Larva lamped: Colin the Caterpillar loses to eight lookalikes in cake taste test

M&S came out fighting after the test, pointing to a recent poll of 2,100 adults that named Colin the nation’s best caterpillar cake. Photograph: M&S/PA

After a busy 35 years as a British party favourite, not to mention a bruising court battle with an alleged copycat, you might think Colin the Caterpillar had earned his place at the top.

But the “original” chocolate caterpillar cake has now been labelled the worst, bested by lookalikes in a taste test.