Will You Be Getting Any Gesture Eggs This Easter?

[naomi24]

A Cadbury store has been criticised by a Christian campaign group for advertising chocolate Easter eggs as "gesture" eggs.

//According to the Daily Telegraph, the shop in Springfields Outlet in Spalding, Lincolnshire, was offering a two for £10 deal on the "gesture" eggs.

Cadbury's owners said it had "no involvement" in the promotion. //

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-68673505#:~:text=A%20Cadbury%20store%20has%20been,on%20the%20%22gesture%22%20eggs.

 

Whoever came up with that gem needs to get back to basics.

[barry1010]

You said '2 posters who see nothing wrong with it'.

I didn't bother counting. 

 

[mushroom25]

Creme eggs are notorious for not scanning at the till. my daughter has been out of retail for 15 years but still remembers the manual code. doubtless anyone on here in retail has the same knowledge...... ☺

 

[Barsel]

Barry //Only the shop sign said 'gesture eggs'.//

For now. Let's see what next year brings.

[barry1010]

One shop, which has backed down and rectified the sign after condemnation in the media is not going to influence any company wanting to cash in on chocolate shaped eggs at Easter.

[Untitled]

"Yes I care as well. I'm sick to death of these stupid alterations that are constantly being made to things I've known all my life."

and why on earth do you feel entitled to have "things you have known all your life" go unchanged? you have no such entitlement. 
 

there is no valid reason for anyone to care about someone calling them "gesture eggs"... none whatsoever.

[douglas9401]

Do the gesture eggs contain a middle finger of fudge?

[Untitled]

let us imagine that all easter eggs were from next year referred to instead as "gesture eggs". what would be the problem? 

[ToraToraTora]

Yes it would be problem, they have always and will always be easter eggs. Why would anyone want to change that? It's like saying from next season Arsenal will be known as Geraldine.

[Canary42]

They certainly weren't always called Arsenal, so why not, just another change.

[douglas9401]

Eid will be f'd and Ramadan Eweatom then we'll see some action. 🙄

[barry1010]

Christians were celebrating Easter for thousands of years before chocolate eggs.  They are just a commercial hijack for profits

[douglas9401]

Shalalala push push.

[Mozz71]

Meh. Buy your eggs elsewhere and the shop will soon see the error of their ways when sales drop off. Can't see the point of getting flustered about it.

[naomi24]

Untitled, //there is no valid reason for anyone to care about someone calling them "gesture eggs"... none whatsoever.//

 

Yes there is.  It's about maintaining western culture and tradition - something you, personally, appear to have no interest in - in fact less than no interest because I get the distinct impression you would abandon it all without a second thought.  Would you say the same if say, elenents of Muslim tradition and culture were renamed because some people think it doesn't matter?  I doubt it very much.

[douglas9401]

Ahem.

[barry1010]

Chocolate eggs do not feature in Christianity.

[naomi24]

They do in our culture,  barry.

[douglas9401]

They'll be coming after the baby cheeses next.

[barry1010]

I've never seen one on the altar, in any Christian imagery nor any mention in a hymn.

Chocolate eggs were first made 140 years ago by a Quaker chocolate company.

Christians believe in the resurrection, and the egg symbolises that most important event in the Christian calendar.

Quakers deny the resurrection and just saw a way to make money.

 

[Mozz71]

I wonder why they didn't just call them "chocolate eggs" if they wanted to make them inclusive for non-Christians?