The Easter Egg Thread

OutlawPete

Yesterday in Superquinn I couldn't believe that they were selling a range of Retro Easter Eggs :eek:

I bought this one ...

The chocolate seemed to be thicker years ago and far tastier, or maybe I'm just getting old.

So what was the best Easter Egg you every had?

phasers

I never looked at the boxes, I was too busy eating them/ trying to steal my brothers' ones

Hank_Jones

C'mon Pete, you already ate the egg, didn't you?


Used to mill through those big massive Kinder eggs.
Think it started my love affair with Kinder chocolate.

Biggins

OutlawPete wrote: »

...Which was your favourite?

Always the Buttons ones. Good memories...

Speaking of Choc' eggs, an interesting article I fell across (it hurt!): http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/01042010/389/massive-easter-egg-rip.html

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OutlawPete wrote: »

I bought this one ...

:eek:

That is so fucking rad.


I don't really have an easter eggs memories, apart from one occasion when my mother forgot to buy one for my older brother and he got all pissy.

OutlawPete

Here's an article on the four retro Nestle Easter Eggs:

http://www.clicklancashire.com/business/featured-business/126258-nostalgic-treats-with-nestl%C3%A9%E2%80%99s-retro-easter-egg-range.html

alwaysadub

Did you check the best before date? Maybe it wasn't Retro but years old :pac:
Someone on the All Things Retro thread got a smarties one with a mug-i have the original mug still in my press!

The only memories i have of easter eggs is getting bout 13 of them on year. They were gone in about a week! Now i get none :mad:

Biggins

OutlawPete wrote: »

Here's an article on the four retro Nestle Easter Eggs:

http://www.clicklancashire.com/business/featured-business/126258-nostalgic-treats-with-nestl%C3%A9%E2%80%99s-retro-easter-egg-range.html

Double cheers for that. On that site there was a news link about Blackpool Tower.
I have an interest in that seeing as I asked my wife to marry me at the top of it.

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Biggins wrote: »

Double cheers for that. On that site there was a news link about Blackpool Tower.
I have an interest in that seeing as I asked my wife to marry me at the top of it.

Bit windy up there for a wedding, isn't it?

Midnight_EG

Jackson Refined Neighbor wrote: »

Bit windy up there for a wedding, isn't it?

Well I tell ye somethin, ye're not gettin up there!






:pac:

Hank_Jones

Remember 3 out of the 4 of those, just not the Milkybar one (possibly because I was never given one).

Must have had about 5 of those Smarties mugs knocking around the house at one stage.
Thought they were previously in blue though..

shakencat

i havent been able to find a yorkie egg anywhere..

rang mam there to try get that one up in superquinn.. prob be none =[

ToniTuddle

OutlawPete wrote: »

Yesterday in Superquinn I couldn't believe that they were selling a range of Retro Easter Eggs :eek:

I bought this one ...

The chocolate seemed to be thicker years ago and far tastier, or maybe I'm just getting old.

So what was the best Easter Egg you every had?

The chocolate was definitely thicker back then!!

I used to love how they alwayshad mugs with them. I'm the fav cousin in my family so everyone of them(aunts uncles etc) bought me Easter eggs.

Every year my Mother would give out to them saying ohhh stop she is getting to old for Easter eggs now. I remember vividly telling her to shut the hell up one time after she got off the phone!!!

Let me have my childhood and my easter eggs!!!!!!! :mad:

Only retro thing I have in the cupboard is a Neighbours mug from 1989 I think!

OutlawPete

Hank_Jones wrote: »

C'mon Pete, you already ate the egg, didn't you?

Half in the fridge still, very thin for a Yorkie, not at all like I remember.

More chocolate in a bag of Minstrels :cool:

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Used to mill through those big massive Kinder eggs. Think it started my love affair with Kinder chocolate.

There still going, toys are crap now though .. well, so I've heard anyway

Midnight_EG

shakencat wrote: »

i havent been able to find a yorkie egg anywhere..

rang mam there to try get that one up in superquinn.. prob be none =[

No use in asking Mammy, it's not for women!

