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ONLINE SHOCK AND revulsion has greeted the revelation that Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate is no longer a staple of the Creme Egg recipe.
The news was first broken by The Sun who say that Kraft, the US owners of Cadbury, decided that the shell used in Creme Eggs will not be Cadbury’s Dairy Milk blend.
“It’s no longer Dairy Milk. It’s similar, but not exactly Dairy Milk. We tested the new one with consumers. It was found to be the best one for the Creme Egg, which is why we’ve used it this year,” the paper quotes a Kraft spokesperson as saying.
Cadbury has been scrambling to reassure customers that the Easter favourite is still made of their milk chocolate, even if it is not necessarily the ‘Dairy Milk’ variety.
Interestingly, Cadbury Ireland makes specific mention of the word ‘milk’ in its clarification. The confectioner’s UK counterparts make no such definitive statement, even though they make it clear the Creme Egg shell is made from Cadbury’s chocolate.
Predictably though, the news has whipped up an instant backlash.
What’s more, Cadbury’s Ireland has confirmed that the multi-pack variety of this year’s Creme Eggs will have five creme eggs, not six as was the case previously.
What do you you reckon on the change?
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Is this the governments way of saying that they are increasing retirement age again ?
@Brendan Coyne: If people will start regularly living beyond 100 thus increasing the time people spend retired by probably 10+ years how exactly will that be paid for without increasing the retirement age?
@Ian McNally: stop paying the government so much money!!!
@Brendan Coyne: The retirement age of 65 was brought in first in Germany, at a time when Life Expectancy at birth was about 62.
Once we’re done with abortions for the young we can start on euthanasia for the elderly.
@Brian Madden: Two entirely different things but euthanasia in the case of terminal illness and chronic pain, I’d be pro choice on that
@Brian Madden: Nothing wrong with euthanasia if consent is given
Pro choice all the way.
@Brian Madden: That actually make sense… Hope we have a referendum on that in the future. Pro choice is right.
@Bat Daly: well, if consent isn’t given, that’s called murder, so that’s not really much of a qualifier
@Bat Daly: Same consent that’s not asked of unborn babies?
@Ernest Grinkas: A woman has the right of consent as to have a baby or not.
@Ernest Grinkas: if I may, Ernst, I just wanna say I kind of agree with your post, in that I often point out that ‘pro-choice’ is redundant if not everyone has a choice (ie the person in utero). But I also wanna say the eighth amendment is a problem and needs to be repealed. Unfortunately, I don’t trust our leaders to legislate adequately in its absence, but I also don’t want to punish vulnerable girls/women for FFG’s incompetence/apathy/corruption. The eighth amendment is a hindrance to adequate medical care. End of story for me.
@Ernest Grinkas:
I think the woman has that right, don’t you?
@Ernest Grinkas: Next you’ll want consent of tumour cells as to whether they want to be removed or not, do they not have a right to life aswell?
@Diarmuid Hunt: you’re equating an unborn baby/foetus/zygote to a tumour now? I’ve heard ‘clump of cells’ from some of the more articulate amongst you’re actually comparing developing life to a feckin’ tumour.
Sometimes democracy is terrifying.
*amongst you, but…
@Joe Phillips: A clump of cells that has the possibility of leading to death… for some people whether it’s a tumour or a zygote it can have the same result. But you know as long as it’s created from two different sets of DNA and not a mutation from one then we must plough on and make sure it survives regardless of the host’s fate…
@Joe Phillips: A note on articulation: Know your point before trying to articulate it, for example if someone compares one thing to another because of similar characteristics it means that person finds them comparable but not necessarily equivalent.
@Diarmuid Hunt: For the love of… so you’re making all pregnancies out to be something very negative because there’s an element of risk involved.
Do you ever leave the safety of your bed?
I’m a clump of cells with the 100% certainty of leading to death. So are you. Are we basically just tumours, Diarmuid?
Get a grip on yourself.
Tumours = always bad.
Safe, low-risk pregnancies = good.
Dangerous pregnancies = bad and stressful and worthy of all necessary medical care.
Changing your mind about wanting a baby and opting for early abortion = not ideal but acceptable before 12 weeks’ gestation.
