Do Americans eat actual chicken eggs for Easter?
Posted by piaa9@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 1307 comments
I don't understand, I know you paint the shell but like, do you paint it with the egg white and yolk still inside?, are they raw or cooked?, do you actually eat them?, what about chocolate eggs?
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.
Toosder@reddit
Hell yeah! Egg salad sandwiches for days. So good.
kidthorazine@reddit
People that use real eggs usually hard boil them, my family usually made egg salad with them after the egg hunt. Some people do remove the yolks and the whites though. Plastic eggs with candy inside are also common.
LicketLicketyZooZoo@reddit
Egg salad sandwiches with a little hint of dye
Glittering_Regret255@reddit
The egg white doesn't get any dye on it, just the shell is dyed. Unless the egg cracks while hard boiling, then some dye will get in the crack.
CalOkie6250@reddit
Was going to comment on this. Rainbow egg salad (or deviled eggs) 🤣
Chedditor_@reddit
We always made deviled eggs with ours; my mom found it so funny that we celebrate Easter (Christ's resurrection day) by deviling the eggs we just used to celebrate his rising.
Book_Slut_90@reddit
Painting hard boiled eggs is a tradition that some people do. I never liked them but was excited when they got made into deviled eggs the next day. People also often have chocolate eggs or the plastic eggs full of treats or money for kids to find, and different families do different combinations of those three different egg things. Of course a few people, mostly Eastern European immigrants, also paint blown eggs.
Pleasant-Method7874@reddit
Curious why you say “chicken eggs” we just say eggs and everyone knows what you mean… do you guys have like other kinds of eggs that you eat?
Scrapper-Mom@reddit
I dye hard-boiled Easter eggs every year. Then I make deviled eggs on Easter out of them.
SnowCorgi@reddit
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
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.
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 😅
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!
ohfuckthebeesescaped@reddit
Tell that to Denmark 🍾🎉
Ojibajo@reddit
Hard Boiled first.
JadedDreams23@reddit
The eggs are boiled before decorating! Yes, we eat them! Growing up, I (61f) got a basket with eggs, candy, chocolate bunnies, etc.
cHaosblossom3609@reddit
Our neighbors will put cash in the plastic eggs... So sad we didn't get that as kids!
nous-vibrons@reddit
My uncle once did an Easter egg hunt with the family where most eggs had candies and change, some had like, fives and tens, a few had twenties, but one, and only one egg had a fat hundo in it. I really like that set up.
Pitiful-Sell-9402@reddit
My dad once hid 2 golden eggs for my brother and I. He said there was one golden egg with money in it. I was so excited to find a golden egg only to open it and be hit with a screw and a note that said "you got screwed!" My brother found the other one with money in it lol.
Kgarner2378@reddit
Awww that was just cruel. I almost want to send you $100 and some cookies to make up for it. Almost.
Pitiful-Sell-9402@reddit
You're sweet and I appreciate you!
True_Coast1062@reddit
That’s just cruel.
Pitiful-Sell-9402@reddit
I wasn't happy about it back then lol. But he made up for it and gave me a $20 later. Now its like a family joke and we all laugh about it
jbenze@reddit
We used plastic eggs when my son was young (the 2010’s) and since but when I was a kid, the hidden ones were real, hard boiled eggs. At my grandparents house, they would always have one raw egg and my father and brothers would crack eggs on their heads until someone got the raw one and they eat the rest. It was a GROSS number of eggs some years.
cHaosblossom3609@reddit
Eww! Sounds like the best memories, though
alxfx@reddit
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
amd2800barton@reddit
Smart. Put out a $100 bill only every few years, but say there is always one.
datagirl60@reddit
That would turn into a wrestling match 🤣
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.
He might offer $20 and you keep the egg... But only has a single in it...or maybe the other way around... Just didn't know.
cHaosblossom3609@reddit
Interesting... I think I would drive myself crazy over whether to make the trade or not!
Express-Studio-8302@reddit
We had to switch to coins, the squirrels took the candy filled eggs overnight. Broken bits of plastic eggs everywhere. Candy nowhere to be seen.
wfbhp@reddit
We had both squirrels and raccoons around my house growing up (and were on the edge of the woods), My parents always got up early to hide eggs right before the hunt to minimize the chance of the local wildlife absconding with our treats.
Odd-Artist-2595@reddit
Friends of mine didn’t fill the plastic eggs at all. They had a huge extended family and would put out well over 100 plastic eggs, and a few dozen hard-boiled, decorated, eggs; some scattered in the open for the really little kids, others hidden in trees, garage eaves, etc. for the older kids. Once the kids gathered the eggs they got to trade them for their choice of various candies, stickers, etc. Every kid got an Easter basket with candy, a chocolate bunny, eggs, etc., so no one was deprived. The egg hunt was for fun and to distract the kids from one of their mom/aunts getting dressed up in an Easter Bunny costume in the garage to surprise them when the hunt had finished. We tried to make sure that the actual eggs all got found, but they’d sometimes still be finding plastic eggs hidden deep in bushes or stuffed into downspouts well into the summer.
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
Yep, this!
TechieGottaSoundByte@reddit
Where do you live that you can leave candy out overnight? You must have a low local humidity! The dew would get into everything, around here
Express-Studio-8302@reddit
Chicagolamd, humidity depends on time of year. High humidity in summer time. Spring is hit or miss and timing of Easter matters.
sweet_hedgehog_23@reddit
It seemed like more than half the time the weather was too cold or wet to do the egg hunt outside in Indiana growing up.
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
LOL That's why you get up at dawn and hide them and then stand watch! LOL
Ctenophorever@reddit
Yeah I hide them in the morning. When little I could do it during a nap time.
Today I told my kid I need to do laundry and tromped down the basement then snuck back up and out the back door. They seemed to be too absorbed in their basket.
As a kid, my dad didn’t go to church so he’d hide them while my mom took us to church.
I’d never leave eggs out overnight!
Gymnastkatieg@reddit
We usually find a couple eggs that the squirrels have gotten to after Easter! Not enough to stop us, but seeing those chewed through eggs is how I learned how strong squirrels teeth are and that they like the same food as me!
DyeCutSew@reddit
That happened to us one year when we had hidden the eggs the night before. Bad squirrels!
pedanpric@reddit
Same. Just like social security and all these school breaks, we don't get to reap but we're still sowing for somebody.
Fosad@reddit
My family does most of the eggs with candy and a few with cash. I host every year and I look forward to finding the leftover eggs after the event. I have yet to find one with cash though
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
Back when my daughter was little, she hated boiled eggs and hated candy too. She got to hunt down those plastic eggs with quarters in them. She was thrilled!
elderly_millenial@reddit
I just filled them up yesterday for the little ones today. Money + chocolate. For me growing up it was just the hard boiled eggs and we didn’t hunt for them (immigrant parents). Happy Easter!
TechieGottaSoundByte@reddit
Our kids are growing up (ages 14 to 20), so now we put pieces of a 1,000 piece puzzle in the plastic eggs and do an indoor egg hunt.
Emeah824@reddit
I did some golden eggs with quarters in them last year! This year, one lucky golden egg will have a $20 inside
EarlyInside45@reddit
Yeah, most kids these days would be disgusted to find boiled eggs lol.
BasketFair3378@reddit
All we ever got when we were kids was a few pieces of candy and some sox and underwear!
kaizenkoala@reddit
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.
JadedDreams23@reddit
My grandson hunted for his (plastic) eggs, then hid them for his dad and mom and grandpa to find lol
Dreamweaver5823@reddit
I'm a little older than you, and we actually hunted boiled eggs too, though ours were hidden around the house.
Looking back, I don't know how we didn't all die of food poisoning. After boiling, the eggs sat out for a couple hours cooling and drying. Then we dyed them, and they sat out drying for another couple hours. Then I think they went into the fridge, but I'm not sure about that. And then they sat out wherever they were hidden for at least a couple of hours, maybe longer if (as I always assumed) my parents hid them before going to bed. Recipe for food poisoning.
jvc1011@reddit
Hard boiled eggs keep extremely well without refrigeration. That’s why they advise people to boil all their eggs before an expected power outage (due to bad weather, etc.).
Dreamweaver5823@reddit
Can you provide a source for your assertions? I just googled it and Google says that's not true. I'd like to see your sourcing so I can check it out for myself.
jazzminarino@reddit
I have never heard of this and never would think to make them, since I assumed they'd have to be refrigerated.
jvc1011@reddit
Even fresh eggs don’t need refrigeration unless you wash the top coating off of them. Which of course we do in the US, but not in most of the world.
jazzminarino@reddit
Yeah that's what I was wondering. I know we wash the coating off, so they have to be refrigerated. Maybe I've just grown up in hotter climates and never would've thought an egg can just chill out at semi room temperature. I get putting them in lunch bags, etc. But usually this is more climate controlled than truly outside in heat.
jvc1011@reddit
Easter isn’t usually the hottest time of year. Although nowadays it’s much hotter than it was.
Amazing_Newt3908@reddit
We always did plastic for hunting because the hard boiled eggs were considered a pretty delicacy after being dyed. It’s crazy what kids find cool.
Froggirl26@reddit
Our baskets were also hidden. And the Easter Bunny dyed the eggs.
Marmatus@reddit
Yeah, I’m 30, and when I was a kid we would decorate the boiled eggs, but those always stayed indoors. We’d always use the plastic ones for the Easter egg hunts.
BitPoet@reddit
That works right up until an egg gets hidden too well and appears like 2 years later.
messfdr@reddit
I found a plastic egg buried in the backyard while doing yard work. It was definitely left over by a previous owner. Who knows how long it was there. It was like a time capsule of rotted candy.
Devee@reddit
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.
Every year after that, I got one chocolate bunny to eat and one stuffed bunny to hug.
10k_Uzi@reddit
I have never in my 31 years seen someone eat an Easter egg that wasn’t chocolate.
turtlegray23@reddit
Did you ever dye eggs? What did you do with them afterwards? We always hunted plastic eggs and got chocolate eggs in our baskets but the day before Easter we would dye eggs and then eat them on Easter Day.
georgia-peach_pie@reddit
For our house (and it was the same growing up as it is now for my son) we hide filled plastic eggs and we use the dyed eggs to make deviled eggs to eat on Easter
brandi_theratgirl@reddit
I just did a hunt with my nieces and I do both plastic eggs and the decorated real eggs
ErrantTaco@reddit
We do cash/coins and also little trinket gifts, like small slinkies, stamps, bouncy balks, etc. Our whole neighborhood gets together to do it and it’s such fun seeing even the big kids excited.
Abubbs5868@reddit
We hid both hard boiled eggs and candy filled plastic ones for my nephew when he was little, in my parents’ backyard. They have a pool, the cover was on it for safety reasons, he was only 3 or 4. He was excitedly hunting eggs, found a hard boiled one, and threw it into the pool in disgust when he saw what it was, it bounced off the cover🤪 it was the funniest thing.
Ok_Entertainment9665@reddit
My uncle always hosted the egg hunt because he has a HUGE yard. We always used plastic eggs with candy and money inside. He also littered the yard with shell on peanuts
elemaich@reddit
First Easter with our kids I hid the dyed hardboiled eggs in the yard then found bluejays eating them! Sadly switched to plastic eggs.
Commercial_Layer@reddit
Deviled eggs 🥚
Unsolven@reddit
They are hard boiled eggs. Yes we eat them traditionally.
BlazingSunflowerland@reddit
Ours were always made into deviled eggs. Yum!
bare_thoughts@reddit
Ours were deviled eggs and potato salad. After reading many of the responses I am realizing potato salad is not a very common use for them.
dohlmania@reddit
My mom totally uses eggs in her potato salad, so I'm with you. They belong there. It's the other peeps who're weird.
painterlyjeans@reddit
That’s how my mom made it too. It also had cucumbers, radishes, celery, and onions in it.
kitchengardengal@reddit
My potato salad always has eggs. As many as I can put in it.
NekkidWire@reddit
So it's an egg salad with a hint of potatoes :) delicious!
kitchengardengal@reddit
Yes!
bare_thoughts@reddit
It was always my mom's main use of hardboiled eggs... she would make them just for potato salad (and sometimes extra for deviled eggs or a few other uses)
Athrynne@reddit
I love eggs in potato salad, but I agree that it's uncommon.
Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit
Deviled egg macaroni salad is delicious!
Far-Worldliness-4796@reddit
Oh no... a new recipe to try!
maimou1@reddit
Makes the tater salad richer!
heart_blossom@reddit
We always have boiled eggs in potato salad and tuna salad. I don't think that's common in either one. But I love it that way!
Prinessbeca@reddit
I won't do tuna salad any other way. I often pack one of those tuna salad "kits" for my lunch, and always bring two boiled eggs to mix into it.
heart_blossom@reddit
That's the way!
Aggressive-Bath-1906@reddit
Thats the BEST kind of potato salad!!!
bare_thoughts@reddit
I love the comments regarding the eggs in potato salad... they are a must (unless you are dealing with a warm German one which really should have a different name).
I was actually shocked how many people did not mention it as an use for hard-boiled eggs. Easter was always deliver eggs and potato salad (even when there were not kids around to get excited about coloring them).
Of course, our Easter meal was not what anyone would actually consider traditional.
Practical_Celery_878@reddit
Me too, with the potato salad, but also tuna salad and tuna casserole.
kat_storm13@reddit
I put hard boiled eggs in my potato salad! And also green olives, radishes, cucumbers, and celery. My mom made it without onions and that's how I like it as well.
tygerbrees@reddit
What is the voodoo of deviled eggs? I can eat 1 hard boiled egg and be good - 1 can eat 12 deviled eggs and want more
C8H10N4O2_snob@reddit
Mustard
Prestigious-Comb4280@reddit
Don't forget mayo.
Gold-Traffic632@reddit
https://youtu.be/zUOkwbdxyB8?t=23
AshtonCopernicus@reddit
And a tiny dash of white vinegar gives it a little extra punch. But... tiny lol
Big_Natural7472@reddit
It’s the glue!
LakeWorldly6568@reddit
Durkey's
Or if I'm feeling exotic peanut butter and Sriracha.
doc_skinner@reddit
Durkee's has been discontinued 😭 Deviled eggs and egg salad will never be the same again. I recently found four bottles on a shelf in a small grocery store and bought them all, but otherwise haven't been able to find any. I see people scalping them on eBay and Amazon for 10 or more dollars per bottle.
LakeWorldly6568@reddit
I've been caught with none in the pantry. Worcestershire seams to be the critical ingredient, but it's still wildly available in stores here and appears to be fully available on Amazon.
Maybe it's your wholesaler.
doc_skinner@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/condiments/s/EmhV2QQAff
According to the manufacturer, B&G Foods, it has been discontinued and will not return.
LakeWorldly6568@reddit
I haven found any business sources making the claim. Literally ever report cites the reddit post.
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.
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.
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).
====================
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.
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.
Maybe it's not as popular where you live, so it's not sold out? I don't know where you live, but it is kind of a southern thing
Sprinqqueen@reddit
I use dill pickle juice
WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit
I use both mustard and pickle juice. Sometimes dill pickle relish.
Genius-Imbecile@reddit
Some diced pickled jalapeño and juice, then topped with candied bacon bits and smoked paprika.
Newgeta@reddit
This plus avocado slices is life changing
Spirited-Wrap-2729@reddit
I’m bringing my Tupperware what time should I arrive?
mynameisstacey@reddit
Deviled eggs with jalepeno & bacon are delicious. I’ve never tried candied bacon, but I definitely will!
Last year I made a batch of Bloody Mary deviled eggs and they were a big hit with my family. They’ve requested them again this year. This is the recipe if anyone is interested:
https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a29441057/bloody-mary-inspired-deviled-eggs-recipe/
I omitted the celery seed - only because I didn’t have any on hand. I added a sprinkle of celery salt to the garnish. I also used a bit more horseradish than the recipe calls for. We love horseradish in my family.
SugarsBoogers@reddit
If you want to go the extra mile, soak them in beet juice for a few hours after you peel them. The outsides turn purple, but when you slice them, they are still white inside. VERY glamorous (for eggs).
Sprinqqueen@reddit
This reminds me of Asian hundred year eggs. You Crack the shell, but don't peel it and then soak it in soy sauce, 5 spice blend etc. When you peel it the egg is all marbled and seasoned.
saki4444@reddit
Oh man that sounds awesome
cofeeholik75@reddit
or hard boil them. don’t color them. Gently crack the shell all over. Don’t peel. THEN soak in beet juice. Then peel. Lovely cracked color.
Artichoke water does a good green color.
Might experiment? Blueberry juice?
psychobetty303@reddit
Turmeric and water made into a paste will give you a super vibrant, yellow orange color depending on how long you leave it in.
foodsexreddit@reddit
Purple cabbage water turned our eggs blue!
sail4sea@reddit
I use pickled beet juice for mine. Then I make deviled eggs from that. And i soak them in pickled beet juice overnight.
aboxofkittens@reddit
This looks really good except that seems like a lot of Old Bay to put on each egg, does that part actually work? I feel like I would want to sprinkle it on rather than dipping the cut egg in a bowl lol
3X_Cat@reddit
I make mine with wasabi. Straight horseradish. Delicious with some soy sauce to dip in.
Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit
Thank you for the recipe!
WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit
Smoked paprika with just a pinch of cayenne.
PopularDisplay7007@reddit
Or maybe a bit more cayenne?
mmmpeg@reddit
Horseradish
Naive-Kangaroo3031@reddit
Have you had buffalo blue cheese deviled eggs?
maimou1@reddit
I see you! No wonder your eggs are so good, New Orleans is famous for their cooking!
Vicorin@reddit
I want to eat at your house
FaxCelestis@reddit
And paprika
BrainFartTheFirst@reddit
Smoked paprika.
cashewclues@reddit
But that’s not the traditional way. I love smoked paprika. I’ve tried it on deviled eggs but I just can’t do it. I don’t want smokiness in my eggs. That makes it a different thing.
kasiagabrielle@reddit
I can't do smoked paprika, I need a good Hungarian.
rinky79@reddit
I really hate smoked paprika.
freddbare@reddit
You aren't supposed to actually SMOKE it!!!
LakeWorldly6568@reddit
An essential distinction.
cashewclues@reddit
Yes , fellow Sacramentan!
JayPlays40k@reddit
Trader Joes has this dill mustard that makes the MOST AMAZING deviled eggs.
Ali_Lorraine_1159@reddit
Not everyone in my family likes pickles, so we sprinkle our deviled eggs with paprika and top them with bacon, then leave a bowl of relish wirh a tiny spoon for people to add their own. Luckily everyone in our family loves bacon...
strawberryselkie@reddit
We use mustard and a little sweet relish in ours.
hibbitydibbitytwo@reddit
And a pinch of sugar
Snarkonum_revelio@reddit
Mustard, a little pickled caper juice, and topped with fried capers are the best deviled eggs I’ve ever made.
Prestigious_Snow3309@reddit
Only dill
ipunchtrees@reddit
I thought they always had dill pickle relish, that’s how my family has always made. The extra crunch adds so much.
RealMoleRodel@reddit
Add apple cider vinegar and mayo and you got my recipe.
Aquarius_K@reddit
You all are freaks lol no offense
Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit
Right? I hate when pickles pollute my food!
Aquarius_K@reddit
I can tolerate a pickle on a cheeseburger if I have to but otherwise no. No mayo or other weird egg stuff either.
nymeria1031@reddit
I do this and add a little horseradish.
daisychainsnlafs@reddit
A little horseradish is nice too
smokinXsweetXpickle@reddit
I heard my name...
Foxtrot_Supatwat@reddit
I let em marinade overnight in a bucket of crab juice and then serve them with a warm sidecar of Tito's...
Chawp@reddit
I used ill pickle juice
Substantial-Toe4802@reddit
Both
beedelia@reddit
Por que no los dos?
Echo_Lawrence13@reddit
Shhhh, that's my secret ingredient!
SexBucketListProject@reddit
Oh... I have a half gallon jug of pickle juice because my 5 year old likes to drink it. I'm going to try this.
OmightyOmo@reddit
My an chickens and will hard boil the eggs peel them and out them in pickle juice.
whitrva@reddit
And a splash of red wine vinegar.
MrGumburcules@reddit
I like to mix in a little pickle relish, ads a nice crunch
ElephantCares@reddit
I love mustard in my deviled eggs, egg salad, etc. Only my husband is allergic to it so I have had to learn to make it without. Tell me life is hard without telling me life is hard. 😉
Acceptable_Tea3608@reddit
We just did them into egg salad growing up, but then we didn't do dozens of eggs. Just a 1/2 doz for the day.
My kid didn't like candy and barely ate the chocolate (heck! they were the Cadbury robin eggs!), so in her basket would be small toys, a stuffed toy like a bunny or lamb, maybe a small book, and 2 or 3 decorated hard boiled eggs. She was happy with that.
kat_storm13@reddit
That's why you make half with half without 😉
I've got a Greek pasta salad recipe I love but never make because my boyfriend doesn't really like cheese. I think I'm going to make some and then split it in half, putting the feta in only part of it
whuryagetdatfacehuh@reddit
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!
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?
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
Mix before serving
HippieGrandma1962@reddit
Thanks so much! That sounds so good. I will definitely be making it soon. My son works in a restaurant that has an orzo side dish with the same ingredients that is amazing. They serve it hot but I prefer it room temperature. Have you tried Dodoni brand feta? It's imported from Greece and it's super funky. Almost too funky for me and I love a funky cheese. So delicious!
Prestigious-Comb4280@reddit
Feta is my favorite part...
kat_storm13@reddit
It's one of those ingredients that if I try to eat it plain it tastes like vomit but a little vinegar and oil magically make it delicious lol
Lucky_Ad2801@reddit
Try adding a dash of worcestershire sauce. It's a gamechanger
WidderWillZie@reddit
I have never used mustard in deviled eggs! Mayo, apple cider vinegar, salt, white pepper, smoked paprika. Toppings as the whim hits.
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
Mayo, mustard, finely ground onion and sweet relish, sprinkled with sweet paprika!
seizuregirlz@reddit
And mayo. And for those saying pickles/juice and mustard, as a person who hates both, I will admit they must be present along with the Mayo, yolk, a tiny bit of salt, and paprika. Sometimes we use sweet onions instead of pickles, some have diced tomatoes, carrots, celery (not all at once, just in varieties) but the basics must be mayo (ok sometimes miracle whip), yolk, a diced veggie, and paprika. Oh and the egg white holding all the yum together. Anyone else have other stuff in theirs?
Burnallthepages@reddit
Mayo
bae125@reddit
Yep
Kayki7@reddit
I add a little mustard into my egg salad as well. It really takes it up a notch. You don’t need a lot.
jane-generic@reddit
Mine have mayo, mustard, real bacon bits, dill, and paprika
castlenutjob@reddit
Mustard mayo minced pickle/celery and paprika.
Duamuteffe@reddit
Mustard and horseradish where I'm from.
Sooner70@reddit
It’s not mustard. I hate the stuff and will refuse any egg that has mustard in it…. But I still love (mustard free) deviled eggs.
TheyMakeMeWearPants@reddit
What really baffles me is that I do not like mustard at all. Even trace amounts of it in foods make it taste icky to me... except deviled eggs. I love those things.
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
Deviled eggs are like cheese sticks, blooming onions, and gyoza. No way you're eating those quantities of the main ingredients otherwise.
Casswigirl11@reddit
I disagree about the blooming onion part. I could eat a lot more onions other ways. I can only eat max 1/3 of a blooming onion.
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
What's your very favorite onion preparation?
Casswigirl11@reddit
Mostly we just use large amounts of onions in dishes we make. But the best is caramelized onions. But when you cook them they do reduce a ton so maybe that's not a fair comparison.
Flerp-Flerps@reddit
You grossly underestimate my cheese consumption. One time I mentioned my emergency 3am snacking cheese and found out that I’m not the only one. If I call it charcuterie, it’s not sad. It’s fancy.
Far-Worldliness-4796@reddit
You my friend have excellent taste
Flerp-Flerps@reddit
Do you too have a 3am emergency snacking cheese my fellow person of culture?
Far-Worldliness-4796@reddit
Yes, my husband has caught me standing there in our tiny kitchen, hand in a bag of finely shredded cheddar. The light of the fridge illuminating me like some sort of dairy feasting beast while I mumble on about needing more protein to sleep better. It's that or pickles, or fruit. I was probably a fruit bat in a past life the way I can pound down berries and dried fruit like they are candy.
wfbhp@reddit
Whenever someone tries to tell me to try a slice of cheddar cheese on apple pie, I have to tell them I don't really care for apple pie and prefer to just eat the block of cheddar like an apple instead. I don't understand people for whom cheese doesn't quality as a hand fruit.
kitchengardengal@reddit
I love cheese - but charcuterie is aged meats, not cheese.
