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Easter eggs in shops???

  • 02-01-2013 9:50am
    #1
    Nanazolie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭


    Are they mental or what? I'm still trying to get over the chocolate induced coma this Xmas.
    Went to Tesco this morning for my lunch and my jaw almost dropped, Easter chocolates are already on the shelves. Not just a few cream eggs, a wall full of stuff. Right next to the Weight Watchers stuff on special for that New Year - New You resolution which sure enough will crumble as the mind wanders from low fat tinned soup to cream eggs. :P

    When is Easter this year? 3, 4 months away?


Comments

  • #2
    iPearly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭iPearly


    March 31


  • #3
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Not a Consumer Issue - moved to After Hours

    dudara


  • #4
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    It's a disgrace, Joe.


  • #5
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Ah jaysus, it was better in the old days. Easter eggs only came onto the shelves at 12pm on the Easter Saurday.

    Wait, why the hell does it matter when the Easter eggs are on the shelf?


  • #6
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Those are New Years eggs...
    For people who's new year resolution is to eat more chocolate eggs.


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  • #7
    Nanazolie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭Nanazolie


    because I find it quite depressing to be thinking of an event that will happen in 3 months time when the christmas holidays are not even finished. I know no one forces me to buy eggs now. But it's like seeing sun cream in the shop in early January, then school things in June and Christmas decoration in August.

    Plus if you buy the chocolate now it will likely get a white coat by the time you eat it.


  • #8
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    There's no novelty any more, I always looked forward to creme egg season and would go nuts for the few weeks they were available. Got my hands on a box of Heroes this xmas, first time in years, and they now have creme egg chococlates in the tin :eek: Feckers ruining easter before xmas is even over.


  • #9
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    saw all the patricks day stuff in the euroshop on new years eve


  • #10
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    check the best before dates! last year Tesco started selling them so early they didn't last until easter!

    :pac:


  • #11
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    saw all the patricks day stuff in the euroshop on new years eve

    ah now thats fair game its the next big holiday and its just around the corner :D


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  • #12
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    hoodwinked wrote: »
    ah now thats fair game its the next big holiday and its just around the corner :D

    Ah here, what about Valentines day :eek::P


  • #13
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    OP thats what you get for shopping in Tesco
    on another note..creme eggs should be renamed as grainy sugary goo eggs


  • #14
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    jester77 wrote: »
    Ah here, what about Valentines day :eek::P

    and St Patricks Day..


  • #15
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭vektarman


    lucylu wrote: »
    and St Patricks Day..

    Saint Patrick, the patron saint of easter eggs......


  • #16
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    The world's gone mad Ted, we need the government to step and impose a block on Easter eggs until the 2nd week in March. They'll save us from ourselves.


  • #17
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    jester77 wrote: »
    Ah here, what about Valentines day :eek::P

    ah not everyone celebrates that! we all celebrate St paddy's day and Easter chocolate Sunday!


  • #18
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Saw a cadburies cream egg add last night on sky.
    Feck sake, I hadn't gone back to work after christmas!


  • #19
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Nanazolie wrote: »
    Plus if you buy the chocolate now it will likely get a white coat by the time you eat it.

    Thats assuming if you buy it now - you're actually going to have the will power to not eat it!


  • #20
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    jester77 wrote: »
    Ah here, what about Valentines day :eek::P

    Or steak and bj day? :O


  • #21
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Tesco is quite simply to be avoided if the op is true. Between this and tesco internships.


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  • #22
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    jonny24ie wrote: »
    Or steak and bj day? :O

    what ever about the steak id say euro giant would be getting in trouble if they started selling Bj's! :D


  • #23
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Sure the ads for Christmas 2013 are starting already. Only 357 days to go!!! Hurry hurry hurry!!!!

    Think I'l just leave the xmas decorations up.


  • #24
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Sure the ads for Christmas 2013 are starting already. Only 357 days to go!!! Hurry hurry hurry!!!!

    Think I'l just leave the xmas decorations up.

    leave the tree up:

    Valentines: cover it in hearts and chocolates with her presents underneath,
    Patricks day: its green already so add orange and white decorations
    Easter: hang eggs on it!
    Summer: put giant sunglasses on it,then wrap a huge beach towel around it.
    Autumn: stick brown and yellow leaves on it
    Halloween: cover it in cobwebs and hang spiders on it
    Christmas: im out of ideas....


  • #25
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Nanazolie wrote: »
    Are they mental or what? I'm still trying to get over the chocolate induced coma this Xmas.
    Went to Tesco this morning for my lunch and my jaw almost dropped, Easter chocolates are already on the shelves. Not just a few cream eggs, a wall full of stuff. Right next to the Weight Watchers stuff on special for that New Year - New You resolution which sure enough will crumble as the mind wanders from low fat tinned soup to cream eggs. :P

    When is Easter this year? 3, 4 months away?

    They're a bit late in Ireland. Tesco UK had them in 2012

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252871/Only-97-days-Supermarkets-selling-Easter-eggs--Christmas-Eve.html

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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