foods that were ruined when their recipes were changed

The new recipe just isn't the same.

Oh, the horror.

Cadbury is under fire for messing with a very good thing: its famous Cadbury Creme Eggs are getting a new shell.

Instead of biting into a gooey egg with a traditional Cadbury Dairy Milk shell, British chocolate lovers will now get a taste of a “standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate” — or “disgusting, foul, vomit-inducing ‘standard cocoa mix chocolate’,” as a Guardian writer described it — shell this Easter.

They’ll also be sold in packs of five, instead of six — offending the customers who want to buy their candy eggs in the same denominations as their farm-fresh ones.

In short, Cadbury fans are not amused. Cue the “melting down” and “shellshock” puns. There’s a petition begging for the old shell’s return. One emotional fan even wrote a song about it:

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Local readers, rejoice. Other than some new packaging, there is no change to Cadbury Creme Eggs in Canada this year.

We do know how the British are feeling, however. We’re still reeling from these unnecessary recipe changes in recent memory:

Girl Guide Cookies

Thank you for removing the trans fats…but why’d you have to mess with our childhoods? These cookies just don’t hit the spot like they used to.

To be fair, we haven’t tried pairing them with wine yet. That might make everything better.

Tim Hortons Peach Fountain Drink

We’ll always have a sweet spot for this sugary fountain drink…that has been replaced by a subpar bottled peach beverage. Apparently we’re not the only ones, according to this #TimsBringItBack thread.

The bottled version is just not the same, Timmies. Not even close.

Twinings Earl Grey Tea (UK)

Twinings can empathize with Cadbury this week. The tea company was met with so much opposition after it changed its Earl Grey blend to have a stronger citrusy flavour, that it was forced to reissue the original tea renamed “Classic Edition Earl Grey.”

"I cannot describe how awful this new tea tastes. The old award-winning tea was in a completely different league to this foul-tasting dishwater,” one customer wrote of the new blend.

Don’t mess with Brits and their tea.

Breyers Ice Cream

Anyone wanna a “frozen dairy dessert” cone?

Perhaps one of the saddest recent recipe changes: Breyers messed with their recipe enough — reducing dairy fat and adding a long list of unrecognizable ingredients — to lose the classification of “ice cream.”

In an attempt to make things better, the company did release a line of “creamery style “real ice cream.”

If you’re going to sell us ice cream, please make it all real. We shouldn’t have to check the fine print.

Twinkies

Everyone freaked out when they disappeared. And then we all freaked out again when they returned — with a new, slightly stale-tasting recipe.

Hello, drier, harder cream-filled snack with an even longer shelf life. Goodbye, happy childhood.

What recipe changes have left you pining for older versions of your favourites?