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To be shocked at adults eating easter eggs already

324 replies

Northernlass99 · 04/04/2019 14:18

In this BBC article it says "half of those surveyed said they had already bought and eaten at least one chocolate Easter egg or cake this year."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47735108

AIBU to be shocked at people just randomly buying and scoffing easter eggs before easter! It never crossed my mind. dashes off to the shops

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BuckingFrolics · 04/04/2019 15:57

It represents the utter decline of the value of deferred gratification.
I think its pretty pathetic tbh. Ooh I'll guzzle what I want when I want to... ok, but then how does anything have any value? Plus you're all just falling prey to sell sell sell. Bah humbug or whatever the Easter equivalent would be.

greathat · 04/04/2019 15:57

I broke into one yesterday after a particularly stressful day at work

GoFiguire · 04/04/2019 16:00

I’ve made my mince pies for Christmas and I’m EATING THEM NOW!! 🤶🎅🎄🎄☃️❄️🥟🧁

Lovemusic33 · 04/04/2019 16:01

I have eaten a Easter egg, it was a £1 smarties egg so hardly expensive. We don’t really buy Easter eggs for Easter, kids get 2 each (from grandparents) but Easter isn’t really a big thing in our house.

Lazypuppy · 04/04/2019 16:01

Easter eggs are a lot cheaper than normal chocolate.

Yeah i've eaten loads of easter eggs already

alittlesnow · 04/04/2019 16:01

I have eaten about 20 creme eggs already. probably more like 30.

Skulks away shamefully....... Blush

ToEarlyForDecorations · 04/04/2019 16:04

I heard this on the radio.

W h a t ? People are being moaned at for eating chocolate Easter eggs already ?

Talk about nanny state.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 04/04/2019 16:05

It represents the utter decline of the value of deferred gratification.
I think its pretty pathetic tbh. Ooh I'll guzzle what I want when I want to

Sanctimonious much ?

flameycakes · 04/04/2019 16:06

@Oliversmumsarmy your friend sounds rather like me x

AIBUtopickanyoldname · 04/04/2019 16:06

Eating Easter eggs before Easter is one of the very few perks of being an adult. See also: eating a whole chocolate advent calendar on the 1st Dec. Who’s going to stop you? Your mum?

Babuchak · 04/04/2019 16:08

It represents the utter decline of the value of deferred gratification. Confused

Some of us are not religious and see no other value to Easter than a nice tradition (what does it have to do with chocolate I have no idea). Cant' see the issue with eating an easter egg when you fee like it.

Eating your body weight in any chocolate is nothing to be proud of, but eating a reasonable amount of Easter egg, what's the big deal.

AIBUtopickanyoldname · 04/04/2019 16:08

It represents the utter decline of the value of deferred gratification

Lol! What if we all give ourselves a good flogging afterwards?

alittlesnow · 04/04/2019 16:08

Well I wouldn't eat all the choccies in an advent calendar, (on December 1st,) and would pick them out day by day.., But I would eat several selection boxes before mid December kicks in! Grin

Megan2018 · 04/04/2019 16:08

I started on mini eggs the day they went into the shops!

TheGrey1houndSpeaks · 04/04/2019 16:08

This is the precise reason they’re available in the shops for about 6 months before Easter. So the shops can sell them to the same people multiple times.
Bit like mince pies at Christmas.

Oliversmumsarmy · 04/04/2019 16:09

Ooh I'll guzzle what I want when I want to

Isnt that called being an adult.

IncrediblySadToo · 04/04/2019 16:11

Can people really not contain themselves for just six weeks of prayer, meditation and preparation, before hitting the chocolate?!

I don’t pray
I don’t meditate
I don’t ‘prepare’

... I don’t find it massively complicated to eat chocolate so it’s just not necessary 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m sorry you find it so tricky 🌷

TheQueef · 04/04/2019 16:11

WWJD?

floribunda18 · 04/04/2019 16:13

If you have seasonally specific stuff all the time, it makes it less of a treat and less enjoyable. To everything a season.

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wanderings · 04/04/2019 16:15

My DH is a good boy and waits until Easter Sunday to eat his eggs. He likes to hunt for them: I think that at his age, an egg hunt should be tricky, so unfortunately for him, while he's hunting, he can't see a thing because he's blindfolded. And I don't give him "warm" or "cold" hints, only his hands can help him. Easter Grin Any eggs he fails to find, I get to eat them.

Is this shocking Easter behaviour among adults? Easter Shock We do it every year.

Polarbearflavour · 04/04/2019 16:15

They are 99p in Lidl.

I’ve had 500 Easter eggs so far.

Oliversmumsarmy · 04/04/2019 16:18

Surely if you’ve been eating Easter eggs all through Lent, there’s then no lovely sense of building anticipation, and nothing special to eat as celebration of Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday

And for those of us that are not religious who don’t have all these rules of denying pleasure to live by we are able to crack open an Easter Egg or 6 whenever we like.

Anyway Easter Eggs are not really just for Easter as they have been in the stores since early January.
Surely no one eats chocolate that has been mouldering on the shelf for 4 months

nannybeach · 04/04/2019 16:19

You can get Easter Eggs at Christmas, Hot cross buns all the year round now, eat what you want when you want, I say, do people only eat Turkey at Christmas!

Babuchak · 04/04/2019 16:20

If you have seasonally specific stuff all the time, it makes it less of a treat and less enjoyable.

true, but around Easter is good enough for me!

mclaleli · 04/04/2019 16:21

It represents the utter decline of the value of deferred gratification.

What is this even about? 'Deferred gratification'? Do I need this? Nah, want chocolate egg, eat chocolate egg. Job done.

I think its pretty pathetic tbh. Ooh I'll guzzle what I want when I want to... ok, but then how does anything have any value?

Well at 75p for a medium egg and chocked bar I thought it was bloody great value Grin