OutlawPete

shakencat wrote: »

i havent been able to find a yorkie egg anywhere..

rang mam there to try get that one up in superquinn.. prob be none =[

Superquinn in Walkinstown or Tesco in Dundrum or Parnell St.

They all have tons of 'em.

Biggins

The eggs were thicker years ago.
You being given less and being charged more now.
See: http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/01042010/389/massive-easter-egg-rip.html

Sadly, people will still fork out for them due to trying to keep kids happy.
The choc companies have us over a barrel and they know it.

shakencat

OutlawPete wrote: »

Superquinn in Walkinstown or Tesco in Dundrum or Parnell St.

They all have tons of 'em.

i live no where within them premises haha

Biggins

A report says the link I posted above don't work. Strange.
Here is a screen grab of the report (above) about rip-off eggs.
See: or here: http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1043/egg1.jpg

OutlawPete

It's working now /

Biggins

OutlawPete wrote: »

It's working now /

Serves you right for surfing the net on a Sinclair Spectrum. :pac:
Go buy something from this century ya cheapskate!

Ruu_Old

I remember a Ghostbusters one I got as a child. The box was shaped like a haunted house and had windows that you could open to reveal different ghosts.
We didn't really splash out too much on the Easter eggs because my brother would always end up sick from eating his in all the one go.

Adyx

I won a Mars Bar egg in first class. I don't even like Mars bars but I won't say no to free chocolate. Actually apart from a giant teddy, that's the only thing I've ever won.

Does anybody remember those little friction driven trucks with a bag of little eggs on the back? The eggs had a hard, coloured shell with chocolate inside.

Duggy747

Best Easter I ever had was when I called over to The Almighty Cushion's house and he had a cupboard full of proper chocolate eggs!

All hail The Cushion for he is glorious and generous at Easter with bountifuls of delicious, teeth-rotting gifts!

OutlawPete

Duggy747 wrote: »

Best Easter I ever had was when I called over to The Almighty Cushion's house and he had a cupboard full of proper chocolate eggs!

All hail The Cushion for he is glorious and generous at Easter with bountifuls of delicious, teeth-rotting gifts!

Is this true? :cool:

Biggins

Duggy747 wrote: »

Best Easter I ever had was when I called over to The Almighty Cushion's house and he had a cupboard full of proper chocolate eggs!

All hail The Cushion for he is glorious and generous at Easter with bountifuls of delicious, teeth-rotting gifts!

"The Almighty Cushion's house"
Huh?

Mint Sauce

the chocolate industry must be worth a fortune, it some shops it cheaper to buy 2 or 3 than it is to buy one depending on the offer

as for me theres 4 easter eggs in the press, they cant all be for me

we'llallhavetea_old

my mammy got me the retro smarties one because i insisted my life would not be complete without the retro mug she loves me

OutlawPete

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

my mammy got me the retro smarties one because i insisted my life would not be complete without the retro mug she loves me

Where did you see them?

Biggins

OutlawPete wrote: »

Where did you see them?

In the box silly.

we'llallhavetea_old

OutlawPete wrote: »

Where did you see them?

seen them in the retro forum and started pissin and moanin about how i wanted it

think ma got it in tescos though

liah

Biggins wrote: »

Double cheers for that. On that site there was a news link about Blackpool Tower.
I have an interest in that seeing as I asked my wife to marry me at the top of it.

..You asked your wife to marry you.. in Blackpool?! :eek:

Unless this was a very long time ago and times were very different, it's not exactly the most romantic place in the world.. Unless, you know, you dig chavs, filth and glowsticks.

I like Blackpool, don't get me wrong, but more in a kind of ironic, "oh, this is so seedy and tacky, I love it" way rather than a "oh my god, this is so romantic, let's get married" way!

Biggins

liah wrote: »

..You asked your wife to marry you.. in Blackpool?!

We took a few minutes out from attending a convention we appear at.

