A Luton nursery manager is the first person to unwrap one of Cadbury’s sought-after white Cream Eggs — scooping £1,000 in prize money.
Natasha Bream, 30, purchased three Creme Eggs while on her lunch break from a Tesco Express in the town.
She was astonished to unwrap a prized white version after opening her first egg.
She told MailOnline she was: ‘Very excited – and a little shocked. It was quite bizarre as we had just been talking about it at work so we knew what it meant.
Luton nursery manager Natasha Bream was shocked to unwrap one of Cadbury’s coveted white Cream Eggs, which is worth £1,000
‘She [my colleague] thought I was joking!’
Natasha had happened up one of just 34 eggs distributed across Britain, each worth £1,000.
She dialled the helpline number marked on the inside of the wrapper and was then told the was one of the few lucky winners.
The nursery manager said she still hasn’t quite decided what to spend her winnings on — but that booking a holiday was high on her list.
The limited edition goodies were revealed by Cadbury’s last week with 350 to 400 white chocolate eggs hidden in normal Creme Egg wrappers
The limited edition goodies were revealed by Cadbury’s last week with 350 to 400 white chocolate eggs hidden in normal Creme Egg wrappers.
Lucky buyers could be in with a chance of winning up to £2,000 and, thanks to a sneaky find, can now tell if they’ve got the special egg by just looking at the ingredients list.
The list, on the back of every Creme Egg, usually includes milk chocolate as an ingredient.
However, the special version replaces the milk chocolate with white chocolate, according to Metro.
This one key change is a tell-tale clue to work out if you’re Creme Egg is a special one – and you don’t even have to take off the wrapper.
The special promotion, which delighted fans, is reminiscent of Willy Wonka and his five golden tickets hidden in chocolate bars in the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
The news of the trick will be a relief to supermarkets and shoppers all over the country after Creme Eggs everywhere were hit by eager hunters.
The new trick will come as a relief to shoppers and supermarkets with customers opening Creme Egg wrappers and returning them to the shelves
Shoppers have been tweeting images of rewrapped Creme Eggs and accusing shoppers and staff of unwrapping the chocolate and putting them back on the shelf
Shoppers took to Twitter to share photos of Creme Eggs that had been opened and then put back in the hunt for the elusive white eggs.
Ryan Reeves, from Essex, tweeted a picture of pile of tampered with eggs and said ‘@sainsburys The search for a white chocolate creme egg has gone to your employees heads clearly’.
Another shopper found unwrapped Creme Eggs in a Tesco Express in Essex.
‘I opened one of the other boxes that was stacked in the store and they were the same. I can’t see how that could have been done by shoppers!’ he told The Sun.
Another user tweeted: ‘This white creme egg thing just means every single creme egg has been unwrapped and touched by some randoms in tesco’
Shoppers across the country have shared pictures of the Creme Eggs on social media, saying people are unwrapping sweets in the store in the hope of winning a white chocolate treat
Paul Lang said he initially thought there was a production problem with the Creme Eggs, but later realised it was due to people searching for the £2000 prize
Scott Bartlett tweeted saying the competition was causing ‘unwrapped and unwanted’ Creme Eggs