Chocolate makers ban the word ’Easter’ from eggs

[dutchman]

Chocolate firms have banned the word “Easter” from their eggs to avoid offending non-Christians, religious campaigners said last night.



Cadbury is now selling a Dairy Milk “Egg Hunt Pack” while Nestlé advertises Aero’s “chocolate egg with bubbly bars”.

Sainsbury’s has also joined the political correctness trend by selling its own brand “milk chocolate egg”.

The E-word is apparently so offensive that posh chocolatiers Green & Blacks once described the most important date on the Christian calendar merely as “the festival of chocolate and loveliness”.

This prompted “angry and frustrated” campaigner David Marshall to set up the Meaningful Chocolate Company, in which his Fairtrade charity “Real Easter Egg” puts the religious message on to the packaging.

He said: “It’s deeply disappointing and shameful that some of the biggest companies in the country are censoring the centuries’ old tradition.

“It shows they’re insensitive and uncomfortable with the Christian faith.”

His company found 79% of 2,000 adults quizzed would prefer the word to remain on the branding.

And Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam, the Bishop of Salisbury, said: “There seems to be a real resistance by the public to remove the word Easter from these gifts.

“Perhaps people understand that the festival is religious and do not want to see it turned into something secular.”

A Nestlé spokeswoman argued: “There has been no deliberate decision to drop the word Easter from our products.”

A Cadbury spokeswoman stressed: “We do not have a policy to drop Easter from our eggs.”

Sainsbury’s and Green & Black’s did not respond to requests for comment.

[rebbonk]

They are Easter Eggs.

PC gone mad.

[Melisandre]

Ahrr great we no longer need to buy them any more then

[dutchman]

Dutch eat 47 Easter eggs each on average

New research by the Hema shopping chain shows 86% of people have a massive appetite for chocolate Easter eggs and eat an average of 47 of them.

Fortunately, the eggs are as small as quail eggs, rather than the ostrich egg-sized monsters preferred by the British.

The Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reports on Wednesday that people in Overijssel have the largest appetites, consuming 59 Easter treats per person on average, followed by Groningen (55) and Friesland (54). Men are rather greedier than women, eating 53 eggs over the season, compared with 41. The majority of treats are eaten in the run-up to Easter weekend, and about a quarter during the actual Easter holiday.

Hema’s research also suggests that three in ten people take part in the traditional Easter egg hunt; 71% say they are fanatical about the quest and 42% sometimes cheat. (More men than women don’t play fair, apparently).

Meanwhile children prefer milk chocolate, students like white, and older people prefer the darker varieties. Two-thirds of people have also tried more exotic flavours such as milk chocolate with caramel and sea salt, extra dark and white chocolate with blackcurrants.

It isn’t known how many Dutch people cannily wait until the sales.

© DutchNews.nl

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