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.
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.
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?
… 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?
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.