Mark McCaughreanEver wonder where that weird slime in Weyland-Yutani screme eggs comes from?
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I realise that this might be a particularly niche British joke, so for those of you wondering what on earth (or off it) I’m talking about, this picture should help.
I struggle to believe that I used to eat these things when I lived in the UK: the fondant filling is ridiculously sweet & frankly disgusting 🤢
And entirely unsurpringly, I am far from the first person to have made this connection.
Cadbury Easter Aliens - Creme Eggs
EyeTurns my stomach, just thinking about them.
Impertinenzija@markmccaughrean And the chocolate still has this "super special" flavour (puke), doesn't it? I almost spit my first bar out when I visited Ireland as a teen. ^^
@Impertinenzija It does. The whole thing is foully artificial. Which begs the question of why I used eat one every day with a cup of coffee around Easter when I was a student 😬
Birchbirch@markmccaughrean I strongly suspect that you're failing to mention that your student days daily Creme Egg was also deep-fried!
Big ;-)
@birchbirch Ha – while it is true that I had a high tolerance for deep-fried foods as a student in Scotland, mostly by necessity, I drew the line at deep-fried chocolate.
But you have me salivating for a smoked sausage supper now … 🤤
@markmccaughrean Was there anything else around for Easter you'd prefer?
G 🇮🇹@markmccaughrean I've never had them but I'd give it a try even if I prefer dark chocolate. It looks like an oeuf à la coque 🤔
@ranx As long as you don’t go into it with the idea that it belongs in the same category as “chocolate”, your expectations will be appropriately set. It really is a uniquely sickly confection.
Mike.@markmccaughrean saw these one Christmas a couple of years ago in M&S, slightly unnerving 😬.
@doddington Finding these little blighters in the garden doesn't help 😬
It's the nymph of Issus coleoptratrus, which while sounding like a Hogwarts spell, is actually just a planthopper (Echte Käferzikade in German).
I'm kind of fascinated by them in truth, although seemingly incapable of getting a decent macro stack. They're very small but very chunky, so getting a good depth of field & decent resolution simultaneously is hard.
@markmccaughrean that is a rather nice looking chap, I have never seen one of those.
@doddington They should be around in your part of the world, but I didn't see any of the nymphs or adults last year, so maybe they're relatively uncommon.
@markmccaughrean perhaps I just need to look harder!