What’s The Opposite Of A Cadbury’s Creme Egg? – Simon Dunn

April 6, 2018

What’s The Opposite Of A Cadbury’s Creme Egg?

Time for another delightful episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. This week, we work out the opposite of a Cadbury’s Creme Egg, of sneezing, and of hogwash.

For some reason, even though I planned to, we never got round to discussing something I noticed years ago about Creme Eggs. And that’s the name. They are clearly spelled Creme Eggs, but we call them Cream Eggs. Silly really.

let’s have a quick look at how they’ve been flogged through the years. Here’s an advert from the 70s.

And the 80s.

And when Spitting Image did some, choosing to show Lester Piggot humping a giant one.

Before George Dawes had a go too.

e.phemera, setisoppO, Thought Vomit

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