Easter egg sales 'soar by almost 50%'
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M&S, Asda and Thorntons are among those seeing a big rise in eggs sales ahead of the Easter weekend.
lolol who cares
So the kids are going to live on a diet of choccy eggs for the rest of the year, are they, or does the smart Brass Eye not understand the concept of a treat?
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Unlike the diet of every other day of the year?
Luckily, long after you retired, there's been an invention: toothpaste.
Luckily, long after you retired, there's been an invention: toothpaste.
I feel sorry for all those poor chickens being fed cocoa and having to lay such big eggs
the irritation from the foil wrapping not withstanding
Diabetes epidemic next
Sorry to shame you, but I think your understanding of avian biology is flawed.
Clearly they don't use standard chickens. Have you seen Sesame street? And Orville was only a baby (I think his parents did the mint chocolate ones)
Clearly they don't use standard chickens. Have you seen Sesame street? And Orville was only a baby (I think his parents did the mint chocolate ones)
Still at least they’re not oh aah birds
The majority of that chocolate is made with milk, so you might like to look into the dairy industry and feel horrified at the 90,000 male calves who are deemed surplus to requirement - so they're either killed at birth on the dairy farm, or shipped off for a short, miserable life while they become veal.
All these unwanted male calves are because a cow has to give birth before she'll provide milk.
All these unwanted male calves are because a cow has to give birth before she'll provide milk.
Good old healthy Britain, doing all we can to minimise the risk to ourselves of Covid!
Oh no wait, it's okay to bypass personal responsibility now we have a vaccine.
Tuck in everyone.
Oh no wait, it's okay to bypass personal responsibility now we have a vaccine.
Tuck in everyone.
Yet another ridiculous news article. Last years shops could not give them away - literally. Why is it a surprise that they’ve sold more this year?
While dark chocolate has its benefits, most of the milk chocolate that's so popular in the UK is pretty much just junk food with no benefits.
Parents & grandparents should think carefully about what they're feeding children - there's already enough obese & diabetic children who have their elders to thank for the state they're in.
Parents & grandparents should think carefully about what they're feeding children - there's already enough obese & diabetic children who have their elders to thank for the state they're in.
Easter egg
=What eggs ? lol
Boring brits
=What eggs ? lol
Boring brits
How's China, still on here because you are allowed to comment, but a pound to a penny you daren't say a word in china, trolls, jeez surprised you even know what easter is....
I don’t know why, Cadbury’s eggs taste terrible these days. Gone is the creamy milk chocolate and in its place is Smokey tasting cheap tasting rubbish.
Come back Cadbury’s, all is forgiven!
Come back Cadbury’s, all is forgiven!
James, just switch to Lindt, it’s how Cadbury’s used to taste.
Because Cadbury's is now owned by US company Hershey & they use controlled lipolysis to break down the fatty acids in the milk. This produces butyric acid, which is the chemical that gives vomit its vile smell and taste.
Europeans looked down on the old Cadbury's chocolate, so heaven knows what they think of the Hershey made muck.
I've not bought any since the takeover.
Europeans looked down on the old Cadbury's chocolate, so heaven knows what they think of the Hershey made muck.
I've not bought any since the takeover.
I don't buy Cadbury's any more since the American takeover - Belgian and Swiss chocolate is of noticeably better quality - you really can taste the difference.
They are not Cadbury's as you knew it - it is now an American company and their chocolate is not great, that is an understatement
I tend to go for Hotel Chocolate easter eggs rather than the paper thin mass produced easter eggs.
Mondelez International own the Cadburys brand. They've made products by not only using lower quality ingredients but making their products smaller in addition to costing more. Vote with your wallet/purse.
Sorry James but I suspect it's your taste buds that are changing rather than the chocolate and that's likely due to be old age!!
Cadbury's Dairy Milk used to be my favourite chocolate & Creme Eggs were a regular Easter treat. I haven't eaten either since they changed the recipe to make it taste like doggy chocs.
