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This Shop Is Selling Buckfast Easter Eggs

The perfect Easter gift for fans of the fortified tonic wine that gets you really, really pissed!

Easter can be a tricky time. That long weekend when you haul yourself (and, inevitably, a load of dirty washing) back to your childhood home to binge-eat Mini Eggs and have Sunday lunch with relatives who wonder out loud why you're still single always seems a little too long.

But one shop in Northern Ireland has something that might make the holiday easier to deal with: Buckfast Easter eggs. Yes, we mean the fortified tonic wine brewed by monks in Devon with a reputation for getting you beyond wasted.

D-Bees, the shop in County Armagh selling the Bucky Easter eggs, has taken orders for 2,000 of the boxes, just 24 hours after advertising the alcoholic package. Each box costs £9.99 and contains a chocolate egg and a mini bottle of Buckfast (perfect for easy concealment when visiting Great Aunt Edna), as well as a Buckfast-branded pen, magnet, and lighter.

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