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.
Did you know if you leave potato's out in the sun they turn green and create a neurotoxin called solanine? If ingested it can cause illness, nerve damage, even death!
In WWII women forced to cook for Nazis would put green potatos in the soldiers soup and could kill or disable a whole unit if done right. And the symptoms are very similar to regular food poisoning so it often was just overlooked as just spoiled food.
And if green potato's start to rot the gas is also lethal, so some rotten potato's hidden in an enclosed space like a bedroom can do the job too.
Know your history.
I pity The Onion's writers.
Time to start reporting sane news instead
"US President has an uneventful Thursday and doesn't crash the world economy".
Great Depression vibes
Make America Great Depression Again
Dying potatoes
There’s an Irish famine joke in here somewhere.
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Too soon?
All I have is a modified Irish joke:
How many eggs does it take to kill a democracy?Spoiler
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There are no potatoes in your Irish Famine joke.
this spoiler system is awkward\
you mean coming soon :::
edit: need assistance with spoilers
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?
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.
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.
Seems that expensive potatoes are next.
I'm not even sorry to laugh out loud at the title.
The whole point of Easter eggs is they are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, with further symbolism being found in the hard shell of the egg symbolizing the sealed Tomb of Christ—the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead. Dyeing potatoes is not Christian tradition.
It's not Christian, it was appropriated from other cultures/religions.
Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox - a very pagan way of calculating things.
Compared to the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church calculates Easter differently.
So.. you're saying its blasphemy and we can burn or stone the potato dying people right?
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Ha ha ha ha. Of course not. I was just stating a fact, it turns out that it's something that offends Americans.
Sounds like some people are going to hell then.
Tradition is anchor of civilization. And civilization is madness.