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AppleScruffJunior said

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As Easter eggs are not selling this year, there are a lot of bloody great deals on at the mo. I get English telly and the best deal I’ve seen so far are 3 for £8 on large eggs in Asda- if you accept the traditional Nestlé, Cadbury, Galaxy, Mars fare, it’s a goldmine. 

 

Personally, being a business-minded fat arse in disguise, I would go by weight first, in my ‘most desirable category;- anything under 250g will not make the cut. If I were you, I’d pick:

 

Heroes @264g

The massive bag of Mini Eggs (although not an Easter Egg per se, think of them as a hundred mini eggs and it’s a 385g bag so wuh hey)

Yorkie @272g

 

If you want sheer force, chocolate dripping from your mouth and a serious stomach ache on Easter Sunday, that would be one of the ideal combos. It also gives you 2 varieties of main Easter Egg- a Cadbury and a Nestlé egg so you won’t get bored over the same type of chocolate.

 

I would also not ignore Aldi and Lidl fare, often they have ‘luxury’ eggs that are pretty cheap (I had a delicious Eton Mess one once, cost about €3). 

However as this is white chocolate, it may not appeal to you.

 

I have never had a dark chocolate Easter egg but Green and Black make some of the most affordable dark chocolate eggs- approx £5 for 165g (not very economical compared to slob fest above). You also have Cadbury’s Bournville @approx £3, if you want to make your taste buds and your wallet happy. 

 

Wow, I had no idea all of these things existed. Maybe they don’t make eggs like that in the US* or maybe my folks just don’t buy candy much, but I have a sudden overwhelming urge to experience the flavours-with-a-U of Easter in Britain.

*I’m familiar with chocolate bunnies, Peeps (chick-shaped marshmallow things that only taste good because they’re cute), and plastic eggs with candy inside for children to find (read: trample, miss, leave for the lawnmower) in the grass.

@CakeMaestor In the US, Easter is quite secular unless you’re an actual Christian, in which case you’re probably going to a church service on Easter Sunday as well as all the more secular activities and/or decor and crafts and general consumer junk.

As I am not and was not raised in a particularly religious way, I will just describe my understanding of our more secular Easter traditions, which are geared almost exclusively toward children.

Easter eggs are little cheap plastic eggs in bright or pastel colors that snap open and shut and are stuffed with small candies and/or cheap trinkets (usually candy), which are then cast about, ostensibly by the Easter Bunny, on the lawns of parks or sometimes churches for children to find (read: trample and miss and leave for the lawnmower to find later). The children carry decorated baskets which often contain a particular type of obscenely plastic fake grass to pad the eggs and are often dressed in things that parents think are adorable and kids think are itchy and annoying. They eat too much candy and spend the rest of the day distractingly sugar-high. Note that Easter egg hunts frequently no longer take place on Easter itself, but instead on various schedule-friendly days around the holiday, so as not to interfere with people’s other Easter plans such as church, family visits, or just another Sunday.

For the rest of us older people, we either get to watch our kids being cute and snap photos for Facebook, or just buy ourselves chocolate when it goes on sale.

My family has an egg hunt for my sister in our backyard (which is usually quite overgrown around Easter) and I assist in the Easter bunny duties and take copious photographs for Grandma and Grandpa.

Edit: oh, also what Starr Shine? said. I forgot about decorated hard-boiled eggs, because my family didn’t do them much when I was a kid for some reason??? Idk