So when are we getting colorful flour sacks for children’s clothing again
Strong depression vibes
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.
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.
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
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.
Boiled eggs that kids paint and then hidden on the church grounds is the norm where I am.
It’s 3 two hour events with different age groups. Eggs are rarely sitting around for longer than that.
Okay? Eggs are expensive right now because church people thought the literal embodiment of Satan would make a good president. The least they could do is pivot to plastic eggs and shut the fuck up about it.
Lets not be hyperbolic.
Anti-Christ, not Satan.
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.
That’s a way better tradition. Bet you got a nice set of eggs
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
We’re doing the same thing! Only been 2 years so far but excited to see the collection grow!
that’s actually super dope
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?
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.
Just be sure to let every Republican you see in public know they are traitors. Do it double for any cybertruck. They hate shame and if they feel it enough from their countrymen they will quit publicly supporting it at least. Which honestly, is better than fucking swastikas being out in public all of a sudden.
George bush Jr. Columbine. Wall Street protests. TSA. BLM. George Floyd. OJ chase. Probably a dozen more if I had time to think.
My brain read this to the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
I was trying but ran out of creative juices.
ronald reagan, iran-contra, blowjob trial, patriot act, iraq war, war crimes in iraq, subprime mortgage scam
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.
No one is using potatoes. Even the article confirms it when they tell you they saw online hacks make a video about how to do this for clicks. That’s their fucking source. TikTok.
um. you eat the dyed eggs. did your family just toss em?
Yeah it’s the one time a year I enjoy hard boiled eggs for breakfast for a few days.
We made potato salad with them before we started using plastic eggs
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.
… what?
i don’t know what’s unclear about my comment, so i don’t know how to respond. can you help me clarify things by you by saying what’s unclear?
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.
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.
Eastern European or Slavic ancestry? My family is partly Czech and my aunt did kraslice eggs, they were hollowed out and painted with elaborate designs, we had a bunch in the breakfront cabinet.
Polish! I never really thought about why she did it. That’s really neat! I’ll have to ask dad if that’s what inspired her to make them. We inherited them, and had a little stand, but she had a whole elaborate display I wish I could remember clearly.
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.
I personally don’t like hard boiled eggs, so I never ate them. I can’t speak for anyone else.
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)
That’s unusual. Not usual. People ate those eggs.
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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”?
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.
My American experience was the same as your German one.
Some of these people in my country ain’t right if you haven’t noticed.
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.
We put the hard boiled ones back to the fridge and use hollow ones as decoration - you make a small hole at the top and the bottom, blow out the good stuff, make an omelette or something and let the shell dry out. You can keep those as a decoration that doesn’t spoil.
Yup, plastic is always a great solution to something temporary and likely disposed of.
Who’s throwing away the plastic eggs? We reused ours every year.
Do you still?
Searches “how to turn humanity into plastic”
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.
Why would it be a waste? Theyre getting eaten. Plastic is way worse overall.
you realise you can eat the dyed eggs, right?
I dunno, I heard eating rainbow eggs makes you gay.
This joker be like:
ewww… color.
I’d say use it would be better to make and decorate paper mache eggs so as to not add to the plastic demand. Also it sounds more fun to make with kids.
The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
If you leave a potato in the yard forgotten you might end up with another potato.
Alternatively, if you use fertilized chicken eggs, you might end up with a similar issue.
In
Soviet Russiaamerica, we use potato for everything.Waste of food either way. I don’t know of hardly anyone that ate the eggs after dyeing anyway.
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…
My family always did as well. Eggs goldenrod with rainbow whites.
Why not use plastic eggs instead? Can even put stuff better than egg inside them.
They don’t dye in the same way eggs do
Potatoes do?
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.
My kids love eggs, you can cook them dozens of ways and most of them are delicious.
It’s a nice way to teach children to eat something nutritious and healthy. They love the painted eggs and don’t mind it’s not a candy bar. They also do usually get some chocolate eggs as well, there’s really no reason to make the sugar dose even bigger.
Eggs are easier to hide, candy bars not so much. Plus the Easter Bunny doesn’t lay candy bars so your idea wouldn’t really make sense with the lore and all.