Flerp-Flerps@reddit
Well sure. All I’m saying is you can throw some meat, carbs and maybe a couple other things in and all of the sudden my just absolutely obscene consumption of cheese is socially acceptable.
kitchengardengal@reddit
Charcuterie - Wikipedia https://share.google/RWXeJwtkt2HmA5OLw
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
Working on your night cheese, I know that's right
Flerp-Flerps@reddit
That middle of the night cheese just hits different.
Kanya_Mkavry@reddit
I think it's because you only get them on special occasions.
Positively_Eric@reddit
The exact same as fried mozzarella cheese sticks. There's no way I would devour 7 pieces of plain mozzarella string cheese.
Master-Collection488@reddit
You say a prayer to Satan over them and they become deviled eggs.
rfresa@reddit
Or listen to some "pretty intense black metal." https://youtube.com/shorts/jSCkt5Rwe5k?si=PkdmnOOeFjWMO_z4
rfresa@reddit
Here's a hilarious video about how to make them: https://youtube.com/shorts/jSCkt5Rwe5k?si=PkdmnOOeFjWMO_z4
You have to "infuse them with a sense of fiery darkness by listening to some pretty intense black metal."
Iowa50401@reddit
I have a similar issue with potatoes. I eat half a baked potato and it’s enough. When they’re mashed potatoes, I eat a pile the size of an Egyptian pyramid.
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
Or baked cheesy potatoes. Yummy!
ParticularYak4401@reddit
Agreed. My older brother loves mashed potatoes. At a trade show he used to attend with one of our coworkers they always had a mashed potato bar for dinner. He always went back for 2nds and 3rds.
kat_storm13@reddit
Mashed I'm good with one serving, maybe two on holidays. But sharp cheddar or funeral/company potatoes? Those are my real potato weakness lol
brose_af@reddit
Midwest detected 🚨
kat_storm13@reddit
The little bit of snow we got near Minneapolis yesterday melted by the time it hit the ground lol
poppyvue@reddit
I think my Mom hid them before going to bed, which was probs about 3a, but always hid them in cold places, like on windowsills so they stayed “refrigerated”. Can’t think of other cold hiding places in the house but that was her intention.
DirkPitt106@reddit
How to you feel about corn tortillas? Would you feel better about them if they were cut up, deep fried, and served with salsa?
NMPapillon@reddit
Saw something a couple of years ago - mashed potatoes = Irish guacamole.
IWantALargeFarva@reddit
Mashed potatoes are my absolute favorite food. My eyes are bigger than my stomach though. I’ll always get a mountain of potatoes and then try to force myself to finish.
stitchingdeb@reddit
Sweet pickle relish, mayo, touch of mustard, salt, pepper. Totally simple, really delicious.
Prowindowlicker@reddit
Idk I can put away 3-4 hard boiled eggs
tygerbrees@reddit
Check out cool hand Luke over here
Coldnorthcountry@reddit
Obviously the voodoo is the devil himself in this case
ObsceneOnes@reddit
Ingredients common in deviled eggs are:
Muatard, salt, pepper, paprika, sugar, dill or sweet relish, vinegar, minced onion, and Worcestershire sauce.
Don't need them all.
Aggravating-Kick-967@reddit
A bit of cheap caviar on top, or a caper, or the tiniest bit of birdeye chili
Regular_Yellow710@reddit
And have gas all day.
Ali_Lorraine_1159@reddit
My husband and I made them for the family this year. We made thirty for 13 people, and I am absolutely convinced that we didn't make enough. I can eat 5 or 6 of those fuckers by myself.
Coidzor@reddit
Diluting the yolk with mayo and mustard and relish.
FewOwl5771@reddit
Dukes mayonnaise, topped with paprika
Admirable-Koala-1715@reddit
Mayo
chesbay7@reddit
Mayo
revdon@reddit
Mayonaise.
tropicsandcaffeine@reddit
Instead of mayo I have used Ranch dressing or Bleu Cheese dressing. Add a bit of paprika on top and you have a masterpiece!
themistycrystal@reddit
Put a little (or a lot) of horseradish in them. That's the devil in the deviled eggs.
tk-093@reddit
The devil makes you do it, it's right in the name.
thegerl@reddit
Salt and fat, my friend.
tygerbrees@reddit
I’m glad you included that comma
TalkingRose@reddit
Deliciousness
tygerbrees@reddit
Point ceded
herehaveaname2@reddit
It's the same voodoo that applies to cheese sticks - one regular one is a serving, but breaded and deep fried with a side of marinara? Give me 8, please.
SusanLFlores@reddit
It’s a very powerful voodoo. On Easter we make about 3 or 4 dozen and they disappear before dinner is served.
crushdepthdummy@reddit
I'll make 3 dozen and eat the first dozen while I'm making the rest
Gunzablazin1958@reddit
My youngest ate 12-15 deviled eggs (can’t remember the number) and got sick.
Solid_Thinker7333@reddit
Relish amd mustard.
SithLadyVestaraKhai@reddit
Horseradish!!
Jasmirris@reddit
Um, this sounds amazing.
sweetnsaltycaroline@reddit
I love horseradish and a little touch of wasabi in mine. My grandson & I love the extra spicy and will kill a whole plateful of deviled eggs.
Historical_Bed_568@reddit
The ",devil" made you do it. :-)
WiseQuarter3250@reddit
instead of the traditional deviled eggs, experiment with the filling, one well tested example here in Texas: guacamole.
Flerp-Flerps@reddit
I had some deep fried deviled eggs at a restaurant once and they were fantastic. It was the Local Goat at Pigeon Forge, but I’ve seen them added as an appetizer at other restaurants too.
Enjolrad@reddit
Deviled eggs smell sooo good to me, I kept trying one every year until I had to accept i just dont like them. I wish I did
FloatingFreeMe@reddit
A dash of Old Bay on top.
Hopeful_Pizza_2762@reddit
Spices - Yum.
Kingsolomanhere@reddit
I've already eaten 5 devilled eggs at lunch today. Some of our family has to work tomorrow so we had Easter dinner today
DizzyLead@reddit
“You wanna eat six hardboiled eggs?”
“Eww, six? No thanks.”
“Okay, what if I cut them into halves, take out the yolks, mix them up with some mayo, put the yolks back, and sprinkle some paprika on them?”
“You son of a bitch, I’m in.”
boudicas_shield@reddit
Best description of devilled eggs I’ve ever read. 😂
pgm123@reddit
I'll take a dozen, please.
Ravenclaw79@reddit
Or egg salad
Far-Worldliness-4796@reddit
I loved deviled egg potato salad from Walmart. Two of my favorite things in one.
hibbledyhey@reddit
yuuup so much egg salad. Which reminds me, I gotta go get some sourdough to deal with the fallout
BookLuvr7@reddit
My family would end up with very colorful egg salad bc of the dyes. Ditto deviled eggs.
HistoricalStreet505@reddit
The dyes you’re using permeate the shell? Or are you dying the shelled hard boiled egg?
Searcach@reddit
I don’t ever remember the dyes seeping through the shell into the eggs. I’ve always been a fussy eater and wouldn’t have touched an egg that had a colored white! But I grew up in the 50’s and heaven only knows what was in the food coloring we used to color the eggs!
Sageoflit3@reddit
Sometimes the eggs would crack during boiling and we would dye them anyway then you would end up with the white having a mark on it from the dye.
HistoricalStreet505@reddit
I grew up in a family that always blew the egg out of the shell, so I’m having trouble envisioning how the white got colored. Sorry if I’m being dense!
AuntAmrys@reddit
Eggshells have pores so that developing chicks don't suffocate, so some of the dye seeps through. Your egg whites wind up with a slight tinge, nowhere near as strong as the color on the shell. (At least, that was our experience.)
Because the boiled eggs had been sitting out as decoration for a week or more, my mom didn't want us eating them. My dad, however, who has never let a bit of food poisoning stop him, ate them in the end.
jazzminarino@reddit
I can't even imagine leaving a hard-boiled egg out for a week, regardless of the smell. I remember my parents did an egg hunt and I missed one, they both forgot where they put it. It was about four days later the smell started...
... They started keeping a list of where they were in subsequent years.
HistoricalStreet505@reddit
Ahhh, I was imagining Rainbow Brite kinds of color! A slight tings makes more sense!
AuntAmrys@reddit
You absolutely can have vividly colored egg whites if you want them though, such as in beet pickled eggs, but you do peel the eggs first in that case.
HistoricalStreet505@reddit
That’s the situation I was most familiar with, and I was wondering if that’s what their family was doing but with food coloring.
BlazingSunflowerland@reddit
Ours stayed in the refrigerator after dying, except for hiding and hunting them and then went back into the refrigerator until they were made into deviled eggs, usually Easter evening.
BookLuvr7@reddit
Hard boiled first, then dyed.
vegweg25@reddit
That's exactly what happens at my house! We're all adults but we still dye eggs every year just because. It's inevitable that some of the dye gets through some shells at some point, so we just have colorful egg salad/devilled eggs
Charwoman_Gene@reddit
My mother in law once directly dyed with Easter egg dye the boiled split whites for deviled eggs. Very weird experience.
doc_skinner@reddit
For me, using the colored eggs for egg salad was a classic easter tradition. You get a really colorful salad because the dye bleeds through the shell and makes the egg different colors.
cornlip@reddit
You should try “with child salad”
Shredded chicken mixed in is all it is and it’s really good
External_Two2928@reddit
My family did all 3 lol first couple days I remember eating cold eggs with the dye leaked onto the white part in front of the tv, then one night we’d have deviled eggs with dinner and then egg salad sandwiches until it was gone loll
ilovjedi@reddit
Rainbow egg sald
Loud_Ad_4515@reddit
Or egg salad!
prole6@reddit
As much as some people hate boiled eggs everyone loves deviled eggs.
Not_Sure__Camacho@reddit
That is the perfect analogy for evangelicals, pretend to be Christian only to carry out devilish behavior.
leilani238@reddit
Egg salad sandwiches for days. We love those things :)
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Same
KDawgandChiefMan@reddit
In true American style, we're going to be deep frying some of the deviled eggs for Easter this year!
Khimerra@reddit
Also goldenrod eggs for breakfast
sail4sea@reddit
I started leveling up and make pickled, deviled eggs. Yum.
lorgskyegon@reddit
Seems a little counterintuitive to make Easter eggs into deviled eggs
Mental_Internal539@reddit
That's what we are doing with them after my nephew (1) finds them. He got to hand paint then today.
Poutiest_Penguin@reddit
Deviled eggs are one of my signature dishes to bring to parties. My friend has an annual 4th of July party, and last year I was running late. My friend told me one of the little daughters of another guest asked her if the lady would be bringing the eggs. 😂
Zappagrrl02@reddit
Deviled eggs or egg salad
Dreamweaver5823@reddit
My Easter breakfast every year growing up was egg salad. Not the fancy kind with pickles, onions, celery, etc., but the kind that was just mashed-up egg with mayo, salt and pepper.
That wasn't necessarily a family thing, it was just what I would do. Have bern thinking I need to boil some eggs so I can do it this Easter also.
kbell58@reddit
This is the right answer
oldfarmjoy@reddit
Lucky!!!!
ThumbsUp2323@reddit
The irony
RobertOesterle@reddit
You mean Angel Eggs. You know, for Jeebus
snuuginz@reddit
Oh yeah, I'm going to be eating an irresponsible quantity of deviled eggs tomorrow, not to mention whatever we're having for dinner lol
dobie_dobes@reddit
Yummm
Littlek1dluvr@reddit
We make our deviled eggs with candied bacon on top. They’re delicious
ground__contro1@reddit
There’s so many eggs, and so many egg leftover recipes, leftovers are the quiet joy of Easter
Prestigious-Comb4280@reddit
Love deviled eggs!
Xylophelia@reddit
You paint cooked eggs?
I have always used a thumb take and pressed a hole in both ends of the egg, blown the egg into a bowl, and painted the empty egg shell. The eggs get used for scrambled eggs or baking
Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit
It’s very common.
My guess would be that your family (or maybe just your area) has a lot of Slavs. Pysanky are super traditional in Ukraine and Poland as well as Czechia, Slovakia, and parts of Germany.
Xylophelia@reddit
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.
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.
FlamingDragonfruit@reddit
Ok but if this is your family's tradition, they picked it up from somewhere. Since Slavic people have a long tradition of painting their eggs this way, the question was "when did your family interact with Slavic culture?"
AdhesivenessEqual166@reddit
We used to blow out our eggs as well. Most were dyed, but we always drew on and/or painted some every year.
Unsolven@reddit
With food dye, not actual paint.
astralTacenda@reddit
ive always dipped em in some soy sauce 🤤
peateargriffon@reddit
My family is Chinese. We cut into 4ths, dip a little soy sauce into the yolk and a drop of sesame oil. Simple and delicious
Far-Worldliness-4796@reddit
Oh! I need to try that! I love sesame oil.
3catlove@reddit
That sounds amazing!
TodayIllustrious@reddit
Ooohhh soy sauce? I never thought of that, now I gotta try!!
Loud-Fox-8018@reddit
You can also add peeled boiled eggs (left whole) to a mix of soy sauce and sherry (or mirin) and let the marinate for up to a day, then drain the liquid. The end result is delicious.
XXXperiencedTurbater@reddit
Adam Liaw has the best recipe for them
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IepMO2DIc&pp=ygUQcmFtZW4gZWdnIHJlY2lwZQ%3D%3D&ra=m
bubblyH2OEmergency@reddit
it is common to have peeled hard boiled eggs in adobo (the Filipino dish, not the Mexican one) which has a base of soy sauce and vinegar. yum!
KittenPurrs@reddit
Look up soy marinated eggs. Super easy, super delicious.
Unsolven@reddit
I’ll have to try that. When I was older I started using hot sauce.
astralTacenda@reddit
hot sauce is a great choice!
LinuxLinus@reddit
Hey, out of curiosity -- how do you get multiple states in your flair? I'd like mine to actually have all the states where I've lived, especially Oregon, since that's where I grew up.
SummonerSausage@reddit
Quick look, if you're on mobile, where you go to edit your flair, there's a text box at the bottom of that screen that you can customize. You'll have to add the flags yourself, then the state name.
rcjhawkku@reddit
You can do this on a browser, too. Hover over “User Flair” and a pencil will appear. Add what you will. It doesn’t have to be the official state name.
SummonerSausage@reddit
Thanks. Figured it was do-able from a browser as well, but I'm at work and not about to log into reddit on the company pc.
LinuxLinus@reddit
Thanks!
ABelleWriter@reddit
Thank you for asking the question I've been too embarrassed to ask!
Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit
Ohhh i might try that
astralTacenda@reddit
its so good. adds a bit of depth and umami you dont get from just salt!
Rescuepets777@reddit
Or Worcestershire sauce
Impossible-Taro-2330@reddit
Yum!
I love them with some cider vinegar!
FishAroundFindTrout9@reddit
I like adding a little cider vinegar to the yolk mix when making deviled eggs. Also sometimes a little sriracha
FishAroundFindTrout9@reddit
Oh that sounds really good. I like everything bagel seasoning on them.
kaimcdragonfist@reddit
I like making the ramen eggs but just dipping them in soy sauce probably gets you most of the way there 🤔
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
Pepper too, and deviled eggs, yum.
elderly_millenial@reddit
Gotta have some pepper. These days I’ve even moved to cayenne pepper
AssistanceDry7123@reddit
Yeah, we ate some like that and my mom usually made egg salad with some so it was less monotonous but we could dye more eggs.
New_Willingness6453@reddit
Don't forget the Tabasco sauce.
WelcomeToDankonia@reddit
Don’t forget pepper.
Plus_Beyond_3485@reddit
We would make egg salad with them and it was definitely a few interesting colors from the dye. 😂
mshaversham@reddit
Old Bay on ours.
MidNightMare5998@reddit
stealing this idea, I have no idea why I never thought of it before
gidget1337@reddit
Maryland chiming in.
calcato@reddit
Omg delicious. (Generic seasoned salt for me but going for the same concept)
djzrbz@reddit
Pepper too
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”
greeneggiwegs@reddit
I have a deviled egg cookbook so yes the options are vast lol
jazzminarino@reddit
This entire thread is blowing my mind.
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.
Using different sizes of eggs, with escalating quality of fillings. Topping out at harder to find, large golden eggs containing $5 and a toy.
wfbhp@reddit
Growing up in the mid-80s to 90s, we used to color hard boiled eggs inside the night before and refrigerate them overnight. Then my parents would get up before the kids and hide them around the house along with some of the plastic ones with candy and coins. Afterward, we'd eat the real ones, so keeping them in the fridge and hiding them right before hunt time meant they didn't stay out too long. They also hid eggs outside, but those were always the plastic ones because no one wanted to go find real eggs that had potentially been in contact with cat pee or spiders or ragweed and then have them for breakfast.
XayahTheVastaya@reddit
In my family it's both, there's an outdoor plastic egg hunt for the kids and hard boiled egg coloring as an indoor activity. There's an egg competition where people whack their eggs against each other's, last one with at least one end of their egg intact wins.
TooManyDraculas@reddit
So conkers but with eggs?
beedelia@reddit
But have you tried everything seasoning? (Like an everything bagel - salt, sesame, poppy, garlic, and onion)
Prestigious_Snow3309@reddit
Just finished dying eggs with my grandchildren. They are 13 and 16. We had a ball! I asked if they were too old. They were like NO.
r2d3x9@reddit
Salt and pepper. But for Easter, horseradish sauce or Franks Hot. If not available, Chinese hot sauce or bbq sauce or even Heinz 57 steak sauce
RemarkableRiver9961@reddit
I’ve never heard of anyone actually eating them. That’s a thing? (Not hard boiled eggs in general but the painted ones).
Unsolven@reddit
They are just hard boiled eggs with food dye. Why wouldn’t you eat them?
RemarkableRiver9961@reddit
Because they have been sitting at room temperature for hours during decoration and hunting.
Unsolven@reddit
We would boil and decorate them the night before, then put them in fridge. They were hidden on Easter morning, we’d find them and eat some and put whatever we didn’t eat in the fridge for later.
edcRachel@reddit
My mom always poked a hole in each end and blew the egg out of it raw and then just painted the shell on its own.
Horzzo@reddit
Soft boiled. Bite open a small hole just big enough for some hot sauce then enjoy. I call them bloody eggs and they are delicious.
Ad-hocProcrastinator@reddit
Everything seasoning elevates it.
BobbyLicari@reddit
Don’t forget the Tabasco 💪
LvBorzoi@reddit
My mom would start a few weeks ahead and take the egg out of the shell. Didn't waste the egg and no mess if we dropped one.
To do that you take an ice pick and put a small hole in each end and blow in one end like blowing up a balloon. The egg will come out the other hole
Those we painted and decorated wit glitter and patterns made with string and yarn..
If we were dying them we used hard boiled.
OkElephant1931@reddit
I like the way when you dye them the egg white takes on the color of the dye
QueenMackeral@reddit
I love Easter eggs. We put them in bread with butter, salt, and tarragon
Southern-Usual4211@reddit
We make red chile caribe for them. Delicious combo
Humble-Edge-9065@reddit
https://youtu.be/2oo6iEqkFnI?si=Wwr2qWrAGJix-xrc
schonleben@reddit
I like to go with a curry powder, berbere, or za’atar.
DogsBikesAndMovies@reddit
Just one or two though.
Due_Mark6438@reddit
Salt, pepper and mayo or
Devilled eggs, or
pickled red beet eggs, or
Egg salad. Bonus points for egg salad and deviled eggs made with red beet eggs
notacanuckskibum@reddit
Yes, but do you eat them any more at Easter than other times of the year.
Meattyloaf@reddit
I mean I've put down a dozen hardball eggs after an Egg hunt. I've never done that anytime of the year.
notacanuckskibum@reddit
Fair enough then. I’ve only done egg hunts with chocolate eggs.
CouldBeBetterForever@reddit
I use them to make pickled red beet eggs.
MasonStonewall@reddit
I prefer ground pepper, but yeah, delicious 😋
GelatinousCube7@reddit
yeah wed dye them but eat em a day or two later.
B_Williams_4010@reddit
We always had egg salad sandwiches for a week after Easter.
Active_Wolf_5543@reddit
Yes lol you hard boil them and color them
flyza_minelli@reddit
I’m with you, OP. Jewish here. Leaning how to celebrate Easter with this egg stuff. We boiled up a bunch for my kid and spouse to dye. Then we just…ate them. I made deviled eggs out of them but I was super confused why we had to dye them first and not really do anything with them bc In laws had plastic eggs filled with stuff for the holiday hunt. So a whole table of dyed eggs, I made mine deviled, some people did so as well. It just seemed strange to me and wasteful but I’m sure my religion has a big waste element to it as well.
raebz12@reddit
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.
Those were only for decorative purposes. Egg hunts for me were just the chocolate scattered around the yard. Find it before animals did. For my kids, it’s coins inside plastic eggs. They love getting a few dollars, and better for the teeth.
Ovenproofcorgi@reddit
The eggs are hard boiled and then dyed. Later they're usually used for deviled eggs
mizzoug15@reddit
Growing up, we would dye hard boiled eggs but not eat them as we left them out on the table, wherever. Sometimes they would be hidden in the yard for a hunt, but that transitioned to the plastic eggs.
IllSprinkles7864@reddit
You turn them into deviled eggs, that's the only true way to enjoy Easter.
farmerthrowaway1923@reddit
We dyed hard boiled eggs one year. Then my mom said screw that and gave us markers to color raw eggs after that 😆 they would go back in the fridge after. As for hard boiled eggs, they would be made into deviled eggs afterwards.
Caliopebookworm@reddit
We decorated boiled eggs a few times and then ate them on a later day. Usually for egg hunts, the eggs would be plastic and have some little toy inside. My mom was not one that would let us eat boiled eggs that we found outside and would comment on how dangerous she felt the practice was (salmonella).
MayHoshikawa@reddit
Boiled eggs before decorating, but most people just use plastic eggs.
BasketFair3378@reddit
As an adult Easter egg hunt, my son got large plastic eggs and put those little liqueur bottles in them for us to find around the house.
AmphibianOld4815@reddit
In most Hispanic cultures we make cascarones. You poke a hole or take the top off, get all the egg out of the shell (and eat it), dye them, fill them with confetti, and put tissue paper over the top if need be. They're thrown at each other and cracked over each other's heads
ritchie70@reddit
You specifically said “chicken eggs” so I just want to comment that there’s really no other egg that Americans eat in any significant way.
Anything else is going to be a specialty supplier, whether ethnic shop or restaurant supplier.
Glittering-List-465@reddit
I boil some and color them. But I use the eggs for making stuff like egg salad, deviled eggs, and other egg dishes. To me, it’s kinda like meal prepping.
cricketeer767@reddit
Plastic eggs for the hunt, deviled eggs for eating.
Dizzy_Ice2938@reddit
Yes… we way boiled eggs that are decorated
Key_Hat_5721@reddit
Yep 😊 Step 1 you boil and then cool, then once cool and dry you have fun coloring them, after which, over the next week they will be eaten. We colored ~40 something between my two kiddos and some of their friends 🫶 It’s a lot of fun 🤩
bemvee@reddit
Hard boiled eggs. I don’t remember what we did with them after coloring them….i doubt I ate whatever it was, though.
My poor exasperated pre-k teachers didn’t know what to do with me after I refused to eat the green eggs & ham after they read the book to us.
Them: “Do you think it’ll taste bad?” Me: “…..No.” Them: “So will you eat it, please?” Me: “….” shakes head no
I knew it was just food dye, but that doesn’t make it look any less unappetizing.
SpecificWorldly4826@reddit
Just to be super clear, Easter egg decorating is a European Christian tradition that is also practiced in the US. It is not an American specific thing.
missplaced24@reddit
But how exactly you do it might be. I'm Canadian, we never used hard boiled eggs, we emptied the eggs via a tiny hole and used the eggs for cookies or cake before painting the shells.
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.
Yes, when I first moved away from Texas I was both shocked that 75% of people had no fuckin clue what i was talking about, and also realized how strange/foreign this was from other people's perspective.
