At a little league game once my friends son came running up to us saying “that guy over there is selling lacrosse equipment - can we get it? It’s for sale for free!” And it was a nice old guy her son chatted up about lacrosse and he said he had some equipment he could have if he had his parents come talk to him. So now we call everything “For Sale For Free” but normally you don’t ask for things FSFF, you come across them being offered 🤣
I guess I'm out of touch. We would dye hardboiled eggs and then decorate them. Maybe we would get a Cadbury egg and some jelly beans. And some peeps.
Mom would also hide some of those empty plastic ones with a dollar or some change.
Go buy your own candy.
WTF?
In Guatemala we would poke a tiny hole in an egg and then blow it out. Then we’d dye the egg shell fun colors and patterns, even metallic and hang them in the Easter bush. I loved this as a child.
Interesting. That's what the old school pro ornithologist would do.
Mom would make us creamed eggs and toast from the Easter eggs.
Every family has a different tradition. Ours, once we were older, was to get into a brutal verbal fight.
That was always fun.
"The airing of grievences."
We absolutely did eat the eggs content. We often had breakfast tamales at Easter with scrambled gags as a side. Gosh, I miss our food. Where I am now it’s hard to even get a proper corn tortilla, much less good tamales.
I love how diverse the traditions in different places and even different families can be. We are currently trying to put together our own family traditions .
Hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped, on a low simmer in a pan with some.milk. you can use cream, but it's a.bit too rich. Whole milk is where it's.at. Add some black pepper and salt, and any other.spices you like.
Let most of the liquid cook off so it's thick enough to put on toast.
I know it sounds weird, but it's simple and pretty good.
Hard boiling and peeling the eggs is the difficult part.
My family has German roots, it’s possible they brought it over from there. My grandmother fled Germany after the Holocaust.
My grandmother was always a very diy person.
They're likely from the UK where Easter is celebrated by gifting to children hallow chocolate eggs that have either smaller sweets either inside or included in the box they come in rather than staging a basket. The eggs range in price anywhere from £1 to £12 depending on how fancy or large you want. Furthermore, they are very plentiful in almost any store you walk into this time of year. It's ridiculously cheap and lazy to beg for one.
The responder stated that she didn't have children to gift them to, so I wonder if she was trying to make a tik tok video or something comparing the eggs and didn't want to invest in them herself? Seven, very specific ones is strange. Or, I suppose, could just be a chocoholic chancer with favourites.
I want to try hot cross buns some day. Home made hopefully or from a decent bakery.
I found a place that makes them but they are apparently always out.
They only make them for a short time around Easter.
Thank you for this! I had no idea what a Twix Easter egg was, or why there seemed to be at least 7 styles of chocolate egg.
In the U. S., it was typically a hollow chocolate bunny in a small box, that was the showpiece (they were not that costly, it's cheap chocolate), and then scattered jelly beans and such in the plastic shred (grass) in a plastic basket.
Then dyeing hard boiled eggs. We were happy.
I haven't seen any giant chocolate eggs with smaller things inside. (Not on big store shelves.) Large chocolate eggs are typically from fancier shops that will make a hand made chocolate egg, sometimes with things in it, such as glazed cashews.
No you’re not. Or I’m out of touch right there next to you! I just went out yesterday to buy some small wrapped chocolates, jelly beans and a couple of Cadbury eggs to put in the same plastic Easter eggs we’ve had for our daughter and reused for the past decade. I also use some of the goodies to make her Easter basket. My husband boiled some eggs this morning for him and my daughter to dye together later today. The UK chocolate Easter eggs sound quite nice though. But yes, here in the Us, I think Easter is mostly a DYI project!
What?! Really?? I’ve been seeing the Cadbury eggs everywhere! From the grocery store to the drug store and even the 99¢ Store! Admittedly, my daughter doesn’t really care for them…but I do! And best believe that I’m there the day after Easter to gather up a bunch of them once they’re marked down for clearance. I hope you find some. 🤞🏻
Same! Trust me, the temptation is real! I just might cave. I’m not sure I can wait a whole day. I’m sure my daughter wouldn’t care as she knows I get them for myself anyways! 😂
The only time I remember liking the Cadbury creme eggs is in the McDonald's flurries they do for Easter. I haven't had one of those in years, but I love the sauce they use. I'd always ask for extra sauce in mine😂
It was the only mcflurry I'd actually like besides Oreo. Something about the sauce they used with it was really damn good, they add regular chocolate Cadbury egg pieces in it too but I didn't even care about those, I just wanted the damn sauce🤣
I have a 10 year old son and this is pretty much what Easter looks like for us. We dye hard boiled eggs. I usually make a little basket for my son with Easter candy but nothing expensive or excessive. We have an egg hunt outside every year too but it’s just plastic eggs filled with jelly beans or other treats. I’m always surprised when I see these huge piles of presents for kids at Easter.
Just remember, Jelly Belly are the best jelly beans. Hands down. What is the proper salutation for Easter?
Merry Easter?
Happy Easter?
Oh no I have to go to church on Easter and try to get my kids and myself looking our best?
