Hardboiled lazy
Reason 29: Precolored hard boiled eggs for Easter.
Saw them in the grocery store and marveled. I didn’t get a price. But what is the cost of a few minutes of hardboiling eggs and spending quality time with your kids, coloring them?
How fricking lazy do you have to be? I admire that laziness, but still….
Better yet, skip the whole egg thing and go straight to the candy eggs, chocolate rabbits, and Peeps.
The only good thing you can do with 12 hardboiled eggs is to make them into deviled eggs. As a kid, I liked deviled eggs. I went through a phase where I didn’t because I think they contain mayonnaise, something that still makes me sick. I think I’d eat them today, as long as they didn’t contain nasty relish, which they sometimes do.
But hardboiled eggs, as a kid? Skip ‘em. Your momma can make deviled eggs any old time. Bring on the candy. Bring on the delicious, evil Cadbury mini-eggs, or the malted robin eggs. Skip the jelly beans, the Easter grass (forbidden in my house because you’d still be vacuuming it up months later) and Peeps.
I’m aghast, really. That is lazy.
You’ll be impressed that while we are most definitely lazy, we will be doing easter eggs the old fashioned way for Elliot. Nothing like starting those family traditions early…
You got me hooked on Cadbury Mini-Eggs. I’ll forgive you, it being the forgiving season, but why did you do it?
I don’t know what family traditions they should be. I think Easter is such a mixed bag of messages. My family never had much of a tradition … other than when we were small, my mom did do eggs for us, and we also had a couple easter egg hunts. Maybe we had a nice dinner, but since our family was never very religious, it didn’t have much to do with Easter.
And Dawn P…. heh heh. I love Cadbury Mini-Eggs. Mmmmm. I can’t divulge how many I’ve personally taken out of circulation this season … but let’s just say there’s one very angry mini-chocolate bunny looking for her eggs right now. I ate ‘em all!
It’s an addiction that’s hard to give up. Luckily, I’m moving out of the season of danger. There aren’t any more candy seasons until the beginning of the Halloween push in August, are there?
Mel,
Any deviled egg worth eating has mayonnaise as an ingredient. Do you remember eating a package of mayonnaise in a restaurant many years ago on a dare/money thing, & then you promptly going to the restroom to divest yourself of it.
Found a bit of the green grass stuff not too long ago. Probably remains from Easter for your niece & nephews a couple of years ago.
Yes, Dad, I know…. I just ignore it, much the way I sometimes “accidentally” eat meat. Was there meat in there? Oops.
And yes, I do remember eating a packet of mayo on a dare. I could be ashamed, but you ought to be ashamed of making your daughter make herself sick.
As I recall, my ill-gotten gains included curly shoelace thingies (very in style) and a Nelson brothers poster.
These days, I’d prefer to say I’d gotten money out of it. The Nelson poster is embarrassing, and here I am admitting it.
So anyway, I bought a chocolate rabbit today just so I could bite off its ears.
I remember my brother and I teasing our stepbrother and making the bunny scream as we ate him. Heh heh.
Maybe I oughta reconsider this vegetarian thing. Turkey tastes so damned good. (And no, I wouldn’t know how real rabbit tastes like.)
Dad, can I send you some Easter grass? I bet it’s on sale now. Since you finally got rid of the last little bit?
I like peeps once a year. Elliot likes them too. Except they make his hands all sticky, which then makes everything else all sticky. Yesterday morning he found an egg that had gone unnoticed Easter morning that had a peep inside it. Couldn’t get him to relinquish it before getting in the shower, so I thought, “What better way to keep things clean by letting him eat it in the shower?” Didn’t hold up too well with all the water, though, which is probably for the best
My favorite Easter candy: Robin eggs. I love malted milk balls any time of the year, though I’ve ultimately decided that straight out Whoppers with the dull brown chocolate coating taste better than the pastel robin eggs which just get turn your mouth colors anyway. Haven’t had any of either this year, though, and I’m trying hard to avoid the post-Easter clearance racks. Just watch…next time I’m shopping, I’ll cave in and buy some if any remain.