-clogwog-@reddit
That's what we do in Australia too... The eggs are 'blown' before we decorate them. I always assumed that's what everyone did, and it's wild finding out that Americans decorate hard boiled eggs! 😂
Affectionate_Bad3908@reddit
I like this idea! In my family, we don’t eat the eggs we dye. For multiple reasons. The dye being one. We usually boil the eggs the day before. So after coloring and hiding them on day 2, they’re not exactly food safe.
Important_Canary6766@reddit
I tried that once and it was so hard to get the yolk and white OUT of the eggs it just wasn’t worth the hassle!
diversalarums@reddit
That's really interesting! I've done that for a craft but we (I'm US) always used real eggs at Easter. But we only dyed them, never did anything more complicated. I hope you have some lovely eggs saved.
nervelli@reddit
I remember doing that with my mom as a kid. We didn't put anything back in the shells. We just blew out the white/yolk and then painted the shells with nail polish and made egg bouquets.
diversalarums@reddit
That sounds like such fun. And using nail polish is really clever as it would last a long time. Cool!
Ov_Fire@reddit
There are many techniques,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZldobcvILUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ymhhkBdMh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xQdqN67qoM
There are Easter games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVQehF5dCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7een8AI0n8s
And you eat what you win
SpecificWorldly4826@reddit
If you look at these comments, there is no single answer for how Americans do Easter eggs. Many Americans do it like your family, many do not. Just like many Canadians do it your way, and many others do not.
jerkenmcgerk@reddit
It should be a requirement for this sub to state what country you're from when asking these questions. It would not only be a one-sided "Ask an American"- type sub, but one where when Americans read the question(s) can try to understand who doesn't understand why these questions are asked.
In this case, what seems to be a very understood European tradition the U.S. adopted or carried over, probably wasn't asked by a European. It makes me wonder what part of the world asks genuine questions like this. If they have seen the Easter Egg hunts or Easter Egg coloring of real eggs, they've been exposed to a tradition older than the existence of the U.S., but has somehow it's become an 'American' thing that actually originated in the Middle East.
MechanicalGodzilla@reddit
It makes for interesting reverse observations, like why did she repeatedly specify “chicken” eggs? The only alternatives I can think of would be caviar or a less readily available quail of ostrich egg.
Aware-Goose896@reddit
Yeah that’s an interesting observation. It’s not like you typically specify huevos de gallina in Spanish either—if you say huevos, it’s generally understood to be chicken…or occasionally human, depending on the context lol.
But to add to your list of other egg possibilities, there are duck eggs. Not terribly common at the grocery store, but not too hard to find at farmers markets or through a CSA.
Firm-Emu6384@reddit
I don’t think it would help you. I’m first generation American, lived here alll my life and I would have the exact same question as OP. Even being born and raised in the US doesn’t mean you know all the traditions and cultures of the country. USA is so big and regional, I doubt someone from ND would know the traditions of cajun people for example
Shallstrom@reddit
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
Firm-Emu6384@reddit
who knows haha
bovely_argle-bargle@reddit
Well damn, learn something new everyday
elderly_millenial@reddit
Yup. Can confirm this from my immigrant parents. No hunting for eggs, no Easter bunny, but they did color eggs
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.
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.
You do not eat those eggs - the dye seeps through, plus the process can take days before you’recready to blo2 it clean. What comes out tends to be nasty.
jazzminarino@reddit
You just sent me down a fabulous rabbit hole. This looks like a seriously long process; how long did it take you to dye your eggs? I can even imagine learning the pattern that intricately.
Kaurifish@reddit
Depending on how much time you took per day, it could stretch out over a week. But we were in L.A. so there was a strong motivation to get them done before the egg turned, lest the blowing get unspeakably vile.
jonesnori@reddit
Some of the egg decorating cultures use hollowed-out eggs, though. Mostly Eastern Europe, I think. They put a tiny hole in each end and blow out the contents, if I understand correctly, and their decorations are truly ornate and beautiful. I assume the American decorated hard-boiled egg custom comes from Western Europe?
SpecificWorldly4826@reddit
American customs come from all fucking over. That’s what I’m trying to get across to y’all.
jonesnori@reddit
That is very true. Thank you for the correction.
Capital-Designer-385@reddit
And I think we borrowed it from the Ukrainian tradition of pysanky eggs (which are also WAY more beautiful)
SpecificWorldly4826@reddit
Eurasia is full of various egg decorating trends. The history is easily accessible. Idk why everyone seems so confused by this. Pick up a booooook. We all get it from the ancient Near East, from where it spread out and was absorbed into many, many, many cultures across Eurasia.
thatguy420417@reddit
I went to school with a Ukrainian kid and his mom made some really ornately decorated eggs every Easter.
Zealousideal-Stop-68@reddit
Exactly. I’m very curious to know where OP is from. We had Easter eggs in Soviet (Soviet being atheist state!) Armenia growing up. Same tradition. Hard boiled eggs, dyed, either in store bought dye or home made natural dye with onion skins. My family is not very religious, but living in the U.S. we always celebrate the major Christian holidays, including Easter tomorrow.
caiaphas8@reddit
It doesn’t happen across the whole of Europe. Britain and Ireland we just have chocolate eggs, no one is decorating real eggs
SpecificWorldly4826@reddit
Posts on r/AskUK asking about decorating eggs disagree with you. Sorry!
anneofgraygardens@reddit
Yes, when I lived in Bulgaria, the first weekend I was there was Easter, and we spent a day sitting in the garden dying eggs. Good times, definitely not only an American tradition.
WellWellWellthennow@reddit
Some people will put a pin hole in the shell to drain out and dry up the inside and then paint an empty shell for a longer keepsake. Most of the time they're hard boiled and then died and then eaten. .
JBN2337C@reddit
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.
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.
-clogwog-@reddit
OMG, we had a special clear crayon for drawing on eggs... Drawing on the blown eggs with the crayon was super tricky when I was younger, because I've got dexterity issues, and always apply more pressure to things than intended, but it was still super fun! Blowing the eggs always made me dizzy too. 😂
wordsznerd@reddit
We used stickers, too. For dots or stars usually. Or strips of tape to make stripes.
But always some with white crayon, including at least one with our initials. Gotta make it clear who owns that egg!
wordsznerd@reddit
We usually used hard boiled, but we did this once or twice growing up. I feel like it would be easier to dye them first. Even a raw egg is more sturdy than an empty shell, and you wouldn’t have to hold it under as much.
Though I suppose it wouldn’t be fun for anyone if a kid made an egg they were especially proud of and then accidentally broke it trying to empty it.
ddonquixote@reddit
This. My family always did the pinholes in both ends and then blow out the yolk for scrambled eggs. This hard boiled thing sounds weird to me.
Various-Try-1208@reddit
If you blow the eggs out, and make a slightly larger hole, you can clean it the inside and fill it with melted chocolate. Then when the chocolate cools take the shell off and you have a chocolate egg. I did this once and decided that it was more trouble than it was worth. I’m glad I tried it once though.
The_Mother_@reddit
There used to be an annual festival in my town at the end of the school year. There was always a booth selling eggs that had been blown out, dyed, filled with confetti, and the hole covered with tissue paper. Then people would smash the confetti egg on others or throw them at each other. The eggs were sold super cheap so that eveeryone there could afford them and tickets to the festival were given out free at the schools. It was a great way to greet the summer.
VioletInTheGlen@reddit
Cascarones!
kaphytar@reddit
In Finland, they sell this kind of things in stores. (Tho it's not chocolate but nougat.)
Various-Try-1208@reddit
They sell chocolate eggs in the US as well but sometimes it’s fun to make your own. Plus you know the ingredients
llama_empanada@reddit
We grew up with this method, except we would fill the eggs with small candy or money then seal the hole with a layer of tissue paper!
WellWellWellthennow@reddit
Never heard of it. It's actually ingenius though. I'm sure if you did it multiple times you could figure out how to make it easier.
fastyellowtuesday@reddit
Just found out a few days ago that my husband's family did this. And he never knew people were using hard boiled eggs!
Megalocerus@reddit
They do go if they get deviled later.
MostlyChaoticNeutral@reddit
The hard boiled eggs are useful with small children. They're crush resistant in toddler hands and don't make a mess when dropped.
You can also turn them into splotchy colored deviled eggs when you get tired of looking at the shells.
scotchandsage@reddit
This should be up higher. It's hard mode--my parents didn't bother when we were little. Good old hardboiled eggs only, much easier for small kids and a heck of a way to make us excited for eating eggs. But one year my mom wanted to really spend time on the eggs and make them gorgeous, and for those we made the pinholes first, blew into them hard enough to see stars to clean them out, and only then did she paint them. We strung ribbon through and saved them for years to decorate with.
The Easter Egg Hunt was, as other folks are saying, plastic egg shells filled with candy and small coins. Younger kids would get a head start. And the chocolate eggs would show up in your Easter basket in the morning, ostensibly from the Easter Bunny, along with the most horrifying plastic green grass substitute.
Patient-Apple-4399@reddit
We did this too! My mom would then run fishing line through the pinholes to make ornaments. She once tried to cut out the bottom and put a tea candle in but it melted the dye in an unfortunate way
WellWellWellthennow@reddit
Well she gets points for creativity.
QuesoCadaDia@reddit
Usually you color then blow out. At least that's how we did with my Ukrainian grandma to ensure structure while dying
WellWellWellthennow@reddit
Yes I don't really do it so you would know better!
HistoricalStreet505@reddit
This is how my family always did it. My dad liked to make eggs and bacon for everyone on weekends, so during Lent, we’d blow the egg out of the shell and use that for scrambled eggs. Then we could take our time dying and decorating them.
Junior_Succotash2760@reddit
this is how I did it too!
LuckyCitron3768@reddit
My dad did this one year, but it was a lot of headache-inducing work, so it was just the one time, lol
WellWellWellthennow@reddit
Now that I think about it, I only ever did it once too lol.
AlarmingAttention151@reddit
Yeah my family did this method a few times, then turned the insides into a quiche or frittata
BSch2023@reddit
We did the pinhole method too. Then we’d use the raw eggs for scrambled eggs or baking or something, the day that we decorated the eggs
batclub3@reddit
I mean many of us eat eggs daily lol. But deviled eggs are a traditional side for Easter. Hard boiled chicken eggs. Peel the shell off. Slice in half, remove the yolk ball from the white. Mash it with some mayo, mustard, seasonings. Then spoon it back into the empty egg white.
piaa9@reddit (OP)
Thanks, I was wondering what deviled eggs were, you saved me a google search.
XANDERtheSHEEPDOG@reddit
Every person you ask will have their own recipe for deviled eggs. Everyone thinks theirs are the best. Of course, they are all correct. Deviled eggs are amazing
piaa9@reddit (OP)
After reading some comments I'm thinking mayo, dijon mustard, garlic, turkey, salt and pepper sound like a good combo.
Newgeta@reddit
Add bacon to the top
Prowindowlicker@reddit
I have multiple recipes for deviled eggs. My go to though is this sun dried tomato one.
BillNyeTheMurderGuy@reddit
If you take anything from this thread it’s to eat deviled eggs they’re so easy and so good. Hardest part is peeling the eggs
BruceTramp85@reddit
My mother-in-law makes deviled eggs frequently. However, they are especially popular at Easter because of the abundance of eggs given out.
redheadedbull03@reddit
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.
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.
DockEllis313@reddit
I had Szechuan noodles and it might have had an egg in it. Did not celebrate the fictional zombie.
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.
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.
Shadow_Lass38@reddit
I hate eggs, too, especially hard boiled eggs. How do you eat anything that smells that bad?
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.
User5891USA@reddit
“…I know some of you were well into your teens when you realized the 4th of July was only an American thing”
People were teenagers before they realized only Americans celebrate American Independence Day? I mean, unless they thought Bill Pullman was our actual president, I need you to name names sir. We need to root these idiots out. After which they’ll likely be allowed to serve in the highest office in the land, or cabinet, but still. Name names.
spam__likely@reddit
>when you realized the 4th of July was only an American thing
the amount of people who asked me if "we" celebrate the 4th of
July is too damn high.
Onyx_Lat@reddit
I always loved dyeing the eggs when I was a kid, but I never liked eating them because the dye would soak up the insides and make them look gruesome. Also I really do not like egg yolks. I would eat the whites sometimes, but I'd always give the yolks to my mom because she'll eat pretty much anything.
When we did Easter egg hunts, we always used plastic eggs because (a) you can put candy in them and (b) my uncle tried using real eggs with his family and they lost one. They eventually discovered it when it got all stinky. So the eggs we dyed were solely for eating.
(Tbh I wish adults could get away with hunting Easter eggs. That's one thing I miss from childhood.)
NotYourMutha@reddit
We also do cascarones. Confetti filled eggs that you smash on other people. It’s a lot of fun and more of a Mexican tradition.
sublimesting@reddit
No kid is excited to eat the egg! But they must prior to engulfing a basket of candy. Nourishment first!
ForestFreakPNW@reddit
Its nore about hiding the eggs for the kids to find than it is eating them. Although, I love egg salad sandwuches, and creamed eggs. So its a win either way. 😋
live_freeze_n_die@reddit
Eggs are $4.99 a dozen for me right now, I’m not painting shit
Quiet-Competition849@reddit
Ah man. Most of us don’t even register Easter as a holiday beyond giving our kids a basket with some sweet treats.
ChlorroftheMask_@reddit
My family doesn’t use hard boiled eggs. When ever we use eggs for cooking I crack as little of the top as possible empty the shell then rinse them. I save them until I have enough to dye. Then when they’re dyed and done drying we fill them with paper confetti and seal the top with paper mache or the rolls of paper party streamers are cut into circles and glued to seal the eggs. Then they’re ready to smash on people’s heads.
evil66gurl@reddit
Us too.
Running4Coffee2905@reddit
This is typically done in Mexican American culture. We blow out the egg and eat scrambled eggs starting in January/February. The confetti filled colored eggs are hidden for children to find and smash on people’s heads
eejm@reddit
I have a question you may be able to answer. I was in Houston yesterday and saw tents on street corner of Latin American folks selling plastic eggs. I’ve never seen this before. I’m guess they were filled with something. Any idea what this was?
cursethedarkness@reddit
I’m sorry I missed out on this tradition! (White woman from rural Indiana here). Smashing eggs in each others’ heads would have been a blast!
ChlorroftheMask_@reddit
Im Mexican American too 🙂 I always thought everyone did this. My parents did do hard boiled eggs one year but too many of us we’re trying to smash them on peoples heads lol I vaguely remember trying really hard on my uncles head and him saying Ow over and over
Running4Coffee2905@reddit
Cascarones (means shells) I just remember the word! You brought back a great memory!
justonemom14@reddit
Great tradition. Here in Texas, Walmart has stacks and stacks of cartons with the confetti filled shells for sale.
SlightSyllabub2198@reddit
This is what my family does too ☺️ and I keep the tradition going. (I am also Mexican- American)
nclay525@reddit
This feels like the least wasteful and least gross option.
BSch2023@reddit
This is what we did with our eggs. I was beginning to think we were the only ones lol! But we never put the confetti in the inside. That’s a great idea.!
Prestigious_Stop_651@reddit
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.
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.
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.
riskyplumbob@reddit
Dude… my kids attended an egg hunt yesterday and smashed eggs all over a willing man’s head for fun.
krustykatzjill@reddit
Deviled eggs were what we made, egg salad or potato salad
ImpressiveAide3381@reddit
I’m sorry some of the responses are unkind. That is not needed.
When I lived in military housing in the ‘70’s we had a big group egg hunt and pot luck on Easter. One year around June a dad found a forgotten Easter egg with his mower. The smell…
Important_Canary6766@reddit
As for chocolate eggs, typically it’s just regular chocolate shaped like an egg and then wrapped in colorful foil. Sometimes you get hollow chocolate eggs but those are usually big. We also LOVE out peanut butter crème filled chocolate “eggs” too!
Red-tailed_hawk-776@reddit
Actual chicken eggs? Are you fucking kidding? Of course.
Crimson_deer_@reddit
No way, preparing for easter was about poking holes at the bottom of the eggs. I remember eating lots of egg based dishes as to not waste thé egg.only way I heard of people eating Easter eggs is like deviled eggs, though it’s not a thing in my household.
DilapidatedDinosaur@reddit
We never dyed hard boiled eggs. We'd get eggs, stab a small hole on the top and bottom, and blow out the egg. Rinse it out, dry, then dye. On my Mexican America side, we had cascarones.
txlady100@reddit
Absolutely! Hard boiled and dyed festively.
SnooCheesecakes2723@reddit
When I was a kid we painted eggs then hunted them but that fell out of fashion. Eggs in the grass with dirt, fire ants, etc sitting in refrigerated are unsanitary imo. We colored them with the kids and then made deviled eggs. The ones for the hunt are plastic with individually wrapped candies or small junk inside
BruceTramp85@reddit
We hard boil them and then eat them with the shells taken off.
On_my_last_spoon@reddit
Weak. I eat my boiled eggs with the shells and chocolate eggs with the foil, as God intended!
/s just in case
boudicas_shield@reddit
Okay Gaston /s
Just1Pepsimum@reddit
You take the shell off? Your missing out on all that calcium.
SnoopyBootchies@reddit
And missing out on the crispy crunchy covering! That's the best part of the boiled egg
snakysnakesnake@reddit
Appreciate the foil clarification 😂
that-Sarah-girl@reddit
And it's food dye that's made for eating. That's important.
xxxHAL9000xxx@reddit
glazed or candied ham, hotcross buns, and deviled eggs are traditional american easter foods.
eggs are colored because its easier and more fun to find them for children doing the easter egg hunt.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
You boil the eggs before you dye them. It's not common to put real eggs out for Easter Egg hunts anymore though.
Interesting-Long-534@reddit
It isn't common ANYMORE to use real eggs for Easter Egg hunts. It used to be. I'm old. I kept my hardboiled eggs in my Easter basket with my candy hidden in my room until the eggs rotted and started to smell. I didn't want my brother to steal my candy.
MsSamm@reddit
Remember the Easter egg hunts inside your house? Parents used real eggs at the time. There was always that one dicey egg that was discovered months later.
boudicas_shield@reddit
My dad once reckoned he’d be really clever and hid my basket in the oven. It had been off for several hours at that point, but it was still hot enough that all the chocolate melted and the eggs smelled rank. 😂
Obtuse-Angel@reddit
We never had one found later. My parents always hid exactly a dozen eggs, and if less than that we found nobody was leaving the house or doing anything else until they were all accounted for.
ranch_life_1986@reddit
I do that with my kids. 3 kids, 3 dozen eggs to dye and find, always fun!
Left_Debt_8770@reddit
Yep, all through my childhood 80s-90s this was the deal. That last egg was sometimes really stressful to find. I think my mom started writing notes for herself about where she’d hidden them.
SirAlthalos@reddit
That's what my mom did too. When I was really young and if I was struggling to find the last one, she'd give me little hints like 'Oh is that a bunny footprint over by the cabinet? I wonder if there's anything over there?'
rangeghost@reddit
See, my Mom usually supervised and she'd tell you if you were getting "warmer or colder" to finding any missed ones.
Delores_Herbig@reddit
My mom did that too! I forgot about that.
MsSamm@reddit
I remember that. But we had a bunch of kids, so a lot of eggs. Unless it was written down it's easy to miss one. I remember discovering the egg much later and daring each other to eat it, with my mother going noooo! She insisted we hand it over
_handlemewithcare_@reddit
Must count the eggs!
VirtualMatter2@reddit
Why is everyone just talking about America? It's still common to use real eggs for Easter egg hunts in Europe.
Interesting-Long-534@reddit
Im an American. I answered for me and my experiences.
VirtualMatter2@reddit
That's fair, but your statement didn't say anything about one specific country.
Interesting-Long-534@reddit
The header says American. I could have been more specific. I wasn't. Why be upset? Please try to find peace today whether you hunt for real eggs or plastic eggs or no eggs.
macoafi@reddit
My Quaker meeting does a hunt with boiled eggs. My spouse says he was jealous when he found out that other kids’ eggs had candy inside, meanwhile his eggs just had egg inside.
Interesting-Long-534@reddit
We got candy just not in eggs. I remember eating the eggs after they had been dyed, handled, hidden, and stored at room temperature.
LinuxLinus@reddit
I remember one year someone hid an egg too well in one of the bushes outside the front of our house. About a week later the whole yard smelled like something had died, and it stayed that way until the offending egg either disintegrated or was carried off by a raccoon.
FormidableMistress@reddit
Did y'all not count your eggs?
kat_storm13@reddit
My parents made roughly drawn maps and we still sometimes didn't find them all lol
LinuxLinus@reddit
We knew there was one missing. We just couldn't find it.
PurrfectlyMediocre@reddit
They do tell us not to count our chickens before they hatch... some people are just extra cautious.
joekryptonite@reddit
Mom and dad had a few drinks while putting them out and forgot the correct number.
PeorgieT75@reddit
Now that you mention it, I don’t think we had real eggs for the hunt. We would hunt Easter eggs on my aunt and uncle’s farm, then fly kites.
TodayIllustrious@reddit
Agreed with this!! I'm old too and we always uses real eggs I did with my kids in the 2000s. One of the last egg hunts my parents did for me in the mid-80s our borzoi went through and ate most of them. Then it was a race to find the remaining eggs while my mom was trying to remember all the hiding spots.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
Yep. Your first sentence is the same thing I said, but with the words in a different order.
MPLS_Poppy@reddit
The smell once summer hit and you found an egg your grandma hid but forgot about?!!? Kids these days are missing out.
schmatteganai@reddit
....and this, OP, is why they aren't common anymore...
porcelaincatstatue@reddit
Adding to this: Easter Egg hunts are usually done with plastic eggs that have candy or small toys in them. The egg separates in two pieces, you put the treat inside, and snap it back together.
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
My dad hides 6-10 easter eggs on his 100-acre property. And we’re all given clues / riddles about their location. Each egg has $10-100 in it. It’s a blast. Then we all go out hunting for morels.
justalittleloopi@reddit
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.
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
That’s awesome. What a good boss.
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
There's always money and gift cards and scratchers at the company wide parties. And at Christmas they give out $100 bills to 15 people pulled from a hat. We're employee owned, too, so it's not just an evil corp trying to save face or anything. Lol we genuinely have a lot of fun. The president of the company always brings donuts and ice cream when he visits, too.
jazzminarino@reddit
Not to be creepy, but I think we all want to work there? Like what industry is that and where? I may need a career shift.
justalittleloopi@reddit
We're in California and im an illustrator for the national parks, state parks, museums, aquariums, etc. If you've ever bought a magnet or sticker or mug or poster and so on from a gift shop in the US or Canada, there's a good chance it was us. I do a style based on the WPA posters that we call Retro Ranger. I also do a style made up of thousands of individual geometric pieces. And just sooo many little illustrations for stickers etc.
jazzminarino@reddit
Thank you for taking the time to explain this! I never would've known. That's absolutely fascinating and such a cool niche job I would never have known about- thank you! Unfortunately, that is totally not in my wheelhouse, so please know there's a Redditor on the East Coast jealous of you.
ChestSlight8984@reddit
My Grandma would put out 100 eggs in the forest with money in them behind her house and have us search for hours while she and the rest of the family got to be kid-free. Ingenious, really.
sharkycharming@reddit
That is so much fun.
My college roommate's family did that with the plastic eggs, too, although their property was much smaller, and the denominations of money were also much smaller. Mostly ones and fives, and one twenty dollar bill. Of course, that was also in 1992.
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.
jazzminarino@reddit
Even Easter egg hunts have been affected by inflation! 🙃 You're absolutely right- I remember getting change in mine as a child.
KevrobLurker@reddit
One can get $1 coins.
I much prefer soft- boiled eggs, but one can't dye those.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
My family is doing that on Sunday with bills in those same denominations. But the hunt is just for little kids so it'll be pretty good money if you're under eight.
Hour_Badger2700@reddit
I wish I had the knowledge to harvest wild mushrooms #retirementgoal
microwaved-tatertots@reddit
Look online for local mushroom foraging clubs
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
It’s really not as difficult to do as it seems. I guarantee you there’s a few native to your area that do not have poisonous lookalikes.
Hour_Badger2700@reddit
I went with a group once and was quite successful.
Just don't currently have the time to devote enough attention to where I would feel comfortable making the ID on my own.
agreeswithfishpal@reddit
Just don't use that edible mushroom guide by the late John Smith
Elemental_Breakdown@reddit
Where are you finding morels in early April?! Are you guys taking applications for new family members?
