If Swift and TH White were to watch the news these days I think they‘d be dismayed. The hopes they must have held for their work to change mens‘ lives.....
Opening a softboiled at the small end saves breaking the yolk - much neater.
As a child we coloured eggs by dying them, painting a pattern on with wax, dying in a different colour then removing the wax. Chocolate wasn‘t such a huge part of the holiday, but only at Easter my mother would bake ‘paska‘, an eastern European specialty bread. It was loaded with eggs and very rich and she baked it in tin cans to make cylindrical loaves. I looked forward to that bread as much as anything.

That's posh!

I am hoping for a Bernard Callebaut chocolate egg to appear. Note hope - doubt it unless it is me going to the shop.

Helen

Get you And I thought we was posh when my nan used to get me a Postman Pat one with Maltesers in it.

Ugh. How chavy.

I buy my kids the Lindt bunnies, mini eggs and normally go to the Brit shop to get a big decent egg. Although bloody expensive doing that, I just can not bring myself to buy the cheap crappy North American chocolate, it is sacrilegious!

I suppose you don't realize things are chavy when you're a kid. On reflection it was quite an insensitive gift as my mum had buggered off with a man called Frank from the GPO, although apparently he was in telephone division rather than the postal service.

So he was checking her wiring rather than giving her 1st class delivery

It'd be funny if it wasn't sad. He came round to put in one them slim line phones in but kept coming back to check it was working. I came home from school one afternoon to find my dad and my nan in the kitchen smoking with quite worried looks on their faces and I never saw my mum again. Still, I like British Easter eggs so I might pop down to Steveston later in the week and go to the British shop there and get one.

Just got all mine from walmart. cadbury Buttons, Samrties, Aero. No probs.

But did you check the packaging to see where they were made.
Have they been made in Canada under licence or are they actually from the UK.
Enquiring minds need to know before I venture into the hell known as WalMart.

You don't make many of them but that's a good point.

I go to Pete's and purchase British ones. Job done

My cursory examination a couple of weeks ago was that all the chocolate was of the the North American variety. Mind you I didn't linger as too many minutes spent in Walmart makes me feel dirty.