Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
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Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
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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
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Pretty much. There’s like 60 of them now. Can’t remember whereTF we put them all
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That's a way better tradition. Bet you got a nice set of eggs
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that's actually super dope
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We're doing the same thing! Only been 2 years so far but excited to see the collection grow!
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No. No, they're not.
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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.
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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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Strong depression vibes
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So when are we getting colorful flour sacks for children's clothing again
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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.
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Wait, do people just throw away the eggs?
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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.
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I personally don't like hard boiled eggs, so I never ate them. I can't speak for anyone else.
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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)
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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.
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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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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.
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- 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.
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you realise you can eat the dyed eggs, right?
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I dunno, I heard eating rainbow eggs makes you gay.
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This joker be like:
ewww... color.
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Why would it be a waste? Theyre getting eaten. Plastic is way worse overall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is stupid. No one is dying potatoes.
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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.
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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?
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In
Soviet Russiaamerica, we use potato for everything.
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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.
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My family always did..
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I don't know anyfamily who didn't eat most if not all of the died eggs after or around Easter.
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My family always did as well. Eggs goldenrod with rainbow whites.
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i'm curious what regions people not eating the eggs are from. we always ate the eggs and so did everyone i know
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Why not use plastic eggs instead? Can even put stuff better than egg inside them.
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They don't dye in the same way eggs do
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Potatoes do?
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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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My kids love eggs, you can cook them dozens of ways and most of them are delicious.
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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.
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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.
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