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
Kentucky. Yeah you’re welcome to tag along. I don’t know if this year is too early, especially with the snow and ice. And we’re not there every year for Easter, but the last few times we have been there, the morels were out.
Elemental_Breakdown@reddit
That's very nice of you, I'm a bit far but will be rooting for you guys to score
VelocityGrrl39@reddit
Wait, what?
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
What?
IWantALargeFarva@reddit
This is an awesome idea for when my kids are older. My oldest is 19 but my youngest is only 11. We hide about 250 eggs and the kids go absolutely crazy.
kat_storm13@reddit
We only have 5 acres and my parents stopped egg hunts when the grandkids became adults. The most difficult one was the $20 egg. One year they shoved it inside a tennis ball that had a split in it. The clues had to change when we couldn't find it because the dogs kept moving it around lol.
One year I found it. Really happy my dad put grass on top of it before the thank goodness fully dried dog poop on it
Seelie_Mushroom@reddit
We would do two easter hunts with my siblings. My parents did the first round, made them pretty easy to find and made sure we all got a kinda equal amount. Then my siblings would take out their candies, pass the plastic eggs to me, and I'd fill them with spare change(pennies, nickels etc, a quarter if one of the eggs was gold etc) and I'd hide them in spots that were as difficult as I could think of(but still within reaching distance). One I remember was I put the golden one in the underside of a dining chair seat cushion (you know the ones that you pull over the seat cushion). We'd still be finding them months later 😂
porcelaincatstatue@reddit
That sounds so fun! Not just the money part, but the scavenger hunt (and the mushroom hunting)!
Apollo_T_Yorp@reddit
I hide the kids' Easter baskets and then hide a series of plastic eggs, each egg has a clue that will need to the next one until the last egg has a clue to the basket
Scarlet-Fire_77@reddit
That is so fun.
AnchoviePopcorn@reddit
It’s a ton of fun. We’re at the point where we’re all having kids of our own, so I’m sure the next few Easter’s are gonna be a madhouse as the little ones join in.
MissFabulina@reddit
Now ... I would go on that egg hunt! Money, money, money, money...MONEY!
gard3nwitch@reddit
Yeah, $10s and $100s are pretty generous!
I work in a bank, and we go through a lot of $1s on the week before Easter because of egg hunts. So I know that's common. But not $100s lol.
PlutonicPurrfume@reddit
Your family sounds amazing and fun!
EatLard@reddit
I’d skip the eggs and go right for the morels. That sounds like fun.
LargeMarge-sentme@reddit
Substituting real eggs that have been cooked and hand painted for cheap plastic filled with sugar seems on point for the US actually.
gard3nwitch@reddit
Putting real eggs outside all day in 80+F weather always seemed dicey to me. And then you have to hope that the kids find them all and you don't step on a surprise rotten egg in a few weeks.
LargeMarge-sentme@reddit
Dying them was always the real treat.
gard3nwitch@reddit
Yeah, for sure. And you can dye some real eggs and then hide some fake plastic ones
LargeMarge-sentme@reddit
Lots of people are hurt their traditions are plastic and fake.
porcelaincatstatue@reddit
Firstly, Easter Egg hunts aren't unique to the US.
Secondly, eal eggs are still hard boiled, dyed, and then eaten. The plastic eggs are reusable year after year and the treats inside vary. It's much less disgusting than having a bunch of eggs hidden around to either be squished open/cracked or missed and left to rot. (There's a Bob's Burgers episode about that btw.)
cowgrly@reddit
Yes. Everyone eats the eggs after the hunt, your mom gets mad.
NovelWord1982@reddit
My grandmother reused them from year to year, only replacing if one was broken. Each grandkid was assigned a color to find and the older you were, the trickier the hiding spots. As teenagers, we’d frequently be climbing trees and going into the barn lofts on their farm looking for our eggs. The littles had their eggs just lying in the grass. We still do this and as an adult it’s so fun to figure out new places to hide things from the kiddos.
CornucopiaDM1@reddit
Wait til you're putting out this year's scavenger hunt of eggs, and you find one that has been there since last year! You'll be very glad to use plastic and not have to worry about the stink.
TumbleFairbottom@reddit
Anything that appeals to biases, am I right?
bluecifer7@reddit
We hid real hard boiled eggs every year growing up and it was certainly VERY important to find every egg because you didn’t want to leave one to rot lol
SignificantBoot7180@reddit
My friend's family used real eggs for their hunt. Someone hid one in his car. I found it in July, when I reached down to buckle my seat belt, and instead squished a rotten egg. I'm not sure how that rot stayed contained for so long. It was grotesque!
Delores_Herbig@reddit
Yeah when I was a kid in the 90s we used real hard boiled eggs.
When we’d bring them back, my mom would count them all to make sure we got every one. If we didn’t have them all she’d send us back out, because she didn’t want to deal with rotten eggs later.
Then we got a fat little dog from the shelter, and unfound eggs were no longer a problem. She could sniff out a morsel of food from 100 feet away. One year I caught her obsessing over our patio set, trying to climb all over it, a couple days after Easter. Turns out my dad had hidden an egg in the umbrella, and she had been wearing herself out for days trying to find it.
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 :/
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.
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.
The kids do get it about finding their own colors. Sometimes, the bigger kids spot the little kids eggs and give hints, but they try to be subtle.
PumaGranite@reddit
My family did this once for my sibling and my cousins once, and it was an unusually warm Easter that year, so we starting filling the eggs with water and hucked them at each other. That was when my family decided we were going to be too old for Easter egg hunts next year. My parents are still finding plastic egg shards in the yard.
cen-texan@reddit
To add to thisI haven’t been to an egg hunt that used real eggs in years, but when I was a kid in the late 70s and 80s. that was all we used. When my daughter was a kid, we still dyed eggs, but did not put them out for hunting
PinxJinx@reddit
Always a treat when a family member uses real eggs and then you find rotten eggs around the property throughout the year
SugarReyPalpatine@reddit
The American gashapon
BiggDAZ@reddit
There was nothing like stepping on an Easter egg that didn't get found a month or so after it was hidden. The smell is memorable.
ANDRomEdA_dubh@reddit
Outside dogs always took care of the missed eggs around here.
strawberryselkie@reddit
We used to use real eggs for our family egg hunts, but as there was usually still snow on the ground at Easter time they were just hidden around the living room. 😅
Brief_Ad7468@reddit
I love egg hunts so much I still do it with my friends and adult children. We use real eggs (bc AFAIC that’s how it’s done. Also, fuck plastic). I know most folks don’t anymore. But do people still dye them? And if so, what do they do with them? What would be the point if you don’t hide them? 🤔
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
Yeah, people still dye them because it's fun, and then you eat them (not necessarily that day) because boiled eggs are good.
Brief_Ad7468@reddit
How odd! But hey, whatever blows your hair back 😂
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
Same to you.
CeruleanWolf@reddit
My family always hid hard boiled eggs, and my dad would eat them after I found them. LOL! All of the public egg hunts I attended used the plastic eggs that would have little candies or stickers inside. Sometimes, there would be a larger prize, like an Easter basket with toys in it, for the kid who found the most eggs, too.
Sapphire_Dreams1024@reddit
I had no idea that people eat the dyed eggs. My family would have dyed eggs for show and then make deviled eggs to eat
jessm307@reddit
So what did you do with the dyed eggs? Just throw them out?
Sapphire_Dreams1024@reddit
Yup
Bright_Ices@reddit
My dad has kept dozens of blown eggs that we decorated as kids. These days my mother will only let us (and grandkids) dye boiled eggs specifically so he can’t save more and more of them. It’s a move I support.
Kyle81020@reddit
Many people use real eggs for Easter egg hunts.
RightToTheThighs@reddit
Maybe in their own house, but community organized ones are basically always plastic
chodeobaggins@reddit
Never even heard of a community organized one.
KatrinaPez@reddit
The White House does an annual one which is always shown on the news. Churches and other organizations have community ones.
chodeobaggins@reddit
Cool. I don't watch the news and I've never had cable. None of my friends or family are religious so I just haven't been exposed to that.
KatrinaPez@reddit
We have a local newspaper that lists community events. Plus there are often signs up in advance advertising it. Not as widespread as trunk or treats though so I can see how you could miss it if you weren't looking.
Overall_Occasion_175@reddit
I'm not religious either but most towns organize an Easter Egg hunt for kids... there will be signs all around. Many schools organize them too.
chodeobaggins@reddit
Don't have kids and neither do my friends so I wouldn't know. I just googled it and I guess the lions club does one in my town for kids and there is a bar a few towns over that does one for adults.
docmoonlight@reddit
You need to get out more.
chodeobaggins@reddit
I've been to 48 states and lived in 4 and I travel out of the country every year. None of my family or friends are religious or celebrate Easter so I'm not exposed to anything to do with it. My grandparents did when I was a kid but that was 30 years ago.
docmoonlight@reddit
I mean there’s famously one on the White House lawn every year. Granted, I’m a professional church musician, so I’m probably more aware of these things than most people.
RightToTheThighs@reddit
You've never seen or heard of a church or something do an Easter egg hunt for the children??
chodeobaggins@reddit
I don't see or hear of anything churches do. None of my friends or family are religious.
PurrfectlyMediocre@reddit
Community events are actually quite common, but sometimes poorly advertised. Our town has one for kids and one for adults. The kids get toys, candy, and gift cards for things like ice cream cones. The adult one costs $20, but comes with two drinks and the eggs contain gift cards and coupons for things like meals for two, baked goods, $10-20 off purchases, and the like. The prizes are all donated by the local businesses and community.
chodeobaggins@reddit
Sounds like a good time. I've lived most of my life in a small town in Montana so I've never seen anything like that. I just moved to the southeast though so I'm sure that will change.
AuraCrash78@reddit
I really find that hard to believe.
seattlemh@reddit
Same.
Kyle81020@reddit
How do you imagine that you’re familiar with all of the millions of events across millions of square miles?
SparklyRoniPony@reddit
Yep, my kids are older now, but we used to use real eggs.
PCBassoonist@reddit
We still do real eggs.
ClaimsToBeCanadian@reddit
We do! We just distract the kids in the morning while dad/uncle hides the eggs, then go straight out to find them. They’re only out of the fridge for 20-30 minutes and seem to be fine. But anything that’s not a family Easter morning hunt will certainly be plastic eggs.
jvhgh@reddit
I remember as a little kid, used real eggs. I think it may have been the last one, cause I don’t remember any after it, but my dad kept saying there was one more. Looked everywhere for it and couldn’t find it. Moved furniture and all that jazz. A few months later (I was a young kid so it may not have been that long) I was playing with toys and bumped the chair, down comes the egg. I ended up cracking it and it stunk up the whole place. Mind you , it was a small apartment.
Earl_E_Byrd@reddit
Yes! They all have their uses and perks.
Hard-boiled eggs for a fun decorating activity with family in the days leading up to Easter. Sometimes hollow "blown-out" egg shells if they are going to be used long term. Fragile, but very pretty.
Plastic toy eggs are good for larger scale outdoor egg hunts, like community events or parties. They tend to be brighter, larger and easier to see. Candy and prizes hidden inside (sometimes tiny chocolate eggs inside a plastic egg for egg-ception.) Individual families may still use their decorated real eggs for private egg hunts.
Chocolate eggs for the day of Easter. Usually delivered by the bunny in a basket, or hidden around the house for an indoor egg hunt.
curiousgirls@reddit
We always hid real eggs until the year we lost one of them. Easter was on april fools that year so it was very fitting.
We found the egg 3 years later when my parents were moving. It never smelled.
Richard_Thickens@reddit
Chocolate eggs or, more commonly for Easter egg hunts, the plastic eggs filled with candy or prizes or whatever.
SusanLFlores@reddit
Everyone I know uses real hard boiled and dyed eggs for Easter egg hunts, and those of us without children in the house dye their eggs the day before Easter and put them on the table in a bowl and make deviled eggs for our family dinner on Easter. We have also had our Easter egg hunts inside our homes instead of outside. I remember being surprised when I heard some people hide them outside, lol
LinuxLinus@reddit
Really? I guess I haven't done an Easter egg hunt since I was a kid, which was, you know, a long time ago. I didn't know people didn't use real eggs anymore.
bubblyH2OEmergency@reddit
nobody wants ants!
bookgirl9878@reddit
I’m in my late 40s and I have never seen real eggs in an egg hunt—not our family ones, the ones I have seen hosted by churches or community organizations, or from other families. I thought we stopped doing that when plastic reusable eggs became widely available.
jessm307@reddit
I’m in my 40s too and thought real egg hunts were a thing of past generations. I’ve never seen real eggs used. We dye them to be pretty on the table before we eat them, but we only hide plastic ones.
Ok_Revolution6234@reddit
My parents were using real eggs for our egg hunts up until like 2000. They would use mostly real eggs and some fake eggs. Then we had deviled eggs for days on end.
MissFabulina@reddit
It is because...if they aren't all found...the smell is awful! Also, candy or a toy is something kids want. A hard boiled egg? Not so much.
ThersATypo@reddit
It's about the hunt, isn't it?
HappySam89@reddit
We use real eggs for an egg hunt at home and at family member houses. Places like church, city hosted egg hunt at a park, etc they use plastic eggs.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
I just said it's not common anymore, not that it doesn't happen at all. The plastic ones are more popular in my experience as someone with memories of egg hunts from the 90s to now.
SparklyRoniPony@reddit
They still do.
seattlemh@reddit
My family always hid actual eggs. We still do. Plastic eggs are so bad for the environment.
missdui@reddit
Yes but I reuse the same ones every year for my kids. Kids also don't usually want hard boiled eggs (that have been sitting in the sun in the yard) they want fake eggs with candy or money inside.
AmalatheaClassic@reddit
Unless you come from the part of the country where heritage Americans insist on stupid traditions. I got food poisoned from one of these idiot egg hunts in the 90s. The community I grew up in does not like to change tradition& they still use real eggs to this day.
bovisrex@reddit
A lot of us have stories about the last time we did an Easter Egg hunt with real eggs that involve the one no one could find, an evacuation of the house for a horrifying gas leak, and a cleaning and ventilating bill once the offending egg is found. Plastic eggs only, please.
cupcakebean@reddit
When I was a kid in the 80s, we hid the actual eggs. I remember we found one a few months after Easter. It was up high where our dog couldn't reach it. Now that I have kids, we hide plastic ones.
GamerDadofAntiquity@reddit
…Wait til you find out about our Valentines Day hearts…
justsomeshortguy27@reddit
My family would hide some real eggs and some fake eggs. After the hunt was over, my mom would make deviled eggs while my brother and I did a candy trade. If there were any unfound, we’ve always lived somewhere with raccoons so it’s a nice treat for them :)
EnyaNorrow@reddit
In my family we used an egg blower so we just decorated the empty shells. We did it that way so the colors/decorations would last longer and we could put more effort into them.
shuknjive@reddit
Deviled Eggs! I think they might be more popular here in the south but I might need correcting.
Ok_Organization_4961@reddit
My mom used to boil the eggs and peel them before coloring them. Then she'd make deviled eggs with them for Easter supper. She doesn't do it anymore because we don't have a big meal on Easter anymore.
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
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.
After they're found, you can eat some for breakfast, but usually we'd make deviled eggs with them.
TheArkedWolf@reddit
Nah nah nah, I came to comment on the 4th of July part. Everyone by 4th-5th grade understands that it’s an American Holiday.
sassycat13@reddit
Yeah I hate eggs but I loved dying them hahaga
lifeisfascinatingly_@reddit
Yes we eat them afterwards: deviled, egg salad, or just then and there with salt and pepper.
SeniorRabbit8097@reddit
We blow ours out before dyeing so we can save them forever. My mom still has some of mine (I’m 54) and I have almost 100 that my boys have dyed over the past 20 years. I wrote their initials and the year on each. I use the blown out yokes/eggwhite to make scrambled eggs and quiches. Use a small nail to put a tiny hole in each end and then blow hard to make all the stuff come out. Rinse and leave out to dry before dyeing
scorch148@reddit
We would hard boil them before coloring them, then just eat them for fun later 🤷♀️
Lovely-flutterby@reddit
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.
We each had our own particular basket and the Easter bunny knew which was which. He would hide them and leave a clue on our pillow. Oddly enough, the Easter bunny’s print was extremely difficult to read, rather like our left-handed doctor dad’s handwriting……
TillikumWasFramed@reddit
They're hard boiled. In my experience, you try to eat them in the week after Easter, but it's hard to eat them all, because hard-boiled eggs are gross.
NeitherDrama5365@reddit
The Easter egg tradition is actually a German tradition not an American one smart ass
Suppafly@reddit
They are hard boiled eggs before you decorate them. Kids don't get excited about eating them, they mostly sit in the fridge and you either make deviled eggs and potato salad and other things that use boiled eggs or you end up throwing them away.
Normal-Sprinkles6799@reddit
One city in Indiana has a great citywide hunt BUT it's the Peanut hunt. They throw thousands of peanuts into a field...thousands. But they color some red, blue, green, purple, gold. There are different prizes for the colors. It's better than an egg hunt and lots cheaper. The whole town turns out.
Incendiaryag@reddit
They are hard boiled, decorated with food safe dye solution the night before, and put out during Easter brunches to be consumed. We usually "hunt" for the plastic candy filled eggs.
glendacc37@reddit
As others have said, we hard boil the eggs before coloring them.
If the weather was good, there'd be an Easter egg hunt outside. If it wasn't, it'd be inside. And many times we'd forget to count the eggs before they were hidden... A heavy, solid wooden hutch full of dishes was moved (probably to replace the old carpet), and a VERY, VERY OLD Easter egg was discovered! We treated its disposal as if it were a ticking time bomb.
CoffeeChocolateBoth@reddit
Yes we eat the hard boiled eggs, and we make egg salad and potato salad with them too! :)
Winter-eyed@reddit
Egg salad or potato salad with chunks of egg white marbled with food coloring from the dyed shells is a traditional Easter food.
AllSoulsNight@reddit
We used boiled and plastic eggs for hunts. One year we found an old petrified boiled egg from the previous year. The inside was solid and rattled around in the shell! And BTW, sometimes the insides of raw eggs are blown out before the dye process.
OneSignature7178@reddit
I made jalapeno popper egg salad.
mikerichh@reddit
Deviled eggs are delicious
MrOxxxxx@reddit
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a thing in the entire western world? (Like Europe, North America, Australia etc)
Wild-Sky-4807@reddit
Just wanted to share, my amazing Aunt growing up loved dying Easter eggs with us. She would then make egg salad on Easter Monday and called it Easter egg salad. I was so confused because I thought it would be colorful like the eggs. So the eggs are hard boiled first and then put back in the fridge.
HermioneMarch@reddit
We blow ours. Put a tiny hole in the ends and blow the food out into a bowl. You can scramble them or mix them into cake mix. Then you can keep your designs a long time with no stink.
Commercial_Picture28@reddit
They're boiled. When I was a kid we ate boiled eggs separately from the ones we painted, idk why. I can't recall ever eating a painted egg.
Mary_P914@reddit
Yes it's chicken eggs. Most regular grocery stores only sell chicken eggs. We would boil them first before decorating them.
BigCrunchyNerd@reddit
I know some folks take the instead of before dying, but we always hard boiled ours and then colored them. Easter morning we would take the shells off and make egg salad, which we would have on toast for breakfast.
BauserDominates@reddit
I had eggs for breakfast, but not because it is Easter.
Shoddy-Secretary-712@reddit
We never eat our Easter eggs, although I do love hard boiled eggs.
I just always forget to refrigerate them after we color them.
patterns_everywhere_@reddit
We hard-boil them, paint them, then peel them and eat them.
ANDRomEdA_dubh@reddit
Anyone else play a game called "colored eggs" when you were a kid? Some one was the egg, someone was the egg salesperson, and someone was wolf. The egg and egg salesperson secretly choose a color for the "egg" to be. Then, a verbal exchange between the wolf and sales person would happen something like this.
Wolf, "Knock, knock" Salesperson, "Who's there?" Wolf, "The Big Bad Wolf" Salesperson, "What do you want?" Wolf, "Colored eggs' Salesperson, "What color?" At this point the wolf starts naming off colors. When they guess the right color, the "Egg" takes off running around the pre ordained bases and the wolf tries to catch them. If they get caught, they go in the pot and the wolf gets to go through the process again until an "Egg" makes it back to base. Then the wolf has to be an egg and the game starts over with a new wolf. My sister, my cousins, and I played it every Easter and sometimes just to play it when we were growing up. Did we make it up or is it a thing?
PearlyPearlz@reddit
I turn them all into deviled eggs afterwards. It’s a good, high protein snack.
Hammer_of_Shawn@reddit
Who the hell didn’t know the 4th of July was only an American thing until in their teens? Where are you getting that information? I’ve never known anyone who hasn’t always known that the 4th of July was an American holiday… lol.
Eggs are a superfood. I’ve always loved them, even as a kid, and they’re insanely good for you.
Ok-Factor-7188@reddit
I dunno I've had my fair share of Americans ask me if we celebrate the 4th of July in Europe.
Aussiechimp@reddit
It comes up on the bluey subreddit as one example, eg
"Why doesnt Bluey do a 4th of Juky episode?" "Because its an Australian show" "So?" .....
Sledheadjack@reddit
Well… that only means the Aussies are uninformed then… or the fools that let screens babysit their kids
Far-Slice-3821@reddit
Why would an Aussie wonder why there isn't a 4th of July episode?
Aussiechimp@reddit
Its the Americans wondering it. That's the point.
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.
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!
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:
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?
Aussiechimp@reddit
Gotcha, sorry
Aussiechimp@reddit
Its Americans on the bluey sub
They also ask "Why isnt there a Thanksgiving episode"
Hammer_of_Shawn@reddit
If you’re getting your facts and stats from people on Reddit, you need to go outside.
Sledheadjack@reddit
Or in “reddit speak” touch grass
LMFAO…
AS IF anyone on reddit knows what grass is
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.
Far-Slice-3821@reddit
Get outside your blessedly informed bubble sometime. There are adults with prime time television contracts who didn't know Puerto Rico is in America until after they said Bad Bunny should go back to his own country.
Hammer_of_Shawn@reddit
I’ve been to 30 states and 8 countries. With zero due respect, shut the fuck up about shit you don’t know about.
Ok-Factor-7188@reddit
Not in the US but we actually have two varieties the hard-boiled ones and empty ones. You make a small hall at the bottom and an even tinier hole at the top and you blow the (raw) egg out of its shell (can the be used for came or something). Afterwards you can decorate the shell and hang it as Easter decorations.
dinoooooooooos@reddit
as if that's not a Tradition in Europe as well minf you 😅
piaa9@reddit (OP)
Usa and Europe aren't the only populated places on earth.
dinoooooooooos@reddit
yes but the way this was worded it sounds like Americans are the only ones who do it when that's not true and didn't even originate there lol
iWillNeverBeSpecial@reddit
Yes im from the Midwest. You boil the eggs first, then you put them in color dye and decorate. So after letting them dry by the next day when you peel the egg the boiled egg is also dyed in the same color
Super_Appearance_212@reddit
I'm confused. What kind of eggs do you eat?
ProfessionQuick3461@reddit
We always dyed hard boiled eggs, and then on the day after Easter my mom would make egg salad out of them.
Lcky22@reddit
When I was a kid in the 80s we would make tiny holes in each end of the raw egg and blow the egg out into a bowl and my mom made quiche or something then we painted the empty shells. But most of the action was with plastic eggs as far as hunts. I’ve never had hard boiled eggs on Easter
IRegretBeingHereToo@reddit
You keep saying children eggs as if it's the chicken part that's weird. What kind of eggs do you usually eat?
piaa9@reddit (OP)
Chocolate ones, for easter we only eat chocolate eggs. It was a bit shocking to discover that while I usually spend this holiday having a legendary sugar rush people somewhere are having...salad (great for you guys tho, waaaaaaay better for your health)
IRegretBeingHereToo@reddit
Oh no - the chocolate eggs and jelly beans are still the main event. The boiled, dyed eggs are because they're fun to make and someone will eat them eventually
CemeteryDweller7719@reddit
So there are the dyed, hard boiled eggs. Which do get eaten. There is also the possibility of empty shells. My grandma had ducks and geese. She would take their eggs, blow out the white and yolk (not cooked), clean them, and they’d be painted for decorations. The problem with that is it’s a lot of work and they’re fragile. We had broken eggs every year. Not necessarily that they’d break while being prepared to use as decoration, just some would break while being used as decoration each year. And there were always 1-2 that would break in the box in storage. So in the big picture of her egg decorations there would only be an addition of a few eggs each year when you deducted the losses. (Yes, the ones that survived were used year after year. Some of her eggs were older than me. But once she stopped preparing new eggs they were pretty well depleted within a few years.)
melissasoliz@reddit
Okay well I’m American but just now learning that yall actually use a boiled egg??? My family is Mexican-American and we always made cascarones, which is when you hollow out an egg, dye it, and fill it with confetti! Then on Easter you break them on top of the heads of your friends and family :)
Koboldneverforget@reddit
Rabbit eggs, duh!
hellogoawaynow@reddit
Yeah but my toddler is insane so we can’t even dye the eggs without a disaster. We use the same fake eggs with candy inside every year, she still hasn’t noticed
migsmog@reddit
Lmao who doesn’t know 4th of July is only an American holiday? It’s the nation’s Independence Day, why would anyone think it would be celebrated anywhere else?
