Do Americans eat actual chicken eggs for Easter?

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Kyauphie@reddit

I'm allergic to eggs, so my eggs were plastic, but I would hardboil eggs to decorate and give them to my father or cousins growing up.

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Toosder@reddit

Hell yeah! Egg salad sandwiches for days. So good.

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Hard boiled before we dye the eggs

This year I used our boiled eggs to make deviled eggs after we dyed them to make sure they got used up

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SpaceFroggy1031@reddit

So it depends. A lot of Latino folks will crack the egg, so that there is a clean hole on one end and drain the raw egg out. They will then dye or paint the shell, fill it with confetti and close the hole with tissue paper. Everyone else just hard boils them before dying/ painting. And yes, we do eventually eat them.

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Prize_Jicama2905@reddit

I grew up hating hard boiled eggs so we would still decorate and then when it was done we would give them to grandma 😅

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Dangerous-Radish6017@reddit

My family dyes hard boiled eggs, this is typical in the US. We like to use white crayons to create patterns on the eggs. We bring them home and eat them over the span of a few days. Chocolate eggs are just chocolates shaped like eggs, either with a colorful candy coating or a decorative wrapper. Usually we’d go to my grandpa’s house, the parents would give us all Easter baskets with plastic eggs filled with candy, then they’d hide the other plastic eggs with candy in the yard. We’d all go look for them, and for our family everyone had the same amount. Some families just have all the kids try and find as many as they could, but mine liked to make it more fair for us. We’d eat food together and dye eggs. Lots of fun!

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ohfuckthebeesescaped@reddit

the 4th of July [is] only an American thing

This is how we always did it too. Finding the eggs would escalate in difficulty/effort depending on what was inside; the easy ones scattered around the yard were candy, while you had to really sleuth around to find the ones with the big bills. The hundred was always the hardest to find and a lot of years it never was! Lol

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amd2800barton@reddit

a lot of years it never was

Smart. Put out a $100 bill only every few years, but say there is always one.

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datagirl60@reddit

That would turn into a wrestling match 🤣

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2quila@reddit

I went to and Easter party where along with regular eggs... they hid some of the plastic eggs and mixed the two colored sides on a number of them...

You would hunt the eggs but were not allowed to open them yet.

When done..everyone would sit around some tables. He would get out his list and then a question was asked... Like... does anyone have a.. yellow green egg? That person would stand and show the egg... Then they guy would say I'll give you $5 for that egg.. or whatever amount... But.. you didn't know what was in it and had to make the choice.. keep it or trade it...could have been a single dollar inside... A 5.. a 10... 20.. etc...

Kind of a 'let's make a deal' situation. And as he progressed down the list.. usually the dollar amounts he offered would go up... But you still didn't know what was in the egg. Usually one egg had a $100 in it.

My son (now 6) loves the Easter egg hunt in his grandparents' yard. Hard boiled eggs as well, but he's always loved it so much he wants to re-hide the eggs multiple times for other people to hunt. That didn't go so well with the hard boiled eggs, most of them ended up cracked with dirt in them haha

So now there's a mix of hard boiled eggs and chocolate eggs. The hard boiled ones are reserved for the table after first find, and he can hide the chocolate ones as often as he likes.

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JadedDreams23@reddit

My grandson hunted for his (plastic) eggs, then hid them for his dad and mom and grandpa to find lol

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Dreamweaver5823@reddit

I'm a little older than you, and we actually hunted boiled eggs too, though ours were hidden around the house.

I'm 40 now, but when I was a kid, I got a similar basket to you. The first year, I was so excited by my chocolate bunny that I took it sleep with me. As you might imagine, a chocolate bunny being hugged all night doesn't survive. I woke up covered in melted chocolate and started crying.

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LakeWorldly6568@reddit

Durkey's

Or if I'm feeling exotic peanut butter and Sriracha.

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I haven found any business sources making the claim. Literally ever report cites the reddit post.

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doc_skinner@reddit

The reddit post with the screenshot of the email from the company?

I would love it if it's not true, because I am down to my last bottle. But no grocery store in the city has it in stock and when I ask they all say they are unable to order it. It might be the wholesaler. I hope so.

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LakeWorldly6568@reddit

We can't confirm a dark mode typed message with no company letterhead to be authentic.

You would think those articles citing the reddit post would have reached out to the company.

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doc_skinner@reddit

You might not take my word for it this time, but I got a reply from the company. Word for word the same language as in the other reddit post (light mode this time). The only difference is that this time I have a reference number (and the customer service person is named Val).

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B&G Foods Consumer Affairs Reference Number: 1156216

CorporateConsumerAffairs@bgfoods.com

7:33 AM (58 minutes ago)

Thank you for taking the time to contact us. We appreciate hearing from our consumers and welcome comments and questions.

We are sorry to inform you that our Durkee Famous Sauce has been discontinued. It is not a decision we took lightly and we will be passing along your comments to our Sales and Marketing Teams. Please check out our website for alternative products, you can visit us at http://www.bgfoods.com/.

Thank you for your interest and for being a loyal consumer!

Sincerely,

Val

Corporate Consumer Affairs

B&G Foods, Inc.

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doc_skinner@reddit

It's not listed on their web site https://durkee.com/ They refer people looking for their products to an online shopping site called Pantryful. It's not there either.

Same way my mom used to make lasagna. My dad loved canned spinach all over his layers, but my sister and I absolutely did not. She'd do hslf and half. Fast forward 20+ years, I love spinach but I'll take it on the side amd cooked differently. And definitely not canned, Popeye the sailor man made all spinach look bad!

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HippieGrandma1962@reddit

I honestly don't think I could be in a relationship with someone who didn't like cheese. The pasta salad sounds amazing! Can I have the recipe?

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kat_storm13@reddit

Greek Pasta Salad

Makes 12 servings

8 ounces elbow macaroni (8 oz uncooked)

1/2 cup red onion, cut vertically into thin slivers

1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper

1 large cucumber, peeled, cut lengthwise into quarters, then thinly sliced

2 large tomatoes, chopped

12 pitted black olives, sliced (Or Kalamata)

3/4 cup feta cheese, crumbled into small pieces (4 1/2 ounces weight)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil (or very light-tasting extra-virgin olive oil)

2 tablespoons water

2 1/2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

2 teaspoons dried oregano Salt to taste

Freshly ground pepper (lots!)