That'e because they have put less sugar and fat in them! It is to stop you getting addicted - which seems to have worked ! LOL
Spending time in France you notice the chocolate is not so rich and the KFC is not so salty.... Guess what? You crave it less and that is why they aren't all obese - so it is for our own good :)
Spending time in France you notice the chocolate is not so rich and the KFC is not so salty.... Guess what? You crave it less and that is why they aren't all obese - so it is for our own good :)
Made a HUGE mistake this week and tried the low sugar Cadbury chocolate - felt sick, upset stomach - can not recommend this rubbish.
Only buy eggs made from 'dairy milk' chocolate. Creme Eggs don't use dairy milk anymore - less cocoa.
USA chocolate has a bad reputation because it is made for the US climate. Transport UK chocolate across the USA in a truck and it will melt. Hence the different texture which, in turn, affects flavour.
USA chocolate has a bad reputation because it is made for the US climate. Transport UK chocolate across the USA in a truck and it will melt. Hence the different texture which, in turn, affects flavour.
They seem to have switched UK Cadburys chocolate to the cheap US recipe once it's sold, it's much more waxy. From what I understand the reason is because they put something in it that makes it less likely to melt in the southern US states, that's why their chocolate tastes vile, and that's now why our chocolate tastes vile.
Nice if they come from Republic of Ireland ? Seems to be different chocolate ??
I had my first Creme Egg of the year a few days ago and I agree, the chocolate isn't what it used to be
170 upvotes for an off topic post
I use to like boiled eggs more than scrambled, but now I prefer fried eggs. The rare breeds ones from Tescos are OK but there's quite a price premium.
Something slanderous about Scottish politics
Imagine if we had JFK / FDR / JC / other JC in charge!
China bad / good / neutral.
I use to like boiled eggs more than scrambled, but now I prefer fried eggs. The rare breeds ones from Tescos are OK but there's quite a price premium.
Something slanderous about Scottish politics
Imagine if we had JFK / FDR / JC / other JC in charge!
China bad / good / neutral.
Back in the day we had a lot of UK sweetie manufacturers. Cadbury, Rowntree Mackintosh , Terry's Fry's... (Fry's Chocolate Cream was the first mass-produced chocolate bar)... all now either gone or under foreign ownership. The sweets live on in terms of marketing (and to an extent product), but it still seems a shame. Same with cars... Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lotus, Vauxhall, MG....
That's what happens when people sell out! Capitalism at its worst.
"Easter egg sales have climbed £48m, soaring almost 50% to £153m compared with last year, according to figures from analysts Kantar."
Because Easter fell during the peak of a national lockdown and sales were dire last year.
Now let us look at 2019 data, also from Kantar - £146m. So still up, but not much more than inflation.
Because Easter fell during the peak of a national lockdown and sales were dire last year.
Now let us look at 2019 data, also from Kantar - £146m. So still up, but not much more than inflation.
Agreed.
Not really magic is it?
Now I'm no economist or analyst, but I bet my left back upper tooth that they'll be a LOT of other products that have a marked increase this year compared to 2021...
A LOT...
Perhaps the BBC could send me an application and make me their senior economist?
Not really magic is it?
Now I'm no economist or analyst, but I bet my left back upper tooth that they'll be a LOT of other products that have a marked increase this year compared to 2021...
A LOT...
Perhaps the BBC could send me an application and make me their senior economist?
Yep, that small increase is due to prices and not number of eggs sold.
and in a nutshell you describe the devious nature of our media. They will say the facts are true - even if the way they deliver them is misleading.
This article would have been enhanced with a graph, and reporters have been keen on graphs for the last 12 months, why suddenly stop?
Even Diane Abbott could have worked that out. Easter egg sales up nearly 50%. Amazing, just before the Easter weekend.
This is compared with last year. And no you didn't know that they had increased by 50% on last year, smart alec.
Presumably Easter didn't happen last year then
Sales shouldn't soar they should be more or less the same year in year out.
This means people are stuffing 50% more chocolate into the kids.
Then the bleating starts " I haven't got any money" , "my children are too fat" and this is why.
Nothing wrong kids having an Easter egg or two but dont go mad.
This means people are stuffing 50% more chocolate into the kids.
Then the bleating starts " I haven't got any money" , "my children are too fat" and this is why.