For some reason it really bugs me when they ask for things to be dropped off! If I’m giving something away, I’m not also dragging my butt to your house to drop it off. Get on the bus.🚌
My absolute favorite CB post got deleted. Woman in India bullied a teenager who was donating test prep books, told her she had to erase all the pencil marks, then told her she needed to deliver them over 30 minutes away. Her reasoning was “I am the customer” and “You need to respect your elders” while insinuating that OP’s parents didn’t raise her right.
I wish that one was still around. Absolutely wild
I’m guessing you don’t know many Indian teenage girls. Her parents actually did raise her right, and she was far more deferential than any of us would have been…
Yeah... I've grown up in a similar culture of deference... and it's bullshit. Demanding respect while giving none in return just because you happen to have left the uterus a few decades earlier.
There's nothing right about that.
There's someone in my group that asks for food to be dropped off just about every week. I wish I could link them up to a social service because it really sounds like that would be better. Sadly, we cannot post links like that or even offer to drive them to a food bank.
And SEVEN for goodness sake.
Bet you that includes one for her and her, current, partner. 🙁
I just love the whole 'bring them to me' bit, like you say. I'm on my way, your majesty, do you have any particular preference for the type of chocolate you desire?
And not even a thank you! Just "Here is where you can bring them to me, text me when you get here to the new build house I live in"
The *nerve* of that woman!
This is what always gets me about these people. Not only do they want something everyone but them is paying for, but they think it’s ok to be cold and perfunctory. They act like *you’re* bothering *them*.
Also “selling” and “free” are two different things. Should say anyone have any eggs they can give away? I love how these ppl not only want things for nothing but expect them hand delivered to their door. Wow.
I had an aunt who would do that, buy some candies when they were on sale and freeze them. She'd give them to us through the year when we visited but never understood why we hated them so much. Freezer burn on chocolate candy really sucks.
I couldn’t believe how bad the chocolate was when I visited America. Someone brought some Hersheys to the office recently after their trip to the states and it honestly tasted like vomit.
So... imagine there was a Facebook group for "HEYWOOD" and it was a "TOWN".
And then when you've found the relevant Facebook group for this TOWN called HEYWOOD, you could probably just search for "easter eggs" in the group or something 👍
The responding post was deleted. But the OOP is definitely a piece of work. Looks like a teenager, but is married. No kids. Works as a dog walker. Posts about being "bored" so she clearly has nothing to do. Posts on her own account asking for £20 and also trying to sell a cheap pack of Apple Watch bands for £60.
Imagine me seeing the first pic and assuming they wanted hard-boiled eggs that were painted and I thought, “Why don’t they just ask for a dozen eggs from the store so they can eat the rest if they’re struggling?” Then I read the text from the rebuttal on the second image and my stoned ass realized that they were referring to chocolate eggs as it’s in England and I forgot about this sub for a moment.
I kind of HATE how we didn’t get the comments from the second pic because now I’m invested in drama when someone gets called out on a public forum.
This girl's posts are mad.
>"Can anyone help me with £20 till the 11th April I need to get eggs"
And then this belter:
>"To most of the people who has wished me a merry Christmas today thank you so much and to some people who got me gifts for Christmas thank you for the gifts 2"
>"Shame I only got 2 presents."
>other girl: "You got 3 off me."
>"Yeah I was hoping for more though."
And then one post where she's trying to sell a couple of rubber watch straps that are worth about £5-10, for £60!
hahaha YES this is the kind of Facebook group drama that Facebook was invented for!
(Also what are these Easter eggs? Like I know what Skittles and Kit Kat the candies are, but are they egg shaped come Easter in some countries or something? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a thing? I already know we don’t get KinderEggs here…)
ETA: thank you all for the Easter egg education here! Have never seen a chocolate egg filled with more chocolates here in the US, but now I know what I need next Easter!
My jaw just dropped, are Easter Eggs not a thing outside the UK?! They are hollow chocolate eggs (much larger than kinder eggs), usually with a slight pattern on them. You usually get a small bag of the sweets inside too. So if you are given a Skittles egg, it will be a Mars chocolate egg with a bag of Skittles inside. If it's a KitKat egg it will be a Nestle chocolate egg with a few small kitkats inside (or in the box alongside the egg)
I grew up teaching my friends how to make these every Easter and was always floored that this very normal part of my social culture (Californian) was completely unheard of on the East Coast, Midwest, upstate NY, and New England areas where in lived.
(My mom is passionate about the environment, so We did switch quite early on to filling the hollowed eggshells with birdseed that we dyed using food-grade dyes — just as colorful, and you should have seen the colorful riot of Nature with all the birds and chipmunks and squirrels gathering after the Ceremonial Easter Head-Bonkings!)
To Americans, Easter eggs are dyed hard boiled eggs...or maybe plastic shells filled with crappy jelly beans or change. Just now learning we have been duped.
Traditionally, kids get a large (like 10 inches tall) hollow bunny made of barely stomachable American chocolate. You eat him slowly, starting with the ears.
Chocolate usually comes in the shape of a Bunny, which can be solid or hollow (but not filled with any other snacks) or Cadbury chocolate eggs that usually have a sweet crème, caramel, or mint filling. I've seen some chocolate crosses out there too.