Cook macaroni according to package directions. Drain, rinse under cold water, and drain again

Place cooked macaroni in a large bowl. Add onion, bell pepper, cu-cumber, tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese. Mix well

In a small bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Pour over pasta and mix well. (Personally I just mix the remaining ingredients in the large bowl & then put in the other stuff. Saves from having to clean one more dish)

Chill several hours or overnight to blend flavors. Stir occasionally

Serve cold

Here's a hilarious video about how to make them: https://youtube.com/shorts/jSCkt5Rwe5k?si=PkdmnOOeFjWMO_z4

You should try “with child salad”

I mean the OP was explicitly asking about painted eggs, so I assumed a comment not specifying otherwise was about painted eggs.

I dye hard boiled eggs as well.

And no, as English as possible. Southern, family been here since the colonies.

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Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit

Well, lots of people talk about “painting eggs,” but they’re really dyeing them.

Also, having a Slavic background doesn’t mean you’re not American. I grew up in an area that had lots of Americans of Slavic descent.

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FlamingDragonfruit@reddit

And no, I have no idea anything about Slavic cultures. I’m American, not Slavic.

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hiketheworld2@reddit

Threads like these are the most American answers of all - pepper, soy, plain, deviled (could probably have a thread on what to put in deviled eggs), egg salad, ramen, hot sauce, Old Bay

There are occasionally unifying themes - but the answer is almost always “it depends”

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greeneggiwegs@reddit

I have a deviled egg cookbook so yes the options are vast lol

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jazzminarino@reddit

This entire thread is blowing my mind.

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TooManyDraculas@reddit

It's also more common to use plastic, hollow eggs that you fill with candy these days.

Growing up, while we painted a few for the fun of painting them. We actually did a jelly bean hunt instead of an egg hunt. And once the plastic eggs became a thing my parents and grandparents went hard on it.

Growing up, decorating hard boiled eggs was for little kids. Once you got to 7 or 8, you had to poke a tiny hole in each end and blow the egg’s guts out of one hole by using your mouth on the other. Bonus was that they didn’t rot. Downsides: broke a few eggs, probably not sanitary, but meh.

No_Ice_Please@reddit

Man I really learned something from these comments. I'm fron South Texas and had absolutely no idea people were out here painting boiled eggs. I think maybe I'd heard or seen of it once, but didnt realize it was so prevalent and that's what they hide for the egg hunts. Here, the egg hunts are always done with the plastic, candy-filled egg.

Being that Mexican culture is so ubiquitous here, we paint 'cascarones' (literally eggshells in Spanish). The top of the egg is broken, egg is used for cooking, inside is washed out. Egg is dyed different colors, filled with confetti, the top is covered with a small peice of crepe paper and glue, and then on Easter we crack them in each other's heads as a game/celebration.

Firm-Emu6384@reddit

who knows haha

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bovely_argle-bargle@reddit

originated in the Middle East

Well damn, learn something new everyday

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elderly_millenial@reddit

Yup. Can confirm this from my immigrant parents. No hunting for eggs, no Easter bunny, but they did color eggs

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Agreeable-Sun368@reddit

OP is Chilean from her post history, so she comes from a country that has a lot of European influence and celebrates Easter. However, it's a much bigger deal in Spain and Latin America to give chocolate eggs. So that makes sense that she would not have a ton of familiarity with the practice.

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Kaurifish@reddit

My mom learned how to do Psanky from a Ukranian neighbor when she was a kid and that’scwhat I grew up doing.

Scrolled to far for this. Ha. Exactly how we did them. Had to hold them down in the dye for it to take, or draw on them with markers.

Still have many childhood eggs from the late 70s/early 80s.

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Lots_of_Trouble@reddit

We’d draw on them with white crayons, and then dye, and the crayon lines would stay white. Sort of a batik process. We got the egg out of the shell by blowing on the end of the egg with the smaller pin hole. I always got dizzy.

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I went to a HUGE family Easter dinner one year. They hard oiled 7 dozen eggs and colored each set of 12 a different color of the rainbow. So pretty and yummy.

When I was super little, I would go to my grandmother's and egg hunt. I'd bust the shell off as and eat the hard boiled egg while hunting.

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Grrrandma@reddit

this is the first year i didn't make the annual easter plate of dickled eggs. they're jus regular deviled eggs, but embellished with little smokies cut into phallic shapes. i had a root canal instead this year.

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DockEllis313@reddit

I had Szechuan noodles and it might have had an egg in it. Did not celebrate the fictional zombie.

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madelmire@reddit

We hard boiled them and dyed them. Then we just have a bowl of eggs in the fridge that are colorful and available to snack on.

Over time the dye starts to league on to each other with the moisture of the fridge. Or leaks into a paper towel.

Sometimes people would get very annoyed if you ate one of "their" eggs that they took particular care for decorating.

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uruiamme@reddit

The egg thing is so bad that Jews and some Christians put eggs on their Passover meal and claim that no one knows why it's there.

I know why.

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Shadow_Lass38@reddit

I hate eggs, too, especially hard boiled eggs. How do you eat anything that smells that bad?

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Lonsen_Larson@reddit

I didn't, I didn't care for boiled eggs. My father however, always turned them into egg salad and devoured them that way.

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Yes, we're making deviled eggs right now out of our colored Easter eggs! And the kids did get chocolate eggs in their baskets this morning (Ferrero Rocher this year). Finally, we put jellybeans in plastic eggs and hide them in the yard for the little kids to go find.

We live in California now, but all of that has been the way we celebrated since when I was a kid in New York and my wife was growing up in Texas.

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Layla5069@reddit

My husband does not. He had plastic eggs full of candy. Easter bunny and all that.

I do eat actual chicken eggs, usually dyed with onion skins. No bunnies or chocolate for me, but I don't think I've ever been upset about it. I get better food and desserts than my husband ever did.

My husband grew up in the south. I grew up in the pacific, but I am half Greek and celebrate orthodox easter.

I think us chicken egg eaters are the odd ones out.

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tiny_purple_Alfador@reddit

Depending on the kind of dye you used, sometimes it would seep through the shell and dye the boiled egg inside as well. My aunt used to take our decorated eggs after the hunt and make egg salad with them.

