Shop owner accidentally orders 720 chocolate Easter eggs for Scottish island with 500 people

CBS News' Ian Lee spoke with a shopkeeper on a tiny Scottish island who managed to hatch a charitable solution to his chocolate-Easter-egg-buying blunder.
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[@jimmydishkawnt]

There's no such thing as ordering too much chocolates. Why is this even in the news? 😅

[@terransunited]

Idk they had a whole TV show episode about George López's characters dyslexia.

[@TheSouthIsHot]

I love cute stories like this.😊

[@knuclear200x]

Another Willy Wonka experience but it takes a positive turn instead

[@victoriamahon3765]

You can still use the eggs for other things they don’t have to be eaten as candy. We sometimes would end up with too many Easter bunnies that were given to us from other relative so we would actually chop them up and make chocolate chunk cookies out of them. They could also be melted down into pies and ganache for other desserts.

[@naroseb2901]

I would cry tears of joy ❤😂

[@cittiavaticano]

the puns are no yoke.

[@MightyMouse11]

Eggsellent 😂

[@colorado841]

I feel sorry guys....some people will have to forfeit their 2nd chocolate egg.

[@danielcruz8347]

He is the Orkney Island Egg Man. I am Walrus. Goo Goo g'joob!!😮

[@derekl_]

Ooof... Trying a little too hard to force those egg puns there buddy.

[@Rick-qf5de]

Which came first the chocolate or the egg... ???

[@knuclear200x]

The real question is, which comes With peanut butter?

[@Chisthebest0]

@knuclear200x Reeses eggs

[@herlandercarvalho]

Omg... the egg puns are a bit much...

[@robinrising1834]

I was.. cracking up.

[@FeverDreamRemix]

So he got an extra 8 cases. You can sell them until the expiration date, what's the problem?

[@pipermaisiemae1999]

I don't get the problem either. He was already ordering 500. What's another 220?

[@Brap-pl2me]

@@pipermaisiemae1999No, he meant to order 80 eggs but actually ordered 80 cases of eggs. There are only 500 people on the island.

[@northernsnow6982]

He only needed 9 cases to give him 81 eggs. He ordered 80 cases. How is that only 8 cases extra? If it was only 8 extra cases, that would mean he wanted 648 eggs originally. He very clearly said he only wanted 80 eggs. Next, there will be a story about how people can't do math to figure out his mathematical error.

[@Batmann_]

The math is not strong with this comment

[@kristinburns1999]

Well he can always share them with everyone.

[@MarcoMercado-ps1yl]

He got egg on his face

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

Judging by the fact that the story made it to the news, they probably have strict rationing on the island, it's prohibited to eat more than one egg by a person.

[@Batmann_]

Judging by your comment, you made that the F up with practically nothing to base it on...

[@nychris2258]

I'm not understanding the problem

[@krissykrupski4973]

Me either, he ordered 80 chocolate eggs and got over 750! That’s great!

[@Batmann_]

​@@krissykrupski4973He meant to get 80 eggs, but he got 80 CASES. I'm not understanding why there are so many confused commenters

[@krissykrupski4973]

@@Batmann_ Me either, maybe they just don’t listen. Such a simple story, he made an ordering error and got a Lot of candy. Lol

[@krissykrupski4973]

@@Batmann_ I’m a rather passive aggressive a$$, I guess my first comment shows that. 😁

[@sagittarius3363]

Too much chocolate is never a problem at our house 😊

[@ge2623]

Send them to me in the States. My 2-year-old will eat them in an hour. He's only had Diabetes for a couple weeks.

[@HuplesCat]

👍😂

[@popcorn5130]

For those 500 people on the island, I guess this might be considered interesting news? 🤔 For anyone anywhere else, though...

[@HuplesCat]

Aw

[@Batmann_]

Yeah, sorry, you probably need to see more news about someone being unalived or something? That's what you like to see. None of this lighter stuff. Right?

[@joanneentwistle7653]

Why doesn't he deep fry them and sell them as a treat like every other food they eat in Scotland lol

[@user-iy9cy4tl2h]

😅 great story 😄

[@sparklemotion86]

How is this a problem lol?

[@o_o825]

Well, have you ever been inundated with hundreds of chocolate eggs?! 🤨

[@Batmann_]

Didn't they explain how it's an issue? Pay attention

[@jujub4553]

That’s cute

[@croiners4166]

This is news?❤

[@stansmith4871]

Dude thats ur fault

[@shellysmith1037]

not news

[@DiscipleofYHVH]

Praise YHVH ALMIGHTY ✝️👑

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Oh, no. I hope it works out for him. 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻💋💋💋