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It's Easter and the environmentalists are up in arms against the excessive packaging of Easter eggs.It is going to taste the same whatever box it comes inI'm tempted to say that's a naive view. Sure it's chemically the same, but we humans are fickle. And as much as we try not to treat a book by its cover, some times we can't help ourselves. I'm reminded of when I read Charlie and the Chocolate factory and how I kept re-reading the passage where Charlie opens his birthday Wonka Bar. The slow examination of the golden foil, seeing how it glints and then slowly revealing the smooth chocolately bar hidden beneath the foil.

I'm not saying I think all packaging is useful (I think 4-packs of apples in foam trays and shrink wrapped are pointless), but I remember unwrapping an Easter egg and breaking it open was as much fun as eating it.

I'll add a poll at some point, but I think i want to make it multichoice and I need to consider the options a little more.

things being taken too far by another group of activists...

Perhaps there simply needs to be creative avenues of distribution that do not involve packaging. There are other ways to grab people's attention. I recommend the Chocolate Gun. You bring your kid to the designated application booth, center him in the target zone and then dedicated professionals carefully line up and.... BLAM!!! In one swift motion, a child is infused with an entire Easter Basket full of sugary treats. Saves time too. :)

Well, these easter eggs aren't about the taste anyway.

On the other hand they're stupid anyway.

I've got an egg right here that proudly proclaims to be packaged in 100% recyclable materials. Makes sense to me!

Can't you recycle foil? As long as it's not the paper lined stuff, any of that kind of thing just gets balled up and put in my recycle bin.

We're dying eggs tonight, but those come in paper cartons of 12 from a farm.

Perhaps there simply needs to be creative avenues of distribution that do not involve packaging. There are other ways to grab people's attention. I recommend the Chocolate Gun. You bring your kid to the designated application booth, center him in the target zone and then dedicated professionals carefully line up and.... BLAM!!! In one swift motion, a child is infused with an entire Easter Basket full of sugary treats. Saves time too. :)

Ohhhh, man the lawyers would have such a field day with that!

Awesome idea!

I've got an egg right here that proudly proclaims to be packaged in 100% recyclable materials. Makes sense to me!

LOL - indeed appropriate for the recycled deity... (Sorry, I coulkdn't resist that one. Too good to pass up!!!)

Can't you recycle foil? As long as it's not the paper lined stuff, any of that kind of thing just gets balled up and put in my recycle bin.

We're dying eggs tonight, but those come in paper cartons of 12 from a farm.Britain, its government in particular, doesn't quite get recycling. My local council used to collect rubbish and recycling separately and then dump them both on the same landfill... Another council is charging a woman extra for rubbish collection because she creates too much garden waste. Something about the council having to pay a company to take the garden waste off their hands...

Perhaps there simply needs to be creative avenues of distribution that do not involve packaging. There are other ways to grab people's attention. I recommend the Chocolate Gun. You bring your kid to the designated application booth, center him in the target zone and then dedicated professionals carefully line up and.... BLAM!!! In one swift motion, a child is infused with an entire Easter Basket full of sugary treats. Saves time too. :)Couldn't it be more like a mortar. I'd love to have been shelled with chocolate eggs as a kid.

I'm tempted to say that's a naive view..

It is indeed.
Then again, the amount of waste packaging creates is... quite impressive. Really quite impressive.

for A moment there, I thought the complaint was about the cartons the EGGS came in. not that it was about CHOCOLATE EGGS! :D

the fact that they are showing HUGE ASS CHOCOLATE EGGS is not the problem but what they wrap those HUGE ASS CHOCOLATE EGGS really brings home people's priorities. :rolleyes:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45647000/jpg/_45647186_swinson_226.jpg
Seriously... LOOK at those three eggs in the front row... look at the size of the 'Chocolate Orange' she's holding... and they are complaining about the PACKAGING?!

nationalize eggs

I'd prefer a large bar of chocolate, meself.

I agree with the tirade against excess packaging in general, and this is a season of excesses of chocolate, and, to be fair, they do have huge amounts of packaging just to keep the egg intact.

Wouldn't it be more satisfying to receive an egg of a similar weight but of a smaller size and with less space in the middle?