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riskyplumbob@reddit

Dude… my kids attended an egg hunt yesterday and smashed eggs all over a willing man’s head for fun.

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krustykatzjill@reddit

Deviled eggs were what we made, egg salad or potato salad

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ImpressiveAide3381@reddit

I’m sorry some of the responses are unkind. That is not needed.

Weak. I eat my boiled eggs with the shells and chocolate eggs with the foil, as God intended!

glazed or candied ham, hotcross buns, and deviled eggs are traditional american easter foods.

My work had an Easter party on Wednesday. My boss hid like 200 eggs in the warehouse that had everything from candy to gift cards to cash to lotto tickets. There were also boxes of sour patch kids.

We were told we could get 5 total and once we picked them up, we had to take it because some people will always take too much or pick through, but it was pretty fun.

I got 2 $10 gift cards, one to taco bell and one to starbucks, and some candy.

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AnchoviePopcorn@reddit

That’s awesome. What a good boss.

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justalittleloopi@reddit

Oh, yeah, she's great. We have company wide parties during work hours every 2 months, fully catered, plus our front office area gets lunch for people's birthday, so we joke about how the newly hired people have to have birthday's in certain months so the lunches can be spread more evenly lol

BlueRubyWindow@reddit

In the 90s, all the easter egg hunts I observed used coins, if they used money at all. Finding a quarter was lucky. Sometimes there were a few with a $1 bill.

It’s only in around 2015 I started seeing $1 eggs. Just in the last few years $5- and the quarters are still around, too.

And regardless, mostly candy or little toys, not money.

Just another perspective.

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jazzminarino@reddit

Even Easter egg hunts have been affected by inflation! 🙃 You're absolutely right- I remember getting change in mine as a child.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

One can get $1 coins.

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gard3nwitch@reddit

Yeah, $10s and $100s are pretty generous!

Firstly, Easter Egg hunts aren't unique to the US.

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molehunterz@reddit

I was sad to learn this. I thought I was going to bring some fun to my older brother's kids. Brought over some eggs and some die kits.

My niece was confused. Maybe even a little Disturbed. My nephew was excited! But also very confused. She just said, why?

He said what do you do with them? I said you hide them and then other people go find them. And then he looks at me and says, and then exchange them for candy or money?

I had no idea this wasn't a thing anymore :/

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Megalocerus@reddit

We did plastic eggs even back when I was little (1960s.) Candy and small change.

But we also dyed eggs, and tried to be artistic with the white crayon and dipping in different colors part way. Those were served for breakfast. A couple of times, I blew out eggs so they could keep them because I sometimes wanted to keep my own--but they are very fragile.

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Megalocerus@reddit

When I have kid guests for Easter, they are usually all different ages. I give the kids colors (or two tones, depending on the number of kids), and they have to find their own colors. I'm not totally good about remembering where I put them, but when one youngster proved less adept and couldn't find one of their eggs, I made up another and snuck it into the yard. It's just plastic eggs with candy in them.

StanleyQPrick@reddit

"I know some of you were well into your teens when you realized the 4th of July was only an American thing"

Ridiculous

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LostInFandoms@reddit

You know I had the same exact question when I was a kid 😂

The eggs are hard-boiled and THEN they're dip-dyed in a liquid made of vinegar & food coloring -- which often will tinge the hard-boiled egg white & yolk a bit through the shell, since chicken shells are semi-pereable.

We would always cover the kitchen table with newspaper and all of us would sit and dye about 3 dozen eggs (I have 10 siblings so mom had to make some for each of us to dye). The next morning the Easter Bunny would have taken one of your eggs that you made out of the bowl in the fridge and put it in your Easter basket before he hid it. Usually we would eat that hard boiled egg as our breakfast while we showered and got cleaned up for 11:00 Mass. at our Easter brunch afterward they would all sit on a lovely crystal bowl in the middle of the table. Mom would keep maybe a dozen just for snacking with salt and pepper, while the rest went into potato salad.

As others have said, we hard boil the eggs before coloring them.

patterns_everywhere_@reddit

We hard-boil them, paint them, then peel them and eat them.

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Why would an Aussie wonder why there isn't a 4th of July episode?

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Aussiechimp@reddit

Its the Americans wondering it. That's the point.

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Far-Slice-3821@reddit

I was trying to get Sledheadjack to realize that.

Tailoring messages to one user on an open forum is a fool's game I can't quit.

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Sledheadjack@reddit

I fail to understand how I am in the wrong here… but, this IS reddit, after all, so… 🙄

I am well aware that Independence Day (AKA The 4th of July) is a holiday ONLY CELEBRATED IN THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

As such, I certainly don’t expect other countries to know about it, respect it or celebrate it.

Just like I don’t celebrate other countries/religions holidays, like… meh, I’m not even going to bother mentioning them, because I don’t care!

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Far-Slice-3821@reddit

To start: this is not meant as a gotcha. I misspeak or misunderstand All. The. Time. So I start with the assumption that autocorrect or a misreading confused me. When I can't find my mistake I ask questions to clarify my understanding or the other person's thinking.

As to where you might be wrong:

Well… that only means the Aussies are uninformed then… or the fools that let screens babysit their kids

The previous comment had been an example of Americans discussing an Australian show and wondering why there wasn't a 4th of July episode.

What is the "that" which means Australians are uninformed?

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Aussiechimp@reddit

Gotcha, sorry

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Aussiechimp@reddit

Its Americans on the bluey sub

They also ask "Why isnt there a Thanksgiving episode"

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Hammer_of_Shawn@reddit

If you’re getting your facts and stats from people on Reddit, you need to go outside.

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Sledheadjack@reddit

Or in “reddit speak” touch grass

LMFAO…

AS IF anyone on reddit knows what grass is

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Hammer_of_Shawn@reddit

Well I’m a fuckin adult who had to even Google what Bluey was. It doesn’t surprise me that young people these days are very stupid though.

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Far-Slice-3821@reddit

Who the hell didn’t know the 4th of July was only an American thing until in their teens?

Technical-Sector407@reddit

Bacon and paprika Holmes!

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Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit

Honestly I never ate the real eggs we painted.

