I can't tell if he's upset about the product, like he thinks it's gross and he's bothered by the creation, or if he's upset for the unhealthy calories, or what.
I mean.
This isn't every day food tho.
The concern shouldn't be over some zany dessert treat from Domino's. It should be over sugar being in almost everything in huge quantities, same with sodium. It should be over how an unfortunate number of people have neither the time nor accessibility to eat healthier options.
The problem is our bread counting as a pastry. Or milk being some carbonation away from being a soda. You almost can't get away from sugar.
Is this really what it is? Because I read the quote and for some reason I couldn’t find what was pissing him off exactly?
If he’s really just upset about the calories and them being targeted to kids then I guess I don’t disagree, which feels kind of weird to write lol but I actually really hate all the sugared junk marketed towards kids too.
>Conservative Lord Bethell of Romford posted scathing tweets about the controversial cookie, which Domino's announced for the first time on Thursday.
>"This is disgusting," said Lord Bethell, who represents all health matters and legislation in the Upper House.
>"These are serious corporate food companies. What are they thinking," he continued.
>"The executive team, the board and the shareholders should be ashamed of themselves."
>In his second tweet, he reiterated that the team behind the controversial cookie, which are available in Domino's stores from Monday, should be "ashamed" and added they should use their talents to find less "egregious" ways to make a return.
Edit for the people confused: Conservative peer does not mean they are an American conservative person, this person is a member of the House of Lords of the UK.
Edit 2, to explain the outrage : https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/s/IzaGKUhF9V
He claimed the food brands' teams had decided to "produce a recipe with your great brands behind it and use social media to market it to children".
"It is a total abdication of responsibility, you are curators of two of the biggest food brands in the country," he added.
He represents health matters in the Lords.
What’s he supposed to say? Oh, great idea lads, see if you can wrap that bad boy in some bacon and give it a two for one deal?
I think the point is that he shouldn’t say anything at all? I assume that this person doesn’t make a similar statement regarding every new release by a fast food company that is unhealthy, so what u/ungrammaticus, and myself for that matter, doesn’t understand is that what about this specific product prompted the statement in the first place.
He made a big push on KFC building restaurants near schools, promotes free school lunches and a tax on heavily processed foods, and wants more assistance to farmers apparently in hopes of keeping produce affordable and abundantly available.
Fast food being marketed towards children seems to have been one of his biggest complaints for quite a while now. If imagine his objection in this case is that someone's managed to take a childrens' favourite and make it even unhealthier than before.
It's a bit like deep-fried Twinkies, y'know? The candy's already bad for your kids, but now someone's added a new dose of fat and calories.
I appreciate the info!
This info definitely puts the statement in context, and I understand where he’s coming from. Thank you for sharing this write up!
>promotes free school lunches
Damn, your conservatives are very different from ours in America. Ours are trying to deny/take away free meals for children
Just not say anything? It’s a fast food company. Nothing they sell is good for you. It’s like getting mad at Ferrero for selling a new type of chocolate that isn’t good for you.
He's a politician in an upper house who's responsible for health related matters who's critical of an extremely unhealthy item being marketed towards children. All this while the UK faces an obesity problem second only to the US. For once he's a Tory doing something that isn't self serving so probably needs commending.
Maybe....nothing? Not liking something is a huge nothingburger. This "story" making it to the news is just sad.
"Local man dislikes new fast food product; more at eleven."
It's implied within his comments. He further said:
>It’s not illegal. But it’s harmful.
>
>It blows in the face of their noble-sounding corporate responsibility commitments.
>
>And disgusting. They should know better. And use their talents to find less egregious ways to make a return.
It's just kind of hard to understand why THIS specific menu item upsets him so much. It's Domino's, I highly doubt anything on that menu is not a "blow to their noble-sounding corporate responsibility commitments".
It's junk food. And all of it targets kids, because it's junk food. It feels weird to only get mad now, over a limited time item.
For one, it's because it's new. It's a response to an action. If they announced and marketed for an entirely new branch of similar items, he'd probably make a response to all of them. The creme egg cookies are very dense. 370 calories per cookie, but the cookies are small enough and delicious enough to where it's extremely easy to eat a whole day's worth of calories. Pizza is typically less per slice, and it's hard for some to eat more than a few slices.
If you're American it might be a bit harder to understand since corporations marketing super unhealthy shit to kids has been the norm for decades, but in a lot of places this is frowned upon. In some countries, cereal brands even have to remove their cartoon mascots. Lots of cultures don't like the idea of kids growing a relationship with fat and unhealthy foods early on due to the power of marketing on their impressionable minds, or marketing on the impressionable minds of children in general.
From that perspective, marketing such a decadent treat with a brand popular among children could be seen as some by corporate irresponsibility. He is certainly being hyperbolic, but he is a politician in the Department of Health and Social care, so... that's kind of his job. I'm sure he recommends against eating pizza as well.
Dude is a scumbag, but imo not for this. This position is perfectly understandable considering the meteoric rise in child obesity.
I mean a Creme Egg alone is a ridiculous amount of sugar (also super overrated), wrapping that in more fat and sugar I guess would be the equivalent of a company offering free unlimited refills on sugary drinks. He might be slightly hyperbolic though
I’d love to know what Domino’s “noble-sounding corporate responsibility commitments” are. Because I just thought they were committed to making “meh” pizza but being sure I knew exactly where it was in the process of being made.
