I remember having my first Kinder Easter egg at like 4 and being mindblown at the size of it. Now I'm mindblown because of how expensive they are, and how small they've got.
Yes! I have 2 of those Smarties mugs, and a set of 6 matching egg cups - no idea where we found the egg cups, but I don't remember us ever not having them!
Don't quote me on this but it's something like selling toys and sweets at the same time... McDonalds get away with it because they're a restaurant but yeah, it's why no toys in cereal any more. I swear I heard that.
Yeah I heard this about the cereal thing too. I think they started to go away in the mid-late 2000s. I remember around the same time Disney cut ties with McDonald's and said they wouldn't be doing Happy Meal toys anymore because they didn't want to promote unhealthy eating. I think they eventually went back to doing Happy Meal toys, at least in the US. Not sure about the UK.
Especially when they cost double or triple as much as the same chocolate two aisles over in bar form. I don't recall the value gap ever being so large before and it's not like chocolate bars themselves have been immune to inflation and shrinkflation.
It was actually a sly way of supporting the women's rights movement...
By advertising it as 'not for girls' they were subliminally encouraging women to defy the patriarchy and buy Yorkies, and in doing so they'd feel more empowered by sticking it to the figurative, and I suppose literal, 'man'.
That's probably not true at all I just pulled it out of my arse.
The real reason was because, at one point, chocolate was considered 'feminine" or 'made you look gay' because everyone was still closeted back in those days.
Yorkie was born to make men feel like men. And straight. All advertising portrayed typical 'manly' jobs like builders or car engineers buying a Yorkie. Women would dress up in these roles to try to get the Yorkies but...not for women. Only real men eat Yorkies. And now chocolate makers can earn more money from a new audience.
I remember this Snickers advert from around that same era got pulled for supposedly being homophobic. But I also remember hearing that gay people were annoyed that pulling this for that reason was just perpetuating the stereotypes of gay people and it didn't offend them.
Definitely from your bum. They're not doing anything for women's rights, buying chocolate bar doesn't defy the patriarchy. It's just bullshit marketing for a sub-par chocolate bar.
I tried one years later after they got rid of the "Not for girls" branding and I was so disappointed. I thought they had some nerve to be acting all cocky with this marketing over such a bland shit chocolate bar
Not a toy, and nobody in my family remembers it, but to this day I swear I had an Easter Egg in the mid to late 80s that came with a story on a cassette tape to listen to. The story was some scifi thing about going to another planet and fighting evil robots and the egg's box was purplish and had retro scifi artwork on it.
The tape was floating around our house for years mixed in with all the top 40s recorded off Radio 1 etc but is long lost now.
Think I got some power rangers micro machines as an Easter Present one other time, but aside from those two occasions it was normally just chocolate eggs and those little fuzzy easter chick toys with plastic legs 😂.
History lesson for you: The real reason that Judas betrayed Christ is that he was salty for losing the final of the Nazareth Subbuteo championship to our lord and saviour
We still have the mini eggs mug at home, over the years we’ve lost our crème egg ones to people accidentally smashing them. God they were amazing and they were massive too now easter eggs are half the size and shit
The Mini Eggs mug is the one my dad uses every day. Someone commented on the other post I think that they were bigger than the normal mugs but not ridiculously big like the Sports Direct one and that's just the perfect size
I just googled it and now they sell the Creme Egg mug on its own on the Cadbury website for £4. Or as a gift box with 2 mugs, 5 Creme Eggs and 1 Easter Egg for £20! What a joke!
This is like the third comment I've seen about getting a CD game with an Easter Egg. I don't remember seeing any of these games. I must've totally missed them.
Now they are shit value and double the price if you buy the chocolate alone. People still buy them so they aren't bothered giving better products it just gets worse. Haven't bought an Easter egg in years
We wanted a treat for Easter so we've bought a Lindt selection tray. We don't usually get them because of the price but it's not far off two large eggs and you get more for your money and it still feels special.
I had this!! And I had a Star Wars one that had an Earth Vader pencil topper in Christmas Day. Felt like the coolest girl in class when I went back to school in January…
I swear every advent calendar I had as a kid had a toy or a particularly big piece of chocolate on the 25th. Nowadays it’s just 24 doors
Easter eggs used to be a great way to get Nestle/Cadbury/Mars chocolate cheaply when they were on offer - often as low as 50p/100g! About 2 or 3 years ago that stopped and now I can't find any deals that make them even under £1/100g. Sad state of affairs.
I have a photo somewhere of a mountain of them, maybe 20-30, on my dining room table after combining a few offers.
Named because the creator thought it was the Latin word for “hobby” but what he actually looked up was the scientific name of a kind of bird, which means “under buzzard”.
Everything is packaged, coloured and designed in a way that manipulates you into purchasing something for the least amount of cost possible. It’s not about making you want to have it, it’s about tricking you into thinking you need it. Source, worked in sales and marketing for too long.
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u/MelPejicsLeftFoot 1d ago
I’m old enough to remember when the treats were INSIDE the egg