I know I’m slow… maybe it’s because I don’t watch much TV, but at the weekend I discovered that Cadbury are making and selling creme eggs now and colouring them differently, using green… and marketing them as ‘Screme Eggs’ for the Halloween market.
(I really don’t like Halloween anyway: I am appalled by the amount of tat produced and don’t want anything to do with ‘trick or treating’ having seen what it can do to elderly frail nerves.)
Anyway ‘Screme Eggs’….? What? There’s even a Facebook page devoted to it.
All very daft. And clever marketing, maybe. But on Saturday Cycloman bought ‘Hot Cross Buns‘ – another item, supposedly (at one point in history) only available in the pre-Easter period.
Is this trend, to make everything available all year around a good thing, or a bit bonkers?
Personally I like the thought that I have to wait for my treat of asparagus, for example, which is available only for the brief season we have in UK. But asparagus is now available for many months of the year, after being transported around the globe. (I limit myself to buying British, in this case.) Satsumas used to be a Christmas treat… and talking of Christmas, the introduction of Christmas thoughts so early in the year is driving me mad. I had my first Christmas catalogue during the Summer holidays.(Thank you Diabetes UK… that’s three catalogues already this year….)
The ‘c’ word, in this household is banned until after October Half Term.
And the boys went back to school this morning – and there were a few fireworks: verbal ones, may I add. I hate that. Cross words before school.
Sorry I’m in a grump. But it is November tomorrow. It’s raining and dull. The garden is looking drab in this light.
November
by Thomas Hood
No sun–no moon!
No morn–no noon!
No dawn–no dusk–no proper time of day–
No sky–no earthly view–
No distance looking blue–
No road–no street–
No “t’other side the way”–
No end to any Row–
No indications where the Crescents go–
No top to any steeple–
No recognitions of familiar people–
No courtesies for showing ‘em–
No knowing ‘em!
No mail–no post–
No news from any foreign coast–
No park–no ring–no afternoon gentility–
No company–no nobility–
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member–
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!
Maybe we should leave Christmas talk until after Bonfire Night?
Pseu
On the other side of the world, November is abundant with everything, but I also hate all the tat. Our stores are already decorated for Christmas
I always found Christmas in warm climes rather odd… tinsel and warmth! We have spent Christmas in Australia twice and one in South Africa
I’m slower than you. I hadn’t heard of them until I read your post. When I was a child hot cross buns were a Good Friday treat. We never had them any other day. Like you I like my foods to mark the seasons, whether it’s fruit and veg or special things like Easter chocolate.
My mother’s birthday i 26th November. i don’t really start on Christmas until after that date.
I was in the British Museum this afternoon, there is a tall Christmas tree in the shop just off the main entrance. I don’t know how long it’s been up.
Bah, humbug!!!
Ah! Birthday first, is my motto too, but as I have a December birthday that’s not possible
I’ve not seen the Screme Eggs but I would like to see Cadbury Mini Eggs all year round
. In general I do agree with you.
And don’t get me started on the commercialization of Halloween!
you like them?
No accounting for taste
Cadbury Mini Eggs – how could you not like them???
tooooo sweet!
The Scots are raised on sugar – deep fried Mars bars and all that
Absolutely agree with Isobel on the birthday thing. My daughter’s birthday is the 24th November and I cannot even begin to think about Christmas until we have celebrated.
… a month should be enough – but we all feel pressured to start earlier than that, don’t we? A friend of mine says her mother is already arranging the details of next Christmas on Boxing Day!
Felling precisely the same way, Pseu. Into the dark months we go….
the leaves on my cherry tree are an unexpectedly bright colour and I’ve been waiting for a little sunshine to take a photo… but DULL all day! Hey ho….
Screme eggs? Bummer, I haven’t seen them here…
Another lover of those sickly confections?!
Well, my favorite is the chocolate creme egg but somehow it hasn’t been available here for the past couple of years. So I just see the regular creme or orange creme and I don’t like them. Not defunct Cadbury milk chocolate egg with chocolate creme inside, yum!
Screme eggs? Hot Cross buns in October? quelle horreur!
I haven’t heard of them either. Mind you, we don’t shop much and I always tape everything and forward through the adverts, so it’s not surprising.
I adore Christmas but I hate that it starts so early.
Christmas should be contained to a couple of weeks prep and then the actual holiday period – I agree