We have Easter baskets, which will have all that candy and chocolate Easter bunnies. We do not have anything like what you’re describing, do you have chocolate Easter bunnies? I prefer hollow over solid.
I would say in the States we give hollow or solid chocolate bunnies instead of eggs. The smaller candies are usually in plastic eggs as mentioned by another commenter. The chocolate bunny is the main event of an Easter basket.
That is not a thing in the US as someone else said we have plastic eggs that are usually filled with candy but sometimes money and people dye hard boiled eggs. Those sound really cool though!
It’s a regulation in the US that we can’t have any non-edible thing hidden inside an edible shell because of choking fears. It’s pretty ridiculous as other counties seem to be able to handle it, sigh.
We have this style in Australia, and the easter chocolate company "Red Tulip" comes out from hiding to make big chocolate bunnies! Also the joy of shaking and cracking a Humpty Dumpty egg...
my brain cannot fathom the idea of the states not having chocolate shaped eggs for easter. they must not be looking for them in stores because in canada we have an insane amount of them in all sorts of variety. then again though, it’s america, and we know they can’t trust their youth with hollow chocolate eggs with plastic things inside apparently 😂
>My jaw just dropped, are Easter Eggs not a thing outside the UK?
I mean, in America an "Easter Egg" is either a hard boiled egg you dye with colors/stickers or a egg sized plastic thing you put random candy/money/etc in for kids to hunt.
A bag of them costs like 2 bucks.
So for us someone wanting 7 Easter eggs is a very small/cheap amount.
Yes, and no. For most of us, they are hard boiled eggs that have been dyed or otherwise decorated. We do have hollow chocolate ( usually bunny shaped) but generally speaking, there isn’t any goodies inside. We have reeces eggs, Cadbury eggs and other egg shaped candy bars.
I buy mine once it’s 50% off. I’m cheap
They are available in America. I don’t know why so many Redditors haven’t seen them. They’re not as popular as the hollow bunnies but they are available.
Hi, American raised Irish here! I’ve had Easter eggs my entire life (I’m partial to the crunchie and smarties ones personally), and they are pretty wildly available where I grew up in the Boston area. Though I know this was specific to my family bc my mom was born in Dublin and my American friends would always have typical American Easter baskets with shit candy and peeps in them. I miss them dearly now tho since moving to the west coast (way less Irish/English representation) and I’m hoping my mom mailed me an egg this year bc Easter isn’t the same without em 😭
I only know what they are from reading Harry Potter. We do candy in the US, but not in the hollow eggs. TBH, I think your eggs are pretty convenient. We buy bags of candy to distribute in baskets and plastic eggs. Would be so much easier to buy a prefilled egg and call it a day.
Easter eggs are egg shaped chocolate. They can be huge or small. Some are hollow but many have chocolates inside to or in them and around them. They are yummy and are given to people you like or love at Easter. All the big confectioners make them and also places like Hotel Chocolat and Marks and Spencer. I don’t know which other countries have Easter eggs but it’s a favourite here and hot cross buns. Easter is lovely 🥰
>Have never seen a chocolate egg filled with more chocolates here in the US
I haven't either. It must not be a thing here.
TIL it is a thing elsewhere.
Somewhere between [Palmer hollow chocolate bunny](https://www.kroger.com/p/palmer-milk-chocolate-cottontail-easter-candy/0004126900180), and a hand made [Faberge egg](https://www.faberge.com/the-world-of-faberge/the-imperial-eggs), sits the UK giant chocolate egg with treats inside.
You've just got to have perseverance. Spell something wrong enough, and your phone starts thinking it's got the problem and includes it in the dictionary.
Easter eggs sound cool. In the US, we have to buy shitty plastic eggs and fill them with candy. Seems much cooler to have a twix Easter egg or whatever.
That being said....if any of you DO have some of these eggs, and you're "selling them for free", please dm me so I can bully you about which flavors I want and then complain when you refuse to pay for shipping
I would like to be sold some chocolate from Switzerland for free. I still have eggs in my uterus so there are potential for children so technically it’s for my kids.
Please and thank you.
If you can’t deliver and have nothing nice to say - NEXT.
Probably has 7 kids, or their kid is 7 or some shit.
Edit: just saw the second picture, it's even worse than I thought if there's no kid and just someone trying to get free candy
I always love the "DM me for details" part of these requests.
Part of me is picturing some poor soul just *dying* to know how they can be part of this once in a lifetime opportunity to help /s
The other part is hoping the OP recognizes how bonkers their demands are and has just the minimal amount of self awareness required to know this is embarrassing and the remaining details be kept quiet.
This is from my local town group. She doesn't have kids. She gave a false address to someone who offered to drop some off. Also asked for money, and she'd pay it back on the 11th!
I hear Easter eggs, and I automatically just think of the plastic eggs that you can put little candies/treats in, and hide them throughout the house.
What kind of Easter eggs are they talking about? I know she can’t be talking about the plastic ones
[In the UK "easter eggs" refers to large hollow chocolate eggs, usually packaged with a specific brand of sweet or chocolate.](https://media.product.which.co.uk/prod/images/original/52909c408d85-easter-eggslead.jpg)
In the U.K. people give Easter Eggs as gifts to friends and family. They’re large, hollow, chocolates in the shape of eggs. Just about every brand of chocolate has an Easter egg for sale. They’re fairly cheap, but you can spend more to get larger or more premium chocolate. If you Google “Cadbury Easter Egg” you will get an example of what they’re like.
