Are Easter Eggs really on sale already???

OneArt · 03-01-2013 01:59AM

Creme eggs are only available at Easter!?

Also, I don't mean to sound stupid, but if Easter eggs are being sold now wouldn't they be gone off by Easter? Or does chocolate even go off?

ben.schlomo · 03-01-2013 02:03AM

OneArt wrote: »

Creme eggs are only available at Easter!?

Also, I don't mean to sound stupid, but if Easter eggs are being sold now wouldn't they be gone off by Easter? Or does chocolate even go off?

6 months life at least. And sure a few weeks beyond never hurt anyone.

Mushy · 03-01-2013 02:44AM

I knew they were hinting at something when I found a Creme Egg in a tin of Roses this year. Gave me something to look forward to.

03-01-2013 03:11AM

My friend who works in Tesco had to stay on late Christmas Eve because they were waiting on a order of Easter eggs

Inbox · 03-01-2013 04:11AM

They should be pushing pancakes first.

03-01-2013 04:53AM

Whatever happened to Galaxy Truffle Eggs? They were the best.

Stereomaniac · 03-01-2013 05:32AM

My favourites were the Cadbury Dream eggs. I used to buy them in pairs and eat them in secret.

03-01-2013 09:21AM

leahyl wrote: »

This. Except for the creme eggs part - they're horrible yokes :-P

*yolks

leahyl · 03-01-2013 09:27AM

Deleted User wrote: »

*yolks

Thank you

I now realise that "A yoke is a wooden beam, normally used between a pair of oxen or other animals to enable them to pull together on a load when working in pairs, as oxen usually do; some yokes are fitted to individual animals. There are several types of yoke, used in different cultures, and for different types of oxen"............ however according to slang.ie it is also:

"A word used to name something instead of its proper name

"Pass me that yoke (pass me that hammer)"

So technically I'm right.....without the smiley at the end of the sentence :pac:

the groutch · 03-01-2013 09:32AM

guaranteed those who are whinging about them being on sale too early are the same people who will come in at 5pm the day before Easter Sunday, and whinge about there being none left as if they were given no chance to buy them before that.

intellectual dosser · 03-01-2013 09:37AM

Surely this thread belongs in Conspiracy Theories

03-01-2013 09:37AM

leahyl wrote: »

So technically I'm right.....without the smiley at the end of the sentence :pac:

Yokes is a perfectly acceptable word for *things*, yolks are what's in the middle of an egg....hence my failed attempt at humour.

I'll go now.

leahyl · 03-01-2013 09:39AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Yokes is a perfectly acceptable word for *things*, yolks are what's in the middle of an egg....hence my failed attempt at humour.

I'll go now.

I know - I thought you had noticed that I was trying to be funny and had corrected the fact that I had spelled yoke (or yolk!) wrong

- dammit!:pac:

meoklmrk91 · 03-01-2013 09:41AM

Speaking of yolks apparently I will have loads of time to scoff them this year. Anyone know what I am talking about, chocolate turtle shell, filled with yellow, gooey stuff. They are amazing!

03-01-2013 09:42AM

leahyl wrote: »

I know - I thought you had noticed that I was trying to be funny and had corrected the fact that I had spelled yoke (or yolk!) wrong - dammit!:pac:

I think we should just forget any of this ever happened.
I won't tell anyone if you won't.

jester77 · 03-01-2013 09:50AM

OP, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your wife was at my place yesterday. Think about it, do you really think there would be Easter eggs on the shelves at Christmas. I can't believe that was the best excuse she could come up with :rolleyes:

saiint · 03-01-2013 09:54AM

jester77 wrote: »

OP, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your wife was at my place yesterday. Think about it, do you really think there would be Easter eggs on the shelves at Christmas. I can't believe that was the best excuse she could come up with :rolleyes:

at 6030posts on boards
i expected something funnier
shame on you:pac:

im invisible · 03-01-2013 11:15AM

Got any yokes bud?
Buzzin man, buzzin'

MadameGascar · 03-01-2013 11:23AM

Easter yayyyy

Lollipops23 · 03-01-2013 12:11PM

As my mother pointed out years ago when people were getting up in arms about Xmas decorations going on sale in September- why would retailers waste highly valuable floorspace on stock that wouldn't sell? The fact is, it does sell. People will piss and moan about the stuff being out early, but they'll still buy it.

Solair · 03-01-2013 12:12PM

Due to the mild weather the easter bunny is laying early this year.

LordSutch · 03-01-2013 12:40PM

Lollipops23 wrote: »

People will piss and moan about the stuff being out early, but they'll still buy it.

Like three or four months early!!! Its still Christmas, so I can assure you the last thing on most peoples minds is Easter, and buying easter eggs!
I do however accept that the retail giants are pushing the boundaries further and further in each direction, so that you are now offered your Christmas tree & Christmas pudding in August/Sept, and that Easter egg season starts during Christmas (due to the whims of the retail trade) :cool:

Lollipops23 · 03-01-2013 12:47PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Like three or four months early!!! Its still Christmas, so I can assure you the last thing on most peoples minds is Easter, and buying easter eggs!
I do however accept that the retail giants are pushing the boundaries further and further in each direction, so that you are now offered your Christmas tree & Christmas pudding in August/Sept, and that Easter egg season starts during Christmas (due to the whims of the retail trade) :cool:

I'm not saying I'll be buying them any time soon (I only get 2-3 a year, so don't exactly need to spread the cost

)

What they're doing is putting the spring/summer thing on people's radar- they don't honestly expect to shift a load of easter eggs in January-but it puts stuff like spring time/new wardrobes/holidays etc in people's heads, thus making them spend money (or so goes the logic...)

I'm just explaining the mentality behind it.

Aglomerado · 03-01-2013 03:43PM

Easter eggs made the Daily Heil today:

rabble rabble rabble

Are Easter Eggs really on sale already???

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