Another Easter comes around and the confectionary giants rub their collective hands together and go to town ripping off consumers left right and centre. It seams they have perfected the art of manufacturing chocolate Easter eggs to have the thinnest possible shell without them actually loosing their structural integrity and collapsing in on themselves. Just. I remember when I was a kid you had to virtually take a lump hammer to an Easter egg to crack the chocolate but things certainly have changed these days – a friend bought me a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk egg this year and when I opened it, the egg was so thing it was practically flexible. I checked on a store site and the egg in question retailed for £7.00, I then compared that to how much it would cost to buy the equivalent amount of Dairy Milk Chocolate (150g) in regular bar form and that was £0.79 from the same store. So basically, you’re paying £6.21 for a box. Lovely. The story is the same across the board even with ‘premium brands’ such as Lindt who will charge you a 700% mark up on their famous Easter Bunny over buying a regular Lindt Excellence bar and you don’t even get a box with that thing. Bah Humbug indeed.
Glad I don't eat much chocolate...
and yeah, as a kid it took a friggin sledgehammer to crack my easter bunny's head off...and lets not talk about the chipped teeth from attempting to foolishy bite into it...these days...it is all crappy chocolate and not even alot of that.
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