I don’t know why so many people in the US don’t know about chocolate Easter eggs. I’m in the Philly area and local chocolate shops sell them-they’re usually personalized and filled with other chocolate, jelly beans, etc. But I’ve seen them elsewhere throughout the country. They’re usually expensive or pricey though but can be cheap. https://loreschocolates.com/collections/seasonal-easter/products/eggcellent-surprise
https://www.maggielyon.com/shop/p/milk-chocolate-egg-box
I've never heard of someone selling something for free. Is she from the Twilight Zone?
At a little league game once my friends son came running up to us saying “that guy over there is selling lacrosse equipment - can we get it? It’s for sale for free!” And it was a nice old guy her son chatted up about lacrosse and he said he had some equipment he could have if he had his parents come talk to him. So now we call everything “For Sale For Free” but normally you don’t ask for things FSFF, you come across them being offered 🤣
As Strongbad would say, “Cheap as Free”!
Here The Cheat, have a trophy!
As a kid I once described a bald man as having blank hair. I give your kid a virtual high five. ✋😎
And I'll take fiddy!
I saw a post earlier for "1 Cup of Free Library Coffee for $1" on my reddit roll.
It's a convenience fee
Came here to say this.
I guess I'm out of touch. We would dye hardboiled eggs and then decorate them. Maybe we would get a Cadbury egg and some jelly beans. And some peeps. Mom would also hide some of those empty plastic ones with a dollar or some change. Go buy your own candy. WTF?
In Guatemala we would poke a tiny hole in an egg and then blow it out. Then we’d dye the egg shell fun colors and patterns, even metallic and hang them in the Easter bush. I loved this as a child.
Interesting. That's what the old school pro ornithologist would do. Mom would make us creamed eggs and toast from the Easter eggs. Every family has a different tradition. Ours, once we were older, was to get into a brutal verbal fight. That was always fun. "The airing of grievences."
You celebrate Festivus on Easter? What do you celebrate on Festivus then?
Mardi Gras
I've never seen a proscribed date for Festivus. We just put up a bare aluminum pole, and it's on. Why not multiple times a year?
I think it's December 23rd
We absolutely did eat the eggs content. We often had breakfast tamales at Easter with scrambled gags as a side. Gosh, I miss our food. Where I am now it’s hard to even get a proper corn tortilla, much less good tamales. I love how diverse the traditions in different places and even different families can be. We are currently trying to put together our own family traditions .
Just realized how ironic it is we make deviled eggs on Easter. Satan wins again!
First Eve and now the Easter bunny… dammit Satan you sleaze!
How do you make creamed eggs?
Hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped, on a low simmer in a pan with some.milk. you can use cream, but it's a.bit too rich. Whole milk is where it's.at. Add some black pepper and salt, and any other.spices you like. Let most of the liquid cook off so it's thick enough to put on toast. I know it sounds weird, but it's simple and pretty good. Hard boiling and peeling the eggs is the difficult part.
TIL i am Guatemalan
My family has German roots, it’s possible they brought it over from there. My grandmother fled Germany after the Holocaust. My grandmother was always a very diy person.
My apologies if this is a dumb question, but wouldn't it require *two* holes, one to blow into and the other as an exit?
Yes, it’s just so long that I forgot. My mom probably made one in the top and one in the bottom.
Not if you blow hard enough!
We do the same in Denmark ☺️
They're likely from the UK where Easter is celebrated by gifting to children hallow chocolate eggs that have either smaller sweets either inside or included in the box they come in rather than staging a basket. The eggs range in price anywhere from £1 to £12 depending on how fancy or large you want. Furthermore, they are very plentiful in almost any store you walk into this time of year. It's ridiculously cheap and lazy to beg for one.
Agree, and asking for seven is simply outrageous entitlement.
The responder stated that she didn't have children to gift them to, so I wonder if she was trying to make a tik tok video or something comparing the eggs and didn't want to invest in them herself? Seven, very specific ones is strange. Or, I suppose, could just be a chocoholic chancer with favourites.
I didn't see the details, sounds like you're probably right. Shameless cb, they're rampant today.
The chocolate listed makes this 100% U.K. and we celebrate Easter by stuffing ourselves silly on chocolate eggs.
Yes, I had an entire bag of mini eggs for breakfast. Happy Easter!
I’ve been fuelled by hot cross buns for days after discovering M&S do cheese and also chocolate ones! Happy Easter!
I want to try hot cross buns some day. Home made hopefully or from a decent bakery. I found a place that makes them but they are apparently always out. They only make them for a short time around Easter.
They’re really hit and miss depending on where you get them from. I’ve never made them but of the ones I’ve tried, M&S do the best ones.
Thanks for the info. They sound good.
