If you’re a lucky and/or worldly person, you’ve experienced the tiny ovoid wonder that is the Kinder Surprise candy. It’s a chocolate egg with a plastic egg inside, and the interior egg includes a moderately cool toy. As many Americans learn the hard way while traveling home from Canada every year, the Surprise is illegal in the United States. This Easter, though, chocolate eggs hit the market that are thoroughly American-proof and legal. Meet Choco Treasure. [More]
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No More Kinder Surprise Smuggling: New, Legal Chocolate Eggs With Toys Inside Available In The U.S.
By 3.14.13 — Updated: 3.15.13
Another Town Forced To Cancel Easter Egg Hunt Due To Pushy, Violent Parents
By 4.6.12
Come on, parents, pull yourselves together and act decent for your kids, because this is getting ridiculous: Yet another town, this one in Georgia, is canceling an Easter Egg hunt over concerns that parents will get violent during the festivities. [More]
How To Tell If An Egg Is Still Good Enough To Eat
By 4.6.12
Your Friday may not be so good if you eat a bad egg. If you’ve dug up some old eggs in the refrigerator and no longer have the expiration date handy, you’ll face the decision of whether to throw out your eggs or try your luck by cooking them. [More]
Kids' Fun Ruined When Easter Egg Hunt Is Canceled Due To Aggressive Parents
By 3.26.12
Tiny consumers across the country get amped up every year to run every which way, in search of Easter eggs and candy hidden in parks, on lawns and in backyards. But an Easter event that usually hosts hundreds of kids in Colorado has called off the hunt this year because parents were too aggressive last year. [More]
Americans Will Shell Out $145 Each To Turn Into The Easter Bunny
By 3.23.12
So maybe not everyone is going to strap on a fluffy white tail and don bunny ears, but the average American celebrating Easter this year will be spending around $145 on assorted springtime merchandise. That’s up from about $131 at the same time last year. [More]
Soap.com Wants To Fill A Different Kind Of Easter Basket This Year
By 4.21.11
Jim stopped by online personal-care superstore soap.com (now part of Amazon) and typed in the seemingly innocuous search term “Easter.” The site returned a page full of sex toys are are decidedly rabbit-themed, but not traditional Easter gifts. (This post contains small images that may not be safe for work, depending on where you work.) [More]
Smuggler Hid Cocaine Inside Easter Eggs
By 12.28.10
You know this “Easter Creep” thing is out of control when a coke smuggler thinks Christmas time is the perfect time to start hiding his precious white powder inside Easter Eggs. [More]
King Soopers Defends Easter Creep
By 12.21.10
End displays of Cadbury eggs cropping up in supermarkets in December have had our readers doing double-takes. First there’s Christmas creep, then we had Halloween and Thanksgiving creep, but Easter creep? Yes, because you demanded it to be so, says King Soopers. [More]
The Easter Bunny Continues To Creep Into Father Christmas' Candy Territory
By 12.20.10
While most of us are in the full throes of dancing sugarplum dreams and peppermint bark binges, it seems the Easter Bunny (or at least Cadbury) is not to be deterred in his efforts to overthrow the Christmas candy season — a seasonal creep we have come to call “Premature Resurrection.” [More]
Forget Christmas — It's Already Easter At Kroger
By 12.16.10
Christmas is about a week away, with New Year’s following hot on its heels. And then there’s Valentine’s Day about seven weeks after that. But forget about all that junk because spring is apparently in the air at Kroger. [More]
Hobby Lobby Just Wants To Share Craft Supplies And Christ With You
By 4.14.10
The big box craft store Hobby Lobby famously places full-page, Christian-themed ads every Easter in newspapers in the markets where it has stores. They also make this message the centerpiece of their Web site during the period right before and after Easter, with a religious messages where normally one would find information about sales on picture frames and sock yarn.
Sarah tells Consumerist that she noticed this when she visited the chain’s site to print out a coupon, and wrote to the company to tell them that she was offended. A Hobby Lobby representative answered that he was sorry that she was offended, but the company believes that it would conversely be “truly insensitive” not to share their religious message with all customers, Christian or not.
For Dyeing Easter Eggs, Cheap, Simple, And Classic Is Best
By 3.28.10
You can find a variety of Easter egg dyeing kits in stores, but what sets them apart? Holidash tested a variety of commercial egg-decorating kits, evaluating methods to decorate eggs with everything from glitter to Star Wars decals. Their winner? The classic color tablets and wire egg holders of the century-old Paas egg-dyeing kit. [More]
Man Claims To Have Found Condom In Soup
By 7.23.09
A man in Mission Viejo, California, says when he began eating his french onion soup over Easter brunch at the restaurant Claim Jumper, he bit into something rubbery. He “spit out the piece of cheese only to discover he had been chewing on what his wife claimed was a condom.”
Comcast Interrupts Pope With Girls Gone Wild
By 4.13.09
Oh, Comcast. Apparently, during a 2 a.m. showing of “Good Friday Mass at the Vatican,” Comcast interrupted this regularly scheduled program with… an ad for Girls Gone Wild.
CVS Raises The Creep Bar: Easter Treats In December!
By 12.31.08
Reader Bob sent in this picture from a CVS in Indianapolis. Those are reduced price Christmas decorations in the background, and in the center: delicious Easter treats!
Let's Celebrate Easter With A Lead Contamination Recall!
By 3.21.08
The CPSC would like you to know that the Hobby Lobby has a couple easter-themed recalls.
UPS Is A Sh*tty Easter Bunny
By 3.13.08
Reader Sarah writes in to show us how UPS treated her Easter Basket.
Easter Creep: Target Hauls Out The Easter Products On December 26
By 12.27.07
We’d love to tell you exactly what we yelled at our computer screen when we saw the above photograph, but it would probably set off your company’s web filtering software.
