Who buys Easter Eggs?

Ninap

Does anyone still buy Easter Eggs? What adult wants a big load of milk chocolate? And surely the days when parents were happy to see their kids stuff themselves with tons of chocolate are kind of past? One small egg, maybe, but lots of giant twirls and mars bar eggs? Really?

shopaholic01

GET OUT! :mad:

AnonoBoy

Ninap wrote: »

Does anyone still buy Easter Eggs?

No. Every year the supermarkets take a massive loss on them but yet they still stock loads of them every year. I guess they're suckers for tradition.

pajor

I plan to never stop buying myself a Creme Egg Easter egg.

The Backwards Man

Two of the things I hate most in the world are chocolate and overpriced packaging.

kneemos

Why is there an association with bunny's and eggs?

hfallada

I know my mother always brought a few in case she needed them for someone. But when someone would arrive to house unexpected. The eggs could never be found. But there would be caburys foil in the bin.

I would buy eggs anymore. Caburys isnt that nice anymore. But the knock off lindt bunnies in lidl are incredible

hairyprincess

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Two of the things I hate most in the world are chocolate and overpriced packaging.

WHAT??????!!!!!!!! I knew there was something I didn't like about you

You disgust me. I couldn't live a life without chocolate

Ninap

When I was a kid every uncle and aunt and neighbour would be giving us eggs and we'd carefully take out the sweets and seal up the egg again to keep the illusion going that we still had a full one left. And we'd eat everyone of them. But if my kids got more than one, and they won't, first of all they wouldn't want them, and second we wouldn't let them eat them even if they did. I reckon Cadbury's is going all out to try and get people to keep buying into the association of easter and chocolate, but it's dying.

BNMC

Kinder Bueno Easter Egg = Heaven.

OP, I hope you don't have kids. If you do, I feel sorry for them.

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Ninap

BNMC wrote: »

Kinder Bueno Easter Egg = Heaven.

OP, I hope you don't have kids. If you do, I feel sorry for them.

Edit:

We only feed them organic vegetables, and they're never allowed watch tv........... (not really)

AnonoBoy

Ninap wrote: »

I reckon Cadbury's is going all out to try and get people to keep buying into the association of easter and chocolate, but it's dying.

True. I think everyone at this point accepts that Easter is about panic buying alcohol on Holy Thursday and then crucifying our livers on the Friday.

castletownman

It really is a talent in itself managing to break an Easter Egg into two clean halves. Although going into Hulk-mode and smashing it to pieces is equally as gratifying.

Long story short, Easter Eggs are awesome.

The Backwards Man

hairyprincess wrote: »

WHAT??????!!!!!!!! I knew there was something I didn't like about you

You disgust me. I couldn't live a life without chocolate

I can eat an odd Kitkat to pass myself like, couldn't go any further than that though.

shopaholic01

AnonoBoy wrote: »

True. I think everyone at this point accepts that Easter is about panic buying alcohol on Holy Thursday and then crucifying our livers on the Friday.

I can't wait for that thread.

foxy06

I Have 5 kids and everyone in the family insists On buying them one each so there's about 35/40 eggs in my house over easter and it drives me flipping mental

foxy06

I Have 5 kids and everyone in the family insists On buying them one each so there's about 35/40 eggs in my house over easter and it drives me flipping mental

Boldberry

I normally get some pills instead.

MadYaker

I'm an adult and I'll be buying one for myself. The kinder ones are amazing!

The Backwards Man

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I can't wait for that thread.

Less than three weeks to go, I'm surprised there hasn't been half a dozen of them yet.

Hownowcow

kneemos wrote: »

Why is there an association with bunny's and eggs?

As far as I know Easter is named after Estre (not sure of that spelling) goddess of spring. The hare was her animal and possibly the bunnies emerged from this. Eggs were the sign of birth and renewal, adopted by Christians to symbolise Jesus rising from the grave.

I buy loads of Easter chocolate. I have yet to meet anyone, adult or child, who isn't happy to get a bunny or an egg.

MS.ing

kneemos wrote: »

Why is there an association with bunny's and eggs?

it use to be dolphins, at least bunnies make more sense. if easter eggs were found on the sea bed I could see the association but bunnies

krudler

Hell yeah I do, the small ones are on sale in tesco for 2 quid each

AnonoBoy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Less than three weeks to go, I'm surprised there hasn't been half a dozen of them yet.

ONLY THREE WEEKS!!!?????? :eek:

Quick! To the off-licence!

hairyprincess

foxy06 wrote: »

I Have 5 kids and everyone in the family insists On buying them one each so there's about 35/40 eggs in my house over easter and it drives me flipping mental

Give me your address, I won't be long easing your mental anguish. Or increasing it, depending on what way you want to look at it :pac:

Femme_Fatale

Why would interest in Easter eggs be less now than it used to be? I'd have thought it would be the same, or even more - given the variety and people having more money.
I know there's more awareness of healthy eating but there are still more obese people. Easter is only once a year though - no harm in a treat.

pharmaton

I'm starting my starvation diet today in preparation for all the chocolate I will be eating at easter

GTE

pajor wrote: »

I plan to never stop buying myself a Creme Egg Easter egg.

I remember the sadness I faced as a fat child when I realised the Creme Egg Easter eggs aren't just giant goo filled chocolate eggs =(

Spring Onion

Ninap wrote: »

Does anyone still buy Easter Eggs?

