Eaten by the Dozen

Every year Easter Eggs seem to go on the shelves even earlier than the previous year, I'm pretty sure they were in supermarkets before the Christmas chocolate had been cleared off the shelves. Of course, we all bitterly complained to each other about this. Do we really need four months in advance to buy Easter eggs? Doesn't it feel a bit excessive?

Well apparently not.. By Saturday at 2pm major supermarkets across the UK had sold out of all their Easter eggs. The Easter aisles left with nothing but broken bunnies and bashed boxes. People were clueless with what to do, they had no chocolate eggs for their family!

Does this show how last minute we are as a nation? Where did all the eggs go? Surely this means everyone was just buying them in their weekly shopping and eating them as they went along. Now it sounds really greedy but how else did we sell out of millions of Easter eggs?! 

I can remember, when I was younger, going shopping just after Easter and seeing all of the left over eggs in the sale. This year, there were no left over eggs. People were out on Easter Sunday thinking they would still be able to buy eggs. You could say that companies didn't produce enough and, perhaps, that's true but I think the reality is chocolate eggs are no longer an Easter treat but yet another promotion for companies. I read one tweet saying 'why do we even have eggs, I can't remember?' but I bet she still ate a few.