Woman owns the ‘world’s oldest’ unopened Easter egg, pays Rs 8k every month to keep it cool

Team Udayavani, Apr 17, 2022, 10:36 AM IST

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Easter Sunday is celebrated by millions of people all around the world. It also marks the end of Lent, a 40-day period of austerity, fasting, and penance.

Easter Sunday, which commemorates Christ’s resurrection on Day 3 (after his crucifixion on Good Friday), is a day that youngsters anticipate for the chocolate eggs, Easter egg hunts, and other festivities.

On Easter Sunday, a variety of traditions surrounding the egg are observed.

It’s commonly known as Easter candy, such as imitation chocolate eggs or adorned hard-boiled eggs.

Many people collect Easter eggs and save them for many years. Hillion Fern, a 75-year-old grandmother from the United Kingdom who is the happy owner of the world’s oldest unopened Easter egg, has done it the most impressively.

Hillion was just 13 years old when her father gave her the Easter egg from a neighbourhood shop. Yellow icing in the shape of flowers was used to embellish the 9-inch chocolate egg.

Even after 62 years, it is still in excellent condition.

Despite the fact that she is a self-confessed chocoholic, Hillion stated that she chose not to consume the sweet delight. She spends £80 a month (about Rs 8,000) on a refrigerated storage container to keep the egg from melting.

Hillion has two daughters, four grandsons, and one great-grandchild, and is a retired wildlife trust employee. They’ve all seen her Easter egg.

The 75-year-old said, “I still remember the day I was given it. It was simply too pretty that I didn’t want to eat it. I thought to myself, ‘I’ll keep it until Whitsun’ but I then never ate it, so then I thought, ‘Oh, I will keep it until Christmas’ and then Christmas came and went,”