Nothing wrong kids having an Easter egg or two but dont go mad.
And when pollution dropped last year, do you think drivers got rid of their cars causing this?
No.
The lockdown caused a 'blip'.
Parents weren't able to buy their kids eggs so their was a drop in sales and now sales have returned to normal.
Not really rocket science...
No.
The lockdown caused a 'blip'.
Parents weren't able to buy their kids eggs so their was a drop in sales and now sales have returned to normal.
Not really rocket science...
BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment.
It's Easter, we get to give and receive lovely chocolate eggs. We are not going to explode into obesity on one weekend, and kids teeth won't suddenly drop out.
Have some fun
It's Easter, we get to give and receive lovely chocolate eggs. We are not going to explode into obesity on one weekend, and kids teeth won't suddenly drop out.
Have some fun
The BBC is doing it's job - informing us so that you can make your "valued" comments about bias
And you are doing your very own moaning post, aren't you?
Or does moaning about the BBC in their sandpit not count as moaning on your planet...
Or does moaning about the BBC in their sandpit not count as moaning on your planet...
Ooh, I love hot cross buns. Has anyone else tried the chocolate ones? Sounds so wrong but they are delicious.
Yum that sounds fine.
Apparently Adli also sells chilli & cheese hot crossed buns
Apparently Adli also sells chilli & cheese hot crossed buns
M&S chocolate ones are not that nice - Blueberry ones are sublime though
Amazes me in a country where we are constantly told that poverty is rife that people will spend so many £££s on chocolate eggs and some cardboard which has cost pennies to manufacture
OH, I wonder if those in poverty are behind this increase in sales. It amazes me that in this country people can be so dense as to correlate two random things. Oh, sales of Easter eggs are rising, that must be because over 2/3 of the population have had one vaccination!
Yep. Poverty is not rife. They keep changing the definition of it to keep it 'rife'.
To all those posting the sad old "fat kids/obese society" rubbish, how about you crawl back under your miserbale rocks and chew on some lettuce, you miserable old gits. I bet you're also the same people who want to ban firework sales for bonfire night too? I'd rather the world was full of happy fat kids than you grumpy old buggers.
Yeah, fair point, but lets hope these fat happy kids are ploughing enough wedge into the NHS then to keep them alive when they get older....BURDEN!
So you're perfectly OK with kids ending up with heart disease, diabetes & umpteen other issues, all costing the taxpayer billions?
Those kids won't remain happy when their health goes down the tubes.
Those kids won't remain happy when their health goes down the tubes.
No problem with people being overweight as long as they don't then force me to stop paying sport in order to protect their health
I would like to see fireworks banned from general sale, absolutely. Not for organised displays though. If you happen to live near a park where they're getting let off at all times of the night for weeks before and after November 5th, you might understand my view.
London bubble lefty remoaners need an egg wrapped in lentil & avocado rather than chocolate.
I think this story is eggsaggerated.... ??
I'll get me coat.... ??
I'll get me coat.... ??
I see everyone is scrambling for the puns
Did people make up these egg jokes themselves, or were they poached?
Supermarket owners put out a story that easter egg sales are up, and hey presto everyone starts buying them, free advertising for the gullible...
Well, much as I love chocolate; anything that has the usual "devil take the hindmost" types panic-buying Easter eggs might be a good way to deflect their attention from the Loo-rolls, pasta and rice....?
What came first though?
Because nobody knew easter was coming, or that chocolate eggs are on the shelves, and - most importantly - the people that already bought them - as reported - will have forgotten, and want to get in on the "I bought a chocolate egg" bandwagon.
Because people do what they are told others are doing
Hey presto! People do what they were doing anyway, and the BBC reports the facts. Amazing.
Because people do what they are told others are doing
Hey presto! People do what they were doing anyway, and the BBC reports the facts. Amazing.
"Easter egg sales have climbed £48m, soaring almost 50% to £153m compared with last year, according to figures from analysts Kantar."
Because Easter fell during the peak of a national lockdown and sales were dire last year.
Now let us look at 2019 data, also from Kantar - £146m. So still up, but not much more than inflation.
