Spitting Creme Eggs

It’s a cream egg surely? But let’s not get into that.

Here’s a mid 90s campaign for Creme Eggs featuring the puppets of Spitting Image.

The implication at the end being, am I wrong, that Piggot humps his?

A charge they are so sure of, they repeat it in the second advert.

Now I wanted Creme Egg branded shoes.

A year or two later, and the puppets gave way to Matt Lucas.

And just because no-one remembers that the packaging used to have green on it too.

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