I_Gots_Cupcakes-12@reddit
My family made boiled eggs, dyed them (on Saturday) and then on easter they were used for devil eggs for the family lunch! So yes we boiled them, dyed them and ate them!
ObjectiveSyrup3477@reddit
Some people eat them after they’re dyed/decorated, some don’t. I do not like hard boiled eggs so I never ate them.
But, if you’re very careful with the boiled/decorated eggs, and the shells are never damaged and are properly coated from the decoration process, they will last a very long time. I am 48 and my mom still has eggs that I decorated when I was 12/13.
Technical-Sector407@reddit
Bacon and paprika Holmes!
Puzzled_Hamster58@reddit
Honestly I never ate the real eggs we painted.
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!
Lovebeingadad54321@reddit
Hard boiled. We usually turn them Into egg salad, and make sandwiches for lunch all week.
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.
Then you make a quiche or omelets from the edible part, if your kids aren't too grossed out that Mom blew the eggs out of the shells.
North-Astronomer-800@reddit
My supply of pickled eggs in the jar in the fridge goes way up just in time for spring warmup - baseball and beer drinking season.
ImNotToby@reddit
That little tidbit at the end of your reddit sounds like some serious projection.
dtb1987@reddit
Some people eat them and others don't. Personally I love love a hard boiled egg so I always eat them
Altruistic-Pizza999@reddit
um… maybe my family was the only one that didn’t eat the eggs after…
ConsiderationFew7599@reddit
When I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, we member ate them. They were hard boiled. But, they were usually painted a few days before and were left out of the refrigerator. So, we didn't eat them. Sometimes we used those eggs as part of the egg hunt. But, usually the egg hunt was with plastic eggs filled with candy or small toys.
90sgoth@reddit
Lots of people eat hard boiled eggs
Linzabee@reddit
You hardboil the eggs first and let them cool, then you dye them. Many people will eat them after, but my family never did because the eggs would sit outside of the fridge, and my mom was worried we would get sick.
gggggggggggggggggay@reddit
Yeah I'm suprised so many people have been eating them lol. Also these days, at least to me, an Easter Egg is much more the plastic housing for candy and money than it is a dyed chicken egg.
Aggressive_Okra_351@reddit
They eat them because they keep the dyed ones in the fridge and hide the plastic ones….
Low_Key_2827@reddit
We kept our dyed ones out on the table as decor. I didn’t realize other people kept them in the fridge and was horrified to learn my friends ate them.
involevol@reddit
My grandfather did both. They’d keep the dyed eggs in a basket on the table as a little display for the week and he’d walk by and grab one as a snack throughout the week. No idea how he lived as long as he did.
gggggggggggggggggay@reddit
Well thats a bit circular. They put the eggs in the fridge because they're planning on eating them.
wordsznerd@reddit
We used to have extra eggs so that if the pretty ones were going to be left out we could still make deviled eggs. I’ll be damned if I’m going to cook a ridiculous number of eggs and then manage to miss out on one of the very rare excuses to make deviled eggs.
Some years we hid plastic ones and made the deviled eggs from the decorated ones, though. I was never sure of the splotches of cold made them look festive or deadly lol
Endtimes_Nil@reddit
In my family, at least, the eggs wouldn't be put outside until right before it was time to find them, so they only stayed out of the fridge for around 20 minutes. Our backyard wasn't very big so it didn't take too long to search. We did a dozen decorated real eggs and then a bunch of plastic eggs with candy as well.
SheepPup@reddit
We ate them but then I also grew up in a place where it was usually in the mid 40s to maybe low 50s Easter morning, so the eggs were still basically fridge cold by the time they were collected. If I’d grown up in someplace like Florida I’d probably think it was crazy to eat the eggs after they were outside too!
jazzminarino@reddit
Finally, someone mentioning Florida! There's no way we'd have real hard boiled eggs outside for a hunt. Only plastic. We also can't carve pumpkins because they melt immediately, I only painted pumpkins growing up. (Now you can carve if you dip them in bleach, but that seems overkill and I donate our pumpkins to a local farm.)
Chedditor_@reddit
Hard-boiled eggs are notable for lasting a day or two without refrigeration, as they were frequent snacks for manual laborers before food-safe packaged goods became commonplace. They have their own wrappers and their own warning smell for expiration.
mothramydear@reddit
I don’t remember eating ours, but I do remember the time that I was hiding them around my room after Easter and put one in a backpack pocket, which I promptly forgot about. I found it like 3 months later.
CalOkie6250@reddit
Most people keep them in the refrigerator until it’s time to hide them. It doesn’t usually take kids very long to find them, and then you can return them to the refrigerator. The eggs are already cooked, and safe to be out of the refrigerator for a couple of hours…plenty of time to hunt and return.
Linzabee@reddit
If you keep them in the fridge, then you don’t get to enjoy seeing your design handiwork. We were keeping them out on display for a few days.
CalOkie6250@reddit
Definitely the right choice to throw them out then 🤢
Etherbeard@reddit
Same. When I was a kid, we'd often dye them days or even the weekend before Easter, and they'd sit in a basket or two around the house as a decoration. The eggs for Easter were treated more or less like pumpkins used for jack-o'-lanterns, except they weren't outdoor decorations.
Gothmom85@reddit
Same. It was just for fun and decoration that day.
I've Never done it with my own kid until this year because school hyped it up so much. We're not eating them because I used a hack I found online with markers, paper towels and vinegar. They look cool but obviously not eating that. We only did six.
_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.
jreashville@reddit
We usually make egg salad out of them.
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.
And yes, pretty much every candy comes in egg or bunny shape for Easter and they’re highly popular, I’ve never known anyone to not have a bunch of them. That’s what bright plastic Easter eggs are stuffed with before they’re hidden for egg hunts. Sometimes little toys (super balls, tops) and money too. Easter baskets are larger candies like a chocolate bunny or bag of somebody’s favorite, and toys and gear for the warm weather usually. Like jump rope, new swimsuit or goggles, flower seeds, water bottle, frisbee, sidewalk chalk, balls, rain boots. Sometimes a book, stuffed animal, or little craft thing.
MyDogSam-15@reddit
In my religion, Easter is THE most important holiday. It is the resurrection of The Lord. Eggs represent rebirth. Traditionally, they’re colored red to represent the blood of Christ on the cross. Eastern Orthodox fasting for Lent would mean fasting from all animal products and byproducts ( so, vegan) for 40 days. People “break FAST” with an Easter egg, and also bread, cheese, grapes are very traditional for us. My family originates from a town near Jerusalem so we take holy holidays seriously. It’s not all commercialized. We do enjoy all the cuteness of the bunny, baskets etc, as a bonus.
Far-Mushroom-5023@reddit
Ugh, no. We don’t eat eggs that were scattered around the yard off temp. 🤮. The best is finding the few that were missed a month later
MyOwnGuitarHero@reddit
So when we do Easter egg hunts they’re usually plastic eggs filled with candy or chocolates. The eggs that we dye are indeed real eggs that have been hard boiled. Traditionally people will either then eat the eggs or use them to make deviled eggs or egg salad or something like that. I HATE eggs so I never did though. But I’m Jewish, so my “Easter traditions” were really just me participating in the egg dyeing simply because it was a fun thing for me and my mom to do together.
Dense_Amphibian_9595@reddit
Hard boiled
Berezis@reddit
For us, the eggs you’d hunt in the yard were plastic with candy inside, and dip dying real eggs with fun patterns was done as a separate activity. We always made deviled eggs out of the dyed ones after!
Embarrassed-Cause250@reddit
Actual chicken eggs? OP what eggs do you normally eat?
Break-Aggravating@reddit
Not just Americans
give_me_goats@reddit
Cracking up at the 4th of July comment. I knew that was always American, but I don’t even want to say how old I was when it registered that Thanksgiving was an American holiday too.
immew1996@reddit
Apparently Canadians also have Thanksgiving but it’s on a different day. 🤷♀️
Flyin_Bryan@reddit
The Canadians have the right idea, putting Thanksgiving in October. It doesn’t make sense to have the two big travel holidays only 4 weeks apart.
ReluctantReptile@reddit
We paint and hide them but no, we did not eat them growing up in my family because they were left out in the sun for so long
kanakamaoli@reddit
The hard boiled eggs are decorated and left in the fridge for eating. We now use plastic eggs and put a piece or two of candy inside for the "hunt" especially outdoors. No worries about missing eggs or condensation causing the dye to stain items the eggs touch.
Southern-Interest347@reddit
Not only do kids get to color the eggs, but they get to go hunt for them, and sometimes we get plastic eggs and put candy in it. Kids get an Easter basket filled with candy, games, toys, chocolate bunny and usually a stuffed animal.
Regular_Yellow710@reddit
The kids get a lot of chocolate eggs, trust me. But the hunts are for real, hard boiled and dyed eggs. A lot of people are using plastic eggs with candy and money now tho. Easier.
AggressiveResolve207@reddit
I got chocolate eggs this year and made a little display in my home. Wish it would let me post the picture!
seenohearnospeakno3@reddit
Growing up - we decorated blown out, empty egg shells. We only hunted cheap plastic eggs full of money/candy
ChiliAndRamen@reddit
For my family, you poked holes and blew out the contents. The contents would be made into different foods, the shells would be decorated.
rndmredditornotKC@reddit
When I was a kid, my grandpa would gather all the kids in the back garage and give us a quarter for each of our egg yolks from the boiled eggs. We made bank off what we thought was the worst part of the egg. Come to find out he had heart issues and wasn't supposed to eat the yolk, but it was his favorite part. Grandma was NOT pleased to find out this had been going on for years.
Zealousideal_Law8297@reddit
My family always hard boiled a few dozen and dyed them. After our Easter egg hunt we ate a lot of hard boiled eggs. My mom wasn’t gonna waste perfectly good eggs.
macoafi@reddit
I put holes in the ends of the egg and blow the contents out. Usually I do it after dyeing (and applying a protective coat of wax so the egg goop doesn’t mess up the dye job). The way I dye eggs is a several-hours-long process of layering wax and different colors of dye. After the egg is empty, I remove all the wax. My great grandparents were from various Slavic countries, so I follow their egg decorating traditions.
WheneverItIsTold@reddit
We would carefully make a small hole on our eggs for weeks before Easter then the kids and I would dye and decorate them. Then I’d fill them with confetti. They find then and crush them on each other. Lots of fun. I can’t do the boiled ones. But once my cousin borough some of those and a couple of the kids tried smashing those. Ouch.
ididreadittoo@reddit
Typically Easter eggs are hard boiled and colored with food-safe dyes. Yes, after the hunt, they are eaten because they're just hard boiled eggs.
Cautious_Regular3645@reddit
Traditional painted East eggs have little holes made into the top and bottom and the yolk egg white is blown out of the egg so you just get the shell.
And what about chocolate eggs? you just left it as a ❓
Mag-NL@reddit
Not just Americans. Europeans do this as well.
It is a long standing European tradition to eat eggs at easter.
Since this is a tradition from well before Columbus went to the Americas I do wonder where you got the idea that this is an American thing though.
Ali_Lorraine_1159@reddit
We have always made hard boiled eggs, and then dyed them with the kits that come with dye packs that you add to water and vinegar and dip the eggs in. Last year we dyed eggs, and my husband told my ten year old son not to throw them over the fence into the field behind us. Well, guess what he did... he threw them over the fence. We came home to a 4 foot snake trying to get into our front door after going to Easter church and lunch with the family. To say I freaked is an understatement.
Either-Youth9618@reddit
Dyeing Easter eggs is a very common tradition worldwide. With the advent of the internet, I'd assume that watching a YouTube video about dyeing eggs would be more informative than asking on this sub.
CretaciousPeriod@reddit
I didn't usually eat them when I was a kid because some of the coloring would get through and stain the egg white but you can eat them. They're hard boiled, not raw chicken eggs.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Yeah it’s a mix. But I’ll make deviled eggs out of the painted ones
Sledheadjack@reddit
Like, what?
WTF kind of bougie eggs do you eat?
Ostrich?
Faberge?
Human?
I fail to understand your issue with this, unless you are some kind of weird vegan…
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.
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!
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.
A traditional recipe for the above is Pennsylvania-Dutch Pickled Beets and Eggs Recipe https://share.google/w6CPusLMjXEh9WWkG
IP_Janet_GalaxyGirl@reddit
Yes we do eat the hard boiled eggs after we color them, and we eat chocolate eggs, too. After Easter, the hard boiled eggs would be made into deviled eggs, egg salad, and/or added to the giant jar of homemade pickled eggs (beets + the juice, a bit of sugar, and vinegar for the pickling brine).
orion-asterisk@reddit
Hard boiled eggs, usually dipped in dye made with white vinegar and dye pucks that you buy in Easter egg kits. My mom would take the eggs and make really incredible creamed eggs that were often multicolored from dye seeping through cracks in the shell. We ate them over English muffins. We usually had half real eggs, half plastic candy-filled eggs.
bugga2024@reddit
My mom used our painted eggs for deviled eggs for dinner 😁 it was fun because the yolk would sometimes have a little color to it too from the dye. She'd always have some that were "accidentally" made too damaged for the deviled eggs so we'd have hard boiled eggs for breakfast too
likemhuge@reddit
We eat them plain, with a little salt or make them into deviled eggs (delicious!)
NaughtyLittleDogs@reddit
I grew up in a place where snow on the ground for Easter was pretty much a guarantee. My parents hid the small, foil-wrapped chocolate eggs inside the house. We sometimes dyed a few hard-boiled eggs, but that was just a fun activity and my mom used them to make egg salad for sandwiches. They were never hidden. My husband, who also grew up in the Great Lakes snow belt, grew up in a family that actually hid the dyed eggs in the house. His family's tradition was that the kids traded their eggs for their big basket of Easter candy.
Nowadays, its more common to fill plastic eggs with candy, small toys, and sometimes money and then hide those.
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?!
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.
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.
tcrhs@reddit
Yes. I love eating Easter eggs.
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.
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.
piaa9@reddit (OP)
That was also concerning to me, the cold-chain breach. Good to know that there's still sensible people handling their food safely.
CallMeNiel@reddit
For a family egg hunt, we'd tend to hard boil the eggs, decorate them, hide and find them, then make them into deviled eggs. Chocolate eggs and other sweets are in a basket inside the house, similar to a Christmas stocking.
For a community group or church group, you'd usually have the plastic eggs containing little candies and toys that you hung for. There's more competition with other kids in this situation.
When I was a kid we'd do both.
Driftco@reddit
Here in the Southwest it's much more common that we paint emptied and rinsed out eggshells and fill them with confetti and tape them up. Then we use those confetti eggs for the hunt along with plastic eggs containing either chocolate/candy, or money inside.
The confetti eggs you find are then used to crack on your family and friends heads in a playful manner. Even the older kids will play along.
We do eat eggs as part of the Easter lunch but it's in the macaroni salad or as deviled eggs.
LetterheadClassic306@reddit
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.
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.
piaa9@reddit (OP)
Second option seems like the most enjoyable to me.
You can use the inside of the egg to make cookies ( I have a dangerously sweet tooth)
ProveISaidIt@reddit
You hard-boil them and then paint them. Then you have egg fights by banging them in the narrowed end to see whose egg's shells cracks. Then you peel and eat them.
farmch@reddit
It’s very funny, my mom is a very very picky eater. So we grew up dying eggs and she told us they weren’t good anymore after they were dyed. I came to this thread thinking everyone would say they threw the eggs out. Turns out we were just weird.
piaa9@reddit (OP)
I'm with your mom on this one, eating eggs that have been under the sun or exposed to warm temperatures for a while it's a no-no, I'm a girl with a delicate tummy.
s256173@reddit
The eggs were always plastic in my family🤷🏻♀️
valbuscrumbledore@reddit
Everyone in my family hates eating hard boiled eggs. We just decorate them and leave them out and they get tossed when they start getting stinky
Finding_Wigtwizzle@reddit
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.
We didn't use those eggs for Easter eggs hunts though. For that we used the foil covered little chocolate eggs. No way would childhood me have bothered hunting for decorated boiled eggs!
Pitiful_Lion7082@reddit
The eggs are hard-boiled either before dyeing or during the dyeing process, depending on the method used. We don't use paints, but special dyes that the eggs soak in. I take all of the eggs my family ends up with and make deviled eggs to snack on.
magnoliaAveGooner@reddit
Americans eat actual chicken eggs every day including Easter.
silkywhitemarble@reddit
I was a full adult before I ever saw the eggs of other fowl in a grocery store
Far-Slice-3821@reddit
We love our eggs so much that a 5% reduction in egg availability required a 500% increase in price to keep any eggs available on store shelves.
rkskr@reddit
I'm Hispanic, so we do cascarones. If you are unfamiliar it's basically an egg that has been cracked open, but only at the top, so that you can remove the top portion to get the raw yolk and whites out. Then the inside of the egg is cleaned and the outside is painted and then it gets filled with confetti and sealed shut with a piece of colorful tissue paper. Some people will do this with all the eggs their family uses in a year so that they can sell cascarones come Easter time. The point is that you take the cascarones and crush them on people's heads(or in your hand first for safety) and then ruffle the confetti into the persons hair.
Natural-Research6928@reddit
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
stumbletoe@reddit
Where are you from?
AutomaticNovel2153@reddit
OPs calendar goes from the third to the fifth
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.
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).
I've looooved hard boiled eggs, deviled eggs, and pickled eggs from a pretty young age.
Far-Slice-3821@reddit
Kids are not excited about boiled eggs. They're excited for hollow plastic eggs filled with candy.
unicornsRhardcore@reddit
We boil them and then after they find them in the morning we make deviled eggs out of them for the Easter dinner.
cwal76@reddit
I’m seeing people saying they ate the eggs they decorated. We didn’t in my household. I used to want to but my mom said no that’s gross
NeitherEmotion6543@reddit
My family used hard boiled eggs for the painting part. Then for the egg hunt we’d use plastic eggs filled with candy and/or money. Most of us weren’t into boiled eggs though so only my dad and grandma would end up eating them. Además, soy puertorriqueño así que soy estadounidense más por ley que por otra cosa, pero igual quise contestar lol
Temporary-Library597@reddit
Make them into egg salad. So many varieties. So many yums.
GrannyTurtle@reddit
We hard boil them, decorate them, then we eat LOTS of things with them as an ingredient. Egg sandwiches are my favorite.
piaa9@reddit (OP)
This will probably get lost in this sea of comments. But it's the best that i can do since the post has a 500 word limit, sorry.
Yes, we do eat chicken eggs, although boiled eggs are far less popular than scramble eggs or fried eggs.
No, chicken, or any other animal, eggs are not involved in this holiday, which is sad cause painting them sounds fun.
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 🤷♀️!<
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!
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…
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.
** to devil an egg, hard boil it, shell it, cut it in half longways, pop out the yolk into a small bowl. Put the white on a display plate. Squish all of the yolks with a fork. Add all manner of things (my family: mustard, miracle whip, horseradish, salt, pepper). Stir well. Put it back in the egg white. Sprinkle with paprika. Some people put the mixture in a piping bag and make it fancy.
misterpequeno@reddit
No, we eat Rabbit Eggs.
Wild_Replacement5880@reddit
The eggs are for Dad to take to work for lunch the next day, and then come home and blow the house up with noxious egg farts all night.
taranathesmurf@reddit
We colored hard boiled eggs two or three days before Easter then hid them outside for the littles to find. We then had a lot of egg salad sandwiches or the eggs themselves as snacks. Totally normal in the U.S. and Canada. Cities used to have massive egg hunts with real eggs in city parks, though with the current paranoia about food safety and stranger danger it has mostly been replaced with plastic eggs with prizes inside.
NickCharlesYT@reddit
I mean, technically our family tradition is deviled eggs at all holiday gatherings, so yes?
GoddessOfOddness@reddit
Chicken eggs are very commonly eaten here for breakfast. Most kids like scrambled eggs.
GoddessOfOddness@reddit
Hard boiled. We peel and eat them, or we make them into deviled eggs.
TrillyMike@reddit
Boil egg, paint egg, eat egg
dixie_girl_w_secrets@reddit
They're hard boiled and u dont have to decorate the shell. Last year for Easter, my friend found a video so she tried doing it herself. She boiled, peeled, and cut the eggs like she was making deviled eggs and then colored just the whites. It was really really festive and pretty. The yolk mixture was pretty much the same as regular deviled eggs and I even told her they look like those Pretty Patties from SpongeBob. I didnt get to eat any, but im sure they were really good.
AncientGuy1950@reddit
Boiled eggs are what are used for 'easter eggs', though I do admit to occasionally soft-boiling a few and mixing them in with the hard-boiled ones.
SirCharlito44@reddit
I hope you know that the 4th of July is a worldwide holiday. It is when America invented democracy and became the protector of justice and freedom. And we eat bunny eggs, not chicken eggs. It is the Easter Bunny, not the Easter Chicken.
doublestack@reddit
Oh my god, hard boiled eggs with a little salt and hot sauce? I’ll eat myself sick
ZoeTravel@reddit
I make awesome deviled eggs... They are astounding with some sweet relish and red pepper and paprika.... I only make a few cause ya shouldn't eat too many eggs in one sitting
Optimistbott@reddit
We eat only the shells
roseredhoofbeats@reddit
You can also poke holes in the eggs and blow them out and make scrambled eggs! I have 30 eggs right now and I'm going to make a bunch of stuff that call for eggs too like cheesecake and lemon bars.
Remarkable_Table_279@reddit
We didn’t always eat the boiled dyed eggs. But it’s best that we do cause hiding them and than finding them a month later!!! (Tho I once tried to heat up the dye water with egg in it in the microwave…which is when I learn eggs explode in the microwave)
Mundane_Professor596@reddit
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 😭
🐇 🧺 🐣 🪺 🍫 🍬 🐰
Ok-Dream-2639@reddit
We used to shake the egg to break the yolk. The. pin hole the top n bottom and blow the wet egg out. And make scrambled eggs.
DartDaimler@reddit
Sometimes decorate hard boiled ones, sometimes poke the ends & blow out the liquid. That way the eyes last— we hung them in the windows on ribbons. The hard boiled ones become Deviled eggs, or sliced into a salad or on avocado toast. The raw ones get scrambled or made into pasta or French toast or baked goods.
Decent_Cow@reddit
Yes, we boil them. They're exactly the same eggs we get from the store and use to make scrambled eggs or anything else. Why on Earth would you think we eat raw eggs?
MsFoxieMoxie@reddit
OP, where are you from and what are some common traditions for Easter there? Genuinely curious. I love learning about how other places do things.
sv36@reddit
My family would boil a bunch of eggs, dye them, then eat them for meals the next week. Boiled eggs, deviled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, whatever.
Tiny-Reading5982@reddit
They are bunny eggs from the Cadbury bunny.
kateinoly@reddit
They are cooked, and yes, we eat them.
OrangePillar@reddit
Hard boiled eggs are delicious and excellent for you. Just a little salt is all they need. Also, deviled eggs are great.
Ballmaster9002@reddit
This is wild. I'm a middle aged man and this is the first I've ever heard of anyone eating the eggs.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
I'm shocked you didn't eat them. Why wouldn't you?
nclay525@reddit
Maybe if they were used for hunts and left outside for hours?
Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit
My mom would hide them early in the morning and we'd hunt for them in our pajamas as soon as we woke up. So it was still cool in the house. They were out until we found them, then we ate some for breakfast and put the rest in the fridge.
Aerial_Animal@reddit
Hours?? How long did it take you people to find eggs? Our hunts lasted like 10 minutes. Put them back in the fridge. All good.
DanciePants12@reddit
How long was the set up though?
