Chocolate Cracking: Cadbury’s Freddo Faces Easter egg

A traditional children’s character with added fear.

The best thing about the particular Freddo Easter egg that I had was that it was given to me for free, which was good for two reasons: firstly, I didn’t have to buy one for the purposes of an obscure and pointless chocolate reviewing blog; secondly, it immediately provided one hundred percent satisfaction.

But, because this is a tough, serious publication – I like to think of myself as the Jeremy Paxman of the very small and irrelevant world of chocolate reviewers – consideration has to be given to why several large crates of the things were donated to my workplace.

Let’s put it this way: I’m still waiting for the day when Ferrero Rocher shower me with generosity – or, even better, Ferrari.

Immediately, it was obvious that Freddo Faces was likely a very good idea for a marketing gimmick on paper, but in reality became something akin to a group of suspicious, hooded teenagers huddled in the corner of a car park.

The chocolate faces of the legendary frog Freddo are depicted as unnervingly strange with big, drooping eyelids as though the childish frog has been led astray on dark, city streets by overindulging in the experimentation of marijuana. Either that, or the cartoon frog has come off significantly worse for wear after a brutal punch-up.

Unboxing the, er, box revealed a reasonable-sized egg and a small bag of about eight tiny Freddo Faces. Helpfully, the egg split into two halves on tearing off the purple foil, meaning that fragments of chocolate didn’t have to be battered across the room.

Both the egg and the Faces offered an identical and typical Cadbury experience: soft, thick but not quite creamy or chocolatey enough. The egg was carved with a friendly “happy Easter from Cadbury” message and a sweet bunny rabbit image, both of which were soon destroyed by the sheer power of teeth.

The Easter egg offering was the most bog standard you could ever find, but the addition of the little bag of chocs did offer novelty and better value for money (not that any was actually used). The whole product offers more than comparable £1 eggs that only provide a hollow egg, oversized box and lots of air.

Finally review rating: neither a water lily nor a swamp – 3* out of 5.

Review by JAMES LEWIS
Wanderer, wonderer and editor of the Chocolate Dissection blog (which will ideally melt hearts rather than brains). Reliable with sarcasm, less so with a scalpel. Twitter: @IdeasJimbound


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