Have You Encountered Any Problems Buying 'easter' Eggs?

[sp1814]

Or is this story a load of cobblers designed to appeal to certain groups?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/655494/Bob-Blackman-Easter-eggs-David-Marshall

This is how the Daily Star first c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶a̶b̶r̶i̶c̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ reported the story last week:

http://www.themediablog.co.uk/.a/6a011570c131b2970c01b8d1b2e1c5970c-pi

And isn't it great that the story came from Christian campaigner David Marshall.

...a man who is promoting his own Easter eggs!

[EDDIE51]

This story is a completely fabrication it is not a story at all. A small minority of Chocolate eggs carry the word 'Easter' on the packaging but most do not and never have . The reason most are not labeled as 'Easter' is purely commercial, to sell more of them by extending the sales season as well as making sure they are not seen as a religious product as for example a Easter Greeting card or Palm cross is. Yet another bit of anti-immigrant/ Muslim rant by a 'scandal sheet' newspaper!

[mushroom25]

//...to sell more of them by extending the sales season...//

if that's true Eddie, why was it that when I visited the local Morrison's last night, the staff were busy removing every trace of stock and marketing related to products most of the population might associate with "Easter"?

[jno]

How do you do that "deleted text" thing, sp1814? Very neat.

And as there's nothing remotely biblical or even religious about chocolate eggs (unless there's something in Corinthians I've missed), people can call them what they like and sell them when they like. The shops will be selling Halloween stuff tomorrow anyway.

[jno]

Mushroom, the season is extended backwards, so the eggs go on sale when Christmas is over.

[anotheoldgit]

/// The reason most are not labeled as 'Easter' is purely commercial, to sell more of them by extending the sales season ///

Doesn't stop hot cross buns being sold long before and after Easter.

[youngmafbog]

The underlying problem is that the PC brigade have tried to change everything in case we offend those that wish us to not be on the planet.

This leads to stories like this one, which does appear a little dubious.

//anti-immigrant/ Muslim rant//
No, it is an anti PC rant, why try to twist it to suit your ideals. By doing so you are as bad as the original article.

[EDDIE51]

My local Morrisons didn't need to remove 'Easter stock' it looked like a swarm of locusts had moved in and stripped the shelves ,and yes the shelves that the stock was/ had been on was Labeled 'Easter Eggs' even if 90% of the eggs themselves did not have the word 'Easter' on them.

[jno]

Lol, so it's all the fault of the PC brigade that the Daily Star prints lies!

[youngmafbog]

Well to a degree, yes it is.

If the PC brigade were not so over the top with continually trying to force their ideals onto the Majority the Daily Express would not have anything to be enraged over would the?

[sp1814]

jno

Here you go. All you do is type in the text, it generates 'strike through', which you then copy to use wherever:

http://saijogeorge.com/strikethrough-text-generator/

[Gromit]

I find more interesting the process of how and why this was a front page story in the Daily Star, because it is so easy to debunk.

Easter eggs banned - not true
Because of muslims - not true
Muslims are taking away our British/christian traditions - not true.

The story is so clearly utter rubbish it is embarrassing a national newspaper has printed it. The Daily Star must think that anti muslim stories whether true or falsewill win it readers. They are after competing in the tabloid market with the best selling Daily Mail, who also printed this ridiculous story.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

If the PC Brigade were so consistent, why bother making up stories.

Seriously - this story came from a man who sells chocolate Easter Eggs.

That's where it originated from.

The story is a) false and b) propaganda for a commercial enterprise.

We get the newspapers we deserve.

But back to my question.

Hands up who has noticed this trend? Has anyone actually had trouble buying chocolate Easter Eggs?

Also...aren't chocolate eggs (as an Easter tradition) a fairly new thing anyway?

[youngmafbog]

//Muslims are taking away our British/christian traditions - not true. //

Err, yes they are aided and abetted by right-on hand wringing lefty liberals.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

I have to agree with uno...right wing newspapers shouldn't simply print lies to appeal to mouth-frothing righty neocons*)





(*The opposite of hand wringing lefty liberals).

[mushroom25]

//They are after competing in the tabloid market with the best selling Daily Mail, who also printed this ridiculous story. //

the story was also picked up by the telegraph which, last time i looked, wasn't given to popularist rants in attempts to get one over on the mail...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12200926/Easter-quietly-dropped-from-Easter-eggs.html

it was also reported in the USA - http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/25/easter-eggs-united-kingdom/82251482/

interestingly, there's a massive inexactitude in this report, USA Today says cadbury's are "based in Birmingham", when everybody knows they're now HQ-ed in Derry Township, Pennsylvania.

[jackthehat]

Just which British/Christian traditions are the Muslims taking away from us?

[mikey4444]

Eddie has it 100% correct here

"Yet another bit of anti-immigrant/ Muslim rant by a 'scandal sheet' newspaper!"

Normal drivel.

[Gromit]

youngmafbog

Muslims have not taken away Easter. Or Christmas.

If any of you were true christians, and worried about the Christian message being lost, you would rail against the crass commercialism and cynical stealing of christian iconography to make money.

[mushroom25]

//Just which British...... traditions are the Muslims taking away from us? //

how about "equality before the law", Jack?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sharia-in-the-uk-the-courts-in-the-shadow-of-british-law-offering-rough-justice-for-muslim-women-a6761221.html

[jackthehat]

Ah, yes.....Sharia Law Courts.

I'm not sure quite what they have taken away from 'us' seeing as they are wholly designed to serve 'them'.
And they do not take precedence over 'traditional' British Law in areas which have any significance.

Is this another thread which will shift away from the topic of Easter v. non-Easter eggs and onto Muslim-bashing?