Because Easter fell during the peak of a national lockdown and sales were dire last year.
Now let us look at 2019 data, also from Kantar - £146m. So still up, but not much more than inflation.
If you are so smart, why not find a news site that fits your expectations better, raher than keep coming here and moaning, as if you expect the BBC to suddenly change because the superior intellect that is adeyb has pointed out the error of thier ways?
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A senior economist would probably know that last year was 2020......
"Now I'm no economist or analyst, but I bet my left back upper tooth that they'll be a LOT of other products that have a marked increase this year compared to 2021..."
"Now I'm no economist or analyst, but I bet my left back upper tooth that they'll be a LOT of other products that have a marked increase this year compared to 2021..."
This year is 2021. Are you from the future?
I am sure the senior economist at the BBC knows what year it is...
Go on, apply. I'm sure that you think that you have all the qualifications required.
It's amazing what you'll buy when your entertainment is severely restricted.
I had noticed that the supermarkets were heaving with egg displays.
Not sure which came first: the chicken or the egg..
I had noticed that the supermarkets were heaving with egg displays.
Not sure which came first: the chicken or the egg..
The egg did by a few hundred million years. It's an odd phrase that one as it's utterly nonsensical :)
Remainer brain automatically reads headline as: Brexit Ruins Easter
Brexitroll still can't get over the fact they won, and has to keep rubbing it in to massage their fragile ego....
Moronic obsessed brexiteer trying to get attention as he does every day. Go outside and make a new friend, at least then that will bring the amount of friends you have up to 1.
Easter egg
=What eggs ? lol
Boring brits
=What eggs ? lol
Boring brits
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNN.............repeat years after years, so boring.........both in Easter and Xmas
Great news. This, added to lockdown easing, is invigorating the whole country. Just need people to start buying xmas trees and then we're there.
buying easter eggs because its easter ...........the commercial stupidity of it all the stupid people who buy them..........
Power move, buy easter eggs just because it's juuust after easter and enjoy the discounts.
So should we buy Easter Eggs for August Bank Holiday or something, oh Miserable one...
Just because you don't like them, doesn't mean no-one else does!
Just because you don't like them, doesn't mean no-one else does!
Someone’s upset he’s not getting a kilo of cream eggs
These easter eggs are they the extremely small variety, promoted as being good for us because too much chocolate is bad for us...
To all those posting the sad old "fat kids/obese society" rubbish, how about you crawl back under your miserbale rocks and chew on some lettuce, you miserable old gits. I bet you're also the same people who want to ban firework sales for bonfire night too? I'd rather the world was full of happy fat kids than you grumpy old buggers.
Amazes me in a country where we are constantly told that poverty is rife that people will spend so many £££s on chocolate eggs and some cardboard which has cost pennies to manufacture
Put it this way, I work full time and manage my money well. My daughter will get one easter egg from me. Family down the road, don't work, on benefits will buy dozens for their kids.
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Amazes me in a country where we are constantly told that poverty is rife that people will spend so many £££s on chocolate eggs and some cardboard which has cost pennies to manufacture
BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment.
It's Easter, we get to give and receive lovely chocolate eggs. We are not going to explode into obesity on one weekend, and kids teeth won't suddenly drop out.
Have some fun
It's Easter, we get to give and receive lovely chocolate eggs. We are not going to explode into obesity on one weekend, and kids teeth won't suddenly drop out.
Have some fun
walkinginthewoods
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"BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment..."
A fairly innocent/innocuous article about Easter eggs & out come the Beeb bashers. Why do you bother getting out of bed?
12:04
"BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment..."
A fairly innocent/innocuous article about Easter eggs & out come the Beeb bashers. Why do you bother getting out of bed?
Probably didn't get out of bed but just lies there posting comments.
To let random thoughts transition to the screen with no filter, obviously.
I'm a Beeb basher, but mainly because they now have a director who donates vast sums to the Tories & a board elected by gov't, and omit the vast majority of stories that outline gov't ineptitude and corruption, the failures of Brexit etc.
Nothing on Arcuri this week; very little on exports to EU dropping hugely, or fishing collapsing; nothing on Home Office spending scandal; nothing on Jenrick...
