Does anyone else gorge on these damn things during Easter? If they weren’t a limited-edition candy, I’d be attached to an insulin pump already. This is an open thread.
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Comrade Dread
Cadbury Creme Eggs are the bane of my Easter.
My pancreas spits its last breath at thee, Easter Bunny.
Chrisd
For me it’s the giant malted milk eggs with the amazing inch-thick pastel candy shells you can paint your lips with.
I lurve them.
Nicole
Peeps. Especially chocolate Peeps.
Between Hershey and Peeps, Pennsylvania should just retitle itself the Rot Your Teeth State.
Boudica
I like the Cadbury eggs…not the big ones with the gooey yellow center, the little ones that are candy coated chocolate and you can pop ’em like quaaludes by the handful.
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Carol
Supersized M&M’s. But I always like to wait until the day after when they’re 50% off. Nothing like cheaper good Candy.
Just as bad, just not so bad on your’e wallet.
Alas, I must now eat sugar-free candy:(
superking
I’m already attached to an insulin pump–which incidentally, is the general treatment for Type 1 diabetes, not Type 2–but I really love the Cadbury’s version of this. I get a small bag every Easter.
If you haven’t had ’em, I bet they’re better than the Hersheys. They’re call Cadbury’s Mini Eggs.
August J. Pollak
Oh sweet Jesus. I’m not alone.
Those are literally my single favorite candy ever and the entire Easter season is horrifying for my diet and bowels because all I do is buy those and eat the entire bag in a single day.
MattF
A few years ago I made the appalling discovery that chocolate was responsible for my occasional attacks of reflux. The solution to this problem was smaller amounts of better stuff. Much better stuff. Hint: you can get bars of Valrhona at Trader Joe’s, and it’s not really all that expensive, if you eat a small amount per day.
Attaturk
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The last thing I need is an inducement to eat seasonal candy.
But the coated malted-milk eggs and the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for Easter (which somehow taste better than the regular ones, more peanut butter paste perhaps?).
For some reason the Cadbury Eggs are just too sweet for me.
Svensker
@Chrisd:
This. You can also eat them different ways — bite them and crunch ’em. Or pop a whole one in your mouth and let the shell dissolve until you get to the cratery stuff inside. That stuff also causes your tongue to get abraded and sore after eating about 1/3 of the bag, but that doesn’t stop you!
Mark
It’s true, the Cadbury Mini Eggs are the best.
mistermix a.k.a. mastermix
@superking: I take your point but “taking Glyburide every day” didn’t sound as good. That said, I’m glad you’re able to enjoy some Easter candy.
@August J. Pollak: My 2nd bag is almost finished, and that was from a Tuesday grocery run when I found them just starting to stock the Easter candy and bought the first two bags out of the box.
debbie
For me, it’s the Russell Stover Truffle Eggs and Brach’s jelly beans. They get me every year.
I also remember going to a tiny candy store on East 86th Street near Second Avenue in NYC and buying a bag (or two plus, as the selling season started earlier and earlier) of the dark chocolate eggs.
Bruuuuce
Until I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes, I believed that there were only two signs of spring: pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, and Cadbury Creme Eggs. Now I’m down to one, and waiting for the temperature to catch up to the season.
lawnorder
My bane is eggnog. Good thing it is only available during xmas.
Noggy!
Comrade Nikolita
I live in Canada (BC), and in this province anyways, Cadbury mini-eggs are available year round. I love them too, so I’m screwed. I think the creme eggs are still only available around Easter though.
Rosalita
I love the pastel colored m&m’s. I’ve been hoovering those all week here in the office. Also too the Brach’s jelly beans in classic flavors.
brettvk
I work in a warehouse-style retailer (the evil one) that carries Cadbury Mini Eggs in 3 lb bags for about $10. I’ve resisted so far, but I can hear the damn things calling me in very high, sweet voices all the way across the building.
Comrade Mary
I picked up a Coffee Crisp egg yesterday, which is like a Cadbury Creme Egg, only crisp. And coffee-ey-ish. I don’t drink coffee — love the aroma, hate the taste — but I’ve had a serious jones for this chocolate bar since I was a kid.
(We don’t call them candy bars up here. They’re chocolate bars, damn it!)
R-Jud
I live about two miles from the Cadbury factory at Bournville, but I have to say I’m not that fussed about the Creme Eggs.
There is one American candy I miss: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Especially the teeny ones. I would keep a bag in the fridge and dip in a few times a day.
birthmarker
@Mark: I believe Cadbury’s makes a mini malt ball candy coated egg. That’s the one I look for. Ah, the end of the candy season–it runs from Halloween to Easter…
Frank
Easter candy vs. Halloween candy. The eternal debate.
Josie
I’ve never cared for any candy except the little Hershey’s dark chocolate bars. Imagine my delight when the health mavens declared dark chocolate good for you and all the various types exploded on the market. Then, wonder of wonders, I discovered chocolate covered coffee beans and have never looked back.
debit
I don’t like those, but I am very tempted to pull the trigger on this woot: Rain Republic Guatemalan Chocolate 10 Pack + 1 Chile Cobanero Bar .
electricgrendel
No, not that in particular. However, the Cadbury Easter eggs (not the ones with all of that white and yellow goop in the middle; the ones that are just a bit of chocolate with a candy shell) are like crack. If I was on death row, they would be part of my last meal.