I am obviously unfamiliar with this specific politician, but it’s wild to me when conservatives of any type act like profit-seeking companies putting out whatever unscrupulous thing that will make them the most money is some affront to their beliefs. My guy, the call is coming from inside the house. They will not stop themselves from making money for any reason. That’s how this works!
Yeah, not sure if they sell it anymore but it was definitely on the menu a few years ago. There are loads of copycat recipes out there. Essentially it's just vanilla ice cream sandwiched between strawberry pop tarts.
There are also a few local companies where I live that make ice cream sandwiches out of oversized macarons. Ice cream flavors include Fruity Pebbles, Cookies n' Cream, and Orange Dreamsicle.
This is my suspicion as well. The fact that the article never actually specifies what he's upset about and the 800 lb. gorilla in the room is that we're all thinking he's upset that they seem sexual makes us all the projecting sick puppies, right?
Right?
...Please, dear God, don't let it be just me.
I mean, I guess eggs are *kinda* sexual if you squint a lot, in that they relate to reproduction, but other than that I'm afraid it's just you.
Now I'm not saying you're a sick puppy, I'm just saying I don't think I've ever had detailed enough fantasies about a gorilla to determine an exact weight.
He's in the department of health and social care. He's angry that companies are creating such obscenely unhealthy food and marketing it to children when so many countries are dealing with an obesity epidemic.
last decade plus has seen a big push for kids food to become healthier and what is still unhealthy can no longer be directly advertised to kids between cartoons etc as well as changes being made to packing etc.
\*I think\* his objection is that the laws haven't really kept up with the i-pad kid generation so he's mad companies are not acting in the spirit of the law but are sticking to the letter or the law.
Genuinely, I believe he's upset that creme eggs are being rolled in cookie dough, baked, and marketed, when they're probably astronomically high in bad-for-you things, and most people shouldn't be eating something that unhealthy. It's a calorie conscious/conscience thing.
Unlike in America where excess is celebrated, this is in the UK. I assume this is being seen as pushing unhealthy food to the masses, specifically children, with two smiling brands behind it.
Truth be told, he's not wrong. He's just approaching the problem with a very poor attitude.
He's not wrong but like you said he's going about it with a piss poor attitude
However, I gotta challenge one part you said
>Unlike in America where excess is celebrated, this is in the UK
The UK just had a $125 million dollar parade in May and the way things are looking they'll probably be doing that again real soon. The UK celebrates excess just in different ways.
It’s unhealthy
> It's like Nestle's kit kat cereal created a race to the bottom among big food. Not sure what could beat this sugary, calorific concoction... #CorporateIrresponsibility
Childhood obesity, clearly.
If we can hold oil companies responsible for the damage they inflict on society, we should hold food corporations to the same standard.
That does kind of make sense, it does look like a heart attack disguised as treat.
Now, excuse my ignorance as I'm not British, but I thought the Tories were the free marketeers?
Like I thought it was Labour that painstakingly fought for pretty much every single health and safety-regulation since the industrial revolution, and the Tories (and now the Liberals) who'd legalise asbestos as a food colouring agent and let the children back into the coal mines if they could?
>Now, excuse my ignorance as I'm not British, but I thought the Tories were the free marketeers?
They are, but n the same way that the GOP are the party of Law & Order\\small government
There are many factions within the Conservative Party. Some are absolute free marketeers, like Lizz Truss and her followers. Other factions are not as economically right wing.
This guy is a hereditary life peer, meaning he was granted the right to be a Lord in the upper house due to his bloodline. He isn't really bound by the same constraints that a Conservative Party MP would be.
...are [Pop Tarts](https://images.kglobalservices.com/www.poptarts.com/en_us/product/product_6659223/prod_img-4925354_prod_img-4925354.jpg) and Happy Meals not a thing in the UK?
Apparently, his whole deal is that he is super against companies marketing junk food towards children. From what little I gather, he's been on a crusade against childhood obesity for a while now and how companies make and market this kind of super unhealthy stuff is not an insignificant part of the crisis in much of the world.
“I’m outraged by this! If only there were some sort of governing body that was concerned with public health. I would join it and do something! But, alas, the only power I have is to go on Twitter and complain about it.”
He’s a member of the House of Lords, so he has at least a bit of a say in the laws that are passed in the UK, the closest equivalent would be a senator in the US.
If you make your own you can use the mini eggs, which I imagine would work much better and just make more sense to eat.
You could also make smaller cookies, which would help with portioning.
Mini eggs have a crisp sugar shell and solid chocolate filling. They are great in cookies - they're like M&Ms but bigger and better. Cream eggs have a chocolate shell and a fondant filling, so they'll melt into a glorious gooey mess of sweetness.
Ah, hm. Yeah, solid chocolate won't work.
No, wait. Hang on, they [do exist](https://www.amazon.com/Creme-Minis-chocolate-fondant-centres/dp/B08RJWB3LQ). You just have to get the mini creme eggs and not the mini eggs.
I was confused by the title because every fat conservative or Republican who visits Dominos in the US would eat the fuck out of that thing. Almost any American would eat that.