Aerial_Animal@reddit
five minutes! The backyard ain't that big.
Puzzleheaded_Math973@reddit
That would be incredibly wasteful.
Etherbeard@reddit
Not really any different than a jack-o'-lantern, at least not until recently.
It's a bit different now because eggs are so much more expensive.
Puzzleheaded_Math973@reddit
In our family we roast the pumpkin seeds. We also grow our own pumpkins. Often we use the eating pumpkins for carving instead, then we make for puree for pies and soup. Smaller pumpkins we use to make a dish that's basically venison or beef with wild rice that's stuffed into the pumpkin and baked.
MyUsername2459@reddit
Because boiled eggs are disgusting and terrible to eat.
My family used real eggs for our Easter egg hunts when I was a child but we never ate them.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
I never imagined people would make a bunch of food they hated, but thanks for the answer.
MyUsername2459@reddit
I never imagined I'd get downvoted for just telling the truth.
. . .and my family never treated Easter Eggs as "food". Who would eat an egg that's been hidden in the yard and lyind around in the grass?
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
I didn't downvote you, but I can't say I'm surprised your anecdote about intentional food waste didn't go over well.
MyUsername2459@reddit
Calling easter eggs "intentional food waste" is a really sanctimonious holier-than-thou take.
I still have this weird feeling this is some elaborate prank, because who in their right mind would eat Easter Eggs? I'm almost 50 years old and never heard of anyone doing this in my life, and people call ME the weird one for noting how bizarre and strange this is?
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
LOL at you downvoting me just after your complaint. I only told the truth. The fact that you can't see that buying a bunch of food with the plans to let it rot is exactly what intentionally wasting food is quite the big blind spot.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
And then you block me for telling you this. Crazy to get that worked up over Easter eggs.
Etherbeard@reddit
Because they were dyed the weekend before and left in a pretty basket on the kitchen table.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
I've never heard of people treating eggs like decorations before.
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.
Keep in mind this was thirty plus years ago. Eggs have become so expensive in the last couple of years that we would do this differently now. But back then Easter eggs were pretty much disposable like jack-o'-lanterns.
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
30+ years ago, my family put out plastic eggs and didn't consider the real ones to be disposable, but I appreciate your perspective.
jda404@reddit
I am 35 and I am having the reverse shock. I had no idea some people drained the eggs. I assumed we all ate them because as far as I know all my friends eat their Easter eggs too.
seattlemh@reddit
I'm having the opposite experience. I thought everyone ate them.
jessm307@reddit
Same. I’m currently appalled at the thought of so many people wasting food. We refrigerated our dyed eggs and didn’t use them for egg hunts so they’d still be safe to eat.
nclay525@reddit
So then why dye them in the first place? The inside of the fridge would be having a nice time with the fun eggs, I guess.
jessm307@reddit
Mostly tradition and fun, plus a pretty side dish on the Easter table.
seattlemh@reddit
I don't know why my experience is getting downvoted, but, anyways, we hid our real eggs in the yard but our hunts didn't last long enough to worry about food safety.
jessm307@reddit
I could see that working, too.
MyUsername2459@reddit
Until this thread I had never heard of anyone ever doing that.
If it was April 1st I would assume this was some elaborate April fool's joke to say that people actually eat the eggs.
Fit_Change3546@reddit
I mean, I guess up until recently eggs were considered fairly cheap 🥲
seattlemh@reddit
Lol, so weird!
Proud-Delivery-621@reddit
Yeah I never heard of anyone eating them until this thread. There were like 30 eggs to find and only two kids in my family, even if we were going to eat them we'd never be able to get them all. And they've been sitting out in the warm sun for a while, in the dirt and mud and whatnot.
gofindyour@reddit
Same.... this was shocking I didnt know you could eat them, I thought the dye ruined them 😂 i haven't dyed eggs in decades though
RedHickorysticks@reddit
You have to use safe dye or paint and can’t leave them out on the counter for too long. If they get left out, I don’t let my kids eat them.
OrneryQueen@reddit
Hard boiled eggs.
KindraTheElfOrc@reddit
some people will poke two holes in a raw egg and blow through one to remove the egg and then decorate the hollow shell to keep it, but those are harder to do cause you gotta be careful to not crack or break them
Interesting_Neck609@reddit
We raised chickens, so we had multicolored shells anyways, and ate eggs anyways.
When wed deal with family and friends with the dyed white eggs, us kiddos wouldn't eat the eggs because the food coloring was too gross to us. Quail eggs one year was interesting. Never hard boiled an emu egg, but we hollowed some out one year in highschool.
Duck eggs were fun but they just dont cook right and theyre a little sweet.
RevolutionaryWind249@reddit
I haven't celebrated Easter for years but as a child we boiled and dyed eggs. And yes we did eat them.
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.)
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.
And that's similar to how I tried to do things for my kids, who are now grown.
Tr33Bl00d@reddit
Oh yes a butt load of em
pa60@reddit
Our tradition was to boil and dye the eggs. Then after Easter morning, we would go outside and throw the eggs at a tree in the backyard to see them smash.
TrustNoSquirrel@reddit
I ate two dyed hard boiled eggs for breakfast 😅 so yeah, i guess so. But we will also be eating a lot of chocolate eggs tomorrow.
CockroachVarious2761@reddit
They're hard-boiled. Personally, my family never ate them just like that (some people do I suppose), but we'd use them to make deviled eggs, red-beet eggs, or egg-salad, etc.
void_method@reddit
You can make Scotch Eggs, too, which is a peeled hard boiled egg coated in sausage and breading and fried/baked.
Delicious.
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.
everyoneisflawed@reddit
Lol what? What is this comment?
Zaldaru@reddit
Yeah, after all it’s on ALL the calendars! :) It’s just that not everyone celebrates July 4 as their Independence Day.
Parking_Champion_740@reddit
They are usually hard boiled eggs. I don’t think Americans are the only culture to use eggs during Easter?
IngloriousGlory@reddit
When I was growing up we'd boil the eggs first, then we dye the eggs from the tablets that are activated with vinegar?(I think) Anyways the dye was food grade so you eat them without bad stuff. I've never painted an actual egg
TerraCetacea@reddit
To be fair, the 4th of July exists worldwide
Glittering_Chance_42@reddit
Lol. Yes the hard boiled decorated eggs are eaten. After you find them because the Easter Bunhy hid them. Then needed before you eat them, you find someone else around who wants to eat one as well. Then you have a contest to see whose egg is better. You each hold the egg in your hand and knock them into each other. The one whose egg did not crack is the winner. (Theee are no prizes and all you win is the uncracked egg you just used lol )
BitchWidget@reddit
Of course we eat eggs. And I always knew 4th of July was just a United States holiday.
ExtremePotatoFanatic@reddit
Yes! They’re boiled. My family always dyed them and actually hid the dyed boiled eggs and then we would eat them later. My mom said she would hide them right before she woke us up so they didn’t get warm.
Happy_Flow826@reddit
Yep! Usually in a variety of ways depending on how many eggs your family dyes and who all eats hard boiled eggs.
Im the main person who eats hard-boiled eggs from my family of 4. My plan is to make pickled red beet eggs with most of them and make a few into egg salad for an easy lunch. We only did 18 eggs because my youngest (age 6) is the one who loves dyeing eggs. Our oldest (age 18) couldnt give a hoot less about dying eggs. Their dad was tickled pink to dye about 6 eggs while our little one colored the eggs, his hands, and the towel we laid out.
SilverStory6503@reddit
Wait! You mean those eggs aren't from the Easter Bunny?
grumpy-goats@reddit
We make deviled eggs out of them
Cool_in_Astrakhan@reddit
Okay so our tradition is we boil them, draw on them with crayons, dye them, hide them in the yard the next morning for the kids to find. Then they get made into colorful egg salad.
lantana98@reddit
Egg salad!!
jh789-2@reddit
Mostly, we eat candy for Easter. Houses with kids do decorate chicken eggs but unless you’re a hard boiled egg family I don’t even know if they get eaten they never did at our house.
SignificantOtter80@reddit
you hard boil the eggs, then you dye them. some people eat them. some dont. in my family we would each pick an egg and then hit the egg of another family member. there was a final winner, but you didnt win anything. then you would peel the egg and put it into a broth. the broth was disgusting.
SnooRabbits1411@reddit
I remember poking a hole in either side of eggs with a tack, and emptying out the shell, then dying and boiling them. Been a long time, I couldn’t tell you what we did with the eggs, probably scrambled them I suppose.
an_edgy_lemon@reddit
My family would boil the eggs, dye them, and then hide plastic eggs filled with candy or money. Some families probably do hide actual boiled eggs, but idk. O
EnderBookwyrm@reddit
Chocolate eggs come in the Easter basket on Sunday Morning, along with other candies, or may be found in plastic eggs during the egg hunt the day before.
Egg eggs are hard-boiled, dyed or painted, and eaten on Easter morning. You don't hide these 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 🤷♂️
RickyNixon@reddit
What? No, the rabbit lays the eggs
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.
Most decorative eggs are hard boiled eggs. It makes them sturdier.
We use the eggs for deviled eggs, egg salad sandwich. Sliced on spinach salad or chef salad. Chopped on Cobb salad or chopped salad.
Jub_Jub710@reddit
We had a family tradition where we'd all pick an egg, pair up and gently knock each other's eggs to see who's cracked first. The last one standing didn't have to help with dishes after dinner. It was always so fun. I came back to visit one year and surprised everyone by hardboiling and coloring eggs while they were at church. They were so excited to do the tradition again even though the nieces and nephews were all older. It's a great memory.
Embarrassed_Age8554@reddit
Are you Greek-American? This is a long-standing tradition with us--we use the red-dyed eggs that are given to the congregation at the end of the Resurrection Liturgy. You'd say "Christos anesti!"--"Christ is risen!"--as you brought down your egg on the other person's, and they would reply "Alithos anesti"--"truly He is risen!" Then you'd both flip your eggs over and they'd do the same to you with the other end of the egg.
Jub_Jub710@reddit
I'm not, but my step-dad is Polish and he started the tradition with us.
nalonrae@reddit
We do this in South Louisiana too, we call it Egg Pocking or Pâques Eggs. I remember when I was little there was always one cousin who had an unboiled egg and would get you all dirty.
EnigmaShell@reddit
We did the same thing! Egg fights were my favorite.
RedRising1917@reddit
Our family didn't eat them as we didn't really care for hardboiled eggs, so instead we'd go out to my grandmas house who lived on a couple acres and we'd play egg baseball with them, always a lot of fun
r2d3x9@reddit
Boil the white eggs then paint them, dry, then peel & eat. Get the food color all over your hands, and some penetrates through the shell to the egg white. Competitive end to end smashing to see whose egg is stronger, but no prize or perhaps win a sticker or something. Apply horseradish or Franks hot sauce. Eat at least two eggs. Easter egg hunt for children using plastic eggs with coins or candy or prize inside like a sticker. Easter candy is unbelievably expensive this year. Used to have lots and lots of Easter chocolate and jelly beans, and Cadbury cream eggs.
SudburySonofabitch@reddit
We used to poke a hole in both sides of the eggs with a needle, scramble it a bit in the shell and then blow through one hole so the egg would come out of the other.
Elemental_Breakdown@reddit
A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
jigokubi@reddit
As a side note. to us, chicken eggs are simply eggs. No one will ever say "chicken eggs" unless it's to somehow contrast it with another sort of egg.
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jvc1011@reddit
They’re hard-boiled.
We make them into eggs goldenrod, which is like what eggs Benedict wants to be when it grows up.
Buttman_Poopants@reddit
This practice of eating dyed hard-boiled eggs for Easter predates America by centuries for sure, more likely by over a thousand years.
whatdoidonowdamnit@reddit
My kids eat hard boiled eggs but I end up eating most of them. We don’t color more than a dozen and they don’t last the week.
soapdonkey@reddit
As to your edit about the 4th of July….in 1978 when I was a baby, we lived in a small village in England near an Air Force base. My mom was only 18 at the time and from a suuuuper small southern town, she threw a 4th of July party and invited all our English neighbors….they thought it was funny and they all came but informed her that “We don’t celebrate that holiday…” she was mortified.
autumnleeves13@reddit
We boil them first. Each kid gets one dozen in my family to decorate. After we find all the eggs we make a huge batch of egg salad and have egg salad sandwiches. Then all the left over eggs get pickled. It really sucks when you can't find them though. One year we missed one and my dad found it a month later by hitting it with the lawn mower. It smelled absolutely awful.
HesterPrynneIsMyHero@reddit
Boiled eggs are decorated and yes, they are eaten later. Sometimes they are used for egg hunts. Generally, plastic eggs are used for hiding eggs because finding and breaking a real egg several years later is an assault on your senses you will never forget.
hobbes747@reddit
We paint the chickens and then the colorful eggs come out. It is easier.
And mix paprika into the feed to make the yolks develop a dark orange color.
hobbes747@reddit
One of these things is true and the other is not 😆
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.
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.
tiggipi@reddit
Hardboiled and then colored. I get egg coloring kits on clearance every year after Easter.
My grandma also used to make jello eggs using an egg shaped mold.
Worried_Platypus93@reddit
They're hard boiled before dyeing and I guess you can eat them after but my family never did growing up. Looking back it was wasteful and I would totally eat them now but my dad wasn't around and my mother is the kind of person who has never tried guacamole because it's "too exotic/weird" so she's..different about food
laurcone@reddit
The last paragraph, seriously? It is definitely an american holiday due to it being independence day.
taxwench@reddit
We will be dying 5 dozen eggs tonight. My kids love this step. Whatever doesn’t get eaten will be turned into deviled eggs tomorrow for my husband to take to work. Eating a hard boiled egg or two is filling but eating a dozen eggs is easy to do with no effort!
ReferenceCreative510@reddit
My family used plastic eggs with money (coins, mainly) or jelly beans in them.
Impossible_Memory_65@reddit
No. We eat rabbit eggs silly.
chattycatherine420@reddit
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.
Link to example of egg blower https://www.etsy.com/listing/968595933/s11-basias-egg-blower-like-a-blas-fix?gpla=1&gao=1&
Silocin20@reddit
You should check out Ukrainian Easter Eggs, those are some intricate eggs.
greensecondsofpanic@reddit
This comes from a Central/Eastern European tradition, it is not just an American thing
motorider66@reddit
Usually they're plastic and put candy or trinkets inside. Old school, people boil the eggs and use food dye. Then later eat the boiled egg or make deviled eggs.
pickledplumber@reddit
No rabbit eggs
TexanGoblin@reddit
The eggs that children are excited for are plastic ones that open up to hide candies inside.
holierthanthou2@reddit
They’re rabbit eggs, but yes
karmakaze@reddit
Not much of our household cares for hard boiled eggs so starting a month or so before Easter we start saving eggshells. Tap a little hole in each end and you can blow the contents out to cook and are left with an empty shell. Then we dye those before the holiday. Some of them we'll string and put up as decoration. This has the advantage that if they break, it's just fertilizer.
I'm not sure this is a widespread American thing or my family being weird though.
Ok_Platform_5258@reddit
Pickled eggs for me please!
Jayn_Newell@reddit
It varies. My spouse always boils them just, growing up we always blew out the egg and dyed empty shells (I don’t remember if we did anything with the eggs)
ZEEDarkstream@reddit
Aussies used to do this too. But I suppose gorging on eggs gets a little filling.
seifd@reddit
I never liked hard-boiled eggs either, so my mom made deviled eggs from our Easter eggs. Also, you are cordially invited to celebrate the 4th of July, despite not being an America or in the USA.
SteampunkRobin@reddit
The eggs are boiled before they’re decorated. The next day we turn them into deviled eggs and they’re gone before evening. 😋
Objection_Irrelevant@reddit
Me, an American reading this thread: the fuck all y’all mean you eat the eggs you decorated?
Viola-Swamp@reddit
I always liked dying them, but you could not pay me to eat a hard boiled egg. Dying them, hunting for them, all of that was so much fun as a kid. Deviled eggs, hard boiled eggs, eggs in general beyond occasional scrambled or an omelette? Nope.
Emeah824@reddit
When we’ve done this, we blow out the contents and dye the hollow egg. But usually our eggs are plastic and filled with candy
hollowedoutforest@reddit
we would hard boil them, dye them red, and then play a game tapping egg ends to see who had the strongest egg, lmao. after you'd get to eat them
i was always under the impression this was more an eastern european thing than an american thing, but the more you know!
bygtopp@reddit
Do you want to eat a dozen eggs? No ! How about we boil them,peel them, Slice them in half and gut the insides out and mix them with relish, mustard, seasonings and other toppings.
You’ll take 2 dozen got it
XANDERtheSHEEPDOG@reddit
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I was never a fan of hard boiled eggs..... but deviled eggs? Yeah. I'll destroy a whole platter if 'em
WickedRavyn94@reddit
We would always hunt them then take the hard boiled eggs and make deviled eggs to go with Easter dinner
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.
Didn’t matter if you didn’t really like them - it’s what was for breakfast. Eggs or oatmeal depending on the days
Sad_Argument5109@reddit
I used to have to take hardboiled eggs in my lunch for the week after Easter. Some of the dye would come through.
Key_Platypus9597@reddit
The dying was always the best part. There is a bread that is also baked with hard boiled dyed eggs on top. I always love it for Easter. It has a challah taste.
kbell58@reddit
Children hunt plastic eggs that are filled with treats. Real eggs are hard boiled, dyed in their shells and decorated. Then they are eaten as part of Easter dinner.
urnbabyurn@reddit
We always put a small hole in the top and bottom with a needle, wiggled the yolk to break it and blow out the egg inside. Hollow empty eggshell.
PeanutOk1328@reddit
We do when there is an omelette bar at the Easter brunch
PCBassoonist@reddit
Hard boiled. My family never ate them because we hid them outside in the heat. Lol
vamartha@reddit
Deviled eggs. This won't be popular but I use Miracle Whip, sweet relish and a teeny tiny splash of both yellow mustard and horseradish.
dgillz@reddit
Yes, they are hard boiled.
animeistheog@reddit
In my family we’ve never eaten the eggs, only painted them. When we started getting more young kids in the family we bought some fake eggs I think.
FlyByPC@reddit
You don't eat hard boiled eggs. You make deviled eggs from them, since those are delicious. We used food coloring for dye, and most of that just colors the shell anyway.
Le_Mew_Le_Purr@reddit
They’re often repurposed right after the children’s Easter Egg Hunt into dishes like deviled eggs and American potato salad. But, you didn’t ask about the 1-2 odd eggs located somewhere weeks afterwards under the couch. (Sorry, I don’t know what weeks would be in the metric system.)
giddenboy@reddit
Yep...those Easter bunnies are working overtime on popping out chicken eggs so we can all enjoy celebrating the re-aliving of Jesus Christ!
Gonna_do_this_again@reddit
No we eat rabbit eggs
pawsplay36@reddit
We hard boil and then color the eggs. It is less common now to hide the eggs outside and then eat them, due to food safety issues. Some people make egg salad, but the egg colors often discolor them and the result looks like a horror movie.
Uber_Reaktor@reddit
Never ate them myself but yes they were hard boiled. I think our dad (of 4) must have eaten some 2 dozen eggs in the week following each easter. Think we'd also end up turning them into creamed eggs on toast
NecessaryLight2815@reddit
My mom used the Easter eggs to make this horrifying breakfast dish called creamed eggs on toast. My sisters and everyone devoured it and it made me vomit. I dreaded Easter morning!!!
jjillf@reddit
Hard boiled and then make deviled eggs. Which actually sound awful but are like Krispy Crème donuts in that I can snarf down 6 and then wonder how it happened.
Halve, then scoop yolks into a bowl. Mix with a little mayo, mustard, hot sauce (I like Frank’s) and spicy pickle relish (I like Wickles). Pipe the mixture back into the hollowed out egg white. I don’t even like eggs but I can put these things away. It’s almost embarrassing.
oneislandgirl@reddit
Yes, You make hard boiled eggs and then dye the shell. It's a fun activity for kids. For people who still use real eggs, there is usually a lot of egg salad sandwiches after Easter. Instead, lots of people buy those plastic eggs and put candies inside them instead of real eggs.
hematocritman@reddit
You could paint them raw, but my family always did it after they’d been hard-boiled. We ate them after, too. We also ate the chocolate eggs we’d get in Easter baskets as kids.
justonemom14@reddit
I've been looking to see if anyone else acknowledged the possibility of dying them raw.
My family doesn't care much for hard boiled eggs, and I couldn't think any reason they really needed to be boiled, so we dye them raw. Put them back in the fridge after. They don't need to hang out in the Easter baskets; that's just for plastic eggs and candy. Use up colorful eggs just like usual.
Ad-hocProcrastinator@reddit
Some people are well into adulthood and still don’t know 4th of July is only our thing. 🫤
tcarlson65@reddit
You can put a small pin size hole in each end of an uncooked eg and blow them out. Then color them.
For traditional Easter eggs you hard boil then color. After you can do anything you would do with a hard boiled egg. Eat them, egg salad, etc.
Queasy-Flan2229@reddit
Sometimes they can be hard boiled, but I've mostly seen them with holes in the ends and the egg taken out to make scrambled eggs. So many many scrambled eggs.
davidm2232@reddit
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
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.
Sowf_Paw@reddit
This is such a strange question because you ask as if "chicken eggs" are a weird thing to eat.
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.
Ov_Fire@reddit
Onion peels, herb teas, tree barks, lots of natural dyes.
Embarrassed_Age8554@reddit
Yellow onion skins give a beautiful brick-red. It's what I'll use to dye our eggs this year.
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).
Physical_Cod_8329@reddit
Have you ever had a deviled egg? They’re delicious
wizzard419@reddit
They can... but yeah if you are dying eggs then they have to be real eggs. You usually cook them since it can be quite messy if a kid drops one.
That all being said... many have moved away from using real eggs for hunts and moved towards using plastic eggs where they can hide treats within. A lot of it is the ease of being able to do it and also not suddenly having a bunch of hardboiled eggs that have been sitting out at room temp for hours.
passisgullible@reddit
They're not real eggs, they're plastic eggs that you put little toys in.
The chocolate eggs are for consumption and are also usually hollow but do not have anything in them.
Dr_Watson349@reddit
People decorate the real eggs.
The plastic eggs are for hiding.
ghost_suburbia@reddit
So...we hid real ones. One year, not all were found. Then my sister hosted the annual band picnic in May. And we found one! Oh the smell....never hid real ones again.
nalonrae@reddit
One year we had the egg hunt in a different location and there were ducks in the area. One kid found a duck egg. He wouldn't let it go because it was blue and that was his favorite color but it was rotten and when he cracked it the smell was horrible.
Dr_Watson349@reddit
Yikes
mythicalwolf00@reddit
You gotta be like 18 or under. The trend of plastic eggs is very recent. It's always been real hard boiled hand dyed eggs.
Emergency-Purpose367@reddit
The eggs you dye are absolutely real eggs
MountainTomato9292@reddit
We dye real eggs too, usually hard boiled first.
FreeStateOfPortland@reddit
We do decorate real eggs.
IWasGoatbeardFirst@reddit
Yes, you hard boil the eggs, then dye them.
In my family, dying the eggs is a fun activity, but we don’t try to hide them. You can imagine the smell if one is forgotten or missed.
Easter egg hunts usually involve hollow plastic eggs with little candies or small toys inside.
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.
Moist_Mixture4518@reddit
That’s wild. I thought everyone knew they were boiled.
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.
WonderfulVariation93@reddit
Throw some apple cider vinegar on hard boiled eggs and I will scarf them down.
ElaborateCantaloupe@reddit
My family is Armenian. We color eggs by soaking them in vinegar and red onion peels.
https://youtu.be/6qQjpuhYSVc?si=nznG6XgfSNoGhSOq
bcuket@reddit
we hard boil the egg (so its cooked), then we dye egg, then we eat egg.
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.
SufficientProject273@reddit
Why did you specify chicken eggs?
Scrappy_The_Crow@reddit
You were doing so well until this edit. SMDH.
kat_storm13@reddit
I'll often make lazy deviled eggs. Slice in half and spread on a little mustard & mayo, salt pepper and paprika. One or two is plenty.
Turning them into actual deviled eggs... 3, 4 would not be uncommon. Wait, maybe that's the real reason they're called deviled eggs. The temptation to eat half the plate full of them 🤣
cheekmo_52@reddit
Yes. They are just hard boiled eggs. The dyes are food safe and on the shell. The egg inside is still good.