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Bulky-Bath740@reddit

I keep them raw, after painting I smash and rub them all over my body in a bath tub. Happy Easter everyone!

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Lovebeingadad54321@reddit

Hard boiled. We usually turn them Into egg salad, and make sandwiches for lunch all week.

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Stock-Cell1556@reddit

You can also drill a small hole in both ends of the egg and blow on one end to get the egg to come out the other end. Then you wash the eggshells and dye them. Then you use a long needle to put thread through the holes and tie the ends. Then you cut some branches of some kind of blooming bush, like forsythia, put them in a pitcher or large vase, and hang the eggs from them to make an Easter Egg Tree.

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_that_dude_J@reddit

Same, the eggs were left outside to be discovered by children. As the day sets the sunshine can sit on that egg for awhile. On a pleasant Easter, it's terrible to get food poisoning.

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jreashville@reddit

We usually make egg salad out of them.

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Gymnastkatieg@reddit

It’s hard boiled eggs people dye, and yeah, they’re food so they usually get eaten at some point. My family colors fake eggs (texture and shape/size of chicken eggs, but man-made and lightweight) instead. I think it started because I was very sentimental and cried whenever someone tried to eat a decorated hard boiled egg when I was little, but the fake ones are pretty popular too.

Mag-NL@reddit

Not just Americans. Europeans do this as well.

It is a long standing European tradition to eat eggs at easter.

Faberge?

Human?

I fail to understand your issue with this, unless you are some kind of weird vegan…

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nova_noveiia@reddit

They answered this elsewhere, but in OPs country they don’t eat hard boiled eggs for Easter. Instead, they eat chocolate eggs.

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Initial_Welder3674@reddit

I don’t see anyone on here mentioning EGG WARS!

You guys are missing out!

In an Egg War each person chooses an Easter egg (dyed, hard boiled) to compete with. You each old your egg in one hand with the tops facing each other.

Chant together “One Two Three Four I declare an egg WAR! GO!”

Then one person hits the small end of their egg on the same end of that persons egg. One will crack, one will not. Then you turn your eggs around and it on the other side.

If it’s a tie then you hit the non- cracked sides together to determine the winner!

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FarFarAway7337@reddit

My mother made pickled beets and eggs. Almost everyone liked eating the pickled eggs. They are hard-boiled, then peeled, then put into pickling liquid with beets and onion slices. After a couple of days the eggs' whites turn red. You can eat them that way or halve and make deviled eggs out of them.

keebler71@reddit

Anyone else weirded out by how the OP calls them "chicken eggs"? I don't want to be ignorant but what other types of eggs are people commonly eating?!

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piaa9@reddit (OP)

I put "chicken eggs" because I wanted to avoid misunderstandings, to me easter egg = chocolate egg, to you guys easter egg = painted chicken egg, calling them just "easter egg" on the post would have been confusing

I've never try them myself but I know that in some countries people eat eggs from ostrich, emu, quail, fish (caviar), duck and a bunch of other animals.

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TheReallyAngryOne@reddit

A little late but Easter was my heaven on Earth time. See the grandparents would do a Easter egg hunt with hard boiled eggs. We'll grandpa would buy waaaay too many eggs so grandma would make her deviled eggs. These were soooooo delicious. Easter was the only holiday I could gorge myself on these heavenly things. Other holidays I was allowed two enforced with a very accurate wooden spoon. Its been 26 years since I last had any and I can still remember the taste.

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tcrhs@reddit

Yes. I love eating Easter eggs.

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Henry_Fleischer@reddit

We hard boil them, and eat them over the next few days. What the kids get excited about is candy in plastic eggs.

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Dalton387@reddit

For us, the dyed eggs were sacrificial eggs for the kids. You hard boil them so they don’t break easy, but then they’re left out at unsafe temps, hidden in the yard to “hunt”, etc.

We often have eggs on holidays, but it’s deviled eggs, and they’re cooked to be eaten. Kept cold after they’re made.

we do both honestly. hard boiled dyed eggs for hunting and eating, plus chocolate eggs in baskets. i hated boiled eggs as a kid too. my mom started hiding reusable plastic eggs filled with candy and little toys instead. way less mess and no wasted food. chocolate easter bunnies are a solid backup too. kids don't care what shape the sugar comes in.

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Glassfern@reddit

So I grew up in an interesting neighborhood

I had friends where they painted eggs raw and half the fun for them was can you paint or color them without breaking them

I had friends who would create a hole on either side of the egg and blow out the yolk and whites then cover the hole with tissue paper and glue then paint them

Then I had friends who hard boiled the eggs and painted them.

Then one year they all decide that they'd hide a mix of these eggs. Person with the most whole eggs won.

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piaa9@reddit (OP)

Second option seems like the most enjoyable to me.

TIL that Americans boil their eggs before dyeing them!

I (Canadian) grew up doing the pinholes to blow out the egg method before dyeing them. My mum would use the egg yolk/white for omelettes. Blowing out the eggs can give you a headache so we would only do one or two each. Stores would sell little kits with the dye to use for the eggs. I think we used to draw designs on them with crayons first. It was a fun Easter craft.

What part of the world do you live in that you're asking *the Americans*? Asia?

In Europe it's the same. Christians took the celebration of Ostara and included the eggs in Easter under the story that Mary Magdalene (not THAT one) had a basket of eggs that she put on the ground at the foot of the cross Jesus was crucified on, and the eggs got red with his blood. Initially eggs were only dyed red but as time went by they got colored and painted in many colors. So it's pretty much a tradition all over the Christian world.

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LeatherDescription26@reddit

The eggs are boiled, then we eat them.

I feel like it’d be a waste to paint the eggs to not eat them.

Also it helps that Christian tradition prohibits meat consumption around that time. Eggs aren’t considered meat in said tradition because by meat they mean flesh.

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Still_Bumblebee_1607@reddit

We used to put a small hole on either end of the egg and “blow” the white and yolk out. We saved them for breakfast the next morning either as scrambled eggs or into pancake batter. By emptying the eggs, we did not have any stinky surprises a week+ later.

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Kayki7@reddit

We use hard boiled eggs to color. Then they go into the baskets Easter morning, and then back into the fridge after kids find their basket. It’s mostly tradition at this point. We occasionally will eat a hard boiled egg, but we usually end up making egg salad with the colored eggs.