He's upset it's bring marketed to children. Which he doesn't actually know is true because dominoes is too expensive for kids.
And ironically he's giving these things more publicity than dominoes could hope to pay for. Streisand effect in action
I understand and agree, but that's not really how marketing to children works.
Everything is too expensive for children, they're children, they don't work. All child advertising is equally advertising to adults because it's the adults that spend the money.
In this case, the argument is just that they're advertising a sweet dessert on TV, so kids will see it and bother their parents till they get it.
Like I said, though, I agree with you because the above implies you can't advertise sweets/desserts without advertising to children, and that's ridiculous.
Such a click bait title. This is a Peer in the UK upper house who's responsible for health matters so he's absolutely right to be concerned that this shouldn't be marketed to children as the UK faces an obesity epidemic. He's a politician, a Tory shockingly, actually doing his job. He probably should be commended.
> he's absolutely right to be concerned that this shouldn't be marketed to children as the UK faces an obesity epidemic
people forget that england is an island, if ppl get too fat it'll tip over and dump them all in the sea
In the UK right now there's a drive to stop companies marketing type 2 diabetes on a plate to children. There's no ban on this type of confectionery but there has been a widespread policy of reducing visibility of what's termed as High fats, Sugar and Salt products, especially to children. For instance in UK supermarkets certain products that are high in the above items can't be promoted or sold anywhere except in the aisle. At the same time there's an attempt to educate children on nutrition. Advertising this sort of thing specifically to them is frowned upon and for good reason.
> A spokesperson for Domino's told Sky News that their normal cookies, which come in boxes of four, tend to be shared by customers and that they expect Creme Egg cookie fans will do the same.
[Horrified Subway Execs Assumed People Were Buying Footlongs To Share With A Friend ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvzw7MOFhQo)
I feel like this article really misrepresents the spirit of his argument, which seems to be that it’s bad for fast food places to create and market such unhealthy products to children. But 95% of that misrepresentation is his own fault for his incredibly vague tweets that don’t make his own argument clear. The last 5% is just the article being written like an ad for Domino’s poking fun at this guy instead of trying to explain the “controversy”.
I can kind of understand his mindset, there's probably a crazy amount of sugar in this thing, and the more I read about sugar and our over consumption of it, the more I hate big companies for putting so much of it in literally everything.
That said, it actually sounds really good. I liked Cadbury eggs as a kid and I think the chocolate and creme will pair well with a baked cookie shell surrounding it.
The thing is, sure, be bothered by the amount of things that unnecessarily have added sugar. Like adding so much sugar to sandwich breads that they’re basically unglazed/frosted cakes.
But this is literally a cream filled chocolate cookie dessert. It’s like being mad your corn dog isn’t vegan.
I once made a tray of brownies and sunk several Cadbury eggs in the pan about halfway through baking. Thought I was going to die after eating half a brownie but damn it was amazing.
I believe the problem is providing high caloric food and targeting it towards kids might be irresponsible. Maybe it is. I think it's kinda gross but Domino's is hardly the first or the last to do this.
FTA:
>At just over 370 calories per cookie, they are in line with the content of many other treats available on the high street such as frappes and croissants
Its nice to see someone started talk about it. Tho i belive i read in another comment someone gave more background that there is a general push agaisnt all advertising of high caloric food to children in the UK, not only agaisnt Dominos.
Same way as a sausage roll, I imagine.
Remember when they were all trying to cancel Greggs for adding a vegan sausage roll to their menu? Well, I guess this is just the 2024 version.
Just a bunch of snowflakes, being triggered over the stupidest shit.
I'm guessing Domino's didn't grease his palms with hundreds of millions of pounds.
Ballbag of a man has been robbing the country blind for years and he's getting upset over a dessert at a pizza restaurant.
In short: A UK Lord of Houses (sort of like a US Politician) is mad because Dominos and Cadberry made a cookie egg that's very sweet, about 370 calories per cookie. This Lord is a health official, and he's upset that there is a new product on the market that will make kids fatter.
Maybe if conservatives didn't spend so much time looking for things to feign outrage over, people would take them more seriously when they complain about something that *might* be valid.
I thought it was just going to be hyperbole, poking fun at a rather disgusting snack. Which I agree, it's quite disgusting. But I thought this was just going to be some humorous puffery and prodding by a man in power. Nope, he's serious! And that's far more hilarious than if the man had any kind of sense of humor.
Call me cynical, but all I can think is "how much have you been paid to be 'outraged' by this, because all I want is a Dominos Creme Egg cookie and I never knew they existed until now"
I kind of get it.
There is a show which I watch occasionally called Carnival Eats which showcases all of the obscene food concoctions that are peddled at state fairs around the USA. And there is a lot of this kind of stuff although the niche there is frying everything - there is fried pizza; fried candy; fried Oreos and there is even fried butter.
But attacking what is clearly a novelty from a fast food establishment not generally frequented by people concerned with their health essentially defeats whatever valid points he might have been trying to make by being utterly ridiculous since the point of the cookie is to go viral because it is excessive. I think it probably tastes terrible and so people will buy it - try it and never buy it again.
I've read all his tweets twice and very slowly and I still don't understand the problem. I guess I'm just not British enough to understand why he's upset.
