With Easter still a while away, many shoppers are already raising eyebrows at the sight of Easter eggs lining supermarket aisles. However, for a self-confessed chocoholic like myself, it's an early treat that offers a chance to peruse the seasonal offerings (and perhaps indulge in a sample or two) well before the festivities kick off. But during a casual stroll through Sainsbury's yesterday, I was left utterly floored by the price tag on a couple of Cadbury eggs.
While I'm accustomed to shelling out a few quid for my chocolate fix, maybe even a tad more for something special, the Cadbury Dairy Milk and White Marble Ultimate Easter Egg and the Mini Eggs Inclusions Ultimate Easter Egg carrying a hefty £15.50 price tag had me doing a double-take. Yes, you've read correctly – fifteen pounds and fifty pence.
It felt like a scene straight out of a slapstick cartoon as I confirmed the shocking figure. And what exactly does one get for this princely sum? Cadbury describes the Milk and White Marble Ultimate Easter Egg as a "creamy marbled Cadbury dairy milk and Cadbury white chocolate Easter egg with individually wrapped chunks". Inside the 380g package, you'll find one hollow egg alongside a few bars of white and milk chocolate – hardly groundbreaking stuff, if you ask me.
The Mini Eggs Inclusions Ultimate Easter Egg also features one hollow milk chocolate egg adorned with sugar-coated milk chocolate candies (10%) and a single bag of solid milk chocolate eggs encased in a crisp .