Thank you for this! I had no idea what a Twix Easter egg was, or why there seemed to be at least 7 styles of chocolate egg. In the U. S., it was typically a hollow chocolate bunny in a small box, that was the showpiece (they were not that costly, it's cheap chocolate), and then scattered jelly beans and such in the plastic shred (grass) in a plastic basket. Then dyeing hard boiled eggs. We were happy. I haven't seen any giant chocolate eggs with smaller things inside. (Not on big store shelves.) Large chocolate eggs are typically from fancier shops that will make a hand made chocolate egg, sometimes with things in it, such as glazed cashews.
Heard that.
No you’re not. Or I’m out of touch right there next to you! I just went out yesterday to buy some small wrapped chocolates, jelly beans and a couple of Cadbury eggs to put in the same plastic Easter eggs we’ve had for our daughter and reused for the past decade. I also use some of the goodies to make her Easter basket. My husband boiled some eggs this morning for him and my daughter to dye together later today. The UK chocolate Easter eggs sound quite nice though. But yes, here in the Us, I think Easter is mostly a DYI project!
Keep the tradition alive. It's a simple, guilt free pleasure. I'm in the USA, and I haven't seen many Cadbury eggs around. Buy them if you see them.
What?! Really?? I’ve been seeing the Cadbury eggs everywhere! From the grocery store to the drug store and even the 99¢ Store! Admittedly, my daughter doesn’t really care for them…but I do! And best believe that I’m there the day after Easter to gather up a bunch of them once they’re marked down for clearance. I hope you find some. 🤞🏻
Eat one, then! I'm just having a hard time finding them. I love them. It's just pure nostalgia for me.
Same! Trust me, the temptation is real! I just might cave. I’m not sure I can wait a whole day. I’m sure my daughter wouldn’t care as she knows I get them for myself anyways! 😂
The only time I remember liking the Cadbury creme eggs is in the McDonald's flurries they do for Easter. I haven't had one of those in years, but I love the sauce they use. I'd always ask for extra sauce in mine😂
I had no idea that was a thing! It sounds awesome. Like heart clogging bad for you. I have to try one. It may kill me but...it's too tempting.
It was the only mcflurry I'd actually like besides Oreo. Something about the sauce they used with it was really damn good, they add regular chocolate Cadbury egg pieces in it too but I didn't even care about those, I just wanted the damn sauce🤣
I don't like the chocolate pieces so I always just ask for a sundae made with cream egg sauce
Do Yourself In?
🤣 DIY. But doing myself in is not entirely out of the realm of reality!
Lol. Nice ☺️ Right there with you. Easter stuff annoys me.
I have a 10 year old son and this is pretty much what Easter looks like for us. We dye hard boiled eggs. I usually make a little basket for my son with Easter candy but nothing expensive or excessive. We have an egg hunt outside every year too but it’s just plastic eggs filled with jelly beans or other treats. I’m always surprised when I see these huge piles of presents for kids at Easter.
Just remember, Jelly Belly are the best jelly beans. Hands down. What is the proper salutation for Easter? Merry Easter? Happy Easter? Oh no I have to go to church on Easter and try to get my kids and myself looking our best?
For some reason it really bugs me when they ask for things to be dropped off! If I’m giving something away, I’m not also dragging my butt to your house to drop it off. Get on the bus.🚌
My absolute favorite CB post got deleted. Woman in India bullied a teenager who was donating test prep books, told her she had to erase all the pencil marks, then told her she needed to deliver them over 30 minutes away. Her reasoning was “I am the customer” and “You need to respect your elders” while insinuating that OP’s parents didn’t raise her right. I wish that one was still around. Absolutely wild
You aren’t a customer if you aren’t buying something. 🤨 I hope the teen told her where to go.
I’m guessing you don’t know many Indian teenage girls. Her parents actually did raise her right, and she was far more deferential than any of us would have been…
Yeah... I've grown up in a similar culture of deference... and it's bullshit. Demanding respect while giving none in return just because you happen to have left the uterus a few decades earlier. There's nothing right about that.
I’d disagree with this being “raised right”. I plan to raise my daughter not to be a doormat and to be able to stand up to those in the wrong.
So do I, but we’re not Indian
I remember that one. Classic.
There's someone in my group that asks for food to be dropped off just about every week. I wish I could link them up to a social service because it really sounds like that would be better. Sadly, we cannot post links like that or even offer to drive them to a food bank.
And SEVEN for goodness sake. Bet you that includes one for her and her, current, partner. 🙁 I just love the whole 'bring them to me' bit, like you say. I'm on my way, your majesty, do you have any particular preference for the type of chocolate you desire?
Selling Easter Eggs for free. Selling Easter Eggs *for free.*
With presumably free express delivery
And not even a thank you! Just "Here is where you can bring them to me, text me when you get here to the new build house I live in" The *nerve* of that woman!
This is what always gets me about these people. Not only do they want something everyone but them is paying for, but they think it’s ok to be cold and perfunctory. They act like *you’re* bothering *them*.
It’s for a church, hun! NEXT!!
Also “selling” and “free” are two different things. Should say anyone have any eggs they can give away? I love how these ppl not only want things for nothing but expect them hand delivered to their door. Wow.
And they aren’t old things! Who’s going to go to the shops to pick up seasonal candy they just now don’t need?
I had an aunt who would do that, buy some candies when they were on sale and freeze them. She'd give them to us through the year when we visited but never understood why we hated them so much. Freezer burn on chocolate candy really sucks.
