Oh, This is Very Very Bad

While I was at Target over the weekend stocking up on Mint M&M's, available only during the Christmas season, I happened to see these:

My thoughts when I spied the bag: "Cadbury at Christmas time?  'Solid milk chocolates with a crisp sugar shell'?  Wait a minute...that sounds like Mini Eggs...MINI EGGS?!?  Wait, are these supposed to taste like MINI EGGS?!?!  I must buy these, eat them, and report to Mother immediately."

You see, my family absolutely loves Cadbury's Mini Eggs.  Loves.  Once Christmas is over, we cheer ourselves with the thought that the Mini Eggs will be filling the store shelves soon.  When I was a freshman in college, my mom sent me a card with a forty dollar check.  I kid you not, on the inside of the card she wrote, "Your brother and I were just sitting here eating Mini Eggs and felt sad for you because you're a poor college student who probably doesn't have any money to spend on Mini Eggs.  Use this money to go buy some Mini Eggs then." 

Forty dollars to purchase seasonal Easter candy for one person?  Yes, friends, they are that good.  So when I saw the Cadbury Christmas candy, which I have dubbed Cadbury Christmas Balls, there was no debate.  Those suckers were in my shopping cart faster than you would believe.

And incidentally, the Christmas Balls do taste like Mini Eggs (although I must admit, they definitely aren't as pretty as the Mini Eggs).  Of course, I called my mom to report this new wonder.  Not unexpectedly, she flipped out: "Well, I'm on my way to Target right now, and I will have to look for those."  She found them and proceeded to do exactly what I did earlier that day: she continued to eat so many of them that she got a stomach ache.

So even though I am thrilled with this new product, its appearance is also very, very bad.  Because I have no will power.  Absolutely none.  Sometimes, I'm sure the fruit of the Spirit that is self-control simply should not apply to chocolate.