Nothing on Arcuri this week; very little on exports to EU dropping hugely, or fishing collapsing; nothing on Home Office spending scandal; nothing on Jenrick...
@"A fairly innocent/innocuous article about Easter eggs & out come the Beeb bashers. Why do you bother getting out of bed?"
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Probably because that's what they're paid to do.
Whenever you see post undermining the BBC, just treat them as a flashing banner saying "GREETINGS FROM RUSSIA!"
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Probably because that's what they're paid to do.
Whenever you see post undermining the BBC, just treat them as a flashing banner saying "GREETINGS FROM RUSSIA!"
I wasn't bashing the BBC, I was praising them for giving all the misery guts a place to comment.
Thanks to everyone for proving my point.
Thanks to everyone for proving my point.
How's China, still on here because you are allowed to comment, but a pound to a penny you daren't say a word in china, trolls, jeez surprised you even know what easter is....
Well Mr Niceguy, explain whats your obsession with the Brits, you seem to hate us so much explain why, or am i right to say your gutless and your just hiding behind your keyboard, cowards hide behind keyboards...
Sales shouldn't soar they should be more or less the same year in year out.
This means people are stuffing 50% more chocolate into the kids.
Then the bleating starts " I haven't got any money" , "my children are too fat" and this is why.
Nothing wrong kids having an Easter egg or two but dont go mad.
This means people are stuffing 50% more chocolate into the kids.
Then the bleating starts " I haven't got any money" , "my children are too fat" and this is why.
Nothing wrong kids having an Easter egg or two but dont go mad.
Amazes me in a country where we are constantly told that poverty is rife that people will spend so many £££s on chocolate eggs and some cardboard which has cost pennies to manufacture
To all those posting the sad old "fat kids/obese society" rubbish, how about you crawl back under your miserbale rocks and chew on some lettuce, you miserable old gits. I bet you're also the same people who want to ban firework sales for bonfire night too? I'd rather the world was full of happy fat kids than you grumpy old buggers.
Perhaps people are buying and donating Easter eggs into food banks - to try and spread some joy to children of all ages, down on their luck?
Good idea - hope lots of people do.
Not in this household they don't (soar that is)
Ridiculously over packaged, massif transportation costs due to transporting mostly air.
Easter is a religious festival, if you must sell loads of frankly poor quality chocolate like this then please at least call it "chocolate egg marketing day" and not Easter.
Ridiculously over packaged, massif transportation costs due to transporting mostly air.
Easter is a religious festival, if you must sell loads of frankly poor quality chocolate like this then please at least call it "chocolate egg marketing day" and not Easter.
You know Crimbo is just called the Primary Gifting Period in the finance sector, right?
A sweet story but what about all of these sheep and lambs in New Zealand. If the sheep population decide to revolt then humans will be outnumbered 5 to 1.
walkinginthewoods
12:04
"BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment..."
A fairly innocent/innocuous article about Easter eggs & out come the Beeb bashers. Why do you bother getting out of bed?
12:04
"BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment..."
A fairly innocent/innocuous article about Easter eggs & out come the Beeb bashers. Why do you bother getting out of bed?
Celebrations of what? Because going by their behaviour, they sure as hell aren't celebrating the meaning of Jesus.
To all those posting the sad old "fat kids/obese society" rubbish, how about you crawl back under your miserbale rocks and chew on some lettuce, you miserable old gits. I bet you're also the same people who want to ban firework sales for bonfire night too? I'd rather the world was full of happy fat kids than you grumpy old buggers.
This story is a pointless waste of electrons and contributing to global warming. Please BBC grow up and let us read something meaningful.
A waste of electrons? Can there be a purposeful waste? Does submitting a comment use significantly less energy resources than posting a story on a website? Are the BBC stopping you from reading more meaningful stories by posting this one? Is discussing the economy not grown up just because the focus is on something that is enjoyed by children?
What a baffling comment.
What a baffling comment.
Or you could get a life...
But that wouldn't be as much fun as coming to the BBC website to moan about the BBC, would it?