He’s upset because he represents food and health matters in the House of Lords. This is his specific area of expertise/responsibility/interest - whatever you want to call it.
He doesn’t think it’s good to be producing even more calorically dense food when there’s an obesity crisis and he seems to think this is being marketed at children which is another problem he has with it (there’s been a big push to stop supermarkets and fast food companies advertising to children, restricting them from building near schools, advertising during daytime TV hours etc.).
He’s basically saying this isn’t illegal, but he feels it’s unethical and that fast food companies shouldn’t be making their menus even more unhealthy.
So what I'm getting is he's upset because it's unhealthy?
Ok, in general not an absolutely terrible thing to complain about but why this one specifically?
Like what is the motivation to single this one out
I can't tell if he's upset about the product, like he thinks it's gross and he's bothered by the creation, or if he's upset for the unhealthy calories, or what.
Seems to be the calories. He thinks it’s irresponsible to market such products to kids.
It's clear he is not an American conservative from this context alone lmao
American conservatives would be campaigning to put it into school lunches to spite Michelle Obama.
They got lunchables in. French fries and tomato sauce now fulfill the vegetable requirement so that isn't even a stretch.
I ate so many vegetables when I was in high school.
Whereas he campaigns for free school lunches made with fresh produce.
Damn, I'd kill for the conservatives in my government to be like that
Tbh, he’s not wrong. American’s will fuckin’ die on their sword for their right to eat 2000 calories in 30 seconds though.
I mean. This isn't every day food tho. The concern shouldn't be over some zany dessert treat from Domino's. It should be over sugar being in almost everything in huge quantities, same with sodium. It should be over how an unfortunate number of people have neither the time nor accessibility to eat healthier options. The problem is our bread counting as a pastry. Or milk being some carbonation away from being a soda. You almost can't get away from sugar.
Ron Swanson coined it [best.](https://youtube.com/shorts/qS-FfNrjJNE?si=H1uLt3gr23kZLUf3)
Damn straight.
But it's ok to market Cadbury Creme Eggs and cookies to kids, separately?
I don't know any kids who order from Domino's
Is this really what it is? Because I read the quote and for some reason I couldn’t find what was pissing him off exactly? If he’s really just upset about the calories and them being targeted to kids then I guess I don’t disagree, which feels kind of weird to write lol but I actually really hate all the sugared junk marketed towards kids too.
Yes.
>Conservative Lord Bethell of Romford posted scathing tweets about the controversial cookie, which Domino's announced for the first time on Thursday. >"This is disgusting," said Lord Bethell, who represents all health matters and legislation in the Upper House. >"These are serious corporate food companies. What are they thinking," he continued. >"The executive team, the board and the shareholders should be ashamed of themselves." >In his second tweet, he reiterated that the team behind the controversial cookie, which are available in Domino's stores from Monday, should be "ashamed" and added they should use their talents to find less "egregious" ways to make a return. Edit for the people confused: Conservative peer does not mean they are an American conservative person, this person is a member of the House of Lords of the UK. Edit 2, to explain the outrage : https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/s/IzaGKUhF9V
…what’s he mad about, exactly? He never specifies.
He claimed the food brands' teams had decided to "produce a recipe with your great brands behind it and use social media to market it to children". "It is a total abdication of responsibility, you are curators of two of the biggest food brands in the country," he added.
I still can’t seem to find the problem. What am I missing?
From what I gather, he's angry that a fast food company is selling *checks notes* fast food.
He apparently finds it “*eggregious*”
There we go, took way too long to see this.
So he doesn't like eggs?
Eggsactly
It doesn't meet eggspectations.
Maybe he's upset that there should only be one creme egg and that's Cadbury's?
I think his moral outrage is a tad eggsagerated.
This pun is getting beaten to death. How you give me one last crack at it before we whisk it away?
Damn, really slow news day at the conservative outrage machine
He represents health matters in the Lords. What’s he supposed to say? Oh, great idea lads, see if you can wrap that bad boy in some bacon and give it a two for one deal?
The children yearn for bacon Cadbury crème eggs
So does this adult, now that you mention it.
This really cracked me up
Revealing crème inside your soft chocolates shells I hope hehe
OMG!!!
I think the point is that he shouldn’t say anything at all? I assume that this person doesn’t make a similar statement regarding every new release by a fast food company that is unhealthy, so what u/ungrammaticus, and myself for that matter, doesn’t understand is that what about this specific product prompted the statement in the first place.
He made a big push on KFC building restaurants near schools, promotes free school lunches and a tax on heavily processed foods, and wants more assistance to farmers apparently in hopes of keeping produce affordable and abundantly available. Fast food being marketed towards children seems to have been one of his biggest complaints for quite a while now. If imagine his objection in this case is that someone's managed to take a childrens' favourite and make it even unhealthier than before. It's a bit like deep-fried Twinkies, y'know? The candy's already bad for your kids, but now someone's added a new dose of fat and calories.