People equating pregnancy to tumours = idiots
@Diarmuid Hunt: It’s a member of the human species. That should be enough of a difference from a tumour.
@Diarmuid Hunt: also I love it when idiots try to condescend (that means ‘talk down to’) me.
You said someone might as well ask a tumour. That’s equating. Your comment demonstrates that you give equal regard to the life of a foetus as you do to a tumour.
Just spit it out and use the word ‘parasite’ if that’s what you’re trying to say.
But nah, you don’t wanna say ‘parasite’ because that’s alarming language and you’re trying to steer clear of that (even though you already said ‘host’). Much better to say a word that invokes sympathy… like ‘tumour’.
You and I both know you changed words at the last minute.
@Joe Phillips: Never intended to say parasite but it’s an equally good word, anyway as the argument has devolved to name calling let’s leave it at that
@Diarmuid Hunt: You can call me any name you like and I won’t call a halt to any conversation. Frankly, that response is more childish than the name-calling, for which I’ll genuinely hold my hands up and apologise because it was uncalled for and unnecessary. Sorry about that. I found your point frustrating and overreacted a bit. I still think you should explain yourself though, or acknowledge the nonsense in that analogy.
@Joe Phillips: It’s not nonsense but I will agree it is a bit of a reach to compare them. I never equated pregnancy to tumours, I compared the situations of the people who have a dangerous (circumstancially) cluster of cells growing inside their body. Anyway I appreciated your original comments and thank you for the discussion.
@Joe Phillips: Safe low risk pregnancies are not necessarily good for every woman they’re in.
@Hugh MacKenzie: Strangely enough tumours are also part of the human species
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu: Not sure what you’re getting at there, Ciara, but i don’t think safe, low-risk pregnancies should qualify for such intervention. That’s where the word “choice” should be binned, as far as I’m concerned. Stuff bodily autonomy if it means inexplicably denying someone’s right to be born. If you don’t want the baby, there are plenty of couples who do.
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu: Parenthood isn’t ‘necessarily’ good for anyone. It ages you and takes away your social life. That’s not ‘necessarily’ justification to abort.
@Joe Phillips: Pregnant women aren’t broodmares for the infertile. If they want to adopt they can adopt one of the older children in the care system
@Grainne Gillespie: Are you serious? That’s all you have to say? That’s the whole point you’re making here?
So most children born now will live to be 100?
Good luck to them. They are going to need it.
Considering all the fat children plodding around this country I very much doubt 100 years old will be standard.
Life expectancy has increased by 33% in one generation? Who’s gonna believe that!?
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: It’s often not much of a life at the end, no matter what people say
if the projections and research are based on trends in past human behaviour – it is equally as likely we could ruin the planet or become extinct before the kids born today ever reach 100 in truth.
@Dave Hammond: Possibly MORE likely
How’s that going to happen all the ‘experts’ are telling us the obesity crisis means kids now will die before there parents. Whose telling the truth
Great news for the retirement home industry, and the younger people will be able to get jobs spoonfeeding and wiping the arses of these hundred year olds! What an insane generation, looking forward to fading away…
screw that, once my little one is settlled after uni.
Im selling house moving to Thailand and gonna die naked on a beach up to my eyeballs in heroin and a huge smile
@Dermot Mc: Your child must be smart, what will they be studying in University?
@Jamie Jj Tobin: dunno mate, I’ll burn that bridge when i get to it :-D
We will have Shiara law in Ireland by 2070 with the current rate of EU immigaration and neo liberal policies combined with our falling native birth rate.Wonder how Shiara law would deal with the non Muslim Irish elderly…(shiver) Luckily Europe is beginning to stand up to this lunacy now so it shouldn’t come to that. Next 20 years will tell a lot
@Gearóid: Totally disagree with you but doubt I’d be able to convince you to change your mind but what I can do for you is teach you how to spell Sharia, at least then your spelling is correct in your hate speech
@Diarmuid Hunt: Correcting my minor typo and throwing the hate speech card is not an arguement. A reduced native birthrate and strong immigration combined with the high cost of living is a receipe for replacement of the Irish people. You dont care though Diarmuid Hunt since you hate Ireland and everything Irish. You beleive its better to be politcally correct than to reject evil and backward culture getting a foothold here. Good thing you neo liberal Marxists are the minority and your foolish idealogy is dying quickly.
