As you would imagine here in Italy, Easter is quite a big thing - and being Italian, there is no such thing as an ordinary Easter Egg! They are generally chocolate eggs, decorated with exquisite confections of flowers, all made with a sort of sticky icing.The supermarket versions are not so elaborate, but even these are wrapped in beautiful coloured foil - and there is no such thing (or not that we've found) of the typically branded Smarties or Chocolate Buttons eggs (unfortunately!).
Things are a little different here - each of the more expensive eggs contains some sort of gift - and not just lots more chocolate (which can be a little disappointing).
The egg in the picture is the glorious (and very large) egg that my husband bought me for Easter. It will hopefully take me many evenings to get through all the chocolate, but I have to admit to being rather amazed at the gift contained inside. It was - and I promise that I'm not making this up - a small model of a motor scooter! Not only was this a strange thing to find in an Easter egg - but the scooter is bright pink, and when you press the seat, it lights up and makes 'scooter noises' (two kinds of sounds, apparently), and has 'friction power'.
The words on the back perhaps explain this rather bizarre choice of content for an egg which is clearly aimed at a woman. It says "Dream girl has inside herself to be confident, fulfilled, happy and healthy. Dream girl power is the power to speak your mind, to stand up for yourself and to know what's right for you. We want every girl to know: you are unique, you are valuable, with your girl power you can succeed. The future is yours."
I struggle to understand the significance of the words in relation to a pink motor scooter, and even less see their relevance to an Easter egg - but one thing you can say about Italy - it's full of surprises!
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