Paul in KY
@lawnorder: I’m a ‘nogger’ too. Nutmeg, lots of nutmeg. Damn, I’m beginning to get the shakes!
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@Comrade Dread: Ooooohhh Yeah! Class action suit?
Southern Beale
We don’t. We used to get Hershey’s kisses. Sometimes we’ll get Reese’s peanut butter eggs.
lahke
Yes to all of the above. In addition, I’m still working on my hoarded cinnamon hearts from Valentine’s Day, because that is the only damned time in the year that I can find cinnamon candy. Thirty linear feet of chocolate in the grocery store and never any cinnamon!
Jamey: Bike Commuter of the Gods
I prefer the Hershey’s mini eggs to the Cadbury ones.
Eating a lot of sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Obesity, which may result from eating a lot of sugar, however, can.
Nicole: Re: PA, it’s not just Hershey and Just Born (parent co. of Peeps) . It’s Wise Potato Chips, Snyder’s pretzels, Herr’s, Bachmann (maker of Jax, the original cheez curl,) Luden’s, the former mfgr of Clark Bars, and scores of other candy and snack makers who’ve gotten their start in the Keystone State. And this doesn’t even take into account cheesesteaks, Primanti’s sandwiches, et alia.
Not sure why PA is to junk food what KSA is to crude oil, but at times during my childhood, I was glad for it.
slag
Supposedly, if you want to avoid Type II diabetes, your best bet is exercise exercise exercise. Three times a week. The sugar thing is apparently a problem after you have the disease–not necessarily before.
As for Easter candy…it always looks and smells better than it tastes, in my experience.
ThresherK
@Chrisd: Oooh, yeah. And for all one can try, I haven’t figured out how to make them at home.
PS Any other survivors of a Palmer Chocolate childhood here?
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@Attaturk: Appropriately for a resident of Jean Schmidt’s district, I agree completely with your candy preferences.
The Reese’s eggs have much thinner chocolate than the cups, and more PB paste. Thankfully, the now make hearts and Xmas trees in that same formulation. Also too, I hate malted milk balls but adore the lip painting robins eggs, which have pastel candy and very thin chocolate. Cadbury is much too sweet.
ThresherK
@R-Jud: I happen to be reading the Chocolates War book by Deborah Cadbury right now. It’s probably not recommended reading for any point between Halloween and Easter!
Dennis G.
Well, if it helps you to keep away from them you might consider the Hershey Company’s problem with using child and slave labor to harvest the cocoa they use.
Most other chocolate companies have figured out how to avoid this, but not Hershey.
Cheers
Gin & Tonic
@Comrade Mary: Coffee Crisps, no matter in what form, are what makes Canada tolerable.
Steeplejack
I am a year-round fan of the little Dove dark chocolate “promises.” Bite-sized and go well with anything. I think I’ll have one now!
lawnorder
Also love “uncrustables” which I buy for my kids for their school snack.
Will I go to hell for stealing them from my kids stash ?
Liz
cadbury mini eggs>>>>
JenJen
@Boudica:
Totally. The Cadbury mini-eggs are orgasmic.
Shadow's Mom
Mmmm, Cadbury mini-eggs. One of the few things for which I try to get to the local stores the day after a holiday to stock up….
dianne
I still feel guilty for taking all the red jelly beans out of my kid’s Easter basket. They never knew what a red jelly bean tasted like till they got in school. Brach used to make a cherry cream egg that I loved. Haven’t seen it for years and have to make do with the dark chocolate covered cherries at Christmas and Valentines. The cheaper the box the better they taste.
ruemara
I’m all about the chocolates. truffles, liquor filled, fruit filled, gimme chocolate. I got a nice box of it-because my mate made a good attempt at being the romantic partner-which I can’t eat because I’m on a strict diet. Since he’s the one eating it, I may have been rickrolled. but I can sniff the chocolate.
cckids
OK, my fav is the See’s chocolate Bordeaux egg. Sounds like it has wine in it, but it is a rich, chocolaty nougat/truffle/?? filling that is to die for. Thank FSM they are too pricey to have very many. Also kinda large, but refrigerate & have a bit at a time. . . heaven.
Tehanu
@cckids: I love the Bordeaux chocs too, both dark and light, but the butterscotch squares at See’s are even better. I was diagnosed with Type II about 3 years ago so I have to watch my sugar intake, but I don’t think I’ll ever give them up entirely, and I’ve noticed I can keep my glucose numbers under control if I’m careful — unlike with my other favorite thing, ice cream, which makes my morning blood test spike like crazy no matter how small an amount I eat. Oh well, at least I can still have chocolate!
debbie
@ dianne:
My brothers and I used to sneak downstairs separately in the middle of the night and swap out each other’s jelly beans. I still remember the year my basket ended up with all the black jelly beans. Horrible!