we're still reeling from christmas,still finishing off mince pies and barely back at work,yet morrisons see fit to put a huge cadbury's creme egg display up....here we go the build up to easter-how sad is that?
the way retailers pull our seasonal purse strings stinks,but they dont care i suppose if it gets tills ringing.
its my birthday in 7 months can i put my cards up yet?

Originally posted by patpending
we're still reeling from christmas,still finishing off mince pies and barely back at work,yet morrisons see fit to put a huge cadbury's creme egg display up....here we go the build up to easter-how sad is that?
the way retailers pull our seasonal purse strings stinks,but they dont care i suppose if it gets tills ringing.
its my birthday in 7 months can i put my cards up yet? only if people start sending them that early.:loopy: :hihi: :hihi:

My mum got a birthday card at the beginning of December - her birthday's not til the end of January. We think the sender got a bit mixed up.

West Street Post Office had creme eggs on sale a few weeks before Christmas. :suspect:

Creme Eggs.... mmm... How do you eat yours!? :razz:

Christmas all over an done with the Valentines cards will soon be appearing in all the local stores along with the Easter Eggs... then it'll be Halloween stuff filling the shelves an before we know it... it'll be Christmas dec's again before we know it... never ending circle.... :?

Originally posted by Angel05
Creme Eggs.... mmm... How do you eat yours!? :razz:


I don't, Prefer Smarties or Rolo eggs ;)

Or even mini-eggs :P

I long for the day they produce full easter-egg sized cream eggs :heyhey:

Originally posted by dinp
I long for the day they produce full easter-egg sized cream eggs :heyhey:

Dont we all! :o :D Its the Holy Grail of the chocolate world

Originally posted by RPG
Dont we all! :o :D Its the Holy Grail of the chocolate world

Oh yesh! :thumbsup: Think how much they'd cost though!! :gag:

Someone needs to contact Cadburys - in Canada they have done it the wrong way around and made MINI creme eggs - cant be good for adult sized fingers :mad:

http://www.landofcadbury.ca/lo/mompop/products/cremeeggs.htm

and what's worse, they say you have to share the triple packs ?!

Some useful Creme Egg trivia, courtesy of Mr Cadbury's parrot :

If you laid all the eggs made on the Creme Egg plant end to end, they would stretch all the way from the Bournville factory in Birmingham UK to Sydney in Australia - that's 12,000 miles.

The Cadbury Creme Egg plant at Bournville can produce more than 1.5 million eggs per day. It is the best selling confectionery item between January 1st and Easter; over 200 million are sold annually, 3 for every person in the UK.

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Wanna make your own humoungous Creme Eggs ? recipe here :

http://chocolate.allinfo-about.com/special/creameggs.html

and more convincing one here, but with food colourings :

http://www.budget101.com/recipes/id423.htm

Mmmmmm choc :thumbsup:

Have found information showing that Cadburys were telling retailers to stock Creme Eggs BEFORE xmas -

http://www.theretailbulletin.com/index.php?page=5&cat=bran&id=5425

The Creme Egg range is being extended [pack sizes up to a whopping 18 in a box (that'll make me sick eating them all in one sitting !) and those dreaded mini- sized ones I mentioned earlier] and there will be a massive ad campaign January onwards.

And I was SO hoping to go on a diet this month :rolleyes:

Stop it Stop it Stop it!!!!11111111

I want a Creme Egg now!!

Originally posted by patpending
we're still reeling from christmas,still finishing off mince pies and barely back at work,yet morrisons see fit to put a huge cadbury's creme egg display up....here we go the build up to easter-how sad is that?
the way retailers pull our seasonal purse strings stinks,but they dont care i suppose if it gets tills ringing.
its my birthday in 7 months can i put my cards up yet?

Its not just morrisons - i noticed the other day that tescos also have a display of creme eggs etc. :suspect: :loopy:

Happy birthday btw :thumbsup: ;) :P :hihi:

On sale in GT News in Crosspool at beggining of December.

Yep, I went into the Tesco on West Street on Jan 2nd, and they had displays of creme eggs, mini eggs, and some barbie things called Egglets.

It's ridiculous!

Mini Eggs are my favourites, but I wish they'd wait a bit!

Originally posted by dinp
Oh yesh! :thumbsup: Think how much they'd cost though!! :gag:

but a nice solid weight tho :))

btw wernt they selling the 18 packs last year as well, i remember once going to makro and getting a box of em for myself, 48 :) i should have been sick!!

dave

It truly is a sad world in which we live.

Can't we just have some sort of official 'in-between' season where manufacturers are banned from advertising the next season's merchandise with almost three months to go?

Then again, I don't suppose it would be long before someone came up with 'Happy In-between Season's' greeting cards and other assorted guff.

Sod it, I'm going out for a creme egg.

lent starts 9 feb and this year i am NOT giving up chocolate, the pain of no creme eggs was just too much!!! also the pigging out on easter day made me feel quite ill

dave

Announcement from the government...

"We are replacing the traditional seasons with commercial periods. You new year is now in 3 parts - Easter (Jan-May), Summer (Jun-Aug), and Christmas (Sept-Dec). Thank you."

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
It truly is a sad world in which we live.

Can't we just have some sort of official 'in-between' season where manufacturers are banned from advertising the next season's merchandise with almost three months to go?

Then again, I don't suppose it would be long before someone came up with 'Happy In-between Season's' greeting cards and other assorted guff.

Sod it, I'm going out for a creme egg.

We, the public, would fall for it as well. Collectively, we are a bunch of stupid sheep.