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bloobityblu@reddit

The dye is also food dye and non-toxic (well, as much as any dye can be).

I also hated hard-boiled eggs as a kid and was unenthusiastic about actually eating them. Decorating them, fun. Hunting them, fun.

And I much preferred the plastic candy-filled eggs, or nice chocolate eggs lol.

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stumbletoe@reddit

Where are you from?

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AutomaticNovel2153@reddit

OPs calendar goes from the third to the fifth

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Veggie-Fajitas@reddit

You can also prick holes in each end of a raw egg and blow on the smaller hole to empty the egg. Rinse them, air dry, and then dye them. That way you can keep them as decorations and don’t have to eat hard boiled eggs. We did this growing up and my mom kept them for decades! They looked like they did when we first created them.

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ging3rtabby@reddit

Growing up we dyed and ate them but I also went on egg hunts sponsored by a town or church or whatever that used plastic eggs that come apart that contained "fun sized" candy (bite sized versions of popular candy bars individually wrapped, common around easter and Halloween for trick or treating especially).

Only chocolate eggs are used and we refer to them as Easter eggs, those two terms are synonymous as you can only, officially, buy them this season.

Rich people eat all kinds of unusual or exotic eggs, that's an international thing. >!i bet they would eat women's if they could find a way, some of them are already doing the next best thing 🤷‍♀️!<

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chesbay7@reddit

The Pennsylvania Dutch soak hardboiled eggs in red beets, vinegar and sugar and come up with red beet (or pickled) eggs. They're good. Not as good as deviled eggs, but still good.

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Georgethetuxedocat@reddit

Honestly, I’m American and I’ve always wondered the same thing!

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Ok_Listen1510@reddit

we never ate eggs for easter, we painted eggshells once or twice as kids though. i never knew you COULD east them after painting them…

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Eureecka@reddit

Yes. First we hard boil them, then we color them, then the Easter bunny hides them around the house (and if the Easter bunny is super tired, she better make a map of where all she put the dmn things), and then the kids get up at the ss crack of dawn and - please the gods - find all of the eggs. Then we devil* them and serve them as part of Easter dinner. If Easter bunny did not leave a map, and the kids missed an egg, there’s an all-hands-on-deck emergency hunt to find the missing egg before it has a chance to rot.

there are many ways to color them. I make meringue, put it on a cookie sheet, and have the kid dump food coloring all over it. Then we stir it a little so it marbled and put the eggs in. Roll them around, then put them on a wire screen to set. Other people buy egg coloring sets or use natural dyes (onion skins = yellow brown eggs). (Gloves are HIGHLY recommended. Depending on the kid, maybe a tarp.)

My family dyes eggs most years with food coloring & vinegar. Sometimes we use the dye kits. They would sit on a pretty plate with Easter grass for about a week. Then we would start eating them, ugliest ones first. Most became rainbow egg salad with mayo, celery and mustard powder.

My mom made me an elaborate Easter basket with stuffed animals, wind up chicks, chocolate bunnies, peeps, jelly beans, Cadbury eggs and a bunch of Easter themed toys and small gifts. I got 48 of these. This is my first Easter without one 😭

And then you block me for telling you this. Crazy to get that worked up over Easter eggs.

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Etherbeard@reddit

Because they were dyed the weekend before and left in a pretty basket on the kitchen table.

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Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit

I've never heard of people treating eggs like decorations before.

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Etherbeard@reddit

For us it was because my parents had several kids and we had we lived in the same city as a lot of our cousins, so Easter Day was a big family get together with a big meal and an egg hunt. And every family brought the eggs they'd dyed.

There was no time to dye eggs the day of and there wasn't really room in the fridge to store them, when you're feeding a family of six or seven. We also dyed a lot of eggs because you want everyone to be able to find plenty of eggs during the hunt. You want the younger kids to be able to find seven or eight eggs and have a good time and the older kids to find more and have a fun competition, so we'd probably dye forty eggs or so in my family alone.

Duck eggs were fun but they just dont cook right and theyre a little sweet.

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RevolutionaryWind249@reddit

I haven't celebrated Easter for years but as a child we boiled and dyed eggs. And yes we did eat them.

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Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit

Yes, that's what we did the night before Easter. Food coloring and vinegar, with a little white crayon. So they were safe to eat. We hunted them in the house, and I don't remember any ever being missed or lost. At any rate, we had them for breakfast and lunch until they were gone. (They were only out of the fridge for a few hours during the hunt.)

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pyrrhicchaos@reddit

Dyeing Easter eggs has always been one of my favorite holiday activities. We would get baskets of candies and small toys first thing Easter morning, then get dressed in our Easter clothes and go to church. After church, we would hunt in the yard for the eggs our parents had hidden. The whole family would eat at least some of the hard boiled eggs and sometimes mom would make deviled eggs, which are delicious. We'd eat lunch and then eat some of our Easter candy and play with stuff we got in our baskets.

CandidateExotic9771@reddit

We would hard boil them, crackle the shells but keep the shells on, keep them in food dye over night and then the next day take off the shell and have beautiful spidery died boiled eggs.

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everyoneisflawed@reddit

I know some of you were well into your teens when you realized the 4th of July was only an American thing

Yep! Usually in a variety of ways depending on how many eggs your family dyes and who all eats hard boiled eggs.

Competitive-Dog5094@reddit

we boiled them when I was a kid but never ate them. my mom thought eating some boiled eggs that had been sitting around outside would get us sick so they went in the trash 🤷‍♂️

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RickyNixon@reddit

What? No, the rabbit lays the eggs

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Live-Ad2998@reddit

Chocolate eggs beat all others. If being kept season to season, the egg innards are blown out. People who do this are optimists, they think those delicate shells will last till next year.

hobbes747@reddit

One of these things is true and the other is not 😆

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AnUnexpectedUnicorn@reddit

Usually hard-boiled chicken eggs, but one year, we poked holes in each end and blew out the liquid eggs into a bowl. I think my mom made a custard pie and a quiche out of those eggs, which is kinda gross now that I think about it! Then we rinsed the eggshells (maybe in some bleach?), let them dry, then painted them. We all agreed it was too much hassle to do again, but the eggshells we decorated turned out well. My mom sprayed them with some preservative and we reused them for decorating for quite a long time.