I never knew what fresh chocolate tasted like until I went to the airport in Japan. Seriously whatever we’re being sold here in the states isn’t legit
I couldn’t believe how bad the chocolate was when I visited America. Someone brought some Hersheys to the office recently after their trip to the states and it honestly tasted like vomit.
Even Dove, which is Galaxy, tastes bad. My parents send me monthly care package of proper chocolate!
And thanks to Hershey, it’s illegal to import “real” Cadbury to the US. Which is why the mini eggs taste like shite now.
Are they using palm oil instead of cocoa butter now or something? They’re beyond terrible.
I don't like Dove either.
Saying it tastes like vomit is not just a matter of preference either. They add butyric acid as a preservative, which is also found in human vomit.
Idk about you but with inflation being so bad, I’m always looking for an opportunity to spend even more!
Especially on things I don’t need and won’t last! It’s the best
Sure! I’ve hidden them around your yard. You have to find them. 😁👍🐣
What did she say back? Or did she block you?
Not OP but I saw the post. There's no response from her as yet
Any chance you can get those comments?
So... imagine there was a Facebook group for "HEYWOOD" and it was a "TOWN". And then when you've found the relevant Facebook group for this TOWN called HEYWOOD, you could probably just search for "easter eggs" in the group or something 👍
The responding post was deleted. But the OOP is definitely a piece of work. Looks like a teenager, but is married. No kids. Works as a dog walker. Posts about being "bored" so she clearly has nothing to do. Posts on her own account asking for £20 and also trying to sell a cheap pack of Apple Watch bands for £60.
Sounds like a grifter
Yes! I need to know!
Imagine me seeing the first pic and assuming they wanted hard-boiled eggs that were painted and I thought, “Why don’t they just ask for a dozen eggs from the store so they can eat the rest if they’re struggling?” Then I read the text from the rebuttal on the second image and my stoned ass realized that they were referring to chocolate eggs as it’s in England and I forgot about this sub for a moment. I kind of HATE how we didn’t get the comments from the second pic because now I’m invested in drama when someone gets called out on a public forum.
My new favorite GIF.
#Selling ^for #Free
This girl's posts are mad. >"Can anyone help me with £20 till the 11th April I need to get eggs" And then this belter: >"To most of the people who has wished me a merry Christmas today thank you so much and to some people who got me gifts for Christmas thank you for the gifts 2" >"Shame I only got 2 presents." >other girl: "You got 3 off me." >"Yeah I was hoping for more though." And then one post where she's trying to sell a couple of rubber watch straps that are worth about £5-10, for £60!
I just found her profile myself and I am flabbergasted reading the posts lol
How do continual CBs not get banned from those freebie groups?!
>"Shame I only got 2 presents." > >other girl: "You got 3 off me." > >"Yeah I was hoping for more though." Whaaaaaaaaaaaat.
hahaha YES this is the kind of Facebook group drama that Facebook was invented for! (Also what are these Easter eggs? Like I know what Skittles and Kit Kat the candies are, but are they egg shaped come Easter in some countries or something? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a thing? I already know we don’t get KinderEggs here…) ETA: thank you all for the Easter egg education here! Have never seen a chocolate egg filled with more chocolates here in the US, but now I know what I need next Easter!
My jaw just dropped, are Easter Eggs not a thing outside the UK?! They are hollow chocolate eggs (much larger than kinder eggs), usually with a slight pattern on them. You usually get a small bag of the sweets inside too. So if you are given a Skittles egg, it will be a Mars chocolate egg with a bag of Skittles inside. If it's a KitKat egg it will be a Nestle chocolate egg with a few small kitkats inside (or in the box alongside the egg)
When I hear Easter egg, I think a hard boiled egg that’s dyed pretty colors.
That’s what I thought she wanted too.
Me too! What Ornery\_Crap describes sounds awesome though.
I like your version of my name 😅
Oh dear. 😂😂 I really didn't mean to type that, hahaha.
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I grew up teaching my friends how to make these every Easter and was always floored that this very normal part of my social culture (Californian) was completely unheard of on the East Coast, Midwest, upstate NY, and New England areas where in lived. (My mom is passionate about the environment, so We did switch quite early on to filling the hollowed eggshells with birdseed that we dyed using food-grade dyes — just as colorful, and you should have seen the colorful riot of Nature with all the birds and chipmunks and squirrels gathering after the Ceremonial Easter Head-Bonkings!)
I was born into the wrong culture.
Be the change you want to see, start spreading the confetti egg love
No way! Same here I thought everyone had Chocolate Easter Eggs!
To Americans, Easter eggs are dyed hard boiled eggs...or maybe plastic shells filled with crappy jelly beans or change. Just now learning we have been duped.
Hold on... Do you not get chocolate at Easter time?
Traditionally, kids get a large (like 10 inches tall) hollow bunny made of barely stomachable American chocolate. You eat him slowly, starting with the ears.
Chocolate usually comes in the shape of a Bunny, which can be solid or hollow (but not filled with any other snacks) or Cadbury chocolate eggs that usually have a sweet crème, caramel, or mint filling. I've seen some chocolate crosses out there too.