Thats reminds me, I better dig out her egg from its hidden place.
Dopey me would forget about it. :pac:

Mint Sauce

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

my mammy got me the retro smarties one because i insisted my life would not be complete without the retro mug she loves me

nearly bought the kit kat one for my self



they'll all be half price on monday

:pac:

alwaysadub

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

my mammy got me the retro smarties one because i insisted my life would not be complete without the retro mug she loves me

I just discovered my mammy has probably thrown out my original Smarties mug cos no doubt it was in the way of her fancy one's :mad::(

Wanna swap mammies??:pac:

pork99

I've just been wearing my boots out trudging around Dunnes Stores, Tescos M&S etc looking for the fecking things. Not an Easter Egg left anywhere.

Biggins

pork99 wrote: »

I've just been wearing my boots out trudging around Dunnes Stores, Tescos M&S etc looking for the fecking things. Not an Easter Egg left anywhere.

Wife said the same. Thank heavens, the grandparents didn't leave it till the last minute.

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Got a Creme Egg one today.:D
Gonna eat that tonight while I watch boxing and drink beer.:cool::pac:
I have to wait 'til tomorrow for my other one/s though, not fair.:mad::P



I use wayyy too many smileys.:p;):):rolleyes::o:eek::(:confused::pac:

landsleaving

pork99 wrote: »

I've just been wearing my boots out trudging around Dunnes Stores, Tescos M&S etc looking for the fecking things. Not an Easter Egg left anywhere.

Girlfriend went off looking for mine today.

It'll be lonelyyyy this Easter...

I'm eating hers.

**Timbuk2**

Does anybody else put their Easter eggs in the freezer?

we'llallhavetea_old

alwaysadub wrote: »

I just discovered my mammy has probably thrown out my original Smarties mug cos no doubt it was in the way of her fancy one's :mad::(

we had the smarties mug before, i remember it being used for a toothbrush holder then it got lobbed out

Wanna swap mammies??:pac:

no way, my ma is unswappable. :cool:

you'd kill her ...:pac:

MaybeLogic

Anyone know where I could buy Easter Eggs in Dublin tomorrow morning.
Left it till the last minute and went to Dunnes in Georges St. but they were sold out.
Sorry for going off topic, Pete.

alwaysadub

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Anyone know where I could buy Easter Eggs in Dublin tomorrow morning.
Left it till the last minute and went to Dunnes in Georges St. but they were sold out.
Sorry for going off topic, Pete.

You'll be lucky. Tried a few places today,big stores and small shops, and bar a few crap ones that were left over, there were feck all left anywhere.

BrokenHeels_Ox

pork99 wrote: »

I've just been wearing my boots out trudging around Dunnes Stores, Tescos M&S etc looking for the fecking things. Not an Easter Egg left anywhere.

the only have Jedward ones left in Blanch lol

MaybeLogic

alwaysadub wrote: »

You'll be lucky. Tried a few places today,big stores and small shops, and bar a few crap ones that were left over, there were feck all left anywhere.

Did this last year. Ended up buying weird adult eggs for me nieces. They probably don't care. It's all chocolate.

LavaLamp

Crikey, just been to SuperValu in Ennistymon - they sold out of eggs two days ago, apparently someone was in from Limerick today after easter eggs....countrywide shortage it seems :eek:

I left with 2 mini mars eggs, giant bag of maltesers and a bar & a half of dairy milk

Korvanica

I want this for easter...

Best eggs i ever got were huge cadbury dairy milk ones. About a foot high, with a big 1kg bar aswell...
I won both of them, one year after the next... was awesome

Mint Sauce

i have just given into temptation and eaten the two bars that came with one of my easter eggs, ah never mind, hadn't given up anything for lent anyway

alwaysadub

Korvanica wrote: »

I want this for easter...

Best eggs i ever got were huge cadbury dairy milk ones. About a foot high, with a big 1kg bar aswell...
I won both of them, one year after the next... was awesome

Well,it shows how to make it-all you need is 48 creme eggs:D.
I'd say it's as sickening though-not a chance even i'd be able to eat all that:eek:

tman

Damn you for bringing the awesome smarties egg to my attention! I want one now but have pretty much zero chance of getting one at this stage:(

Got a spongebob one from my girlfriend, and got her a toy story one:p

This is the first time in about 15 years that I've had an easter egg...

pikachucheeks

I saw a really cool Hello Kitty easter egg in Tesco the other day ... seemed a bit sad to buy it for myself though!