Global-Biscotti-9547@reddit
I put curry in my deviled eggs. I know it’s not common but I like it.
BookAccomplished568@reddit
The last time we did real egg shells was when I was a kid. They just saved the egg shells a couple weeks before. They made a tiny hole on one end to actually cook the egg, wash the shell & either fill it with confetti or flour. There was always real eggs hidden in the mix as well. At the end you get to crack the eggs you collected on the head of the person of your choosing! It’s a suprise weather it’ll be confetti, flour or an egg!
Now a days everybody I know just fills plastic eggs with candy (a few with money as well) They’re hidden in the yard and all the kids are let loose to get them!
neoslith@reddit
Fourth of July is not an America only thing.
Independence from England is the most common holidy/celebrating around the world that isn't religious.
mykepagan@reddit
Yes, they get eaten.
They are hard-boiled before being colored. In my family, we made them into deviled eggs. Then the kids started trying different deviled eggs recipes, with me as the judge. Which eventually turned into the annual “see who can poison Dad“ contest.
N-Y-R-D@reddit
Well, yeah, since we ran out of dodos.
confusedrabbit247@reddit
They're hard boiled eggs but my family never ate them. We'd throw them away after several days.
Bla_Bla_Blanket@reddit
Why is this surprising? This is literally almost half the world does. It’s not an American specific tradition.
SkellyJ31@reddit
Chocolate eggs are usually sold at stores, we don’t paint them. Yes, we usually paint the shells with everything on the inside. A lot of stores sell dye kits. It’s a color tablet dissolved in water. We hard boil them. If there’s cracks on the shell, sometime the egg dye gets on the white. I’ve eaten some eggs with the dye seeming through.
WelderDarkrai@reddit
Eu sou brasileiro e adoro essa cultura lol
IcyForecast@reddit
We hunt chicken eggs that a giant rabbit hides in our yard.
We eat something like ham, mashed potatoes, some vegetables, cherries and pineapple on the ham, maybe some yams, maybe some horsdouvres for snacking until dinner is ready
Also, the giant rabbit fills up our Easter baskets with candy and chocolate Easter candy, Cadbury creme eggs, jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, m and ms, milk duds, whoppers, peeps, other candy bar miniatures, Reese peanut butter eggs, etc
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.
Now, someone pass the hot sauce please.
Greedy_Pomegranate14@reddit
You cook them, boiled eggs. Then you paint them or dip them in food coloring, then after you get tired of looking at them you crack the shell off and you have a cooked solid boiled egg underneath.
Ok_Literature_1988@reddit
Yep hard boiled then dyed. Then egg salad, eggs as snacks and deviled eggs.
Independent-Toe6981@reddit
One year my mom made rabbit stew. So there’s that. 🐰
Usagi_Shinobi@reddit
Actual eggs for Easter get hard boiled prior to being dyed. We generally turn them into deviled eggs after, which are fucking delicious AF, and only made for special occasions, adding a rarity factor.
Fun-Willingness8648@reddit
No one has mentioned cascarones! You make a hole in the end, drain out the insides, dye them, and fill them with confetti!
tkecanuck341@reddit
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.
cholaw@reddit
Deviled eggs are on the menu for the next month!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Easter egg hunts at community events tend to be like that too around where I live. Eggs just tossed out all around an open lawn area, not hidden. But some times the plastic eggs are filled with treats. And sometimes there is one special golden egg that wins a big prize for whoever finds it. I hear a lot of families in other parts of the country do that at home with the special golden egg. I kind of don't like taking the kids to those ones (they are rare near me) because they always just end up disappointed- the big thing gets hyped so much and only one kid out of a lot of kids gets it. Vs the ones where everyone is getting something, all kinds of different things, different local businesses donate coupons for a free ice cream cone or whatever.
PheebsPlaysKeys@reddit
My family definitely eats them. And the ones we paint are hard boiled. But my family is also Romanian, so we do ciocnitul ouălor with the eggs. It’s a game where you tap each other’s eggs while saying “Christ has risen” (Hristos a înviat!) and the other answers “Truly he has risen” (Adevărat a înviat!) until one cracks. The person whose egg doesn’t crack is the winner.
RhinoGuy13@reddit
My dog got on the counter while I was out a few days ago. She ate 18 of the eggs my daughter decorated.
BoomerSooner-SEC@reddit
Btw, we don’t have to specify “chicken eggs”. It’s just “eggs”. We don’t really eat other kind of bird eggs. (Outside of some posh french restaurant where they might have a quail egg - gross)
SpiritedLoquat172@reddit
I remember eating hard boiled eggs but then now it's all about candy in the plastic eggs.
totallynotrobboss@reddit
In my home we used to paint them then do egg fights where you smack them against each other till one remains
Educational-Ad-385@reddit
We only colored them one time. My brother and I don't like cold boiled eggs. He and I much preferred candy eggs.
drinkallthecoffee@reddit
We never ate them. Not even once. Sometimes we even drained the yolk at the bottom so they wouldn’t rot.
Val-E-Girl@reddit
I wasn't a fan of eating the eggs right out of the shell. I peeled the eggs and we color the whites, then I make deviled easter eggs in spring colors on Easter.
Awdayshus@reddit
Yes, but not everyone ends up eating the ones they decorated. Although in this economy, it would be hard to justify not eating them.
They are hardboiled before being decorated. The tradition isn't just American. It dates back to the middle ages. Eggs were one of the foods that you couldn't eat during the season of Lent, for 46 days before Easter, along with any meat that wasn't considered fish by the Roman Catholic Church.
Once Easter came, it was quicker to break your fast with some quick eggs than it was to slaughter and prepare some kind of meat. So eggs were a treat on Easter after fasting from them and other meats for a month and a half. Because they were a treat, decorating them became part of the Easter celebration.
Cock--Robin@reddit
Even US families that don’t actually celebrate Easter will dye eggs, make baskets, have Easter egg hunts, etc.
whileurup@reddit
Deviled eggs are a staple on Easter near me.
Since Jesus is coming back, it's gonna be a throw down.
aliendepict@reddit
Yea, its fallen out at my family but when i was a kid we used to do it every easter, you hard boil the eggs decorate them with food dye and then snack on them with some salt and pepper. We never hid the eggs or anything like that. You would use these plastic eggs for that.
We normally do an egg hunt though. Just like when i was a kid. We get 100 eggs and hide them around the front and back yard, theres normally a mixture of money and candy in them. I think the norm for us is about 50 bucks done as $5 bills in about 10 of the eggs and the other 90 have just candy.
StrikingDeparture432@reddit
Silly, don't you know the Chocolate Easter Bunny brings all those eggs and hides them for the kids.
It's a Miracle Bunny that lays eggs !
largos7289@reddit
I mean i scramble mine, it's just a bitch to get back in the shell.
DineenMattingly@reddit
Like numerous Americans, I'm not Christian, so I don't celebrate Easter or have anything to do with Easter eggs.
Certain-Monitor5304@reddit
Hard boiled. Food dye. Not paint.
ColonelTime@reddit
Is Google blocked in your county?
Rare_Independent_814@reddit
My kids and I just got done coloring the eggs. They are hard boiled. They got hungry while doing it and both ate one of them. But my kids love eggs, I always keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge. They are healthy and make for an easy breakfast or snack
DarthBrooks69420@reddit
You're reminding me of the time I painted like 10 eggs and then put them in a dresser and a month later this ungodly smell came from it, they all burst (they were cooked btw) and we straight up threw the dresser drawer in the trash.
Any egg painting that happened after that had to be turned into my parents immediately lmao.
Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit
I just made 36 deviled eggs for Easter dinner tomorrow, so they damned well better eat some eggs. 😊
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.
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
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
imjustsayin314@reddit
Pretty sure they are rabbit eggs /s
Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit
Easter eggs are not from chickens. They are laid by the Easter bunny.
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.
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.
For Easter egg hunts, we often used plastic eggs you can put prizes in. Although when I was really little in the 70s, we did have hunts with actual hard boiled eggs.
radish_is_rad-ish@reddit
I don’t think I’ve ever had eggs during Easter honestly. I grew up in a Hispanic household where we just save eggshells with the tops taken off and then dye just the shells. They’re then filled with confetti and a small square of tissue paper is used to seal it. These are then cracked on people’s heads.
x0_Kiss0fDeath@reddit
As a kid, i painted hardboiled eggs that the adults ate (i never have and probably never will) like hardboiled eggs). The eggs that were actually hidden/hunted were plastic eggs with chocolates and sometimes a small value of money inside (like a few coins or a dollar).
sholt1142@reddit
I like deviled eggs for Easter, because it can't be all about Jesus, got to throw a bit of the devil in to make things perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
MegiLeigh14@reddit
Provided we found them all, yes, they went in the fridge and the hard boiled eggs were eaten until they were gone after the holiday. We were active in our church, but my dad isn’t religious, so his job was hiding baskets and eggs while the rest of us were at church. One time my brothers didn’t find a couple of really well hidden eggs and my dad couldn’t remember where they were. We found them a few weeks later when they started to absolutely reek! He wasn’t forgiven for that for years!
yyythoo@reddit
I don’t recall ever eating the eggs we decorated. And I do no remember ever eating eggs on Easter. When you are Little you decorate the eggs and do the egg hunt, but the egg hunt is done with plastic eggs filled with candy. That was the extent that eggs were involved for Easter
redcoral-s@reddit
Eggs aren't generally colored with paint, theyre usually soaked in a dye after they've been boiled. The color can bleed through the shell a bit leading to some of the white being colored, which makes for some fun egg salad once you're ready to eat the egg
RudoifSchmidt@reddit
Hard boiled and the dye is vinegar based
smcl2k@reddit
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 💔
pikkdogs@reddit
Yeah. If you do this then you usually boil them on Saturday, dye them, then serve them on Sunday.
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.
We add all those things to our Easter soup on Sunday, split amongst everyone attending!
FriendWinter9674@reddit
They're hard-boiled. Growing up, maybe one or two got eaten, but it wasn't very common in my family.
mulligylan@reddit
no. we eat rabbit eggs
redjessa@reddit
They are hard boiled. You dye them for fun, then eat them.
maimou1@reddit
My dad was half Greek, and spent part of his childhood in his father's village in Greece. He told me in their village at least they had the boiled eggs tradition, but they were dyed red with cochineal powder. Yep that's the insect, once dead would be dried and ground into a powder that made a beautiful red egg. He said it symbolized the rebirth of Christ
Purple-Squash-4090@reddit
It’s a symbol. A baby is born and his name is Jesus.
MommaIsMad@reddit
Nope. Rabbit eggs for Easter 🐇
klownfukr@reddit
In my house they’re hard boiled then Decorated/dyed. Then we’ll eat them after the egg hunt!
OO_Ben@reddit
Unfortunately I can't discuss this unless you're a part of the Hare Club for Men
malibuklw@reddit
We always turn them into deviled eggs which always amused me eating deviled eggs on Easter (also Christmas when we’re visiting the in-laws in Florida)
dancarbonell00@reddit
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
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
dancarbonell00@reddit
Cuz they're a decoration.
They don't do a very good job of decorating the place when they're cracked to shards with the innards in your gullet..
NobleVulpes@reddit
You're supposed to eat them after easter not before lol. Obviously you wouldnt eat them before hiding them or putting them out for decoration, that would be a waste.
AlarmingAttention151@reddit
What a waste of
BuntinTosser@reddit
These days it’s plastic eggs with candy or money in them (the adult children really like the money). Long ago we did hard-boiled eggs that the kids decorated with dye kits. We generally didn’t end up eating them because the dye would penetrate the shell and color the whites, which was unappetizing.
NewClock8197@reddit
In my family we poke a hole on each side of the raw egg and blow out the yolk to paint an empty shell the night before, my Mom usually makes scrambled eggs for breakfast before Mass.
xx-rapunzel-xx@reddit
i dye them, the rest of my family eats them.
Darkrose50@reddit
We decorate them for Easter. Usually we use them for egg salad the following week.
voteblue18@reddit
I loved hard boiled eggs as a kid. Easter season was great I ate brightly colored eggs for like a week straight around Easter.
CombatAnthropologist@reddit
Well, bunny eggs arent really all that good
Deep_Joke3141@reddit
I’m curious about which countries/ cultures don’t eat eggs???
VoiceArtPassion@reddit
This year we boiled and dyed 18 eggs to hide around the yard, and there are 10 golden eggs filled with candy and money! Those ones will be extra tricky to find!
SurftoSierras@reddit
Peeled eggs with a splash of color where the shell has cracked during the dye process. Deviled or sliced to have a sandwich - sliced with one of these:
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sometimes-i-rhyme@reddit
We did our egg hunt with real eggs…and took one to church to put in the collection basket. It was fun to hear the chuckles and whispers as the basket got passed down each row.
procrasstinating@reddit
When we were kids we would hard boil 11 of eggs. Leave 1 raw. Color all of them. We didn’t like hard boiled eggs so my dad would take them to work for lunch. We thought we were so funny.
schmatteganai@reddit
this is why you spin "hard boiled" eggs before you crack them, particularly if there are jokesters with access to your fridge
SpecificWorldly4826@reddit
OP, re: your edit, do you have any idea what 4th of July is?
Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit
Usually they are hard boiled OR we used to empty the eggs and leave the shells for dying by piercing both ends and blowing the yolk and white out. It was hard work, but worth it so that you could keep your dyed creation.
Apprehensive-Pop-201@reddit
A lot of them are eaten by the family dog, who finds them before the kids.
miaomeowmixalot@reddit
I sometimes eat mine, but not this year! My family pokes holes in either end and blows out the innards. You can eat it, and we have in the past, but I’ve been blowing out a few per night, and am just going to toss the resulting lump this year due to lack of executive function on my part. The benefit of this is we keep the eggs for future years and it’s fun to see the improvements in decorating as kids get older.
TracyVegas@reddit
The Fourth of July happens in every country. What country are you from that you skip July 4 and go right from the third to the fifth?
PghSubie@reddit
Wow, I've read some weird questions because, but Wow
Philthy42@reddit
That has to be confusing for calendars in other countries to go from July 3rd to July 5th.
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.
houdini31@reddit
They are hard boiled and a lot of people do eat them if the dye doesn't get in the shell
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.
I grew up Catholic in the Boston area, and may family always his little chocolate eggs around the apartment/house. We never used hard boiled eggs, but those are common in many cultures.
Chaseoliver@reddit
Just to be clear, Easter breakfast does not consist of just all the hard boiled eggs we colored. We eat them throughout the coming days. We do a standard American brunch for Easter that has the option for hard boiled eggs if you’d like.
Reasonable_Guess_175@reddit
The eggs are usually boiled (although I know some people who will make a tiny hole and blow out the insides so they are hollow). They also aren’t usually painted with real paint but instead food safe dye, so you can still eat them. Usually plastic eggs are used for Easter egg hunts (although traditionally I think the used to use the real eggs) and Chocolate eggs are just chocolate in the shape of an egg.
wieldymouse@reddit
Yes, except for the ones that we use to hide because they're usually not food safe by the time they're found.
untamed_lsr@reddit
White Americans do. Hispanic Americans think to themselves “ikyfl”
slapdashbr@reddit
the deli I work at even made an egg salad special
Valuable_Recording85@reddit
I only eat farm-fresh rabbit eggs with my roasted jackalope.
doctor_jane_disco@reddit
I'm really surprised by the comments, I never knew made Easter eggs like this! As a kid all the eggs I painted were empty shells, the insides were drained out of a small hole.
Scott43206@reddit
Kids color the eggs, adults eat them.
ChickenNugs4Hugs@reddit
They’re usually boiled first and then dyed. They usually get eaten the same day in my house growing up. I’m learning based off this thread that people hid actual eggs for the kids to find which seems like a terrible prize. Going around collecting eggs just to have eggs at the end? My family always did money, candy, or coupons like “no dishes for the week”. I found like $200 back when I was 12.
Mundane-Bite@reddit
Have you had deviled eggs I need to know
RickySlayer9@reddit
This makes it sound like you find the idea of eating a chicken egg appauling
DataSurging@reddit
Yes? The eggs are boiled. Which are absolutely delicious. Put a little bit of salt on it and they make a delicious snack that even children love.
Oomlotte99@reddit
I e always hard boiled and then decorated the eggs. Then we eat the decorated eggs during the Easter meal.
EconomyDepartment720@reddit
Dang I’m in the minority here but we’ve never eaten Easter eggs. We decorate them and that’s that. I’m equally fascinated as an American that people actually ate them 😭
Aquarius_K@reddit
I think we may have done that when I was a kid a time or two but no usually it's a plastic egg with candy inside. Or chocolate eggs. A lot of people do a few golden plastic eggs with money inside.
Mousearella@reddit
I’m in Sweden and we color the eggs after they’ve been boiled. We have a huge Easter meal where we eat the eggs. Children like eggs in Sweden.
chicagoliz@reddit
You are supposed to eat the hard boiled eggs, but my husband and kids hate hardboiled eggs. I always had grand plans to make deviled eggs, because I love them but the rest of my family hates them. I'd have the eggs sit around for a while with my plans that never came to fruition, so eventually we'd throw the eggs out.
Aggravating_Fishy_98@reddit
When I was a kid I would dye boiled eggs. Then you just have some cool eggs in the fridge and eat them like normal. It was always cool when the dye had soaked through the egg shell and the egg itself was colorful
Quirky-Invite7664@reddit
Even as adults my family goes all out painting eggs! They’re like works of art. We have a contest where we vote for our favorite egg.
stabbingrabbit@reddit
Deviled eggs now.
Pulp501@reddit
No, the eggs are from the easter bunny
Ask_Aspie_@reddit
They are hard boiled eggs. You color them with a food dye and vinegar mixture. Then the next day, you peel the colored shell off and eat the egg like you would normally eat a hard boiled egg.
Phoenix_Court@reddit
Not every family does, but yes many do. You boil the eggs first. Once they're cool you can paint the shells. It's actually dye not paint, usually. You dip the eggs into the dye. After the egg hunt and whatnot you can eat the eggs. Just peel the shell off and you're good. Boiled eggs are delicious with a little sprinkle of salt or turned into deviled eggs if you're eating a bunch at once.
SmellyTaterTot8@reddit
Nah
Agreeable-Sun368@reddit
I am American (but also Orthodox Christian so this isn't my Easter weekend lol). The eggs are boiled first. We dye eggs and eat some of them. We mainly dye eggs red (this is an Orthodox thing) and we also will do some eggs that are colors for the kids to decorate/draw on. Those don't always get eaten because the stickers or whatever can make them hard to eat.
I will say Easter eggs taste terrible. They are usually CRAZY overboiled and have a mostly gray yolk. I usually choke one down at 3 am after church out of obligation and don't eat the rest. I can see why people don't eat them.
We don't use them in egg hunts. We have plastic eggs that open and have candy/money/little toys inside for egg hunts.
BruceTramp85@reddit
Sounds like the people who boil them don’t boil them any other time of year.
A few years ago, a friend introduced me to the practice of steaming them with a double boiler. Perfectly set, and the shells come off easily.
Agreeable-Sun368@reddit
The reason they're overboiled is because a) traditional dyeing methods have you boiling them in the dye and b) they are sitting out unrefrigerated for hours. Usually at church there will be big baskets at the front and the priest will give you an egg at the end of the service. They're sitting out for like 7 hours, minimum. Usually more.
BetterCranberry7602@reddit
Yeah my MIL overboils the shit out of the eggs every year
Agreeable-Sun368@reddit
I get it--they are unrefrigerated for long periods of time. And when you do the old fashioned dying methods you boil them in the dye. So like I get why...but damn they are nasty to eat lol.
rawbface@reddit
We have scrambled eggs or french toast at Easter breakfast/brunch, but the only eggs that are colorful and hidden are made of plastic.
foxy_chicken@reddit
I can’t remember if we ate them, I don’t think we did. I didn’t start eating hard boiled eggs until I was an adult, and I don’t remember having a visceral reaction to my family eating the eggs we dyed.
That being said I don’t remember us doing it very often. Really only as small children. They were just eggs to dye as we hunter plastic eggs, and so it wasn’t really a thing in our house.
But I do know the eggs were hard boiled when we did it, and the dye was obviously food safe.
Odd_Necessary8090@reddit
We use authentic Easter bunny eggs at our house
No_Difficulty_9365@reddit
We dye them after they're cooked. The dye is made of vinegar and a safe vegetable dye.
HomemadeBananas@reddit
We eat chicken eggs all the time… lots of people do from different countries. And normally just call them “eggs” because that’s the default type. Yes we cook them.
ancientastronaut2@reddit
Lol, they're hard boiled and you can slice them up and eat them on sandwiches.
RemotePossibility399@reddit
We loved them. My mom's egg salad was the best!
Fuzzzer777@reddit
Yes, but more as a decoration project. We look more forward to Easter Egg Hunts. These were traditionally with decorated hard boiled eggs yrs ago, but now with plastic eggs filled with candy and goodies. I remember finding a few hard boiled eggs a couple of weeks after Easter. Not a pleasant experience. I think my dad ran over one with the lawn mower once.
shammy_dammy@reddit
They're hard boiled. Most people do not eat them because they've usually been through a lot.
BAMspek@reddit
We eat chicken eggs all the time. These ones just happen to be hard boiled and dyed for Easter.
YoshiandAims@reddit
Yes. They are hardboiled then dyed. You eat them as is, or you make recipes with them, like deviled eggs, potato salad, etc.
Some are hollow and painted. Some are plastic or wooden or glass. Some are non edible, hollow, and you fill them with candies or items.
Chocolate eggs are either hollow or filled, you can get both. Yes, you eat those.
rolyfuckingdiscopoly@reddit
Everyone is talking about boiling, which is a thing.
In my family, we poke a hole in the egg, blow out the gooey part (scramble em up!), and then wash and dye that full shell. Then I fill them with candy, and give them to people.
I don’t ever dye boiled eggs anymore.
judijo621@reddit
You don't?
casapantalones@reddit
Yes. Those are hard boiled. We turn those into deviled eggs and they are the BEST.
longlostlotrelf@reddit
They are hardboiled and they are eaten :)
Responsible-Fun4303@reddit
We’ve always hard boiled and yes we generally eat them lol.
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.
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
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.
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.
nauticalfiesta@reddit
Yes. They're hard boiled. And the best part of Easter is making deviled eggs for a week.
sneezhousing@reddit
Yes they are hard boiled eggs. You eat them
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!
CODMAN627@reddit
We do eat the eggs, usually hard boiled with some salt.
When it comes to Easter egg hunts it’s much more common to use plastic eggs with candy inside
OutrageousQuantity12@reddit
How is eating eggs weird? What culture on earth doesn’t eat eggs? I guess Vegans if they count as a culture (I don’t think they do), but that’s not an American or non-American thing
hllnnaa_@reddit
Yes, but the ones you put out for the Easter egg hunt are plastic eggs that open up and have candy inside.
ycey@reddit
You can boil the eggs before dying them but for long term decorated eggs you can poke holes in the top and bottom of the egg and drain out the yoke and whites so they won’t go bad
Self-Comprehensive@reddit
Mom and I always made a little hole at the top, a bigger hole in the bottom, and blew the yolk out into a bowl. Then we scrambled the yolk and ate it. We let the shells dry out inside and then dyed them. Then we filled them with confetti and glued a little colored tissue paper over the holes. Then at my grandma's house, when we had the egg hunt, anyone who found some of our eggs could throw it at their cousins!
getElephantById@reddit
I'm not sure what you're asking. If there is a country in the world where eating hard boiled eggs is unknown, I'll be absolutely astonished.
People (usually children) decorate eggs that have been hard boiled first. You can paint or draw on an egg, but you usually decorate it by submerging it in water with dye in it, which suffuses the shell.
Rather than throw them away afterward, they usually get made into deviled eggs, or egg salad, or something else. You usually don't just sit down and eat a dozen hard boiled eggs, though you may peel and eat some of them.
We have chocolate eggs, yes. Kids get baskets of candy, often it's Easter themed candy, which means chocolate shaped like an egg, or a bunny, or candy that is similarly shaped.
YeahILiftBro@reddit
Yes. I gigantic bunny delivers hand dyed chicken eggs to celebrate the rebirth of Jesus.
Dirk_McGirken@reddit
Varies between households but peiple generally do hard boiled eggs or plastic eggs. My family tried raw eggs once for some reason. We didnt find one of them and it went rotten a while later. We never did real eggs again after that.
Coidzor@reddit
Deviled Eggs are a popular appetizer or hors d'oeuvre around Easter, they're hard-boiled eggs which have been split in two and the yolks scooped out and mixed with spices and mayonnaise.
