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April 1, 2026 11 mins

It's almost Easter, Lisa & Russell are upset about the price of Easter eggs. They just feel more expensive this year, don't they? Find out their thoughts. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chocolates.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Chocolate is.

Speaker 3 (00:03):
Planny crunch yum, I remember that.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
Don't chuse that that ad for It's just an ad
for chocolate, and that's all. That's good enough for me,
all right. No, it's for the crunch, remember the nestle
like crunch.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh, yes, I certainly you can still get it, can you?

Speaker 5 (00:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
But I just don't advertise it anymore.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
It doesn't taste the same.

Speaker 6 (00:23):
I don't know what it is they've done to it,
but it does not taste the same.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's also smaller.

Speaker 6 (00:30):
I don't know if it's me, maybe my taste buds
have changed, but no, I'm pretty sure it doesn't taste
the same.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, yes, it's smaller. Choice magazine is now, aren't you? No,
I am not.

Speaker 6 (00:42):
I do not like a hard butter Scotch lolly.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I will never be aware of.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Before I have a game of golf.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
You've changed, maybe a soft dolly, but I haven't.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Changed, because you still love Eastern eggs.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Gosh. I love chocolate.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
I am a chocolate fiend, and I come from a
long line of chocolate fiends.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yes, and they're at it again.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Cabri and Aldi have been busted again by Choice with
their whole Easter shrink inflation, So the whole range of
Cabri chocolate Easter eggs have become smaller and more expensive
since just last year. One box of Cabri's hollow eggs
has shrunk for the second year running, with buyers now
paying this is outrageous seventy three percent more per one

(01:33):
hundred grams than in twenty twenty four. Yes, twenty twenty
four is only two years ago, and seventy three percent
is a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
So a lot of this comes from what happened in
early twenty twenty five when there was a shortage of
cocoa around the world.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
They rolled that out as an excuse.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Last year, cocoa price is quadrupled. They quadrupled.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, but is that still the case they or.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Don't know because what they do is because what they
do is they buy the cocoa back then at those prices,
and they're still they're still manufacturing it and rolling it out.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm not here to stand up for cocoa.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Has it been turned into chocolate yet?

Speaker 6 (02:15):
And Audi has shrunk and raised the price of some
of its Hot Cross buns.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, I don't get my bunnet on from there.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah. Yeah, So.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
To add insult to chocolate coated injury, the cuts are
being made by brands that already put the shrink on
the Easter products last year.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, so the hollow eggs are just a little hollower.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I hope not.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, they probably are. I like a nice thick that's
a version of shrink, I guess. So, you know, it's like,
do not quite get the same crunch the sils when
you bite into the egg or the bunny.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
The stupid thing about that is if they make them thin,
they're going to break more in transit. And and as
the you know, the stock has put them on the shelves, so.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
There's all that.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
No, no, no, they go at the back and the
starfeat them, so you lose the money on that, so
that you know, hello.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, okay, but most important question of.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
All, Yeah, do you bite the bunnies?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Bum or ears off?

Speaker 3 (03:19):
First ears?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
You're ear?

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeahs person, Yes, work my way down right?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Okay, what about you?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't care, No, definitely is.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I actually went yesterday. I picked up some of the
last bits. I don't think anybody's up at home yet,
so I'm safe to say this, And I bought three
lint bunnies because I.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Love yeah dark or milk.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Milk, yeah, milk, I like dark, yeah yeah. And they
were on sale, but it was still forty two.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Bucks for three and they're not and they're only little.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
These were kind of the mid range, mid size, say.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Forty two dollars, yes, for three hundred grams of chocolate. Yeah,
that's ridiculous, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
It is? But still I did it.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I will do it as well.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
I do love a lid buddy, but I have to
say East is not Easter without a red shil of
elegant rabbits.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
No, no, in my house. Well, look it is.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's a it is a bit of a national emergency.
And I just can't understand why the Prime Minister didn't
kind of work it into his speech yesterday about the
price of chocolate.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
I thought that was an April fool stage jokes.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's no joke, just like the price of chocolate.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Happy Easter.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yes, whatever you paid for it, just make sure that
you enjoyed it. Lisa looking forward to Sunday, tucking into
the chocolate, singing her song what do you get.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
When you goes or down sweet?

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Eating as much as an elephant?

