WE’VE HAD THIS CREME EGG IN OUR FAMILY FOR 46 YEARS
Ainslie’s granny got it from future husband on their first date.. in 1973
MOST creme eggs last two bites, but Ainslie Peters’s family have kept one for almost half a century.
Ainslie’s granny, Jean Peters, was given it by her future husband on their first date in 1973 and kept it as a love token.
When Jean lost husband Dan Clark in 1981, the egg became a memento of their all-too-short time together.
Jean herself died in 2010 at the age of 94, after keeping the sweet in pride of place in a cabinet at home for decades.
And Ainslie, 48, now has the ancient egg on display at her home in Kirkcaldy.
She said: “When gran passed away it was the one thing of hers I asked for. It’s just me being a bit of a daftie. I’m quite a sentimental person. “The egg is just something I remember from all my childhood visits to see my gran in Glasgow. “She kept it in a glass cabinet with her ornaments. “Me and my three sisters did ask her about it, but she would just laugh it off. “Eventually she told us the story, that Dan had given it to her on their first date.”
Jean was a widow in her 50s when she met Dan. Ainslie explained: “My dad’s father passed away the year I was born.
“Dan had also been married before – I think his first wife died too.
“To find love again a couple of years after her husband died must have meant a lot for my gran.”
Ainslie keeps the creme egg on a shelf next to the order of service from her father’s funeral.
She said: “I’ve never been tempted to unwrap it and see under the foil. I wouldn’t disturb it.
“And I won’t ever be eating it – I don’t even like creme eggs.”
Creme eggs were first made by Fry’s in 1963 and taken over by Cadbury’s in 1971. A 1963 Fry’s model was unearthed in a Cadbury archive in 1973 and put on display.