Battle of the caterpillar cakes! We asked MailOnline readers what their ... trends now
Shoppers were in uproar after a taste test ruled that the Co-Op's budget Charlie cake was better than Marks and Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar.
But MailOnline readers disagree with hundreds coming out in support of the original version in our exclusive poll today.
More than 1110 of you voted in the first seven hours of the poll with Colin easily claiming top spot with 786 votes (66 per cent).
Aldi's Cuthbert the Caterpillar ranked second with 170 votes (14 per cent) and the Co-Op's Charlie was third with 99 votes (eight per cent).
Cecil the Caterpillar by Waitrose scored 30 votes (three per cent) with Tesco's Slinky the Caterpillar and Sainsbury's Wiggles the Caterpillar tied on 29 votes (two per cent).
Shoppers were in uproar after a taste test ruled that the Co-Op's budget Charlie cake was better than Marks and Spencer 's Colin the Caterpillar (pictured)
A blind taste test of caterpillar cakes from eight supermarkets found Co-op's Charlie (pictured) to be the finest
The results of the MailOnline poll today
The bottom two caterpillar cakes were Asda's Letty the Caterpillar on 21 votes ( two per cent) and Morrison's Morris the Caterpillar on 19 (two per cent).
Customers had already disputed the findings of the study by Which? that argued a copycaterpillar called Charlie tastes better than the popular Colin product.
They said the 'horrid' £8 Co-op 'Charlie the Caterpillar' cake, which weighs 660g, doesn't even have a chocolate face.
One said on X: 'The best bit of a Colin the Caterpillar cake is the face, and you can now buy them in the sweetie section so all was well when I let a five-year-old influence my cake choice for a quiet life.'
Another said: 'Colin has an adorable chocolate face which makes him stand out and I love it. Charlie's face does look a bit creepy to be honest.'
A third person said: 'Kids don't really care but who wants to eat that horrid thin yellow face when the original
