Remember these?
Easter eggs and chocolate just don't seem to be the same as in my youth.
The chocolate seemed much thicker and tastier back then.
Some say it's because palm oil is used in the manufacture of chocolate these days?
What Easter Eggs and chocolate do you remember fondantly?
Here's some Easter Eggs from times gone by from Rowntree:
All of my Easter eggs were fairly standard ones as far as I remember. Cadburys mostly. I don't recall any amazing packaging etc. I just consumed them as fast as I was allowed to.
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My favourite were the peppermint chocolate eggs (milk chocolate with peppermint cream inside) that we used to get every year. I THINK they're still available in Australia, but it's so many years since I last spent Easter in Australia! They're just a little bigger than a regular small Easter egg and come wrapped in green foil. I can't quite remember which company makes them, but I have a feeling it's Red Tulip. Maybe one of the other Aussies here will know!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I remember the Smartie, Dairy Box, Quality Street and Black Magic eggs, but some of the others in the link were not available in Ireland when I was young!
I remember those toffee-filled eggs. Once or twice I had a box of 12 toffee-filled eggs arranged like a clock face. I've a feeling they had a Magic Roundabout theme, though I'm not absolutely sure about that.
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
The Mystery of the Missing Man begins with Pip saying he's going to buy some Easter eggs. He asks Bets if she wants to come too, and says he'll buy his mother a marzipan egg.
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
Oh that's interesting Anita. I'm not very family with the FFO books, although I read that book only a few months ago, but don't remember that bit. Mine is a modern re-print - I wonder if it's been edited out?
I shall try and remember to check tomorrow to see if it is still there and I just didn't notice it, or if it's been removed.
Katharine, the first paragraph in ‘Missing Man’ is: ‘I’m going to buy some Easter eggs,’ said Pip, at breakfast time. ‘Are you coming too, Bets? Then we might go and call on old Fatty.’
That is from a 2015 edition so it is unlikely to be any different from the copy you read, especially as it’s the beginning of the book. Maybe it failed to register as it was at the very start.
"You can't change history as that won't change the future"
Thanks Pete. I think my version is also the 2015 one, so as you say, it obviously didn't register at the time, perhaps because it didn't have much bearing on the story.
I'm currently reading Secret Seven Win Through, in which the password is 'Easter Egg', so they obviously do crop up from time to time.
Very interesting and enjoyable looking at those Easter eggs of past decades Pete. One thing all of them have in common is how noticeably creative the packaging is. All of them look fun, colourful and appealing compared to what I saw in our shops where they all looked basically the same boring design. They didn't look anything different or special like these do where I'd have struggled to choose between them. These ones look like the manufacturer has put a lot of thought into their design to make it stand out not just the same square box with a different logo on each one. Actually you could describe modern cars in the exact same way.
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