We have been painting wood eggs, one per person, per year, for over a decade. Reuse them every year and every year the hunt gets longer.
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Your 37 year old child: dad please we have enough eggs and I have to be at work in 45 minutes
You: YOU CAN LEAVE WHEN YOU FIND THEM ALL
Pretty much. There’s like 60 of them now. Can’t remember whereTF we put them all
That's a way better tradition. Bet you got a nice set of eggs
that's actually super dope
We're doing the same thing! Only been 2 years so far but excited to see the collection grow!
There's a lot to unpack here:
- This is going to be one of things future generations look back on like we look back at the Great Depression (I'm trying not to think about Great Depression 2)
- The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
- Why can't people just use the reusable plastic eggs? Bonus is you can put candy inside.
Edit: Okay, thank you. Apparently we just did "Easter Eggs" wrong growing up.
um. you eat the dyed eggs. did your family just toss em?
Boil em, mash em, stick em in an egg salad.
Put the eggs in an egg salad? But then you'll get egg egg salad. Nobody wants egg egg salad.
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Yup, plastic is always a great solution to something temporary and likely disposed of.
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Wait, do people just throw away the eggs?
No. Not us or anyone I know anyway. We decorate eggs, and have some plastic hollow eggs we've used for maybe 10 years to hide stuff in. Then we eat egg salad for a couple of days.
It's a relief to read that, I was having a severe culture shock there for a moment.
Usually, yeah. People will hide them for kids to find or they'll sit out as decorations for a few days. By the time they're done being "Easter eggs" they're all kinds of nasty / spoiled. (American eggs require refrigeration)
Bruh you hard boil them before you hide them.
They go right into egg salad/ deviled eggs after the game.
This whole thread is sending me 😂
my family would dye the eggs as a big event, and then store them in the fridge and eat them. i never knew people would just throw them away.
we are also german, though- we do the whole popping a hole in the shell and blowing the inside out in order to make the decorative ones that one leaves at room temperature.
how irrational to dye them and then let them spoil.
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You hide them THE DAY OF the Easter egg hunt. And you go round up the ones the kids don't find after. No spoilage unless you miss one.
And you don't just leave hard boiled eggs sitting out. If you want decorations you can leave out, you hollow out the eggs before decorating.
Seriously, this all sounds like a you issue. Who just leaves eggs out as "decoration"?
Does this egg-washing thing Americans do mean you have to keep them refrigerated even if they are hard-boiled? Because where I live you can keep hard-boiled eggs for days or even weeks even at room temperature. I never heard of anyone just throwing away the eggs they hide for kids. You hide them, the kids find them, you put them in the fridge, you eat them.
Edit: I don't know if you added the part about refrigeration later or I just missed it before. That answers my question. I guess it makes sense because the shell will be porous. Wow, I never considered this affects easter customs.
idk what the fuck everyone else is talking about, we absolutely ate those hardboiled dyed eggs
Yeah I thought I was going nuts here. The eggs seemed like one of the least wasteful parts of the whole celebration.
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We made pretty the eggs we would've boiled and eaten anyway. The week after easter we'd be all 'dad, you ate the one i wanted to eat!!' because we decorated it the prettiest so it was ours. It was incredibly rare the eggs didn't get eaten. We also had hollowed out eggshells my grandmother painted that we'd put in a place of honor every year.
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The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
How so? Did your family just throw out the eggs after Easter or something? Because we always just ate them in the days after when I was a kid.
Waste of food? Y'all don't eat your Easter eggs? And now that we are using potatoes, too, after the hunt just mix them together with some mayo, paprika, onion and celery and make potato salad.
- Yes
- Don’t you drain them out? Weird. Make the patterns, make a tiny hole, drain it out. That way you get an omelette.
- Plastic is bad. Truthfully, I don’t know enough about the carbon footprint of a chicken egg, but the plastic will live forever.
you realise you can eat the dyed eggs, right?
This joker be like:
ewww... color.
I dunno, I heard eating rainbow eggs makes you gay.
Why would it be a waste? Theyre getting eaten. Plastic is way worse overall.
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No. No, they're not.
Speak for yourself. My local church who does Sunday Easter was begging for financial donations and egg donations.
One of the "threats" was using potatoes or rocks.
They're concerned because next year, the free egg hunt might be a paid event.
I honestly don't remember a family or church event that didn't use the plastic ones unless we were doing egg art as kids.
Candy beats a room temp egg that's been sitting in a random spot for hours hands down.
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There are plastic fucking eggs that have been used in 99% of all Easter egg hunts since plastic eggs were made. Tell your church to fill them with candy and cheap toys and quit acting like shit heads over it
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What an utterly embarrassing time to be an American.
Our historic legacy is going to be that of a fool generation that votes against our own interests and fails to stand up for ourselves.
George bush Jr. Columbine. Wall Street protests. TSA. BLM. George Floyd. OJ chase. Probably a dozen more if I had time to think.
ronald reagan, iran-contra, blowjob trial, patriot act, iraq war, war crimes in iraq, subprime mortgage scam
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Strong depression vibes
In ~~Soviet Russia~~ america, we use potato for everything.
Americans: doing jokes about our lack of a very important food product is very inappropriate and immoral!
Irish: you want some potatoes with those eggs?
This is stupid. No one is dying potatoes.
Videos on how to dye marshmallows, potatoes and even onions have begun to circulate on social media and news websites.
You’re right. Only asshole influencers or whatever you want to call them are making these videos for clicks.
So when are we getting colorful flour sacks for children's clothing again
Waste of food either way. I don’t know of hardly anyone that ate the eggs after dyeing anyway.
Edit: apparently I was surrounded by odd people that didn’t eat the eggs.
My family always did..
I don't know anyfamily who didn't eat most if not all of the died eggs after or around Easter.
My family always did as well. Eggs goldenrod with rainbow whites.
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I get that eggs are in a lot of recipes, but people's obsession with them is still surprising to me. There are so many other foods to choose from.
Wouldn't kids prefer to find something they actually want, rather than an egg (or especially a potato)? I know the fertility symbolism but I'd still rather look for candy bars.
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