Serious social issues

An ongoing issue of our era was once again brought to my attention at the supermarket - the ludicrous rate of inflation of Creme Eggs. I'd just remembered about their existence the other day, and suddenly they're back available again for the year. This time, these shells of chocolate filled with... that stuff that nobody knows what it is have reached $1 each and are naturally slightly more diminutive than the last time they were seen.

I used to get these for 30p from the school canteen ten years ago and they were positively fist-sized compared to the microscopic ovoid sitting in front of me just now. Cadbury's's own site used to go with the widely-spread claim that the eggs only seemed smaller to you because your own radius has slightly increased as a result of stuffing yourself with them last Easter, but after somebody or other appeared on a late night chat show with two different-sized eggs as proof, they quickly amended this to say that the American eggs had changed size after all and therefore the previous claim had been a bit of a lie.

I don't know what this world's coming to.