But that wouldn't be as much fun as coming to the BBC website to moan about the BBC, would it?
How and why exactly does the giving of a chocolate egg commemorate the death of a man in the Middle East who upset the Romans two thousand years ago?
None of which can be confirmed, it must be fake news, next we will hear he fed 5000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish, and cured a leper by touching his shoulder.
Because saint peter... was a rabbit.
The pope’s hat looks silly on a human, but it fits a rabbit perfectly.
The pope’s hat looks silly on a human, but it fits a rabbit perfectly.
You must have bunked off from school when this was explained to those that wanted to learn. Research it yourself by looking up what an egg represents.
It doesn't, like Christmas, Easter was seasonal festival appropriated and integrated by the early Christians. Elements such as eggs, rabbits and trees are vestigial.
Well, Eastra is a pagan festival well established before the Roman empire. Convenient this fella you refer to died (winter) and was reborn (spring) at about the same time as this time. Eggs represent spring and the abundance of new life on show.
Have you read the easter story? It's real game of thrones stuff hardly suitable for children. A man is betrayed, tortured and hung from a plank of wood with nails and left to die. I prefer the chocolate bunny side of things
Have a read on how the Orthodox Christians (Greeks etc) paint their eggs red and you may learn something.
Now would be a good time to examine the racist terminology endemic in the Easter Egg culture. Using ‘dark’ and ‘black magic’ alongside ‘white’ chocolate to segregate eggs only further divides our society. The colonial racial undertones are evident throughout the chocolate culture and is deeply offensive. I’m proposing a demonstration to subject guilty laden white eggs to a mass meltdown.
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Do... do you need a hug?
Grow up.
I would hope you are joking....but with today's lefty snowflakes finding offence with everything, wouldn't surprise me if you meant it.....
Haven't you got a bridge to be chased round?
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It appears many people on here don't have a sense of humor. *sigh*
Mungo Park - LOL - I've now got brown coffee spills all over my white tee shirt and black trousers due to laughing so hard. Maybe we should segregate my clothes as their colours may offend someone! And where's my white coffee beans, they must be under a spell! - Offended by an Easter egg based on its colour, really Mungo?!! Time to Cancel Cancel Culture, we've reached extreme levels of stupidty
I also get offended by:
The overtly feminine shape of easter eggs
The cost to the environment of the packaging and ingredients
The joy they provide to children/the sorrow to children in poverty
Their religious connotations
Mr T.O.O Woke
Descriptor "They"
The overtly feminine shape of easter eggs
The cost to the environment of the packaging and ingredients
The joy they provide to children/the sorrow to children in poverty
Their religious connotations
Mr T.O.O Woke
Descriptor "They"
I am a chocolate oviod wrapped in foil but am deeply offended you automatically assume I'm happy to be referred to as an 'egg'.
I identify as a non-angular chocolate bar and expect to be referred to as such, my preferred pronoun is 'chocx'.
I identify as a non-angular chocolate bar and expect to be referred to as such, my preferred pronoun is 'chocx'.
Hmm, didn't take long for the racists to appear and start upvoting this "joke" I see.
All eggs materia.
To all those posting the sad old "fat kids/obese society" rubbish, how about you crawl back under your miserbale rocks and chew on some lettuce, you miserable old gits. I bet you're also the same people who want to ban firework sales for bonfire night too? I'd rather the world was full of happy fat kids than you grumpy old buggers.
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNN.............repeat years after years, so boring.........both in Easter and Xmas
Now would be a good time to examine the racist terminology endemic in the Easter Egg culture. Using ‘dark’ and ‘black magic’ alongside ‘white’ chocolate to segregate eggs only further divides our society. The colonial racial undertones are evident throughout the chocolate culture and is deeply offensive. I’m proposing a demonstration to subject guilty laden white eggs to a mass meltdown.
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Nothing commemorates the death of a mythical figure better than scoffing on chocolate eggs.
OH, I wonder if those in poverty are behind this increase in sales. It amazes me that in this country people can be so dense as to correlate two random things. Oh, sales of Easter eggs are rising, that must be because over 2/3 of the population have had one vaccination!