@Gearóid: Please look at the first comment, I don’t argue against you.. no point, but don’t assume I hate Ireland just because I think it’s more important to care for humans rather than countries, countries are a human construct, the earth didn’t come with borders already lined out and nobody has control over where they were born, judging people due to their culture or nationality is just arbitrary.
@Diarmuid Hunt: *won’t
@Diarmuid Hunt: That’s a crazy and dangerous way of thinking , Diarmuid. By your anology we should just swing open our borders and allow all through. Islam is the most intolerent culture in the world. Their culture is misoginistc, homophobic,intolerent and downright dangerous. Yet you are happy to welcome this here to expand and take over? Because without control that is what will happen in time. Have you seen Sweden, France, Germany & UK recently? It’s has been disasterous!
@Gearóid: Wow the irony in that is unreal, thanks for making me chuckle
The “3rd Age” is the time in life when your career may be coming to an end, and/or parental and caring responsibilities have lessened. 3rd Agers have more time to explore new opportunities – both educational and social.
U3A members organise their own activities and learn together. They draw on the skills, knowledge, and experience of one another – everyone teaches and everyone learns.
U3A originally began in France in 1974 and has spread worldwide.
As the concept has become more popular in Ireland membership is growing and the number of branches is on the increase.
https://www.ageaction.ie/how-we-can-help/lifelong-learning-u3a
well, when i’m old and put into a home, I just hope I have an advanced VR game where I can troll all the whipper snappers online. that will keep me sane
This is nonsense. Life expectancy is declining in the US and it will do everywhere else once the obesity / diabetes time bomb really kicks in….
Most people born today will likely have very little work to do in their lives, technology and automation will see so many jobs disappear. It’s the governments of today that need to prepare for this!
@Paddy: Keynes forecast back in 1935, that people would only need to work 15 to 20 hours a week by now, unless governments got it disasterly wrong but thats what happened. The world economy can’t grow forever, the planet won’t be able take it.
@Paddy: At currently projected population growth rates, we will soon be standing shoulder to shoulder in a desert. Less babies is the logical answer until we can get off this rock.
given that the majority are scraping makes ends meet there will be a staggering amount of older people dependent on state pensions when such a time arrives.. where’s that money going to come from?
@John Madden: The likelyhood is that it wont come, John. Unless of course we vote in a good right wing party who will look after the interests of the nations people first and foremost. The national party are gaining populatity these days http://www.nationalparty.ie/ . I feel more and more parties like this will emerge in time. People are sick of the usual left wing muppets( FG, FF, Labour, Sinn Feinn) who promise the world and fail to deliver anything. SIck of not getting a say on the matters which affect us most.
@Gearóid: saw your posters on the Ref, no thanks… we don’t need anymore zealots in Government. The policies are abhorrent, disciminatory and irrelevent in a civil modern society.
@John Madden: Kiss your state pension goodbye so!
Jaysus a nation of millennial snowflakes what will they be like when they get older, sitting in a nursing home dying to be offended
Allow people to work past 65
Whatever way we prepare for it, it’s great news! Score for humanity.
What a croc of $h1t, this is just another excuse to increase retirement age. Teenagers won’t live past 100 just because they wer born past the year 2000, obesity rate is increasing? The only way people live long life’s is from living a healthy stress free lifestyle. Not by being a millennial fat litt1e $h1t
Up the retirement age.
@Shawn O’Ceallaghan: Doing what? Not enough living wage jobs already. Automation and mass immigration taking care of that.
Yeah right.
They have to get past the blood thirsty crowd first , VOTE NO TO ABORTION, go with your inner self tells you ,
@Elvis King: My inner self says women have the right to their own bodies
Could care less for I’ll be dead.
‘ how do we prepare for an older population?’
Trust women…
Dont deliver babies until they’re 10
Carousel.
Tax them
This is nonsense. Diets are getting worse. Social isolation is getting worse. Commutes are getting longer. Antibiotics are losing efficacy. The divide between rich and poor is widening. People won’t live much longer.
Fe k off i dont want to live to 100
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