Easter egg on their faces

I only know two things about the secular Easter. One is that there is a bunny around, somehow. The second is that we give and receive easter eggs - round chocolate eggs which contain little bags of smaller chocolate things, or perhaps Jelly Tots.

Yesterday, we saw from our elevated position, a bunny walking up Front street, collecting for some worthy cause. Proof positive, if proof be need be, that the bunny part is still true. Sadly, it seems that the wearing of fancy dress is necessarily accompanied by some charitable cause these days. I wish we were back in the halcyon days when a man could put on a bunny costume for little or no reason - but the biting reality of these present times is that it is quite wrong to dress up as a bunny if one is not collecting for cancer relief, Barnado's or NCP.

I'm pretty sure I'm right on this.

The second part is related to the "Easter Eggs" themselves. Put simply, there is no longer anything inside them. Included in the packaging are a couple of standard chocolate bars, but no special treat exists at any point inside the Easter egg.

I feel rather let down by the companies who make these yearly treats. Sad that they can no longer be bothered to manufacture the delights that used to reside within.

And so another mainstay of my life disappears. Feel free to respond to this posting, detailing the makes of eggs which do have a lovely treat inside the egg. I'd be so glad to know who is taking the trouble to do this, if anyone.

Comments

[Sandy]

How sad, to have something so tasty and special suddenly turn up hollow. What were they thinking?

I don't recall having chocolate eggs with anything inside. They were either solid chocolate all the way through, or there were plastic eggs that would be filled with little chocolates.

[Claire]

you need to try Hotel Chocolate, luxury large eggs - expensive, but lovely stuff inside.