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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
James Rodger & Rachel Pugh

Aldi shoppers have mixed reviews on its new £2.99 Easter Egg collection

The countdown to Easter is now on, and Supermarkets across the UK are trying their best to outdo one another with their weird and wonderful chocolate egg offerings.

We've already seen some pretty spectacular Easter Eggs, such as ones shaped as Sloths at Aldi, Flamingos at M&S and a slab of chocolate that resembles an egg sandwich at Hotel Chocolat.

But Aldi's latest Easter Egg range could be the wackiest of them all, as the supermarket has released six new unorthodox eggs that even Willy Wonka would be proud of.

The Banoffee (£2.99, 200g) is a milk chocolate shell, infused with banoffee flavouring and adorned with white chocolate decoration, sweetened banana chips, salted caramel and chocolate fudge pieces, mini white chocolate coated biscuit balls, white chocolate drops and butterscotch pieces.

The Eton Mess (£2.99, 200g) option is a hollow white chocolate egg with a strawberry flavoured decoration, white meringue drops, white chocolate drops, strawberry crunch and freeze-dried strawberries.

The Salted Pretzel & Orange egg (£2.99, 200g) is a milk chocolate egg with white chocolate decoration, chocolate fudge pieces, orange jelly pieces, dark chocolate drops and salted mini pretzels.

The Billionaires (£2.99, 200g) egg is a hollow milk chocolate egg with a blended milk and white chocolate decoration, white chocolate coated biscuit balls, golden coloured honeycomb, caramel fudge, chocolate fudge pieces and mini white chocolate coated biscuit balls.

The Cookies & Cream (£2.99, 200g ) flavour is a hollow white chocolate egg with dark chocolate stars in the shell and dark chocolate decoration, with a dark chocolate disk, dark chocolate chunks and milk and white chocolate biscuit balls.

The Popping Candy (£2.99, 200g ) flavour is a hollow milk chocolate egg with white chocolate decoration, milk chocolate beans, jelly beans, mini milk chocolate beans and popping candy.

With such a variety available, fans of less traditional chocolate eggs have been singing Aldi's praises.

Responding to the new flavours on Facebook, one social media user said: "Omg yummy need these."

"Aldi does it again! This looks lovely, can't wait for Easter," exclaimed somebody else.

"How cool are these!" wrote a third.

But not everybody's convinced, and the traditionalists have been out in full force to point out that the eggs aren't plain chocolate. *deep sigh*

"Prefer traditional," complained one.

Somebody else moaned: "What's wrong with chocolate?"

You can't win 'em all!

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