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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

OP posts:
HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 04/04/2019 19:04

It’s chocolate, you get more chocolate for £1 than you do buying say buying a single creme egg...

MaroonFlame · 04/04/2019 19:04

I find the Cadbury’s Easter egg chocolate nicer than their actual chocolate so YABU. It’s just a marketing scheme, it really doesn’t matter when chocolate shaped like eggs is eaten!

Tiredmum100 · 04/04/2019 19:11

Myself, dh and both dc have each all had an Easter egg already. They were half prize in Tesco. It'd be rude not to imo.

GummyGoddess · 04/04/2019 19:24

@Siameasy I look forward to going to the shop to buy them Grin

huggybear · 04/04/2019 19:28

I've never eaten an Easter egg before Easter. Not opened a birthday or Christmas present early... Self control people!

GummyGoddess · 04/04/2019 19:29

I haven't opened presents early! Easter eggs are just nice chocolate, I'm allowed to buy them for myself, it isn't like people are giving them to me and I'm eating them like a present.

Zoflorabore · 04/04/2019 19:30

I am going to need rehab once Easter is over and the Galaxy golden eggs have vanished for another year.
They're seriously addictive Grin

orangenzaft · 04/04/2019 19:46

You don’t want to look in my work drawer then...

NameChangeNugget · 04/04/2019 19:51

Smash the system.

FloweryDreams · 04/04/2019 20:07

What do you think of adults that eat after eights before 8pm?

jcq17 · 04/04/2019 20:13

It's simply chocolate shaped like an egg what's the big deal?

Walkingdeadfangirl · 04/04/2019 20:17

There is probably less than 1% of the whole UK that think chocolate eggs have anything to do with a 'christian' religious festival. And probably less than 0.1% of the UK have even heard of 'lent' never mind know what it is.

I think not eating chocolate eggs would be even harder than dry January, god help us if we actually had to abstain for 6 weeks.

Lacypants · 04/04/2019 20:20

I'm a witch and celebrated Ostara on the spring equinox, so we have already done the eggs and things. I'm now onto pondering Beltane and what we will do / eat then.

VeryQuaintIrene · 04/04/2019 20:21

Maybe shocked is the wrong word, but it seems kind of cosmically wrong to me. There's a real pleasure in waiting for things, that we seem to be losing in so many areas these days. And don't get me started on people eating hot cross buns any day except Good Friday!

Bowchicawowow · 04/04/2019 20:28

I think most people realise that Easter Eggs are connected to Easter Grin

BusySittingDown · 04/04/2019 20:50

Some of you on this thread sound like a right laugh! Not.

I really really want an Easter Egg now!

I haven't eaten any yet but I have eaten two boxes of Milk Tray since Sunday (a Mother's Day present). Does that make me better or worse than the egg guzzlers?

Oliversmumsarmy · 04/04/2019 20:59

There's a real pleasure in waiting for things

No there isn’t. If I want something I want it there and then.

My mother said I should wait because I would enjoy it more.

Ended up hating whatever it was.

Bowchicawowow · 04/04/2019 21:02

I'm no pyschologist Oliversmumsarmy but I reckon your issues are with your mother rather than whether or not you should eat chocolate.

NWQM · 04/04/2019 21:03

My in-laws gave us ours when we saw them at Feb half term. Four lasted approximately 10. We opened one and shared it and we were saying the others but then........

Oliversmumsarmy · 04/04/2019 21:17

I do have issues with my mother but if I want something and I have to wait for it for me I just find an alternative and move on.

I have heard of Lent but didn’t know people actually denied themselves stuff because of religion.

NotNowMrTumnus · 04/04/2019 21:19

Um.... have you heard of Jesus? Do you know why we have Lent? Get thee behind me, Satan, and all that?

GnocchiGnocchi · 04/04/2019 21:23

I got a free one at work today. I ate it in secret on the journey home so I didn't have to give it to the kids Grin

Whathappenedtothelego · 04/04/2019 21:37

I don't mind what other people do. But I agree with the poster above - it seems "cosmically wrong" to me too.
It's just cultural. Lots of people make a huge deal of Christmas and the run up - North Pole breakfasts, elves, lots of "magic" and "making memories".
My childhood memories of magic cluster just as much round Easter. The egg hunt, the clues, finally solving them and finding your Easter basket. The almost mystical moment of seeing your big egg nestling in it. I still remember some of them now, over 30 years later.
So to me it seems utter sacrilege to just buy and eat an Easter egg for yourself. When it's not even Easter! It's deeply shocking to me, even though I can recognise others didn't have the same upbringing and traditions.
It's not about the chocolate per se, it's about what it represents.

FatJannit · 04/04/2019 21:45

The easter bunny hasn't even risen yet! Have some piety for goodness sake girls! xx

Over and out
Fat jannit Wine

GummyGoddess · 04/04/2019 21:53

@Whathappenedtothelego What does it represent to you? Is it the memories that you had when you were little?

To me it represents a bank holiday weekend that I am legitimately allowed to spend eating chocolate. I don't recall much special other than the eggs as big as my head when I was little.