Whole, painted hard-boiled eggs have long since fallen out of favor for Easter. The smell of hidden hard-boiled eggs going bad and rotting is just one of the reasons why plastic eggs filled with candy or chocolate eggs covered in foil are preferred now.
ThroatFun478@reddit
If you have too many... pickled eggs!
Bright_Ices@reddit
As we got older, my parents started hiding small chocolate candy eggs instead of real eggs or plastic eggs.
DogsBikesAndMovies@reddit
Most of the "eggs" we eat on Easter are chocolate.
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.
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.
There are egg shaped chocolates for sale at many stores.
Different_Bat4715@reddit
I would say that chocolate bunnies are way more popular than chocolate eggs.
Bright_Ices@reddit
Chocolate eggs are massively popular, but not the large hollow ones. Just the many, many brands of small chocolate egg candy.
mladyhawke@reddit
Chocolate bunnies are so cute
BernieTheDachshund@reddit
We kinda stopped using hard-boiled eggs anymore, we switched to mostly plastic eggs filled with various candies or money. I'll put change or folded up bills (I do the triangle/football fold). We also buy a couple of dozen of cascarones, which are painted egg shells filled with confetti. The kids find them and smash them on other people's heads.
manokpsa@reddit
We would hard boil and dye them, then my grandpa would hide them on his property, along with some plastic eggs that had candy, toys, or some money in them. Grandma would make deviled eggs that night and we'd have egg salad sandwiches for lunch for a couple of days. They lived on a few acres in the woods. Sometimes the dog would find some of the real eggs before the grandkids did and eat them. He loved that game. He also loved sneaking up behind people at the bonfire and knocking over their beers so he could drink them. Have you ever seen a drunk Border Collie? 😂
LHCThor@reddit
Hard boil the eggs, paint them and then eat them.
TheGallifreyan@reddit
I like I've see plastic eggs with candy inside way more than real eggs.
RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit
Those aren’t chicken eggs. I know they look similar, but those are rabbit eggs, brought by the Easter bunny. And they are traditionally dyed raw because dying them after their cooked angers Zombie Jesus.
RVFullTime@reddit
We eat them. They're nutritious.
Responsible_Side8131@reddit
They are cooked. We hard boil them, then they get decorated. And yes, we eat them. And yes, we also eat chocolate eggs.
Amockdfw89@reddit
Usually your aunt makes deviled eggs that no one eats
Higgingotham96@reddit
Much more common to hard boil them. A few times growing up we would prick holes in both ends to blow out the egg contents. We usually ate those anyway, generally scrambled. I believe that method of blowing out the egg is more German in origin, we would do that with the side of my family with German ancestry. Much harder to do but made more delicate eggs
ten-toed-tuba@reddit
We used to do that as well, then we'd save the eggs for next year (the dyed shells) and the insides were used for baking.
AlarmingAttention151@reddit
Also, most Americans don’t paint them. We dip dye them in a mix of food dye, vinegar, and water.
Main_Insect_3144@reddit
You boil them first. This is very different from emptying an eggshell and then painting it, like many European traditions.
CowboyOzzie@reddit
As others have already answered, the eggs are hard-boiled, and then dyed. However, I detest hard-boiled eggs, and so do most people in my family. As a result, when I was a child, we had this elaborate ritual: use a pin to poke small holes in both ends of the raw egg— small enough that the whole shell doesn’t crack, but big enough that you can blow in one end of the egg and the raw yolk and white come out the other end into a bowl.
You can then use that raw egg to make scrambled eggs or whatever you like, and then dye the delicate empty shells however you wish. This method has the advantage that the dyed egg shells last for a very long time without getting stinky, as a dyed boiled egg would do.
Extension-Silver-403@reddit
If I'm at a party and they have hard boiled/deviled eggs I'll have a couple
And as for chocolate eggs, yes those too
Impulse2915@reddit
You hard boil the egg before coloring them and they are safe to eat and people do!
We do eat chocolate eggs too. Although personally, I like the Reeses eggs over other options like Hershey's or Cadbury.
RetreadRoadRocket@reddit
They're hard boiled, my mother always made deviled eggs out of them for Easter dinner
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.
It doesn't change anything about the egg. It's just dye on the shell. The previously boiled egg tastes exactly the same and can and will be used for salads, sandwhiches, random snacks ect
parkz88@reddit
We always had painted hard boiled eggs but we stopped hiding them after the missing egg incident of '94.
coffeebuzzbuzzz@reddit
I like making deviled eggs with the dyed eggs because the white inside usually gets colored as well.
SubstantialPressure3@reddit
They are hardboiled, cooled, then the shell is dyed with food coloring and a little vinegar in water.
They are just colorful and pretty to look at. Later they are peeled and eaten plain, or there's a lot of deviled eggs or egg salad in your future.
How elaborately they are decorated is an individual/cultural preference.
I'm dyeing eggs with a 4 year old, so it's not very elaborate or artistic.
People also buy hollow plastic eggs and fill them with candy, and sometimes money. They are put in a basket as an Easter gift, or kids hunt for the eggs. ( Both the plastic and the hardboiled ones)
There are some cultures that have traditions of hollowing out the egg and elaborately decorating the delicate shell, but I don't come from that sort of background.
Some people in the US with ancestry from those cultures still carry on those traditions.
Ok-Highway-5247@reddit
Some do.
FishAroundFindTrout9@reddit
Usually we hard boil them and then decorate them. Then they may be eaten if they haven’t been out of refrigeration too long.
However some will take a raw egg, and use a needle to poke a hole in both ends of the egg. Then you can blow most of its contents out and run water through it, then decorate it and keep the pretty shell.
ThersATypo@reddit
Well, if you color eggs, you boil them first. If you're using natural dyes (black tea, beet root, onions etc) you cook them in water with these things inside. Fine drawings afterwards, and then you eat them. You can also blow them out (make holes on both ends, poke the egg yolk with a tooth pick and the blow them out (make scrambled eggs or bake a cake with the contents), then clean the shells, make pretty and delicate paintings, and hang them up on cut thin branches, which will (depending where you are) mostly still be without leaves from winter, and will have leaves coming out once you put them in water inside (after a week or two). Very eastery & symbolic.
peter303_@reddit
Sometimes we decorate the hard boiled eggs too. Or poke holes in the shells and blow out the insides before decorating. Then cook and eat the insides.
winter_laurel@reddit
As a kid, my mom would use a needle to poke a little hole in the top, and a slightly larger hole in the bottom and then blow out the insides to leave the hollow shell. Dying the eggs meant having to hold them down to fully submerge them. Sometimes we used markers or paint to decorate the eggs too. After Easter she would save the hollow eggs for next year. Some always get lost or broken, so we would just decorate more the next year.
cameronpark89@reddit
boiled eggs? yes.
whimsical_spider@reddit
Americans don’t eat the painted eggs. But at the potluck, there might be deviled eggs!
Burritozi11a@reddit
You realize this is actually a Slavic tradition that was brought over here by immigrants, right?
schmatteganai@reddit
There are a lot of different cultural ways to deal with Easter eggs that different people do in the US. I'm going to describe some different things I'm familiar with where I live
Hard-boiled eggs are dyed or painted, and then eaten.
Some people dye their eggs red and try to break other people's eggs with them; this is more of a Greek thing, but it's fun so other people do it now, too.
When people want to make more elaborate designs to keep, you make two holes on the top and bottom of the egg, stick in something small, like a chopstick, to break up the membranes, and then blow out the raw egg with a straw or other tool you can push or blow air through, and then cook those eggs into an omelette or something. The egg shell can then be cleaned, decorated, and kept for a longer time. I learned how to do this from someone with Ukrainian connections, but it's a widespread practice for people who want to save their decorated eggs.
Some people dye raw eggs, cut off the top and take out the raw egg (this way the yolk and white don't get mixed, so you can cook a wider variety of things with it), fill the eggshell with confetti, put colored paper over it, and then throw them at people. In Mexican-American communities where this is really popular, you can also buy cascarones/confetti eggs pre-made at the store.
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.
JasminJaded@reddit
Yup, and not just for Easter, either.
enjoyyourlife247@reddit
Nope, rabbit eggs
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!
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.
BSch2023@reddit
That’s exactly how we did them!
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!
Historical-Composer2@reddit
Well we can’t eat bunny eggs…
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.
machagogo@reddit
You've never had a hard boiled egg before?
Yes we have chocolate eggs too...
piaa9@reddit (OP)
Of course I've had, but in my country Easter eggs = chocolate eggs, so I always associated Easter with sweetness and since hard boiled eggs are salty it caught my attention that you guys celebrate it that way.
tsukiii@reddit
We do indeed eat chocolate eggs. I prefer the mini “robin’s eggs” that are candy-coated chocolate malt balls.
whatyouwant22@reddit
That's my favorite Easter candy!
tsukiii@reddit
Ugh, they’re so good! I bought a few cartons last month but ate them all before actual Easter lol
Frenchitwist@reddit
No, we eat rabbit eggs
shadowmib@reddit
I just fried a. Couple for breakfast with some corned beef hash.
Vikingkrautm@reddit
We hard boil them and eat them later.
PlanMagnet38@reddit
I have two kinds of eggs: one set for hiding in the house and one set for hiding in the yard.
The house eggs are real chicken eggs that we hard boil and decorate the day before. My kids hunt for them while we prep breakfast (I keep track of number and location so we don’t lose any and end up with rotten eggs 😂).
The yard eggs are plastic and can be opened and have treats put inside (jelly beans or mini candy). I put those out before the kids wake up, then my husband sneaks out during breakfast to hide their Easter baskets. Once we finish breakfast, we do our yard hunt.
Breaking it up this way ensures that my kids eat something healthy before gorging themselves on candy or getting distracted by their small gifts (ex a book or craft set).
WafflePeak@reddit
Everyone here is saying they eat them but I’ve personally never heard of anyone eating a painted egg.
Gordita_Chele@reddit
Traditionally we dye or paint hard-boiled eggs, and in Texas at least, “cascarones,” due to the Mexican history of and influence on our state.
Cascarones are sometimes called confetti eggs. You break out a small circle of the shell on one end, and you shake the raw egg out. Then you wash the shell, paint or dye, fill with confetti, and glue tissue paper over the open egg. These are for cracking on people’s heads (often unexpectedly), so they end up with confetti in their hair. You either plan ahead and save shells from your everyday use of eggs, or you empty out a bunch one day and everyone eats omelettes.
Nowadays, people also use plastic eggs that they fill with candy or little toys. Some people only do the plastic egg ones nowadays. It’s also becoming more common for kids to get a basket full of gifts “from the Easter bunny” in recent years. I refuse to partake in that though.
Our Easter Day involves the religious family going to church in the morning, then gathering in the afternoon to eat a big meal together (usually ham, but we’re doing chicken this year because several family memes don’t eat pork). At the end of dinner, a couple adults go out to hide eggs in the yard. Then, someone says they just saw a bunny in the yard and all the kids run out to hunt for the eggs supposedly hidden by the Easter bunny.
NitinTheAviator@reddit
I don’t anyone does that anymore or at least in old cartoons in real life It’s just plastic eggs or chocolate eggs.
tactical_waifu_sim@reddit
Based on this thread it's still very popular but I agree that at least in my region (tri-state area of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky) I've never seen it happen.
We all hunt plastic eggs that have candy inside.
ceanahope@reddit
Two ways with chicken eggs. Hard-boiled the dye, or poke a hole n other end and blow out the egg and keep the shell in tact. Make quiche or other egg heavy dishes and dye the shells.
Chocolate eggs are just egg shaped candy. They vairy in size, filling and quality.
ChapterOk4000@reddit
Wow, I never heard of hard boiling them. We always poked a hole in the end with a sewing needle and blew the inside out into a bowl for scrambled eggs. Then we dyed the empty eggs.
sharkycharming@reddit
I'm 52 now, but when I was a kid, "the Easter bunny" hid real eggs in our den for my brother and me to find. Then my mom would usually wind up making egg salad the next day, because although we didn't hate hard-boiled eggs, we also didn't want to eat them every day for a week. It's the dyeing and finding of the eggs that was fun, not really the eating.
Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit
I just finished hardboiling some eggs. Kids will paint them, we will save the best for them to eat. I will turn most of them into deviled eggs for tomorrow
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
We stopped dyeing and hiding the boiled eggs after somebody left one in the couch to putrify. We still eat a lot of eggs as an appetizer before dinner.
fenchurch_42@reddit
This reminds me of a Gilmore Girls episode where the eggs were hidden all over town but the man who hid them forgot to track where he put all of them, so a few days later the whole town smelled of rotten eggs!
AmalatheaClassic@reddit
Yes. Actual eggs from a bird. They are hard boiled first. Easter is the reason I hate hard boiled eggs. I got sick off being forced to eat some one year as a kid & have held a grudge ever since.
EffectiveCycle@reddit
After we hunted them they became egg salad for my dad. I hate hard-boiled yolks so I would never eat them.
sprachkundige@reddit
I’m shocked to see everyone saying hard boiled. We always did the thing where you poke a hole in the top and bottom and blow to empty them out. I assume we didn’t eat them after that but to be honest I’m not sure - haven’t done it in ages.
nooutlaw4me@reddit
Hard boiled to keep and eat later. Deviled eggs to have with appetizers
CruisePlannersMike@reddit
When I was a kid in the late 80s, we'd hard boil eggs and dye them. I didn't eat them, because I didn't like eggs back then. My parents I'm sure would either eat them, or turn them into something like egg salad or deviled eggs once I was done. For egg hunts, we'd usually go to a community one. They would hide plastic eggs that had candies or toys inside of them. We never hid the hard boiled ones, but I'm sure some families did.
JulesInIllinois@reddit
The eggs for the children's Easter baskets are either hard boiled or blown before coloring.
You can poke a tiny hole on one end with a pin and a slightly larger hole on the opposite end. Then, you gently blow the edible parts (yolks and whites) out into a bowl. Usually you make quiche or scrambled eggs because we do two dozen eggs or more.
HecticTurtIe@reddit
We typically boil the eggs and then dye them for Easter. My family used to make egg salad or deviled eggs with them and they would look like tie dye. It wasn't part of the Easter dinner or anything though.
Some people empty the yolk and everything and do intricate designs on the shells for long term decoration. There are lots of different ways people prepare, decorate, and eat them
fenchurch_42@reddit
Yes, this was most common in my family when I was growing up. Though my "intricate designs" were never very good!
MissFabulina@reddit
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.
HealthLawyer123@reddit
My mom baked them into bread with the dyed shell still on
Adorable-East-2276@reddit
Easter eggs are usually hard boiled for stability. They are not eaten.
Chocolate eggs are chocolate. They are eaten
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!
SphericalCrawfish@reddit
Tons of people east Easter eggs. I don't because every component of a hard boiled egg is texturally nasty to me.
whatyouwant22@reddit
AGREE!
dulcetsloth@reddit
Same, I don't actually color them as a tradition in my family because I don't want to be wasteful and my kids feel the same way.
gorobotkillkill@reddit
Devil them and it's one slightly better texture.
But I agree, eggs have an awful texture.
yunwibubu@reddit
You are genuinely the first person I have ever met that doesn't eat them.
What do you guys do with them after?
whatyouwant22@reddit
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.
Ballmaster9002@reddit
I'm in camp "first time I've heard they were eaten"!
You leave them out for a day and then you throw them away.
schmatteganai@reddit
why would you waste food like that
yunwibubu@reddit
That's so wild to me. lol They're never really out of the fridge for more than an hour, maybe hour and a half before being eaten with everyone I know that does egg hunts.
mythicalwolf00@reddit
What is wrong with you people?
VinceP312@reddit
Who isn't eating their dyed hard boiled eggs? Weird
hyst808@reddit
We never ate the eggs that got hidden either. It might depend on the climate - I grew up in the tropics and the water eggs would have been out of refrigeration and in heat for many hours.
ghost_suburbia@reddit
They are eaten. If not to be eaten, just use plastic eggs.
LightningMan711@reddit
By you. They are not eaten by you.
mythicalwolf00@reddit
Who the hell doesn't eat them? They are eaten (often turned into deviled eggs) You're out here wasting so many eggs. If you aren't eating them just get plastic eggs.
HegemonNYC@reddit
You… throw away your Easter eggs? They are literally just boiled eggs. Why wouldn’t you eat them lol
Impossible_Memory_85@reddit
What do you mean they aren’t eaten? Of course you eat them.
SassyGirl0202@reddit
Came to say the same! We eat our decorated eggs!
Aloh4mora@reddit
I've eaten my home dyed Easter eggs for 50 years. Some people definitely eat them. It's fun to make egg salad with Easter eggs and see some of the colorful white bits mixed in with your mayo and capers!
Aprils-Fool@reddit
Why would you waste real eggs? If you dye eggs, you should eventually eat them, either just hard-boiled, or turned into egg salad.
IHaveBoxerDogs@reddit
We eat them! After the “hunt.”
jessek@reddit
We totally ate our Easter eggs, usually as egg salad. The dyes are vegetable based and completely edible.
skittlebog@reddit
I'm curious where you live that hard boiled eggs are not common?
Sallyfifth@reddit
My family's tradition is like a less-artistic pysanka. We blow out the eggs for all the eggs we use during Lent, and clean the inside of the shells so they don't get germy. Then during Holy Week, we dye the eggs and let them dry. Fill them with candies like m&ms and jelly beans on Saturday, and hunt them Easter Sunday.
MsSamm@reddit
We used to paint Ukrainian Easter eggs. They were painted raw. The eggs dried up inside and are good forever.
rojoshow13@reddit
Hard boiled eggs are dyed. But I think hard boiled eggs stink and they're disgusting so I just eat chocolate eggs. Like Robin eggs which are malted milk balls in a candy shell.
Vachic09@reddit
We usually hide plastic eggs with toys or candy inside them.
In my family, we hard boil real eggs and then dye them. These are kept in the fridge until we are ready to eat them.
Donohoed@reddit
Only rabbit eggs
StillC5sdad@reddit
Yes
Outrageous_Carry8170@reddit
Yes, they are eaten, the decorated hard-boiled eggs are for ....decoration, to be eaten later. The eggs used for the kid's Easter Egg hunts are plastic shells with some candy or, a ticket for a bigger prize.
Reaganson@reddit
Yep, they’re hardboiled , cooled, and painted. Easter Day we could eat our own, or Mom would make egg salad out of them. In my house large chocolate or candy eggs were hidden for us to search and find.
Matilda-17@reddit
Most Easter egg hunts now use plastic eggs filled with candy. Previously, dyed hard-boiled eggs were more common.
DragonflyOnFire@reddit
We don’t boil the chocolate eggs… only the chicken eggs and we don’t dye the chocolate eggs either. We will eat all the eggs, except the plastic eggs… where we’ll eat the contents of those eggs, that are mostly filled with candy, except some of the plastic eggs are filled with small prizes, in which case we don’t eat the prizes.
anonymouse278@reddit
Yes, we hardboil them and most of them eventually get eaten (eggs are expensive, I'm not throwing them away), but normally they are dyed by dunking in vinegar-based food dye rather than painted. If someone wants to decorate an egg really elaborately like Ukrainian pysanky or hand painting them, they normally make a small hole in each end of the shell first and blow the contents of the shell out, so their handiwork isn't rotten and gross a few weeks later but can be kept.
These are far from exclusively or originally US traditions, though.
auntlynnie@reddit
You hard boil them, then decorate them. Some people eat them, some don't (we always did, as long as they weren't left out too long for food safety).
A lot of people hide plastic eggs with toys, coins, or candy inside so that there aren't real eggs potentially rotting around their house or their yard if they're not found (depending on where they do their egg hunt), and LOTS of people eat chocolate eggs and other Easter-themed candy.
Medill1919@reddit
No, we eat rabbit eggs
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.
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.
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
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
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.
You can also draw images on the shell with wax (usually a white crayon) before you dye them and the parts covered in wax won't get dyed.
MsPandaLady@reddit
Family tradition we had was boil the eggs, then paint them, then hide them, then throw them at each other.
AristaAchaion@reddit
this is not just an american tradition. there’s a central and eastern egg dying tradition (its name varies by language but the ukrainian name is pysanky & it usually sounds something like that). some people leave the eggs raw, some hard boiled eggs them, some hollow the shell before decorating.
NomDePlume25@reddit
It's either hard boiled eggs or plastic eggs with candy inside. My family used hard boiled when I was a kid, and afterwards we would use them in egg salad or tuna salad.
No_Importance_750@reddit
Yes. We eat them hard boiled.
ubiquitous-joe@reddit
Keep in mind there are millions of Americans who don't celebrate Easter (ie Jews, Muslims, many folks from Asian backgrounds). But for those who do, you can eat them if you hard boil them first. I believe you could also drain the eggs before decorating. There are commercial chocolate eggs around, though chocolate bunnies are also common. There are also colorful plastic eggs with treats inside that people hide for children's egg hunts. Sometimes people hang decorative eggs from trees outside (nowadays those are probably also artificial eggs).
Schwingzilla@reddit
Yes, rabbit eggs are far too expensive.
michelle1072@reddit
Boil them, color them, then I make deviled eggs Easter Sunday. They are refrigerated after coloring.
Impossible_Memory_85@reddit
We always make sure to dye one that’s not hard boiled so someone gets an Easter surprise when they crack it. It’s usually a kid and it’s usually after being told to crack it on their head after an adult demonstrates it with a hard boiled one.
VinceP312@reddit
I eat actual chicken eggs nearly every day.
HegemonNYC@reddit
This thread has made me realize that some Americans don’t know what Easter eggs are.
ProfessionalGrade423@reddit
Hard boiled and they get eaten after decorating. If you want to display them you blow the insides out before decorating
Emergency-Purpose367@reddit
So you're talking about a few different things.
The eggs we paint and dye are usually hardboiled. You can eat them, the dye is food safe. We don't hide these eggs, it's more just a craft activity, usually for kids.
The eggs we hide for kids to find are plastic, hollow and we put candy and small toys in them.
Chocolate eggs are for eating! My parents left an easter basket out usually with a chocolate egg or bunny, a plushie and some other candies that won't fit in the plastic eggs.
duckfruits@reddit
We hard boil them before coloring them with food coloring or with natural methods like using purple onion skins in hot water. Then after the egg hunt you can use them to make deviled eggs. It's recommended to count your eggs before hiding them because if any are left behind, stinky rotting eggs are not fun to deal with. But it's more common now for people to buy plastic eggs and fill them with candy.
No-Pickle-8200@reddit
We always made deviled eggs out of them and ate them as an appetizer for Easter dinner
kjlsdjfskjldelfjls@reddit
Not AFAIK, I just remember having chocalate eggs as a little kid. Most adults ignore the holiday entirely
West-Improvement2449@reddit
You hard bail them. Then dye them for Easter. YEs we eat them.
We have chocolate eggs but they are small because we hide them for kids to find
Many_Inevitable_6803@reddit
Take the shell off & make egg salad!
Kaido57@reddit
You dye the outer shell of hardboiled eggs usually. My dad used to make deviled eggs with them the next day. However, Easter egg hunts more often involve plastic eggs with candy inside rather than real eggs.
SassyGirl0202@reddit
They are hard boiled eggs we decorate. Mine are already decorated, we do them on Good Friday every year.
sweetchemicalkisses@reddit
In my family we dyed hard boiled eggs a few days before Easter and then my mom would make them into devild eggs to eat before dinner. Plastic eggs with candy or cash were used for our Easter egg hunt. Chocolate eggs would be in our Easter baskets.
kalvaroo@reddit
We like to use the Easter eggs for different variations of deviled eggs as a dinner appetizer for about a week.
AdelleDeWitt@reddit
Yes, they're hard-boiled before you paint them and then we eat them.
ritesideuppineapple@reddit
We usually hard boil the eggs first, then dye them. And they get eaten at some point. You can use raw but obviously run the risk of them breaking in the process. The dye is food coloring.
PlatinumElement@reddit
My family would always eat the hard boiled eggs. I remember we’d end up having egg salad every other day for a week after Easter.
IHaveBoxerDogs@reddit
They’re hard boiled eggs. Deviled eggs are very popular Easter brunch and dinner appetizer foods. You spend the next couple of days eating egg salad. (USA).
Eened@reddit
You hard boil the eggs before coloring them. My family made a big batch of deviled eggs after the eggs hunt with most of them.
We also used to have “egg fights” and throw them at each other after the eggs hunt hunt. But usually some raw eggs were held back for that 😅