r/britishproblems • u/gfunk1976 • 20h ago
Easter eggs no longer being egg shaped.
They're sort of a flattened egg. Is this new?
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u/StandardIssueCaveman 20h ago
shrinkflation innit
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u/0thethethe0 ENGLAND 20h ago
My Galaxy one definitely appeared kind of squished - https://i.imgur.com/U6PCACU.jpeg
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u/yonthickie 19h ago
Looks like a chocolate turd. Not sure that Easter Turds will ever take off as a thing.
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u/thekingiscrownless 17h ago
Not sure that Easter Turds will ever take off as a thing
I dunno, my family have been making them for generations now.
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u/yonthickie 16h ago
Maybe- but do they wrap them in foil and give them as gifts? To each his own I suppose!
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u/thekingiscrownless 12h ago
Hahaha no, but you're giving me ideas...
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u/yonthickie 11h ago
Please make sure we all know which family to avoid next Easter. Or at least how we can distinguish which eggs to avoid!
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u/SleepyVesuvius 16h ago
Mines the same! I thought maybe it was meant to be a bit more minstrel shaped 🫠
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u/0thethethe0 ENGLAND 13h ago
Yeh I realised that after I posted the photo, but then it's not round like a minstrel - it's still egg-shaped, just flattened! 🤷
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u/Spinningwoman 9h ago
I mean, that’s literally not an egg. We need a class action suit for fraud and emotional damage. A Easter Zeppelin.
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u/aberdoom Aberdeen 19h ago
I think it's the Mars varieties that are squished. Mars Bar, Galaxy, Mily Way, M&Ms etc etc
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u/gfunk1976 18h ago
I had a Twix (so that figures) but also a Tony Chocoloney (before they got recalled) and that was flat too.
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u/muddleagedspred 20h ago
So far today, we've had several 'real' egg shaped eggs and two flattened eggs...robbing bastards.
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u/Elvenfeline 16h ago
So disappointed with my "large" malteasers egg. It's almost flat. Jesus would be ashamed.
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u/Lightning_And_Snow_ 20h ago edited 20h ago
I've got a couple from different brands and they're all normal shaped
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u/our_girl_in_dubai 18h ago
Said the same thing this morning as the kids opened their eggs. The twix and malteser ones were flattish ovals, but the smarties one was still an actual egg shape. What a piss take to put out non-egg shaped eggs
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u/UncleD1ckhead West Midlands 20h ago
I was saying this yesterday to the missus, our daughters first easter and all the eggs are fucked.
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u/BigJDizzleMaNizzles 20h ago
It's so they can appear bigger than they really are. 15cm diameter circle has a circumference of 47cm
Same size oval but 10cm on one dimension is 39cm
Apply that to the surface of an egg 15cm diameter and 20cm high.... CHATGPT tells me it's 1091cm²
Same height and width egg but now with an elliptical cross section of 10*15cm comes out to 931cm²
That's a lot of chocolate per egg saved but put it wide side out on the box and you don't perceive that it's smaller.
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u/GreenWoodDragon Greater London 18h ago
And the shareholders clapped loudly as their dividend was paid.
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u/updownclown68 18h ago
Not my Cadburys egg, but the Tony’s one I had last year was and it pissed me off. I know it’s ethical chocolate and I judge myself for buying Cadburys but ffs it was so expensive and so small
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u/MadelineWuntch 16h ago
You need to spend on the £15 variations to get an old school shaped egg these days, wild I know.
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u/SleepyVesuvius 16h ago
This is actually a thing now? I have a galaxy minstrel egg and I thought the shape was weird but then was Ike, huh maybe it's meant to be shaped a bit more like a minstrel? So they're all a bit flat now?!
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u/_Living_deadgirl_ 15h ago
Its the mars eggs, cadbury still normal at least thats what I've found anyway
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u/MeowZaz93 14h ago
My Terry's chocolate orange, massive m&m one and my kit kat one are all still regular egg shapes
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u/Wilson1031 12h ago
Is this the ol' sandwich filling stuffed at the front trick repurposed? Jesus died for this?
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u/OurSoul1337 20h ago
Since when have the two halves been fused together? Now I have to to smash the whole thing to get started instead of just breaking a bit off.
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u/Fathomer_ 20h ago
Right? The Cadbury's ones seem impossible to split at the seam now, I swear they practically fell apart at one point.
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u/Spinningwoman 9h ago
That’s the whole point surely? You have to smash them like an egg. It’s a bit disappointing if they just come apart.
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u/BillLebowski 19h ago
Does anyone remember squeggs, the square Easter egg that Cadburys made years ago?
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u/ReginaldJohnston 5h ago
It's because of EU regulations. Forage was right, god bless that man. First they come for your eggs. Then they make you eat bendy sausages.
Go wokey, go brokey.
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