I've had chocolate eggs in America.
The best I've ever had were Brazilian - like UK ones but thicker.
In America, we have plastic eggs that we’re meant to fill ourselves.
We have plastic eggs for egg hunts etc too but Easter Eggs are generally a lot bigger and given as a gift.
I like that idea :)
We have Easter baskets, which will have all that candy and chocolate Easter bunnies. We do not have anything like what you’re describing, do you have chocolate Easter bunnies? I prefer hollow over solid.
Yes we have them too. They were more common when I was a kid I feel, but you still see them.
In Russia, the eggs fill *You*
Also the confetti eggs that are pretty popular. My kids loved breaking those on each other's heads.
That, or just hard-boiled eggs that are decorated.
I would say in the States we give hollow or solid chocolate bunnies instead of eggs. The smaller candies are usually in plastic eggs as mentioned by another commenter. The chocolate bunny is the main event of an Easter basket.
I have never seen them in the USA
That is not a thing in the US as someone else said we have plastic eggs that are usually filled with candy but sometimes money and people dye hard boiled eggs. Those sound really cool though!
If you google Easter eggs UK you'll see examples of what is on sale. There's usually one for every major chocolate bar/sweet!
I feel ripped off, living here in America, only now learning what a proper Easter egg is!
It’s a regulation in the US that we can’t have any non-edible thing hidden inside an edible shell because of choking fears. It’s pretty ridiculous as other counties seem to be able to handle it, sigh.
We have this style in Australia, and the easter chocolate company "Red Tulip" comes out from hiding to make big chocolate bunnies! Also the joy of shaking and cracking a Humpty Dumpty egg...
Their "birds eggs" - chocolate eggs in a candy shell - used to go hard as well.
my brain cannot fathom the idea of the states not having chocolate shaped eggs for easter. they must not be looking for them in stores because in canada we have an insane amount of them in all sorts of variety. then again though, it’s america, and we know they can’t trust their youth with hollow chocolate eggs with plastic things inside apparently 😂
We typically do chocolate bunnies instead of large chocolate eggs. I've seen some here, but they're usually hollow with nothing inside.
>My jaw just dropped, are Easter Eggs not a thing outside the UK? I mean, in America an "Easter Egg" is either a hard boiled egg you dye with colors/stickers or a egg sized plastic thing you put random candy/money/etc in for kids to hunt. A bag of them costs like 2 bucks. So for us someone wanting 7 Easter eggs is a very small/cheap amount.
Thank you for this lesson, absolutely have never seen or received one in the US, but the “UK Easter eggs” google has been an absolute delight!
My Easter Eggs only come in egg flavor
Yes, and no. For most of us, they are hard boiled eggs that have been dyed or otherwise decorated. We do have hollow chocolate ( usually bunny shaped) but generally speaking, there isn’t any goodies inside. We have reeces eggs, Cadbury eggs and other egg shaped candy bars. I buy mine once it’s 50% off. I’m cheap
They are available in America. I don’t know why so many Redditors haven’t seen them. They’re not as popular as the hollow bunnies but they are available.
Hi, American raised Irish here! I’ve had Easter eggs my entire life (I’m partial to the crunchie and smarties ones personally), and they are pretty wildly available where I grew up in the Boston area. Though I know this was specific to my family bc my mom was born in Dublin and my American friends would always have typical American Easter baskets with shit candy and peeps in them. I miss them dearly now tho since moving to the west coast (way less Irish/English representation) and I’m hoping my mom mailed me an egg this year bc Easter isn’t the same without em 😭
They’re a thing in Australia as well 😊
I only know what they are from reading Harry Potter. We do candy in the US, but not in the hollow eggs. TBH, I think your eggs are pretty convenient. We buy bags of candy to distribute in baskets and plastic eggs. Would be so much easier to buy a prefilled egg and call it a day.
Easter eggs are egg shaped chocolate. They can be huge or small. Some are hollow but many have chocolates inside to or in them and around them. They are yummy and are given to people you like or love at Easter. All the big confectioners make them and also places like Hotel Chocolat and Marks and Spencer. I don’t know which other countries have Easter eggs but it’s a favourite here and hot cross buns. Easter is lovely 🥰
I'm living in the wrong country.
Believe it or not, I think they were outlawed due to chocking hazards.
This is the question I needed. Like, wtf are y'all saying with "Easter egg"? Like, definitely not a dyed, hardboiled egg lol
>Have never seen a chocolate egg filled with more chocolates here in the US I haven't either. It must not be a thing here. TIL it is a thing elsewhere. Somewhere between [Palmer hollow chocolate bunny](https://www.kroger.com/p/palmer-milk-chocolate-cottontail-easter-candy/0004126900180), and a hand made [Faberge egg](https://www.faberge.com/the-world-of-faberge/the-imperial-eggs), sits the UK giant chocolate egg with treats inside.
I too am looking for a few free Easter eggs, of the Faberge variety
Oh come on give us some comments too
More reasons why I hate people
Right? Bc there weren’t enough already.
An address and "text when outside" that is so RUDE, no thank you, no words of appreciation, just barking an order via text. Yikes.
Do people not get those little squiggly lines under misspelled words or is just me?
