Can You Guess This Candy?

It is the best-selling confectionery item between January 1st and Easter; over 200 million are sold annually, 3 for every person in the UK.

Yep, that's right -- the Cadbury Creme Egg.

The Cadbury Creme Egg plant at Bournville can produce more than 1.5 million eggs per day. If you laid all the eggs made on the Creme Egg plant end to end, they would stretch all the way from the Bournville factory in Birmingham UK to Sydney in Australia -- that's 12,000 miles.

Besides these interesting facts, the Cadbury Creme Egg site tells us this about the history of the Cadbury chocolateers:

In the 19th century the Cadbury family were members of the Society of Friends or Quakers, one of the many non-conformist groups developed in the 17th century in protest against the formalism of the Established Church. Quakers held strong beliefs and ideals which carried into 'campaigns for justice, equality and social reform, putting an end to poverty and deprivation'.

As nonconformists, Quakers weren't allowed to enter the Universities, which in the 19th century were closely linked with the Established Church. So entry into the professions was impossible, and pacifist principles precluded the military as a career. Their energies and talents were therefore directed towards business, social reform and the transformation of social and industrial society in Victorian Britain.

And so, the Cadbury's got into the chocolate business. Maybe it's a good thing they weren't allowed to enter the universities?