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boomer-rage@reddit

We always made pickled eggs and beets with those we didn’t eat within a couple of days. I think we cooked an extra dozen just to pickle. Add a little vinegar and sugar, maybe cloves, mix them up and wait at least 24 hours before eating.

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tiggipi@reddit

Hardboiled and then colored. I get egg coloring kits on clearance every year after Easter.

Many answers here where they eat the egg. Growing up we would create two small holes, one at the top of the egg and one at the bottom and then "blow" the egg out. This way we can keep the dyed egg year after year! Then we'd also dye some hardboiled ones to crack and eat.

We would always hunt them then take the hard boiled eggs and make deviled eggs to go with Easter dinner

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InevitableRhubarb232@reddit

Eggs are a basic staple for many diets. They are historically cheap, easy to come by, easy to make edible, versatile, and high in protein.

You don't eat the eggs. You drill a small hole in each end of the egg. Then you blow out the fillings. You then decorate the egg shell

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FewRecognition1788@reddit

I am scrolling way too far down without funding a reference to devilled eggs, a popular spring & summer party food.

You take hard boiled eggs (decorated or not), slice them in half longways so you get two long shallow halves.

Pop the yolks out, and you have little cups of solid egg white. Put the yolks into a bowl and mix them up with a binder and seasoning. My mom's recipe was mayonnaise, a little mustard, and sweet pickle relish. But every family has their own twist.

Then you fill up the cup in the egg whites, with a spoon or a piping bag, sprinkle paprika on top, and chill until serving.

Delicious! Great to serve at Easter brunch. A lot of people who don't like plain hard boiled eggs enjoy devilled eggs.

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Sowf_Paw@reddit

This is such a strange question because you ask as if "chicken eggs" are a weird thing to eat.

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Major_Barnacle_2212@reddit

A few options! Hard boiled eggs that are dyed with a food-safe coloring. They’re hidden right out of the fridge before kids wake up and hunt. Then traditionally made into a few different dishes or eaten as-is. I suspect there are a lot of deviled eggs eaten for Easter gatherings.

Recently, as more public gatherings are held away from refrigerators (or where people don’t like eggs), plastic eggs that break into two pieces are filled with small treats - tiny toys, candy, coins, etc.

They can be reused year-to-year, luckily, so it’s not too environmentally harmful.

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Ov_Fire@reddit

Onion peels, herb teas, tree barks, lots of natural dyes.

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Embarrassed_Age8554@reddit

Yellow onion skins give a beautiful brick-red. It's what I'll use to dye our eggs this year.

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marihada@reddit

We used to poke a hole in both ends with a needle and blow the egg out of the shell on some of them, and boil the rest. Then make deviled eggs out of the boiled ones (I’m convinced this is why deviled eggs are an Easter food).

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In the South, we use them to make deviled eggs. They are really popular, especially around Easter. They sell Easter themed egg plates with egg shaped indentations to keep the eggs from sliding around on the plate.

To make, you cut boiled eggs in half, scoop out the yolks into a bowl, mash the yolks with a fork. Mix with mayonnaise, mustard, salt, pepper, maybe a splash of vinegar or pickle juice, and transfer the mixture into a piping bag. Lots of southern families have their own very specific recipe for deviled eggs and very strong opinions about what does or does not go in the yolk mixture. Anyway, pipe the yolk mixture back into the eggs, sprinkle with paprika, and serve.

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Moist_Mixture4518@reddit

That’s wild. I thought everyone knew they were boiled.

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nalonrae@reddit

You'd think. At a school I worked at the kids had to bring a dozen dyed eggs for their Easter Hunt. One parent brought unboiled dyed eggs. We didn't find out until halfway through the egg hunt. After that we had to make sure to say boiled dyed eggs. And then parents would ask why do you need say boiled, so we'd tell them that story.

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WonderfulVariation93@reddit

Throw some apple cider vinegar on hard boiled eggs and I will scarf them down.

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ElaborateCantaloupe@reddit

My family is Armenian. We color eggs by soaking them in vinegar and red onion peels.

https://youtu.be/6qQjpuhYSVc?si=nznG6XgfSNoGhSOq

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bcuket@reddit

we hard boil the egg (so its cooked), then we dye egg, then we eat egg.

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ashleton@reddit

I don't really celebrate Easter anymore, but when I was a kid we did use real, hard boiled eggs that we dyed with vinegar and dye packets. We had the extra challenge of finding the eggs before the dogs did because the dogs would eat them lol. They had to be hidden off the ground as much as possible.

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Yes. They are just hard boiled eggs. The dyes are food safe and on the shell. The egg inside is still good.

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Note: in the past couple decades, the giant rabbit has also started hiding plastic eggs with all manner of stuff inside them. From cool stuff to garbage to money, he sometimes doesn't bother with the chicken eggs and just does the plastic ones, depending on what the people think they can eat egg wise.

I love when he brings eggs because I don't have to make more for deviled eggs that day. But, as with all holidays that involve magical, mythical creatures, he does not come for me, he comes for the good and excitement of the children. And, I guess, to put a couple pounds on them after they finish the baskets of sweets.

Anyhow, why do you ask?

Have chickens passed legislation that makes it illegal to eat their eggs on Easter?

Wouldn't surprise me. Bastards wanted $5 a dozen for their cheap eggs just a year or two ago.

It's like, look...yes, your wings are delicious and you only have 2 of them, while we eat them 50 at a time. Yes your thighs are the best. Your breasts ate fondled more than our partners. Your legs are so juicy and plump Your eggs are not only necessary for making all kinds of food, they might just be the most versatile food item that we have. And y'all are generally happy just eating some crap we threw out. Either that, or you'll eat the poor idiot chicken brethren that got a little boo boo and is bleeding a tiny bit.

All that said, you exist to supply us with these things. Stop thinking you can charge us the same amount that the cows do. You and the pigs are on the same level. The cows are just a step above. I don't make the rules.

My parents used real hard boiled eggs until one year where they hid one of them so well for the Easter egg hunt that no one could find it. That rotten egg smell never goes away.

After that, they used plastic eggs.

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cholaw@reddit

Deviled eggs are on the menu for the next month!

