Eating Easter Eggs
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Easter eggs without additional context also makes me think of the hard boiled and dyed kind.1
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I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!1 -
You could donate to your local food bank and pop some other necessary extras in whilst you’re at it. I’m sure they would be very much appreciated.1
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I eat the ones that are my favorite and I really enjoy, usually spread out as like 1 or 2 as lunch desserts over a week or two. Any of them that I'm more indifferent about and therefore not really worth the calories, I try to share at work. I keep a candy bowl at my desk for sharing that doesn't tempt me, or put them in our break area and they disappear.0
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »
Do you have Easter egg hunts, and if so, what are you hunting for? (In the U.S. in my experience it would generally be decorated bird's eggs or plastic or wooden things that look at least a little a like a decorated bird's egg, possibly with sweet treats inside.)0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.
Me too. We got chocolate as a kid (and I'm aware of things like peeps), and might have had an Easter party with sweets, but never sweet Easter eggs. (There were chocolate bunnies I always wanted but my mom didn't get.)
But the sweets element mostly was geared to kids in my family.0 -
A lot of churches around here make and sell chocolate covered peanut butter and coconut eggs. Much better than Reeses. I've had 2 peanut butter and one coconut egg this year and am probably done eating Easter candy. I like the malted milk robin eggs, but can avoid buying any. No kids at home to have Easter baskets of candy.1
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »It's interesting to me that for so many people "Easter egg" seems to mean something chocolate. I wonder if this is something that differs regionally? I'm in the U.S., on the east coast, and I would always think Easter egg meant a bird's egg dyed or decorated for Easter -- unless somebody actually said chocolate egg, or talked about sweets, or some other context that made me question whether they were talking about bird's eggs.
I wonder if part of the conversational trend on this thread is that we'd rather talk about chocolate eggs (something many of us limit) vs. hard-boiled eggs (something many of us see and eat very often).
FWIW: "Easter egg" first means hard-boiled/dyed to me, but I only typed about chocolate ones above, because . . . chocolate!
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »
Do you have Easter egg hunts, and if so, what are you hunting for? (In the U.S. in my experience it would generally be decorated bird's eggs or plastic or wooden things that look at least a little a like a decorated bird's egg, possibly with sweet treats inside.)
Not in my childhood, but that might be regional, religious or even class based.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.
I’m in Australia where Easter is definitely associated with eating too many chocolate eggs! Sorry I just assumed the rest of the English speaking world would be the same - did not even occur to me to explain I didn’t mean hard boiled eggs!
Australian here too.
Yes easter eggs definitely means chocolate ones here.
Some people do the dyed decorated hard boiled eggs - but a general conversation about easter eggs would mean chocolate ones.
It wouldnt need to be specified, everyone would assume chocolate.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »
Do you have Easter egg hunts, and if so, what are you hunting for? (In the U.S. in my experience it would generally be decorated bird's eggs or plastic or wooden things that look at least a little a like a decorated bird's egg, possibly with sweet treats inside.)
Next after hard boiled eggs, "Easter eggs" to me means the plastic ones that you can open and fill with candy, which my younger brother said our parents did, however I have no memory of this so it may have started when I was out of the house.
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I’m amazed at adults being excited about Easter goodies. I’ve always thought Easter was just a candy grab for little kids. I think in my family, Easter faded away about the time that trick or treating at Halloween did.2
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I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
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I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't only eat a non standard cup reeeses. I don't miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off better when you change the shape.
FIFY :flowerforyou:4 -
I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
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WinoGelato wrote: »I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
Oh man, obviously chocolate and peanut butter...yum...but the peanut butter part is overpowering in the non cup shape.1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
This is the correct answer. I don't really like the normal size and won't eat the eggs at all, but I enjoy a mini.1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
This is the correct answer. I don't really like the normal size and won't eat the eggs at all, but I enjoy a mini.
I don’t like the normal size, eggs, or miniatures. The unwrapped minis, though, I love. They do taste different. Ratio of chocolate to peanut butter as another poster mentioned. Bigger ones seem overly sweet to me. Cadbury Creme eggs are overly sweet to me also👎🏻1
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