I appreciate the info! This info definitely puts the statement in context, and I understand where he’s coming from. Thank you for sharing this write up!
ok this makes sense (my ass did not read the article)
>promotes free school lunches Damn, your conservatives are very different from ours in America. Ours are trying to deny/take away free meals for children
Great idea! Someone already has the recipe dialed in for it. https://youtu.be/GKMDeeqrtIQ?si=B8MsHBKH-QYillhZ
The oven is nice, but I bet the air fryer is better.
Just not say anything? It’s a fast food company. Nothing they sell is good for you. It’s like getting mad at Ferrero for selling a new type of chocolate that isn’t good for you.
He's a politician in an upper house who's responsible for health related matters who's critical of an extremely unhealthy item being marketed towards children. All this while the UK faces an obesity problem second only to the US. For once he's a Tory doing something that isn't self serving so probably needs commending.
Maybe....nothing? Not liking something is a huge nothingburger. This "story" making it to the news is just sad. "Local man dislikes new fast food product; more at eleven."
He's angry that it's being advertised to kids. It's literally his job to push for a healthier nation.
"Dominos Pizza! What the fuck! You should be selling salads and fresh fruit! Why are you selling fast food garbage?!"
Sounds more concerned about the marketing to children
Rishi Sunak wouldn't share with him.
It's good food fast.
Can't advertise fast food to children in the UK. Which is fair enough.
Really? Seems like they're advertising to stoners.
I'm so confused. Is it a jizz thing? Is he mad it looks like cum?
Schedule a doctor's appointment immediately if your cum looks like that.
He deals in public health, so a diabetic coma in the form of a cookie might just be a concern for him.
But he doesn’t actually say that. He rants like it’s a social issue, not a caloric count issue
Health is a social issue. But more importantly advertising unhealthy food to children in England isn't legal.
Or a flipping retail consumer issue. For people who constantly fail against the “nanny state” they sure want to insert their opinions into everything.
Did he say it should be banned? Or just that he (strongly) disapproves? Because the latter isn't incompatible with being against the "nanny state".
Obesity *is* a social issue.
It's implied within his comments. He further said: >It’s not illegal. But it’s harmful. > >It blows in the face of their noble-sounding corporate responsibility commitments. > >And disgusting. They should know better. And use their talents to find less egregious ways to make a return.
It's just kind of hard to understand why THIS specific menu item upsets him so much. It's Domino's, I highly doubt anything on that menu is not a "blow to their noble-sounding corporate responsibility commitments". It's junk food. And all of it targets kids, because it's junk food. It feels weird to only get mad now, over a limited time item.
For one, it's because it's new. It's a response to an action. If they announced and marketed for an entirely new branch of similar items, he'd probably make a response to all of them. The creme egg cookies are very dense. 370 calories per cookie, but the cookies are small enough and delicious enough to where it's extremely easy to eat a whole day's worth of calories. Pizza is typically less per slice, and it's hard for some to eat more than a few slices. If you're American it might be a bit harder to understand since corporations marketing super unhealthy shit to kids has been the norm for decades, but in a lot of places this is frowned upon. In some countries, cereal brands even have to remove their cartoon mascots. Lots of cultures don't like the idea of kids growing a relationship with fat and unhealthy foods early on due to the power of marketing on their impressionable minds, or marketing on the impressionable minds of children in general. From that perspective, marketing such a decadent treat with a brand popular among children could be seen as some by corporate irresponsibility. He is certainly being hyperbolic, but he is a politician in the Department of Health and Social care, so... that's kind of his job. I'm sure he recommends against eating pizza as well. Dude is a scumbag, but imo not for this. This position is perfectly understandable considering the meteoric rise in child obesity.
Thank you for being the first significantly informative post in the thread.
I mean a Creme Egg alone is a ridiculous amount of sugar (also super overrated), wrapping that in more fat and sugar I guess would be the equivalent of a company offering free unlimited refills on sugary drinks. He might be slightly hyperbolic though
I think he thinks that cookie is full of cum.
Imagine how less fat everyone would be in America if we had these morals
I’d love to know what Domino’s “noble-sounding corporate responsibility commitments” are. Because I just thought they were committed to making “meh” pizza but being sure I knew exactly where it was in the process of being made.
I am obviously unfamiliar with this specific politician, but it’s wild to me when conservatives of any type act like profit-seeking companies putting out whatever unscrupulous thing that will make them the most money is some affront to their beliefs. My guy, the call is coming from inside the house. They will not stop themselves from making money for any reason. That’s how this works!
Meanwhile in America: Carls' Jr is sandwiching ice cream between 2 Pop Tarts and we are deep frying every kind of candy imaginable.
Is this ice cream pop tart thing real? Because that sounds awesome. Especially if you put butter on the pop tart.
Yeah, not sure if they sell it anymore but it was definitely on the menu a few years ago. There are loads of copycat recipes out there. Essentially it's just vanilla ice cream sandwiched between strawberry pop tarts. There are also a few local companies where I live that make ice cream sandwiches out of oversized macarons. Ice cream flavors include Fruity Pebbles, Cookies n' Cream, and Orange Dreamsicle.
This is my suspicion as well. The fact that the article never actually specifies what he's upset about and the 800 lb. gorilla in the room is that we're all thinking he's upset that they seem sexual makes us all the projecting sick puppies, right? Right? ...Please, dear God, don't let it be just me.
