No. No, they're not.
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Speak for yourself. My local church who does Sunday Easter was begging for financial donations and egg donations.
One of the "threats" was using potatoes or rocks.
They're concerned because next year, the free egg hunt might be a paid event.
I honestly don't remember a family or church event that didn't use the plastic ones unless we were doing egg art as kids.
Candy beats a room temp egg that's been sitting in a random spot for hours hands down.
Boiled eggs that kids paint and then hidden on the church grounds is the norm where I am.
It's 3 two hour events with different age groups. Eggs are rarely sitting around for longer than that.
Okay? Eggs are expensive right now because church people thought the literal embodiment of Satan would make a good president. The least they could do is pivot to plastic eggs and shut the fuck up about it.
Lets not be hyperbolic.
Anti-Christ, not Satan.
There are plastic fucking eggs that have been used in 99% of all Easter egg hunts since plastic eggs were made. Tell your church to fill them with candy and cheap toys and quit acting like shit heads over it
Being dramatic about self-victimization does seem very on-brand
Strong depression vibes
So when are we getting colorful flour sacks for children's clothing again
This is stupid. No one is dying potatoes.
Videos on how to dye marshmallows, potatoes and even onions have begun to circulate on social media and news websites.
You’re right. Only asshole influencers or whatever you want to call them are making these videos for clicks.
Americans: doing jokes about our lack of a very important food product is very inappropriate and immoral!
Irish: you want some potatoes with those eggs?
Waste of food either way. I don’t know of hardly anyone that ate the eggs after dyeing anyway.
Edit: apparently I was surrounded by odd people that didn’t eat the eggs.
My family always did..
I don't know anyfamily who didn't eat most if not all of the died eggs after or around Easter.
My family always did as well. Eggs goldenrod with rainbow whites.
i'm curious what regions people not eating the eggs are from. we always ate the eggs and so did everyone i know
We have been painting wood eggs, one per person, per year, for over a decade. Reuse them every year and every year the hunt gets longer.
That's a way better tradition. Bet you got a nice set of eggs
We're doing the same thing! Only been 2 years so far but excited to see the collection grow!
Your 37 year old child: dad please we have enough eggs and I have to be at work in 45 minutes
You: YOU CAN LEAVE WHEN YOU FIND THEM ALL
Pretty much. There’s like 60 of them now. Can’t remember whereTF we put them all
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There's a lot to unpack here:
- This is going to be one of things future generations look back on like we look back at the Great Depression (I'm trying not to think about Great Depression 2)
- The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
- Why can't people just use the reusable plastic eggs? Bonus is you can put candy inside.
Edit: Okay, thank you. Apparently we just did "Easter Eggs" wrong growing up.
The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
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.
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.
um. you eat the dyed eggs. did your family just toss em?
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
... 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?
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