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raceulfson@reddit

We used to call the Monday after Easter Sunday "Egg Salad Sandwich Day".

My late MIL never mowed her backyard until after Easter so the grass would be good and tall and better to hide eggs.

She colored all the eggs green. She used the traditional hard boiled eggs. Family legend has it one year when she hid a dozen but they only found 11 but the next year they found 13.

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9inez@reddit

Most of the eggs that we hunted for as kids were plastic eggs w a treat or coins inside. We maybe only dyed a dozen real ones, split among three kids.

I was always good to eat a couple of hard boiled eggs. My other two eggs would sit in the fridge for another day or my sisters would eat them.

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LopsidedGrapefruit11@reddit

We dye hard boiled eggs and do eat them. My family usually makes deviled eggs or egg salad with them on or after Easter.

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MangaMaven@reddit

We hard-boil them but don't eat them the day of Easter. We put them in the fridge and eat them over the next few days.

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blackhorse15A@reddit

Hard boil the eggs before coloring them. Our family doesn't eat them. The kids make a dozen real eggs. Then the Easter Bunny hides them around inside the house overnight (I make a list of where they are) and the kids look around the house to find them in the morning. We also have a huge bin of plastic Easter eggs. Those get scattered all over the lawn overnight. Once dressed, the kids go out and collect those all up. They aren't hidden. Just a free for all to collect them up. It's a lot of them- a huge plastic tote bin- so it takes the kids a couple trips filling their Easter basket to get them all up. And most years they want to do more so we dump them all out and do it again.

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Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit

I just made 36 deviled eggs for Easter dinner tomorrow, so they damned well better eat some eggs. 😊

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ErstwhileHobo@reddit

In my family, growing up, we would cut a hole in the shell to drain the eggs (saved for scrambled eggs). Then fill them with confetti and seal it with a piece of paper towel dipped in egg white.

We would then paint those eggs, and that would be what they hid (along with candy and treats) for the hunt.

Then after the Easter egg hunt, all the kids would run around breaking the eggs on each other’s heads, getting covered in confetti. The better you did on the hunt, the more ammo you had.

It was a ton of fun.

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Funniestfrog528@reddit

Sometimes, we also buy these colored plastic eggs that open and have a hinge. We put candy in them and hide them around for kids to find

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Status_Agents@reddit

Most people use hard boiled eggs, so they are cooked before painting. Kids usually decorate them and sometimes eat them later, but honestly a lot just go uneaten

Chocolate eggs are way more popular these days, especially for kids

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imjustsayin314@reddit

Pretty sure they are rabbit eggs /s

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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

Easter eggs are not from chickens. They are laid by the Easter bunny.

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riversroadsbridges@reddit

They're generally hard boiled eggs, and the shells are dyed. In my family, the easter eggs are peeled after the novelty has worn off and used to make pickled eggs. We put the hard boiled eggs into a pitcher with beets, beet juice, vinegar (I recommend apple vinegar vinegar), and sugar.

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Heykurat@reddit

My family would poke 2 small holes in the ends and blow the egg out. That way you have an empty shell to decorate (gently) and you just cook the egg contents and eat it.

That way you don't have smashed raw egg, or rotting eggs sitting around.

To expand on chocolate eggs:

There are things like Creme Eggs, mini eggs, etc, but the large, hollow eggs which are common in other countries pretty much don't exist here 💔

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pikkdogs@reddit

Yeah. If you do this then you usually boil them on Saturday, dye them, then serve them on Sunday.

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moosekielbasa@reddit

We hard boil ours and decorate. They are put in an Easter basket we take to church with traditional foods to be blessed.

We also add: kielbasa, horseradish paste, ham, bread, babka, farmers cheese.

Who the fuck crazy-ass motherfuckers are eating these eggs?

You let those shit sit there for a couple days and then throw them the fuck away.

Weirdos

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NobleVulpes@reddit

Can i ask why you wouldnt eat them? Unless you are doing something that makes them inedible, the eggs should be perfectly fine to eat

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dancarbonell00@reddit

Cuz they're a decoration.

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The_Motherlord@reddit

Eating painted hardboiled eggs is not solely in the US. I was in Switzerland for a month and every market I went to sold painted hardboiled eggs by the dozen in winter, I assume year round.

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houdini31@reddit

They are hard boiled and a lot of people do eat them if the dye doesn't get in the shell

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tcspears@reddit

It depends on the culture and religion of the American, but the European tradition of using hard boiled eggs is prevalent in many cultures in the US.

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BruceTramp85@reddit

Sounds like the people who boil them don’t boil them any other time of year.

You don't?

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casapantalones@reddit

Yes. Those are hard boiled. We turn those into deviled eggs and they are the BEST.

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longlostlotrelf@reddit

They are hardboiled and they are eaten :)

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Responsible-Fun4303@reddit

We’ve always hard boiled and yes we generally eat them lol.

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Mehitobel@reddit

We blow the eggs out, save the innards for omelettes, and the shell will keep indefinitely.

I do some of the more fancy egg decorating with using dyes and wax to make batik patterns on the eggs.

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Mtngirl2018@reddit

I mean, yes, we eat them but they’re not the star of the show lol I much prefer chocolate eggs and what not

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wheelsonhell@reddit

We eat them because we have them after we do hide and seek with them. It's not about eating the egg. It's about finding the eggs.

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chickens_for_laughs@reddit

Yes. Hard boiled eggs, cooled. We use a commercially made dye kit, which has several colors, and usually some stickers for after the dye dries.

Eggs are kept refrigerated until the parents hide the eggs for the kids to find on Easter.

Eggs are safe to eat and peeled and eaten as egg salad or deviled eggs, or just plain with salt.

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nauticalfiesta@reddit

Yes. They're hard boiled. And the best part of Easter is making deviled eggs for a week.

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sneezhousing@reddit

Yes they are hard boiled eggs. You eat them

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ViQueen331965@reddit

My mother always used to do three dozen hairs boiled eggs. 1 dozen for us to decorate,and 2 dozen to make into pickled eggs and beets. I miss you, Ma!

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CODMAN627@reddit

We do eat the eggs, usually hard boiled with some salt.

ThroatFun478@reddit

If you have too many... pickled eggs!

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Bright_Ices@reddit

As we got older, my parents started hiding small chocolate candy eggs instead of real eggs or plastic eggs.