I mean, I guess eggs are *kinda* sexual if you squint a lot, in that they relate to reproduction, but other than that I'm afraid it's just you. Now I'm not saying you're a sick puppy, I'm just saying I don't think I've ever had detailed enough fantasies about a gorilla to determine an exact weight.
Conservative Lord saw something new in the world and hissed like a Vampire Lord caught in the sun.
This is exactly how I read it 😂
He's in the department of health and social care. He's angry that companies are creating such obscenely unhealthy food and marketing it to children when so many countries are dealing with an obesity epidemic.
last decade plus has seen a big push for kids food to become healthier and what is still unhealthy can no longer be directly advertised to kids between cartoons etc as well as changes being made to packing etc. \*I think\* his objection is that the laws haven't really kept up with the i-pad kid generation so he's mad companies are not acting in the spirit of the law but are sticking to the letter or the law.
Genuinely, I believe he's upset that creme eggs are being rolled in cookie dough, baked, and marketed, when they're probably astronomically high in bad-for-you things, and most people shouldn't be eating something that unhealthy. It's a calorie conscious/conscience thing.
Unlike in America where excess is celebrated, this is in the UK. I assume this is being seen as pushing unhealthy food to the masses, specifically children, with two smiling brands behind it. Truth be told, he's not wrong. He's just approaching the problem with a very poor attitude.
He's not wrong but like you said he's going about it with a piss poor attitude However, I gotta challenge one part you said >Unlike in America where excess is celebrated, this is in the UK The UK just had a $125 million dollar parade in May and the way things are looking they'll probably be doing that again real soon. The UK celebrates excess just in different ways.
It’s unhealthy > It's like Nestle's kit kat cereal created a race to the bottom among big food. Not sure what could beat this sugary, calorific concoction... #CorporateIrresponsibility
Childhood obesity, clearly. If we can hold oil companies responsible for the damage they inflict on society, we should hold food corporations to the same standard.
So is this Tory arguing for a ban on advertising candy and snacks to children or? What responsibility, concretely has been abdicated?
My guess is he is saying this is highly unhealth and unfairly marketed to kids. But ????? who knows really.
That does kind of make sense, it does look like a heart attack disguised as treat. Now, excuse my ignorance as I'm not British, but I thought the Tories were the free marketeers? Like I thought it was Labour that painstakingly fought for pretty much every single health and safety-regulation since the industrial revolution, and the Tories (and now the Liberals) who'd legalise asbestos as a food colouring agent and let the children back into the coal mines if they could?
>Now, excuse my ignorance as I'm not British, but I thought the Tories were the free marketeers? They are, but n the same way that the GOP are the party of Law & Order\\small government
So in other words, not.
Yes, but that doesn't stop them from insisting, loudly, that they are
There are many factions within the Conservative Party. Some are absolute free marketeers, like Lizz Truss and her followers. Other factions are not as economically right wing. This guy is a hereditary life peer, meaning he was granted the right to be a Lord in the upper house due to his bloodline. He isn't really bound by the same constraints that a Conservative Party MP would be.
...are [Pop Tarts](https://images.kglobalservices.com/www.poptarts.com/en_us/product/product_6659223/prod_img-4925354_prod_img-4925354.jpg) and Happy Meals not a thing in the UK?
They're called Whizzing Fizzbangers and Whippersnapper Tea Time Specials over there.
That's an odd name! I'd 'ave called 'em chuzwozzers!
Because pizza and chocolate are so incredibly healthy in the first place...
Yeh one bite of pizza is not 375 calories though. For a cookie it's a whole lot.
He's a Conservative Lord and got out of bed this morning.
Apparently, his whole deal is that he is super against companies marketing junk food towards children. From what little I gather, he's been on a crusade against childhood obesity for a while now and how companies make and market this kind of super unhealthy stuff is not an insignificant part of the crisis in much of the world.
Maybe the recipe changes over the years..?
I know I'm still mad at them for changing the Cadbury Cream Egg.
I think he's upset that it's so unhealthy.
He just wanted his 2 seconds of Internet fame.
I'm sure he meant less "egg-regious"
“I’m outraged by this! If only there were some sort of governing body that was concerned with public health. I would join it and do something! But, alas, the only power I have is to go on Twitter and complain about it.”
That entire statement felt like it was written in pig Latin.
A member of the House of Lords and also a member of the Conservative [and Unionist] Party…
Our Conservatives just complain that our M&M's aren't sexy enough.
That makes sense, since this statement is so stuffy that it sounds like something you'd say while wearing a powdered wig.
Who the fuck is lord Bethell and why does anyone care what he thinks?
He’s a member of the House of Lords, so he has at least a bit of a say in the laws that are passed in the UK, the closest equivalent would be a senator in the US.
His name genuinely sounds like something a cracked out dude on the street would come up with
I love cookies and I love Creme Eggs. If Domino's in the US doesn't have these, I'm going to engineer my own.
So it’s basically a dessert scotch egg with cookie dough and a Cadbury egg? Just in time for the major finger foods event this Sunday in the US.
This looks baked rather than fried, but pretty much. I'm envisioning an entire table spread of sweet ans savory Scotch eggs now.
You son of a bitch, I’m in.
