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Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
(www.nytimes.com)
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There's a lot to unpack here:
Edit: Okay, thank you. Apparently we just did "Easter Eggs" wrong growing up.
um. you eat the dyed eggs. did your family just toss em?
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?
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
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.
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)
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.
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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"?
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.
That’s unusual. Not usual. People ate those eggs.
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.
I personally don't like hard boiled eggs, so I never ate them. I can't speak for anyone else.
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"
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.
you realise you can eat the dyed eggs, right?
I dunno, I heard eating rainbow eggs makes you gay.
This joker be like:
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.
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.
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.