God, why do people feel the need to hulk out about the most minor topics? Just eat the damn things like everyone else and relax.

they are just after my white chocolate and strawberry easter egg that I have already half way eaten

also they are trying to cancel Christmas when they should really be going after the irresponsible practices when it comes to the production of plastics

Britain, its government in particular, doesn't quite get recycling. My local council used to collect rubbish and recycling separately and then dump them both on the same landfill... Another council is charging a woman extra for rubbish collection because she creates too much garden waste. Something about the council having to pay a company to take the garden waste off their hands...

the mistake is of course the belief that local councils are remotely competent considering the kind of people that are gravitated towards them

I'd prefer a large bar of chocolate, meself.

but you get bars of chocolate with the eggs anyway :confused:

God, why do people feel the need to hulk out about the most minor topics? Just eat the damn things like everyone else and relax.

surely this is just some premature post-easter bitching like in January when you find out that your now skint and down with food poisoning again

Really, all I care about is the taste to cost ratio...

Anything else, is largely irrelevant, unless it was one of those big plastic pieces of shit, that you have to take the scissors too, to get at...

then the packaging would matter, but since Easter Eggs dont usually come in that type of package, its again, irrelevant...

Plus you have the baskets with shredded paper or plastic. Packaging does matter from a sales point of view the better the package looks the more it sells.

What we should do is make all of packaging 100% recyclable.

God, why do people feel the need to hulk out about the most minor topics? Just eat the damn things like everyone else and relax.

I agree. If more people would eat the packages that their Easter eggs came in then there'd be no problem at all.

for A moment there, I thought the complaint was about the cartons the EGGS came in. not that it was about CHOCOLATE EGGS! :D

the fact that they are showing HUGE ASS CHOCOLATE EGGS is not the problem but what they wrap those HUGE ASS CHOCOLATE EGGS really brings home people's priorities. :rolleyes:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45647000/jpg/_45647186_swinson_226.jpg
Seriously... LOOK at those three eggs in the front row... look at the size of the 'Chocolate Orange' she's holding... and they are complaining about the PACKAGING?!

You, sir, must have had a large chocolate egg deprived childhood.:D

Perhaps there simply needs to be creative avenues of distribution that do not involve packaging. There are other ways to grab people's attention. I recommend the Chocolate Gun. You bring your kid to the designated application booth, center him in the target zone and then dedicated professionals carefully line up and.... BLAM!!! In one swift motion, a child is infused with an entire Easter Basket full of sugary treats. Saves time too. :)

How about calling in an egg strike - you simply give your co-ordinates and along comes a jet bomber to rain down chocolate bomblets...

I can't wait to get back to college on Monday. I'll be able to get lots of decandantly packaged chocolate eggs for cheap.

I think this brings up an interesting point. Suppose we sold the Easter egg in a glass jar, may be something along the lines of mayonnaise jar with brightly colored tin top.

Would you buy it?

How about if it was in plain brown cardboard box?

Would you buy it?

It does affect our buying decision but I am curious how much it affects our buying decisions. It seems to me the packagers want you to see the product in this case, possibly the size of the egg affects whether you will buy it or not.

More importantly would you pay more for a aesthetically pleasing package as opposed to a plainly packaged product?

How about calling in an egg strike - you simply give your co-ordinates and along comes a jet bomber to rain down chocolate bomblets...

I would abuse that so much, it's almost not funny. :wink:

I always thought eggs were packaged in a shell.

I always thought eggs were packaged in a shell.

Not the way we do it.....

You, sir, must have had a large chocolate egg deprived childhood.:D

I'm the youngest in my family... waddya think! :mad:

I think this brings up an interesting point. Suppose we sold the Easter egg in a glass jar, may be something along the lines of mayonnaise jar with brightly colored tin top.

Would you buy it?

How about if it was in plain brown cardboard box?

Would you buy it?

It does affect our buying decision but I am curious how much it affects our buying decisions. It seems to me the packagers want you to see the product in this case, possibly the size of the egg affects whether you will buy it or not.

More importantly would you pay more for a aesthetically pleasing package as opposed to a plainly packaged product?

depends. usually the foil wrapping would be enough since that egg(s) would be taken out of it's plan box and put in a basket with other goodies.

often times, that which is wrapped in fancy packaging tends to cost more since you are also paying for the package.

I think this brings up an interesting point. Suppose we sold the Easter egg in a glass jar, may be something along the lines of mayonnaise jar with brightly colored tin top.

Would you buy it?

How about if it was in plain brown cardboard box?

Would you buy it?

It does affect our buying decision but I am curious how much it affects our buying decisions. It seems to me the packagers want you to see the product in this case, possibly the size of the egg affects whether you will buy it or not.

More importantly would you pay more for a aesthetically pleasing package as opposed to a plainly packaged product?

(With apologies to Ted.)

I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I will not buy them with a mouse.
I will not buy them in a house.
I will not buy them here or there.
I will not buy them anywhere.
I do not buy green eggs and spam.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.