No, shops just pack their shelves with them for the aesthetics.

iguana

foxy06 wrote: »

I Have 5 kids and everyone in the family insists On buying them one each so there's about 35/40 eggs in my house over easter and it drives me flipping mental

That's nothing. I have a massive extended family and when I was 16 months old I got 22 Easter eggs. Since then my parents started a tradition of buying us a present for Easter instead of chocolate (I still got eggs from extended family but that dropped off to about 10-12 a year as I got older) and I'm going to continue that with my son. I know my parents are thinking of getting him a toy too and my grandmother got him clothes. But from next year on I'll get him chocolate too and will set up an elaborate hunt from the Easter Bunny with lots of small eggs. I'm getting excited just thinking about it.:D

Pumpkinseeds

I love Easter, I give up booze and junk food for Lent, to get a bit healthier, damn right I want me some chocolate on Easter Sunday:D I got my husband a great Easter egg and he'll get me one. My parents used to buy us an Easter egg each but I told them to stop, there's only so much chocolate I can cope with. We really only have much chocolate at Easter and Christmas.

With the nephew and niece we just gave them money. I worked in a toy shop for a while a few years ago and there was a trend for relatives to buy toys/vouchers instead of eggs. Healthier really.

titan18

If they sold Easter eggs the rest of the year, I'd still be buying them

foxy06

hairyprincess wrote: »

Give me your address, I won't be long easing your mental anguish. Or increasing it, depending on what way you want to look at it :pac:

You will get past me. The kids are a different story. They bite

RedFFWolf

I love buying Easter Eggs! I just love Easter! This year, I'm about to spend about €150-€200 total on Easter Eggs and similar stuff!

I bought 65 Easter Eggs (and some buckets of sweets) for a group of kids who came to the Sunshine House in Balbriggan (for like a mini-holiday) the weekend just gone. Most of the volunteers are my friends, and I know some of the kids from last year too where I volunteered there too. In Eater Bunny style, I managed to get all the eggs outside the main door, ring the bell and run away (at a safe enough distance to see they received them). I did similar last year too (but I was working there so I was straight up about the amount I provided), so I've been unofficially caught out already :P

Come Easter, I'll be buying a heap of the smaller wrapped chocolate eggs and sweets for an Easter Egg hunt for the younger in my wider family!

MS.ing

who buys easter eggs?

easter bunnies?

impr0v

Where I work they give us each an Easter egg the week before Easter - just a standard-sized Cadburys one, like a Crunchie/Caramel/Twirl egg with two bars of chocolate packaged with it. 'Tis nice. Don't think I've ever bought one.

Temptamperu

I love a bit of choccy and like to think of willem defoe jesus as I chomp.

Deco99

Is it wrong I ate two last week? Cadbury is nicer than nestle. Not just ethically.

Ninap

Temptamperu wrote: »

I love a bit of choccy and like to think of willem defoe jesus as I chomp.

What better way to commemorate his rising from the dead?

Jesus Wept

Ninap wrote: »

Does anyone still buy Easter Eggs? What adult wants a big load of milk chocolate? And surely the days when parents were happy to see their kids stuff themselves with tons of chocolate are kind of past? One small egg, maybe, but lots of giant twirls and mars bar eggs? Really?

That's a paddlin.

WoollyRedHat

I've never liked Easter, I really don't care for Creme eggs and I am genetically crosswired!

I cant find a single easter egg I like though

Rosy Posy

We live abroad so my kids get one big egg each and the Easter hare (don't ask) leaves mini eggs in the garden. We have a bonfire on the beach at sunrise and since ours is the closest house to the beach heaps of kids come back for the hunt so they don't have ridiculous amounts of chocolate. We do have hot chocolate and hard boiled eggs for breakfast, and hot cross buns of course. The one year we were at home for Easter the amount of eggs they got was shocking, I brought some out to the pub and shared them around! Every year I think I'll get in early and buy the eggs and every year they need to be replaced at least once.

Greenmachine

No chocolate eggs for me this year. I do fancy a few chocolate bunny ear. Do you think anyone would mind I nibbled a few ears before putting the bunnies back on the shelf in tesco.

truedoom

Ninap wrote: »

What adult wants a big load of milk chocolate?

*hands up* Gotta love an oul easter egg!

Ninap

Rosy Posy wrote: »

We live abroad so my kids get one big egg each and the Easter hare (don't ask) leaves mini eggs in the garden. We have a bonfire on the beach at sunrise and since ours is the closest house to the beach heaps of kids come back for the hunt so they don't have ridiculous amounts of chocolate. We do have hot chocolate and hard boiled eggs for breakfast, and hot cross buns of course. The one year we were at home for Easter the amount of eggs they got was shocking, I brought some out to the pub and shared them around! Every year I think I'll get in early and buy the eggs and every year they need to be replaced at least once.

That all sounds kinda cool.

jimgoose

I do. I'm only sorry they're not available all year round. They're daycint. :cool:

ellavin

Omg got my niece the one direction easter egg and when I got home I was judt looking at it and couldn't believe the joke of a size the egg was and for the money of it !!! That one dear cup and the chocolate is cheap crap I had to investigate that one too

131spanner

Why can't I find a Snickers one anymore!? Now it's just "Mars & Friends" with a Mars, Twix and Snickers. Twix I can deal with, but fúck you Mars :mad:

GenieOz

Easter eggs are amazing. Lily Obriens are handed out in work every Easter, can't wait.

pitkan

Having a sweet tooth, yes, I make a point of buying one every year.
Saw good branded Easter eggs in a well known chain being advertised as 'Easter Egg 4.69 euro each or 3 for 5 euro'.

BeerWolf

Gee, you act as though people have easter eggs every day / week...