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Eat you. What are you at getting terribly fat?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
What do you think will come of that? I don't
like the look of it. That's the scales on Monday Day.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
My god, we got enough core cases around here.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
But let's not add to the drama, shall we.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Julie on the text line zero four seven six ninety
six thirty six thirty six has a sent in her
verdict bunnies bum or ears no ears first? Julie always
is that because it just juts out. I guess it,
you know, sort of sticks out, easy to get to.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's my favorite.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
My favorite Easter meme is the two chocolate bunnies talking
to each other and one of them, one of them said,
his ears bitten off, already in the way. The other
one goes, happy Easter, he says, but my butt?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
What?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
But how are you getting? Are you? Are you buying more?
Are you buying.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Less than fifty five twenty two?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Give us give us a call or.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
Zero four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six
And Marissa in Norandro gave us the heads up that
came ut yesterday and found some very affordable Easter eggs there.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Oh okay, yes, so do they do an Ancho.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Brand of.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Maybe, No they do. I was in Big w the
other day and they were the same. They seemed pretty
reasonably priced to.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Ye, there's a lot of there's a lot of pre
easter soils going on them.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Once upon a time in the you know, the shops,
your wills and your coals and whatnot. On the day
after Easter, there would be a little section where the
eggs that didn't get sold were going cheaper. Now I've
noticed the last couple of years you cannot get an
egg in the shop after Easter.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
They just take them away.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Are they sending them back to be melted down to
be they melt them down to live another day.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
To become a dairy milk block.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I reckon, you might be.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
I reckon. That's no conspiracy right there.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
No not hats here general thoughts on Easter shrink flash.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
I'm a fan.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
I'm a fan of eggs and Eastern so much. The
shrink flation cross buns.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't, as we know, I don't like dead flies
in my my.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Thing, so I happy to like the plane one.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
I have to pick them out. That's what we call
them in my family, dead flies.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
The rest of us call them.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, that's not much fun. Paul and Jooler, Hello, how.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Are you play?

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Hang on good in the dream?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Good good, good good.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
I hope you're feeling okay. We know you had a
little bit of a.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Mishap.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yeah, nothing that chocolate can't fix, that's right.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, and a Rocky Road magnum. Now, what are your
thoughts on.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
The Rocky Road drumstick?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Rocky Road drumstick, of course.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Easter shrink flation.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah, I don't know, it's it's it's it hasn't affected me.
I've sort of I bought a whole heat stuff for
the kids and I've actually been eating it and like
replacing it. And the sud Yeah, so the spudshead have
the still have the gold coins, the foil, the large ones,

(08:14):
and they seem to be this, Yeah, they seem to
be okay. But everything else they're right there. They are
thinner and that. But I guess it's better for you.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Paul. Well, here's a tip.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Get the cheap chocolate and if you go to kmart
you can buy the little silicon bunny kind of mold.
All right, Melt the cheap chocolate into the bunny mold
and bingo, there you go.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'll be able to.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Actually, I've got a couple of those rabbits. They aren't cheap, now,
that's that's sure. You know. The cream eggs, the cream eggs,
they're hard to fake them, like put less cream in them,
because you know what I mean, they're still the same,
I reckon, but they screw They screw your face up though,

(09:02):
like the sweet.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah all right, yeah, all right, So Paul basically.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Actually is to buy double yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, Well, just the people in charge of whoever
is doing it, they know that you're still going to
do it anyway in February. Yeah, you're right about the Yeah,
and you're right about the raisins too. They make the
packets sticky in that too, and all the buns. Yeah,

(09:34):
you can't have them young.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Don't care, don't care? All right, thanks for your thought.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yes, Easter long weekend, which means a few days off
some chocolate.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Well, we've been talking about the effect how you deal
with the whole Easter egg shrink flation and prices and
so on. A a couple of Texters say, don't get eggs,
get chocolate blocks, Sally, will it?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So you mean the last year's Easter eggs melted down.

Speaker 6 (10:05):
That could be where they're going, and Jane and Leader
says sorry, who says she gets the kids blocks of chocolate.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Rather than eggs.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Stephen Jaredale's got a good tip. Evidently Lint Chocolate has
a warehouse in welsh Pool. You can buy direct from
the front store all the flavors and selections, including buttons
for melting.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I love that. And agent Import Kennedy is committing Easter
fraud with his kids.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
He said, buy your Easter eggs on Holiday Monday and
tell your kids the Easter Buddy was delayed due to
the fuel shortage. Well you could play them back the
Prime Minister's address yesterday and really give it some gravitas.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Actually, Dave's on the We've got Dave on the on
the line from Koble at morning.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Dave, Morning, Dave, good morning, How are.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
You good, How are you dealing with it?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Well, we the price of eggs there and bunnies are
just ridiculos us and it's too commercial. So we've actually
made up Easter bags for the grandkids of the fun
side bars and everything. Yeah, certainly a cheaper way out.
And the kids still update the chocolate.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well yes, and it's still sort of a little bit
different because it's a bag and it's not

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Just your regular way of doing it.
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