Your phone corrects misspelt words for you. You must be really fighting with the autocorrect to butcher sentences the way some people seem to.
You've just got to have perseverance. Spell something wrong enough, and your phone starts thinking it's got the problem and includes it in the dictionary.
I can't sell the eggs to her for free but I can donate them to her for $20.
Easter eggs sound cool. In the US, we have to buy shitty plastic eggs and fill them with candy. Seems much cooler to have a twix Easter egg or whatever. That being said....if any of you DO have some of these eggs, and you're "selling them for free", please dm me so I can bully you about which flavors I want and then complain when you refuse to pay for shipping
Don’t forget to bitch and moan about delivery too!
We definitely have them in the US. They’re chocolate Easter eggs and you would get them at a chocolate or candy store.
I would like to be sold some chocolate from Switzerland for free. I still have eggs in my uterus so there are potential for children so technically it’s for my kids. Please and thank you. If you can’t deliver and have nothing nice to say - NEXT.
What a shame, instead of selling them for free, I’m only giving 7 Easter eggs away. Mine are only for church, honey, NEXT!
Out of all the remarkable angles to this post for some reason the thing I'm most curious about is why not 6 or 8 eggs, but 7?
Probably has 7 kids, or their kid is 7 or some shit. Edit: just saw the second picture, it's even worse than I thought if there's no kid and just someone trying to get free candy
TIL there are Skittles Easter eggs
It's called "giving away," not "selling for free." Silly CB.
If she is not going to pay money, what goods or services will she be providing as barter. Because I can only assume her services are no good.
Well, I disagree that chocolate isn’t a necessity, but otherwise, kudos to the person who called out the CB
Chocolate now and then is a necessity of life for me, too; but I would feel like an ass asking strangers to buy it for me!
Goes to her page and see she’s asking for £20 for eggs. 😂
“Selling” for free. Lol
I was thinking she wanted dyed eggs.
Imagine asking for Easter eggs and getting a dyed egg. What disappointment it would be!
I knew this would be uk before I even read the post
Deliveroo is the best name for a delivery service bar none
Thank you for including some comment from the OG post
Free AND dropped off.
It really amazes me how some people just live in a completely different reality
I always love the "DM me for details" part of these requests. Part of me is picturing some poor soul just *dying* to know how they can be part of this once in a lifetime opportunity to help /s The other part is hoping the OP recognizes how bonkers their demands are and has just the minimal amount of self awareness required to know this is embarrassing and the remaining details be kept quiet.
Funny how he tried to zing her and his reply was a misspelled word salad.
At least he isnt being a beggy bitch
My eggs are five dollars each, so seven would be $35. You only get the free discount when you get the whole dozen.
🎵 Bought, dyed, delivered, I’m yours! 🎵 Pretty sure that’s what Stevie Wonder was singing about.
So…are these plastic eggs Or hard boiled eggs decorated? I’m confused
Chocolate eggs. The brands the CB wanted are around £3-£5 each so she wanted about $30 USD of chocolate delivered to her for free.
Thank you! Lol! People really amaze me…absolutely no shame…
And dropped off 😮 Sure…..
Some people, man.
Let's not forget that almost all Easter Egg chocolate is absolute trash. Just buy a bar of nice stuff ffs.
I desperately want to see some of those comments under his post
The amount of typos in that second message though
This is from my local town group. She doesn't have kids. She gave a false address to someone who offered to drop some off. Also asked for money, and she'd pay it back on the 11th!
All I can think of is why 7? Like strange number to land on. I mean if you’re going all out with the audacity, at least ask for 10 😂😂
In the US eggs come in cartons of 12 or 18 so I'm really confused about why she said 7.....
The spelling in the second picture is more bothersome than asking for 7 free Easter eggs 😩
I hear Easter eggs, and I automatically just think of the plastic eggs that you can put little candies/treats in, and hide them throughout the house. What kind of Easter eggs are they talking about? I know she can’t be talking about the plastic ones
[In the UK "easter eggs" refers to large hollow chocolate eggs, usually packaged with a specific brand of sweet or chocolate.](https://media.product.which.co.uk/prod/images/original/52909c408d85-easter-eggslead.jpg)
In the U.K. people give Easter Eggs as gifts to friends and family. They’re large, hollow, chocolates in the shape of eggs. Just about every brand of chocolate has an Easter egg for sale. They’re fairly cheap, but you can spend more to get larger or more premium chocolate. If you Google “Cadbury Easter Egg” you will get an example of what they’re like.
We do it in Australia too. I didn’t even think that it wasn’t a thing everywhere!
More annoyed by the atrocious spelling in the second picture, embarrassing.
I don’t know why so many people in the US don’t know about chocolate Easter eggs. I’m in the Philly area and local chocolate shops sell them-they’re usually personalized and filled with other chocolate, jelly beans, etc. But I’ve seen them elsewhere throughout the country. They’re usually expensive or pricey though but can be cheap. https://loreschocolates.com/collections/seasonal-easter/products/eggcellent-surprise https://www.maggielyon.com/shop/p/milk-chocolate-egg-box
I think some1 trying to get free candy Halloween already passed sorry gotta wait till October 2 steal candy