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DogsBikesAndMovies@reddit

Most of the "eggs" we eat on Easter are chocolate.

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tretaaysel@reddit

The dyed eggs are hard boiled. Each family is different but growing up my mom hid a mix of plastic eggs filled with candy and the gatr boiled eggs my brother and I dyed.

The week following Easter then our family would eat the hard boiled eggs as like a snack or something.

The chocolate eggs would come in our Easter basket from the Easter bunny.

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Bluemonogi@reddit

There is a tradition of dying hard boiled eggs using food coloring- not paint. In my family we have peeled and used these hard boiled eggs to make deviled eggs to have with the Easter meal.

They're hard boiled, my mother always made deviled eggs out of them for Easter dinner

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thisisfunme@reddit

Isn't that common in a lot of Western countries. It's not a sole American thing for sure.

But yes, hard boiled eggs. It's food safe coloring so if anything goes through the hard protective shell, it's still safe.

Stores sell brightly-colored plastic "eggs" that you can open up, fill with whatever you want, and close again; these days these are more popular for children's Easter Egg Hunts than real eggs because they're less messy, reusable, and you don't have to worry about the plastic eggs going bad. People usually fill the eggs with candy, money, or small toys. Small children are told that the Easter Bunny hides the eggs the first time, but adults often get cajoled into re-hiding them for multiple hunts, with different prizes. The plastic eggs can be reused for years.

Chocolate eggs aren't usually hidden, they're given out to children in their Easter baskets, or in a candy dish, or as individual presents.

Nobody I know would intentionally waste edible eggs, unless something happened to make them unsafe (i.e. not being found for days, etc). All of the real eggs are intended to be eaten, and usually do get eaten.

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JasminJaded@reddit

Yup, and not just for Easter, either.

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enjoyyourlife247@reddit

Nope, rabbit eggs

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Horror-Box-6014@reddit

I got so sick of egg salad, I let the dog hunt for eggs too! Lol, less egg salad for us but the f☆rts from the dog were awful!

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fenchurch_42@reddit

I'm surprised by some of these answers - we never hardboiled before dyeing the egg. We'd punch a little hole in the top and then a slightly larger hole in the bottom and then "blow" the insides out into a bowl. We'd then use those insides to make scrambled eggs or a frittata or something. Probably not the most sanitary but if it's with family, no big deal.

Then the shells are empty and you dye it. This also means you can keep the dyed eggshells for years for decorating purposes if you want to.

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BSch2023@reddit

That’s exactly how we did them!

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Classic-Push1323@reddit

I know that different families have different traditions, but I don’t think most people actually paint the shell. We dip a hard boiled egg in food coloring.

It’s not anywhere nearly as elaborate as what some people do in Europe.

You can also make a pin prick in the egg and drain the contents. That allows you to just paint the shell and keep it without it smell smelling. There is a pretty short limit to how long you can keep a hard boiled egg out of the fridge!

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Historical-Composer2@reddit

Well we can’t eat bunny eggs…

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TinyRandomLady@reddit

Eggs on Easter is not just an American thing. Our eggs are typically hard boiled and then eaten either as just a hard boiled egg, or could be added to salad, or could be deviled, or egg salad, whatever. I believe it’s also a thing in Greek orthodox where they paint the eggs red and then there’s a whole thing with like tapping eggs together and whoever shell doesn’t break gets good luck or something. It’s similar to the turkey wishbone thing at Thanksgiving.

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machagogo@reddit

You've never had a hard boiled egg before?

We used to poke holes in the top and bottom of the raw egg, blow the egg out of the shell, and then my mom would make something out of those eggs. Then we would dye the delicate/empty shell.

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HealthLawyer123@reddit

My mom baked them into bread with the dyed shell still on

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Adorable-East-2276@reddit

Easter eggs are usually hard boiled for stability. They are not eaten.

Chocolate eggs are chocolate. They are eaten

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Individual_Habit_939@reddit

A cool way to do Easter eggs for you might be to poke a small hole and blow the liquid egg out, then you decorate the shell very carefully. My mom used to do that beautifully.. Then you don’t have to waste the eggs as you can use them for baking or whatever!

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SphericalCrawfish@reddit

Tons of people east Easter eggs. I don't because every component of a hard boiled egg is texturally nasty to me.

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whatyouwant22@reddit

AGREE!

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I'm someone who doesn't eat eggs. I don't like them. My two older siblings did, but my younger sister and I didn't. For the older kids, when there was an Easter egg hunt, either they or my mom ate them. A few times, my dad would blow out the (raw) egg through a pin hole and then we'd dye the shell, just to be able to participate in egg coloring.

We had candy in our Easter baskets.

My kids did a little bit of egg coloring, but it wasn't the main focus. Their dad ate the hard boiled eggs.

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Ballmaster9002@reddit

I'm in camp "first time I've heard they were eaten"!

We usually hide plastic eggs with toys or candy inside them.

No, we eat rabbit eggs

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MakeStupidHurtAgain@reddit

Yes. We do. Usually they’re just made into egg salad, albeit with some slight coloration due to bleed through of the food dye from the shell.

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deandinbetween@reddit

Real eggs are hardboiled before coloring and hiding them. I've known some people to eat the eggs after they're found, but since they're typically hidden outside in the spring sun for what could be over an hour, it's not really food safe to do so. I've known families to dye extra eggs to specifically use for eating on that day.

A lot of families use plastic eggs you can put candy or money or little trinkets in nowadays. It's more cost effective since they can be reused for multiple years, and it doesn't waste food.

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Terrible-Image9368@reddit

They are hard boiled before being dyed. I never ate them after the egg hunt because they had been out of the fridge too long

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mladyhawke@reddit

Usually they are hard boiled before they are dyed or painted, but sometimes people will blow the insides of the egg out.So it's just a hollow shell.But that's so much more work.That barely anyone does that

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LostExile7555@reddit

You hard boiled the eggs. Hard boiled eggs last longer than raw or soft boiled eggs and they are more durable too.

The tradition started because the cracking of the egg is supposed to represent the cracking of the sealing stone on Jesus's tomb during his resurrection. They were originally dyed exclusively red to represent the spilt blood of Christ, but other colors have been added because it's more fun.