My best friend, Tracey called me up on Friday and mentioned her trip to Ohio chocolatier Anthony-Thomas to buy her family’s traditional Easter candy. They don’t celebrate the resurrection of Jesus but sure appreciate the Melt-A-Way Mints God created on the 3rd day.
That got us talking about Easter candy and how we should import Cadbury Creme Eggs from overseas since they got smaller over here a few years ago, and I brought up an even larger egg I remember from my childhood. It was like the Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg
Tracey said, “Oh, you mean the one from Anthony-Thomas with your name written on it in icing?”
!!!
It turns out that the year my mom was dying, my dad asked Tracey’s mom to buy the usual giant peanut butter egg for my sister and me to take one thing off his plate; apparently she actually brings it up from time to time on Easter as one of the Ett family traditions. Here I’ve been digging around my brain for the past 10 years, trying to remember where that thing could’ve come from, and my best friend could’ve told me at any time.
And get this–when I Amazoned for the Anthony-Thomas egg, I instead found this other giant peanut butter egg
There’s no such thing as coincidence.
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The London Candy Company on Lex at … 90-something … has the imported creme eggs. I think they cost like $2.50/each, but, you know. REAL. And they have everything else an Anglophile (at least in terms of chocolate) could want. I’m kind of shocked that you don’t know this. We should probably go and get a $40 box of Kimberley bisquits, because I too like having my name on everything. That was what I was supposed to take away from this post, right?
I would totally pay $2.50 just to be suckered by this candy store rather than Cadbury! I love this place already. The website says “candy for supper”, and my blog is donuts for dinner. Well, 4 dinner. Near-perfect match.
FIELD TRIP!
1. You and Tracey are meant to be.
2. You and chocolate peanut butter eggs are meant to be.
3. This story illustrates not only the importance of having friends for a really long time, but also the importance of having friends who remember things. Very much related to MY blog post today. Ahem.
I loved that blog post.
Hi Katie, as a Brit, I share your love of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs (My easter egg this year was a Creme Egg one) Which leads me to my genius invention that you may like-
Make Creme Eggs big- (the size of an easter egg) and sell them with a pack of chocolate spoons- so you can still keep the ratio of choc to creme correct- whilst enjoying the MOTHER of all creme eggs. We have a creme egg bar here now that is available all year long, but it is widely agreed (among my friends at least) that the choc to creme ratio is wrong.
I HAVE TO FIND THIS BAR!!
I know that the point of your comment was “this bar is not actually made correctly”, but all I can see is “Cadbury Creme Egg bar yum yum, yum yum, yum”.
Your idea is ingenious, though. I’m picturing myself biting off the end of the spoon with every mouthful, so yes, “pack of chocolate spoons” is correct.
Apparently they also have Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurries at McDonald’s overseas too. Obviously I’m in the wrong country.
They do! I had one when I studied abroad one summer. But their McFlurries are like half the size of our McFlurries.
Yes to the Mc Flurries, and we have creme egg ice cream in the supermarket too. The bar is called ‘Cadbury’s Twisted’
If you can’t find them- I’ll send you some!
Mel
I can hear the seams on my wedding dress popping just looking at that giant lump of naughty, naughty deliciousness.
When I studied abroad in England in college, me and few of the other Americans went to a convenience store and bought every single kind of Cadbury product they offered… and tasted them ALL. They put some weird stuff in some of them though. Dried fruit anyone?
And the cream egg McFlurries were amazing.
You’re probably going to find a way to punch me in the throat through the Internet for saying this, but…
…this kind of made me cry. Maybe. Just a little.
Or maybe my contacts are just giving me hell today. I’ll never tell!!
Pretty sure I hatched out of something like that.
Just saying.
:)
One of these days, I’m going to dig out the pictures of the “Cadbury Creme Dave” your mom made for me for my 15th birthday, scan them, and send them to you to post somewhere.
Is it weird that both of our moms gave Easter candy to their daughters’ best friends? (I think your mom wins for creating a DIORAMA with a tiny man made of thawed-out Easter leftovers in January.)
I know you’ve reminded me of what that looked like, but will you remind me again? (It was 15 years ago!)