Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
With costs high and supplies short, people are getting creative with Easter egg traditions.
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Do people not use chocolate eggs for this? Is anybody still boiling actual chicken eggs?
More importantly, do I care? Is this news?
Thanks for the heads-up.
I'm gonna boil chocolate eggs this year, like a normal person.Why would you dye a chocolate egg?
and also how
A thin layer of colored chocolate?
You don't dye them, you buy them wrapped in colorful paper.
Not that anybody bothers with an egg hunt anymore over here, people just give these to kids directly now. Sometimes they're chocolate bunnies instead because everybody knows who the real star is and chocolate tastes better than boiled eggs.
Where are you that you don't do Easter egg hunts anymore? They're still pretty popular in my part of the Midwest US. Hell, it's not even a religious thing anymore haha
I'm not in the US. I haven't done an Easter egg hunt in my life. "Easter eggs" have always been a chocolate treat. The thing I remember most from Easter as a child was the big fair that set up camp in town, and by extension the food I remember the most are caramel apples and candy floss. My grandma would make meringue pies and yes, there were some chocolate eggs and bunnies changing hands when other relatives came over.
And lots of pork.
We always dyed real eggs and hunted a mix of the real eggs and the plastic ones with candy in them.
When I was growing up I never connected that we always had a special "breakfast for dinner" the night before Easter. What was happening is that my parents would carefully crack one end of a dozen eggs to preserve the majority of the shell, and wash them. After lightly baking the empty shells to make sure they were dry/sanitary, my dad would fill them with a candy mix (M&Ms, Skittles, peanuts, mints) then seal the egg with royal icing and dry. These eggs would be hidden in random places throughout the house. Little kid me never questioned the arrival of the eggs, but enjoyed smashing the shell and spilling the candy out.
By the time I had kids, the best I could muster is plastic shells we would fill with candy and toys. My kids still had fun and I just reused the shells year after year.
That is extremely cute but also the exact reason people just buy the chocolate ones these days.