Grüppe D-Zyne Projekt

After the rocktacular victory of Lordi at this year’s Eurovision¹, we felt some celebrations were in order. When running through the streets became unfeasible, apparently some kids had already run down the whole length of the road knocking all the bins over, and with drunken students being all too scapegoatable, we needed to come up with some other suitably Metal gesture.

So we made an omelette.

You’re probably thinking that omelettes are one of the least Metal foodstuffs in existence. But this was no ordinary omelette. Spawned from the brains of the confectionary geniuses responsible for making “Smarties Cereal” and “Bill Bailey’s Giant Kit-Kat” a reality, this was to be a rather special “Creme Egg² Omelette”.

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Following on from the write-up of our Easter Egg Taste Test, we were worried that a nation of cathode junkies, selling their imaginations for quick-fix media hits from the Blockbuster syringe would find actual words and sentences alien and bewildering. Thus, a photo diary was born. That, and we like pretty pictures.

The APA Journal of Food Tasting, a sister society to theGDP, had a little too much time on their hands, and a little too much paint left over from badly redecorated rented accommodation.

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Easter. That time of year when small children (and, apparently, computer science students) wander the aisles of the nearest superstore, gazing in awe at the carefully packaged chocolate eggs of joy.

Foremost in their mind, one would imagine, is Bede’s goddess Eostre, the etymology of Jakob Grimm’s Eostremonat, the symbolism of eggs as fertility symbols, of new life, and of Mary Magdalene’s exclamation “Christ is risen!”.

The second thought that comes to mind is which of these commercial over-priced packages of pagan symbolism is the tastiest. We are here to guide you through this controversial minefield, taking it upon ourselves to sample the various offerings and report back our findings, ending this minutes-old argument once and for all.

Let us establish some ground rules.

1. The chocolate must, as the title suggests, be in egg form. Little bunnies are cute and delicious, but hardly in keeping with the theme.
2. Only eggs from established chocolatiers are allowed, so Marks&Spencer, Tesco et al. are out. (read: we are poor.)
3. Acknowledging the FACT that Jesus only ate milk chocolate eggs, we ignore dark, white, mint or orange eggs. (read: really, we are poor.)
4. Contrary to appearances, we are not professional chocolate tasters. Thus, we will probably end up preferring the sickly sweet not-legally-allowed-to-call-it-chocolate-in-mexico “chocolate” over the 97% cocoa offering, hand crafted on the steps of the Temple of Kukulcan by Quetzalcoatl himself. You’ll just have to suck it up.

Figure 1 shows the contestants:

Below the cut we explain the criteria, a summary of each egg, and finally draw our conclusions. Yes, it’s that serious.
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