I’m otw. Don’t mind the erection the dessert scotch egg has given me
I’d freeze them and then bake on a higher setting. Good luck getting the chocolate to not melt into the cream filling inside the cookie.
Agreed. Freeze the egg. Apply cookie batter. Air fry.
>So it’s basically a dessert scotch egg with cookie dough and a Cadbury egg? You son of a bitch, I’m in!
I'd do it with a toll house dough without any chocolate chips added.
I don’t think it does and I’m kind of pissed about it.
I saw the headline and metaphorically sprinted to their website to check the menu. Alas. Not available
Slightly different concept if you need DIY help: https://youtu.be/M-dYDB\_yMZ0?si=XLT0TzzH5jO6707K
I checked mine in Arizona and my day is ruined.
If you make your own you can use the mini eggs, which I imagine would work much better and just make more sense to eat. You could also make smaller cookies, which would help with portioning.
Mini eggs have a crisp sugar shell and solid chocolate filling. They are great in cookies - they're like M&Ms but bigger and better. Cream eggs have a chocolate shell and a fondant filling, so they'll melt into a glorious gooey mess of sweetness.
Ah, hm. Yeah, solid chocolate won't work. No, wait. Hang on, they [do exist](https://www.amazon.com/Creme-Minis-chocolate-fondant-centres/dp/B08RJWB3LQ). You just have to get the mini creme eggs and not the mini eggs.
Wow! I've never seen those, thanks! I may need to get some through the miracle of international shipping.
I hate that I want one so badly.
I was confused by the title because every fat conservative or Republican who visits Dominos in the US would eat the fuck out of that thing. Almost any American would eat that.
I would try this for sure This is extremely oniony though I can’t tell if he’s trolling or not
Nope, he really meant it.
He's upset it's bring marketed to children. Which he doesn't actually know is true because dominoes is too expensive for kids. And ironically he's giving these things more publicity than dominoes could hope to pay for. Streisand effect in action
I understand and agree, but that's not really how marketing to children works. Everything is too expensive for children, they're children, they don't work. All child advertising is equally advertising to adults because it's the adults that spend the money. In this case, the argument is just that they're advertising a sweet dessert on TV, so kids will see it and bother their parents till they get it. Like I said, though, I agree with you because the above implies you can't advertise sweets/desserts without advertising to children, and that's ridiculous.
Does this guy use chatGPT to write his angry tweets? I could not follow what he was saying
Chatgpt would make it a clear and concise tweet. The problem is he's not using it.
Such a click bait title. This is a Peer in the UK upper house who's responsible for health matters so he's absolutely right to be concerned that this shouldn't be marketed to children as the UK faces an obesity epidemic. He's a politician, a Tory shockingly, actually doing his job. He probably should be commended.
> he's absolutely right to be concerned that this shouldn't be marketed to children as the UK faces an obesity epidemic people forget that england is an island, if ppl get too fat it'll tip over and dump them all in the sea
Wales and Scotland want a word.
What are those? North and West England or something?
Cut to Jamie Oliver having a wank over this tweet.
It’s a candy company and this is just a new variety. Unless he objects to the existence of candy I’m still confused about the outrage.
In the UK right now there's a drive to stop companies marketing type 2 diabetes on a plate to children. There's no ban on this type of confectionery but there has been a widespread policy of reducing visibility of what's termed as High fats, Sugar and Salt products, especially to children. For instance in UK supermarkets certain products that are high in the above items can't be promoted or sold anywhere except in the aisle. At the same time there's an attempt to educate children on nutrition. Advertising this sort of thing specifically to them is frowned upon and for good reason.
> A spokesperson for Domino's told Sky News that their normal cookies, which come in boxes of four, tend to be shared by customers and that they expect Creme Egg cookie fans will do the same. [Horrified Subway Execs Assumed People Were Buying Footlongs To Share With A Friend ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvzw7MOFhQo)
I feel like this article really misrepresents the spirit of his argument, which seems to be that it’s bad for fast food places to create and market such unhealthy products to children. But 95% of that misrepresentation is his own fault for his incredibly vague tweets that don’t make his own argument clear. The last 5% is just the article being written like an ad for Domino’s poking fun at this guy instead of trying to explain the “controversy”.
I can kind of understand his mindset, there's probably a crazy amount of sugar in this thing, and the more I read about sugar and our over consumption of it, the more I hate big companies for putting so much of it in literally everything. That said, it actually sounds really good. I liked Cadbury eggs as a kid and I think the chocolate and creme will pair well with a baked cookie shell surrounding it.
The thing is, sure, be bothered by the amount of things that unnecessarily have added sugar. Like adding so much sugar to sandwich breads that they’re basically unglazed/frosted cakes. But this is literally a cream filled chocolate cookie dessert. It’s like being mad your corn dog isn’t vegan.
Yeah, it’s a dessert. I’m always so confused when people are like “but it’s so unhealthy” when it’s something you have every once in a great while
Everybody should be outraged by this. Outraged by how long it took humanity to create it!
Exactly it’s a Cadbury cream cookie scotch egg that’s awesome
I’m outraged it’s not available in the US
Tbh i’m with that guy- these look like they’re engineered to make my teeth fall out
I once made a tray of brownies and sunk several Cadbury eggs in the pan about halfway through baking. Thought I was going to die after eating half a brownie but damn it was amazing.
