Easter eggs/are they a rip off.

[margaret*e]

A closer look atw hat looked fairly decent for £5, showed the egg to be nowhere near the size of the huge box it was in.

Are any of them worth the price?.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/The-big-Easter-egg-rip-yahoofinanceuk-356691674.html

[bjenkinsbuildersmerchants]

If you compare the weight of an Easter egg to a bar of chocolate, they're not worth the money, you get far more chocolate for your money in a bar.  That said, Easter egg chocolate seems so much nicer, don't know why.

[malacandran]

bjenkins, your point about the Easter Egg chocolate, brings back to my mind,  a half-forgotten memory.

Which is that many years ago - back in the 1950's -  the Easter Eggs seemed to be made of "weak" chocolate.  The chocolate in the eggs,  was kind of bland, and tasteless. It had a sweetness, but not much cocoa-taste. Not like proper chococolate.

We used to call it "weak" in my family, I mean that's how my brother and sister described it, and it seemed to be an accepted thing - that Easter eggs always tasted weak.

Perhaps it's different in these modern days, and Easter egg chocolate is now "nicer", as you say .

[fionajohnston]

nothing new  even in the 60's i would get a small token egg and a big bar of chocolate

[******lynda******]

Easter eggs have always been a rip-off. My parents used to say we could have eggs, but they would rather spend the money on something that would last. My own children usually opted for a present instead of a chocolate egg. For them the Easter egg was a boiled egg they painted and then rolled down a hill. I used goose eggs, because they did not break up and the boys had to run down and collect them to roll again several times, which tired them out 🙂

[malacandran]

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@fionajohnston wrote:

nothing new  even in the 60's i would get a small token egg and a big bar of chocolate

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You could be right . But look at it from a capitalist viewpoint. 

The manufacturers only have to make so-called "chocolate" Easter Eggs once a year.  Around March or April.  And owing to to the "Easter Tradition", millions of people will rush out and buy the Eggs.  People want Easter Eggs. Even if they aren't made of proper chocolate, and taste weak, as I pointed out previously. The people will buy and and eat them.

So the manufacturers are happy - because they sold lots of Eggs, and economised on their stock of cocoa-powder.

And the people are also happy - because they got their Eggs.

Isn't this capitalism in action -  everyone gets satisfied, no-one starves to death? 

[malacandran]

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@******lynda****** wrote:
Easter eggs have always been a rip-off. My parents used to say we could have eggs, but they would rather spend the money on something that would last. My own children usually opted for a present instead of a chocolate egg. For them the Easter egg was a boiled egg they painted and then rolled down a hill. I used goose eggs, because they did not break up and the boys had to run down and collect them to roll again several times, which tired them out 🙂

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Lynda, I  very much admire your thoughts, but aren't they perhaps, based on a kind of wishful thinking, rather than what actually happened?

[******lynda******]

Nope. But maybe I should have added, they got choc eggs from other relatives and they were smart enough to take the bribe. I did not let my children have sweets for as long as I could. Outside forces eventually prevailed....school can be a terrible thing. I recall being in Oban landing our prawn catch. I climbed the ladder onto the pier with my son to go to the supermarket, before heading back out. A woman had been watching my son playing on the trawler while we landed the catch and she came over and gave my son a wrapped sweetie. He took it , looked at it and handed it back. He had no idea what it was. Equally, he never had a filling in his teeth till he was nearly 40. Being the only residents of an island helped.

[******lynda******]

Oh, and my mother hates spending money to this day..she preferred buying us something we needed. And we always needed something, because she hoarded cash rather than buy us stuff. Probably a hangover from war poverty. She was always afraid of being that desperate again.

[margaret*e]

Lynda, that reminded me, when we were kids my uncle gave me and my brother a painted egg, mine was Mickey Mouse, we kept them for a few years, then I came across mine, picked it up and dropped it, I still remember the awful smell.

[******lynda******]

Ugh yes. Not much worse than rotten eggs. Some of Our hens used to find odd places for laying their eggs, rather than use the henhouse, and more than once I would pull down some hay bales for the cows and a clutch of eggs would fall down too. The smell when they broke was disgusting.

[******lynda******]

The Labrador loved Easter sunday. We took her with us to the egg rolling hill and she ran up and down eating all the broken hen eggs from the other families. It was a popular hill with egg rollers, so she had a great time.

[margaret*e]

Labradors will eat anything, and all day if they could.

[******lynda******]

Tell me about it. Mine ate the cattle cake out of the buckets I had filled for the dairy cows. We lost her one day..she eventually crept out of the hen house, trying to look innocent, but her muzzle was coated with dried layers mash. And one day, I had seen her being sick down the road. As she got back to the house, I went out to check on her and her head was deep in the 5 gallon bucket of greyhound food I had left full to steep. she had eaten half and thrown up and then come back to eat the rest.

[malacandran]

Animals are admittedly very uninhibited  in their eating habits.  They even eat their own sick (I've seen a cat doing that, it quite shocked me as a child)

But then are humams any better.   Consider this, about Catholics:  When they go to Mass, don't they eat their own God?  In the form of the wafers and wine, which the priest places in their mouths.  The wafers and wine, are supposed to represent the flesh and blood of Christ, the Son of God.

Which then gets, eaten, and drunk, by the congregation. 

I mean, really!  Doesn't it sound a bit like a hard-core porn ceremony?

[suzieseaside]

[margaret*e]

She sounds a real character.

My Labrador once ate a full tin of chocolates.

[bankhaunter]

Dogs have the ability to be selective about what they see as food after they've eaten it.

[******lynda******]

There was one occasion I dished up dinner...steak pie and chips for 6. I went to the lounge to call the family. A minute later I was back at the table and she had eaten every steak pie.

[electric*mayhem*band]

I never eat chocolate Margs, I think it's 'gaggy'. I'd rather have a bag of Lions Fruit Pastilles, or Lions Liquorice Tablets. I do like a bag of Chocolate Limes though, but this doesn't count.

I boiled a couple of eggs hard, and scoffed those. I was going to paint little faces on them but then thought this was a bit pointless, since I was only going to crack their skulls.

Common or what ?