Apparently, Fortnam & Mason, the upmarket food store, sold out of Easter eggs this year as European tourists flocked in. It’s suggested that the weak pound enticed our Euro neighbours to buy loads of eggs - Fortnam & Mason sold 15,000 eggs, the most in its 300 year history.
The store said it saw a huge [...]
The jolly decent chaps at Hotel Chocolat sent us a curiously named Easter Egg Sandwich (available here) to try. So of course they just about managed to twist our arm (cough)!
As you can see it’s a rather distinctive Easter egg. It’s actually two solid slabs of premium chocolate with a hollow half egg on each slab. [...]
My wife visited our local Tesco Extra store this morning here on The Wirral and spotted that they were stocking their shelves with Easter eggs!
The Telegraph reports that Woolworths are another high street retailer and widely recognised Easter egg seller who are already selling eggs in-store. Their spokesman says:
We always sell Easter eggs as soon [...]