Easter Eggs?

[lliam]

Do American Parents buy their kids Easter Eggs?
:p :p

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

When the kids are little we buy and boil regular eggs and let the kids color them. Then we clean the kitchen. Repeatedly. With bleach.

As the kids age, the mess gets less obnoxious and the eggs get more intricate color jobs.

My littlest kid now does the whole thing herself, including the cleanup, while the oldest kid is now doing eggs for her kid.

The best part of all this is hiding the eggs in the front yard, watching the kids (when they're little) hunting them and rejoicing when one is found, and then regretting the whole "hunting" notion when the last egg is found, two weeks later, stinky.

[Nicole Marie]

Hi Lliam-

As a long time vegetarian I never did eggs. My parents would buy the plastic eggs and fill them with cash! and other fun stuff. They would hide them all over the house and my sister and I would race to find them.

Now that I'm a parent to two dogs. I do the same thing with my "kids" but I hide dog cookies in the plastic eggs. My guys love hunting around the house for them.

[piqaboo]

We would dye eggs for the joy of dying them, but were never allowed to do many as the family didnt like eggsalad sandwiches, and we got sick of hard-boiled eggs. Fortunately, I love egg salad sandwiches so I can indulge in abundant egg coloring on those years I have time.

We would hide chocolate eggs (small ones, wrapped in colored foil) and hunt for those. Worst find was one that was about 5 years old, that had melted, solidified over and over and over...
We found it late one hot summer when we moved all the furniture to replace the flooring.

We do very elaborate easter baskets with chocolate eggs, or chocolate bunnies (or both). Its also popular to fill the baskets with jelly beans or malted milk balls etc. Some people eat these toxic yellow pseudomarshmallow creations called "peeps" (they look like chicks cut out like paperdolls in a continuous strand). Recently peeps have branched out into lilac, pale blue and pink. Erk.

I hold out for the very best - such as Bordeaux or Chocolate Buttercream Eggs from See's Candy. Those east of the Rockies can only hope someone loves them enough to send them one someday. I buy my own, just in case no one loves me that much!

(slight digression) - the british relatives wont allow us to visit unless we come bearing a lb box (or bigger) of See's assorted chocolates. On my last trip to England, my sister and I carried 13 x 1 lb boxes over. Next time, I'll need to bring even more, as the various children move out and set up their own households, thereby rating their own box! (end digression)

[OperaTenor]

Originally posted by Selma in San Diego:
The best part of all this is hiding the eggs in the front yard, watching the kids (when they're little) hunting them and rejoicing when one is found, and then regretting the whole "hunting" notion when the last egg is found, two weeks later, stinky.

....or running over it inadvertently with the lawn mower!


And this Easter greeting via one of Piq's friends:
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[lliam]

I love all the Cadbury Chocolate products. We can get creme eggs all the year round, Mmmmmmmm. :p
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Did you know?

If you laid all the eggs made on the Creme Egg plant end to end, they would stretch all the way from the Bournville factory in Birmingham UK to Sydney in Australia - that's 12,000 miles.

The Cadbury Creme Egg plant at Bournville can produce more than 1.5 million eggs per day. It is the best selling confectionery item between January 1st and Easter; over 200 million are sold annually, 3 for every person in the UK.

[piqaboo]

Cadbury with hazelnuts. Cant get here. YUM. The second time I went to NZ, they'd switched from soft fondant to little rubber bits of jelly that NEVER dissolved, much less dissolving at a rate compatible with the chocolate bar. Such a disappointment.

(other have of the digression story) When my sister and I returned to California from that trip to England, we had 25 lb (one whole suitcase) of assorted chocolate bars, gums and bisquits with us. Cant get anything like a penguin bar here. Very much amused our customs agent. (end of digression)

[monkeymd2b]

My brothers and I loved dying eggs. We made a big mess but then again my mom was smart enough to have us wear old t-shirts and dye the eggs outside on the patio. The mess was probably the result of us fighting over the colors...my mom had to make a rule that we couldn't dye more than 2 eggs/kid at a time and we had to use a different color in each round. She also gave in to our request for a dozen of eggs/kid. My dad made the egg salad sandwich mix and even now he says he misses the multicolored sandwiches from when we were younger. As the youngest, it made me sad when my brothers no longer wanted to dye eggs with me.

The best was when my college roomie and I hosted an easter party complete with egg hunt and we had counted the eggs we hid and knew we didn't find one of the eggs but since we hid so many we couldn't think of where we hid it. I found it 4 months later while doing a massive cleaning job by the water heater...oddly enough it wasn't stinky at all.

This year my easter is going to be very low key and will involve studying...at least the OB/GYN dept decided to give us the weekend off...including today. Good Friday is a school holiday anyway. The pediatrics dept made the students come in. I guess this means memorial day is a work day for me then since that's what I have next.

Happy Easter to anyone who celebrates it.

[The Great Carouser]

Originally posted by lliam:
...over 200 million are sold annually, 3 for every person in the UK.

Only 3? Like Fruit and Nut myself. Wish they'd do dark chocolate.

Darn, if I'd kept to my plan, I'd have an extra 25 posts now!!

[lliam]

quote by: The Great Carouser

Wish they'd do dark chocolate.
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Hi The Great Carouser, Cadbury do make a dark chocolate, its called, 'Cadburys Bournville'

Their easter eggs are filled with, chocolate buttons and all the other tasty chocolate products.

Bytheway, while I think about it, I hope you guys with dogs and cats know that, any chocolate for us humans is poisonous for our pets, I get my chocs from the pet shop for my pooch.

[The Great Carouser]

Thanks, LLiam. Haven't seen Bournville here, maybe a specialty shop or a internet search will allow me some without crossing the AO.

[lliam]

Yeah, maybe if you start here:

http://www.britishdelights.com/easter_2004.htm

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[The Great Carouser]

"Yes, LLiam, those links look very promising",he replied, drooling. (insert drooling graemlin here. ED)

[treebeau]

Originally posted by piqaboo:
...Some people eat these toxic yellow pseudomarshmallow creations called "peeps" (they look like chicks cut out like paperdolls in a continuous strand). Recently peeps have branched out into lilac, pale blue and pink. Erk.
...

I think I would wet my pants if I went to a Halloween party and saw someone dressed up like a Peep.

Regards,
Tim B.

[barfle]

"Easter Egg" is a term used by programmers to indicate a feature that is not immediately obvious. Some of us have seen the Windows 95 screen saver that lists the names of several volcanos when you select the Marquee display, and type in "volcanos" as the text.

DVDs are known to be great places for easter eggs. Poking around in the menu screen, every once in a while you get something highlit that doesn't fit with the selection menu. When you select it, you get some kind of a program that they didn't tell you about. It's usually an outtake or something like that, but they are just as much fun to look for as the ones that come from hens.

A few hints to get you started.

[lliam]

Blimey, it's a week or two earlier this year but, it's Easter again this Friday. 'Happy Easter' to everyone who celebrates it.

[Serenity]

Blimey evolved from "blind me".

[Serenity]

Love your Easter greeting OT!

[lliam]

On the subject of evolution Serenity, what did, 'cor stone a crows' evolve from?

[lioness]

i almost forgot.. a happy Equinox to all!

OT... GREAT PICTURE!!!!
ROFL!!!!



btw... Reese's peanut butter eggs are THE easter food!!!

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