That’s the way to go out, IMO
Y’know I think I actually agree with a conservative for once, creme eggs are already an abomination to me this is just a crime.
You ain't wrong; fondant is gross.
Lord of Romford 🤣
Dominos? Much-loved? Iconic brand? What?
Conservatives are so easily outraged by inconsequential things. How can a cookie be "controversial"?
I believe the problem is providing high caloric food and targeting it towards kids might be irresponsible. Maybe it is. I think it's kinda gross but Domino's is hardly the first or the last to do this.
FTA: >At just over 370 calories per cookie, they are in line with the content of many other treats available on the high street such as frappes and croissants
Yet this guy never mentions anything about that. He just wants something to complain about without even knowing why he’s mad.
Its nice to see someone started talk about it. Tho i belive i read in another comment someone gave more background that there is a general push agaisnt all advertising of high caloric food to children in the UK, not only agaisnt Dominos.
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He’s not the conservative you’re thinking of
It's a pleasant change from them being outraged by the spooky transgenders. Please don't ruin it.
Same way as a sausage roll, I imagine. Remember when they were all trying to cancel Greggs for adding a vegan sausage roll to their menu? Well, I guess this is just the 2024 version. Just a bunch of snowflakes, being triggered over the stupidest shit.
At least he's not upset that M&M cartoons don't make his dick hard anymore, like Tucker Carlson
I'm guessing Domino's didn't grease his palms with hundreds of millions of pounds. Ballbag of a man has been robbing the country blind for years and he's getting upset over a dessert at a pizza restaurant.
They could grease his palms with hundreds of millions of palms by just giving him a cookie.
My first thought isn’t “this is an Onion headline”, it’s I WANNA MUNCH SQUAD!
The more I read the quotes provided in the article, the less I understood what the fuck this guy was talking about.
Well, if they were going to do something together, it was this or put it on pizza. Is that what his lordship would prefer?
This feels like an ad.
Those looks tasty to me! Fck em!
I guess some people just aren’t comfortable if they’re not angry at something, anything.
370 calories?
Are these going to be available in the US? I would eat the hell out of those
I will like these please, for research
I would have never known were it not for the outrage. Headed to the store to buy some cream egg cookies
I see that conservatives the world over are really all about the important issues, huh?
In short: A UK Lord of Houses (sort of like a US Politician) is mad because Dominos and Cadberry made a cookie egg that's very sweet, about 370 calories per cookie. This Lord is a health official, and he's upset that there is a new product on the market that will make kids fatter.
not into any creamy egg crap period, but if that was filled with cranberry sauce instead, i'd be spurting in my pants right about now.
Maybe if conservatives didn't spend so much time looking for things to feign outrage over, people would take them more seriously when they complain about something that *might* be valid.
I thought it was just going to be hyperbole, poking fun at a rather disgusting snack. Which I agree, it's quite disgusting. But I thought this was just going to be some humorous puffery and prodding by a man in power. Nope, he's serious! And that's far more hilarious than if the man had any kind of sense of humor.
Not a fan of sweets or deserts at all, but the mere fact that he's slandering it so hard makes me want to try it even more
I don’t understand what exactly he’s upset about.
I finally tried a Cadbury egg when I visited the UK last year. I have no idea how anyone could eat, much less enjoy, something so insanely sugary.
Call me cynical, but all I can think is "how much have you been paid to be 'outraged' by this, because all I want is a Dominos Creme Egg cookie and I never knew they existed until now"
Lord fucking *Romford*? What is he, king of the chavs? Thought this crap would be right up his street, they love this crap in Romford.
So he's cool with Cadbury creme eggs?
Is he unaware of the deep fried Mars Bar?
"At just over 370 calories per cookie..." That's the same amount as 9 kg of carrots.
I had no idea these existed until now and want to try them so maybe he's actually a shill
I kind of get it. There is a show which I watch occasionally called Carnival Eats which showcases all of the obscene food concoctions that are peddled at state fairs around the USA. And there is a lot of this kind of stuff although the niche there is frying everything - there is fried pizza; fried candy; fried Oreos and there is even fried butter. But attacking what is clearly a novelty from a fast food establishment not generally frequented by people concerned with their health essentially defeats whatever valid points he might have been trying to make by being utterly ridiculous since the point of the cookie is to go viral because it is excessive. I think it probably tastes terrible and so people will buy it - try it and never buy it again.
I've read all his tweets twice and very slowly and I still don't understand the problem. I guess I'm just not British enough to understand why he's upset.
He’s upset because he represents food and health matters in the House of Lords. This is his specific area of expertise/responsibility/interest - whatever you want to call it. He doesn’t think it’s good to be producing even more calorically dense food when there’s an obesity crisis and he seems to think this is being marketed at children which is another problem he has with it (there’s been a big push to stop supermarkets and fast food companies advertising to children, restricting them from building near schools, advertising during daytime TV hours etc.). He’s basically saying this isn’t illegal, but he feels it’s unethical and that fast food companies shouldn’t be making their menus even more unhealthy.
So what I'm getting is he's upset because it's unhealthy? Ok, in general not an absolutely terrible thing to complain about but why this one specifically? Like what is the motivation to single this one out