Now would be a good time to examine the racist terminology endemic in the Easter Egg culture. Using ‘dark’ and ‘black magic’ alongside ‘white’ chocolate to segregate eggs only further divides our society. The colonial racial undertones are evident throughout the chocolate culture and is deeply offensive. I’m proposing a demonstration to subject guilty laden white eggs to a mass meltdown.
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Maybe someday Ocado will deliver M&S items to Northumberland.
BBC doing its duty, providing all the kill-joys and misery guts a place to comment.
It's Easter, we get to give and receive lovely chocolate eggs. We are not going to explode into obesity on one weekend, and kids teeth won't suddenly drop out.
Have some fun
It's Easter, we get to give and receive lovely chocolate eggs. We are not going to explode into obesity on one weekend, and kids teeth won't suddenly drop out.
Have some fun
Now would be a good time to examine the racist terminology endemic in the Easter Egg culture. Using ‘dark’ and ‘black magic’ alongside ‘white’ chocolate to segregate eggs only further divides our society. The colonial racial undertones are evident throughout the chocolate culture and is deeply offensive. I’m proposing a demonstration to subject guilty laden white eggs to a mass meltdown.
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What else would all those on furlough spend there money on !
Chuckling at people getting annoyed at Easter and Christianity being denigrated. Easter has its origins way before Christianity hijacked it.
Named after the goddess of renawal: Eostre.
Christmas was hijacked too (Saternalia, Yule), the bible never mentions when Jesus was supposed to have been born.
Dirty tricks to indoctrinate people, and they still do it today, targeting children.
I told my daughter to ask her religious teacher why they never taught Revelation to kids (7 eyed lamb destroys the world etc). She got detention.
Christmas was hijacked too (Saternalia, Yule), the bible never mentions when Jesus was supposed to have been born.
Dirty tricks to indoctrinate people, and they still do it today, targeting children.
I told my daughter to ask her religious teacher why they never taught Revelation to kids (7 eyed lamb destroys the world etc). She got detention.
Your post triggered a deeply unpleasant set of ant religous posts! Sad really! whatever one's opinion of religion Abrahamic or otherwise there is really no reason to be so aggressively rude to people who do - for whatever personal reason - explore faith as part of their values. Many faith communities do an awful lot of good work with refugees, homeless, food banks. Not sure they deserve the ire!
Jeez there’s some miserable so and so’s on here today.
It’s one weekend and last year we were in lockdown so of course sales are up. One weekend of eating chocolate is not going to make you obese, diabetic etc and it might even make you a bit happier which some on here could do with.
It’s one weekend and last year we were in lockdown so of course sales are up. One weekend of eating chocolate is not going to make you obese, diabetic etc and it might even make you a bit happier which some on here could do with.
I think its going to take more than chocolate. Have a lovely Easter
Won't be long before the word 'chocolate' is bannded for being racist.
Fertility...nothing to do with the bible. Easter is just another pagan festival that Christianity consumed into their belief system...not very Christian if you ask me...but then neither is the slaughter of billions throughout the years in the name of one god or another by one religion or another...
Popping in a couple of magic eggs is a fine accompaniment to a visit from the Easter bunny (rabbit).
Not in this household they don't (soar that is)
Ridiculously over packaged, massif transportation costs due to transporting mostly air.
Easter is a religious festival, if you must sell loads of frankly poor quality chocolate like this then please at least call it "chocolate egg marketing day" and not Easter.
Ridiculously over packaged, massif transportation costs due to transporting mostly air.
Easter is a religious festival, if you must sell loads of frankly poor quality chocolate like this then please at least call it "chocolate egg marketing day" and not Easter.
Agreed.
Not really magic is it?
Now I'm no economist or analyst, but I bet my left back upper tooth that they'll be a LOT of other products that have a marked increase this year compared to 2021...
A LOT...
Perhaps the BBC could send me an application and make me their senior economist?
Not really magic is it?
Now I'm no economist or analyst, but I bet my left back upper tooth that they'll be a LOT of other products that have a marked increase this year compared to 2021...
A LOT...
Perhaps the BBC could send me an application and make me their senior economist?