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Thread #87728 Message #1640216
Posted By: Jeanie
03-Jan-06 - 04:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Spotted - First Easter Eggs of the Year
Subject: BS: Spotted - First Easter Eggs of the Year
Just like those people who compete with each other to write in to the "Times" when they have heard the first cuckoo, I hereby lay claim to having seen (shock, horror) The First Chocolate Easter Eggs of 2006: on sale WH Smith's, Braintree, Essex, Monday 2nd January. This has got to be the earliest sighting, ever. (Plumage: red/blue/gold, Cadbury mini).
All those unclaimed Lindt chocolate reindeer on the supermarket shelves(the ones covered in gold foil and wearing a little bell round their necks) will now be speeding back to base, for the "master chocolatiers" to re-cover them as Easter bunnies. What a cunning plan by Lindt to use the same mould for both - although I do think the reindeer look decidedly bunny-like, despite having antlers painted over their ears. No wonder nobody seemed to be buying them (apart from their exorbitant price).