"It will forever be a mystery to me how the foil…

A chocolate Easter egg usually has a thin foil wrapping. When people eat half an egg and then try to cover it up, they find that there’s not enough foil to cover it again.

“My mind is always fucked when i eat half an Easter egg and then the foil won’t fit around the other half O.o” was posted on X/Twitter by Dumbledork on April 8, 2012. “proper annoys me when i eat half an easter egg then when i try to wrap the foil around the other half,it never fits. :/” was posted on X/Twitter by shelley on April 8, 2012. “It will forever be a mystery to me how the foil completely covers a full easter egg, you eat half, then the foil is somehow no longer big enough to even cover a half” was posted on X/Twitter by Ross Sayers on April 12, 2020, and this received over 34,000 likes.

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Dumbledork
@Bart_Cubbins
My mind is always fucked when i eat half an Easter egg and then the foil won’t fit around the other half O.o
2:35 PM · Apr 8, 2012

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shelley
@shelley_brown_x
proper annoys me when i eat half an easter egg then when i try to wrap the foil around the other half,it never fits. :/
5:41 PM · Apr 8, 2012

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Hollie🌙
@hollieoh
I still don’t understand how you can unwrap an easter egg, eat half, and then the foil wont go around it any more. MINDFUCKERY.
11:33 AM · May 18, 2012

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Olivia Garner…
@_OGarner
A fact I’ve learnt today: when you unwrap an easter egg and eat half, there is then not enough foil to wrap up the other half?
7:32 AM · Mar 31, 2013 from Derby, England

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Chris Tate
@Tate85
How is it when u unwrap the foil around an Easter egg, then eat half the egg. You can never fit the foil back around the egg again lol.
4:10 PM · Apr 18, 2014

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Olivia Hobbs
@OliviaaHobbs
When you eat half an Easter egg then try to re wrap it but the foil doesn’t cover it.. HOW?!
6:31 PM · Apr 18, 2014

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Matty
@Matty_EstUK
Why when you unwrap the foil from an #Easter egg, eat half, then try wrap the other half up the foil is all of a sudden not big enough? 🙄
3:54 PM · Apr 17, 2017

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Liam Murphy
@Iiammurphy
how come when you get a whole Easter egg the foil covers it but then when you eat half of it the foil doesn’t cover it..🤔
10:36 AM · Apr 18, 2017

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Ross Sayers
@Sayers33
It will forever be a mystery to me how the foil completely covers a full easter egg, you eat half, then the foil is somehow no longer big enough to even cover a half
4:46 PM · Apr 12, 2020

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Carly Philpot
April 18, 2022 at 7:42 AM ·
It will forever be a mystery to me how the foil completely covers a full Easter egg, yet you can eat half, then the foil is somehow no longer big enough to even cover that half of the Easter egg 😂🐣

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Emma Louise Heaney
April 18, 2022 at 1:31 PM ·
What baffles me about Easter eggs is, you take the foil off and eat some and then the foil doesn’t fit back round it when you wrap it back up. Wtf is that about.

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Sonya Harold
April 20, 2022 at 7:15 AM ·
How come the foil that covers an Easter egg is never enough to cover the remaining half an egg 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄

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Trevor Parsons
April 27, 2022 at 12:21 PM ·
I suppose this is a maths surface area problem? 🧮
When I’m really good & only eat a quarter of my KitKat Easter egg that is fully wrapped in foil, why does the foil not fit the remaining three quarters? And I’ve tried all ways to cover it with the same original size of foil. 🤔💭

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Jason Davies ·
April 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM ·
The greatest mystery in life….
The foil on an Easter egg completely covers all of the chocolate, but when you eat half, then the foil is somehow no longer big enough?!?!?

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All You Can Eat
February 23, 2026 at 7:36 AM ·
Make it make sense 😂
(“It will forever be a mystery to me how the foil completely covers a full easter egg, you eat half, then the foil is somehow no longer big enough to even cover a half” is shown on an image.—ed.)