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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Strong depression vibes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is stupid. No one is dying potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Videos on how to dye marshmallows, potatoes and even onions have begun to circulate on social media and news websites.

You’re right. Only asshole influencers or whatever you want to call them are making these videos for clicks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

Americans: doing jokes about our lack of a very important food product is very inappropriate and immoral!

Irish: you want some potatoes with those eggs?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Speak for yourself. My local church who does Sunday Easter was begging for financial donations and egg donations.

One of the "threats" was using potatoes or rocks.

They're concerned because next year, the free egg hunt might be a paid event.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

There are plastic fucking eggs that have been used in 99% of all Easter egg hunts since plastic eggs were made. Tell your church to fill them with candy and cheap toys and quit acting like shit heads over it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly don't remember a family or church event that didn't use the plastic ones unless we were doing egg art as kids.

Candy beats a room temp egg that's been sitting in a random spot for hours hands down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Boiled eggs that kids paint and then hidden on the church grounds is the norm where I am.

It's 3 two hour events with different age groups. Eggs are rarely sitting around for longer than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Okay? Eggs are expensive right now because church people thought the literal embodiment of Satan would make a good president. The least they could do is pivot to plastic eggs and shut the fuck up about it.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We have been painting wood eggs, one per person, per year, for over a decade. Reuse them every year and every year the hunt gets longer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

That's a way better tradition. Bet you got a nice set of eggs

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your 37 year old child: dad please we have enough eggs and I have to be at work in 45 minutes

You: YOU CAN LEAVE WHEN YOU FIND THEM ALL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

Pretty much. There’s like 60 of them now. Can’t remember whereTF we put them all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

We're doing the same thing! Only been 2 years so far but excited to see the collection grow!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What an utterly embarrassing time to be an American.

Our historic legacy is going to be that of a fool generation that votes against our own interests and fails to stand up for ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Just be sure to let every Republican you see in public know they are traitors. Do it double for any cybertruck. They hate shame and if they feel it enough from their countrymen they will quit publicly supporting it at least. Which honestly, is better than fucking swastikas being out in public all of a sudden.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

George bush Jr. Columbine. Wall Street protests. TSA. BLM. George Floyd. OJ chase. Probably a dozen more if I had time to think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

My brain read this to the tune of "We Didn't Start the Fire"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I was trying but ran out of creative juices.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

ronald reagan, iran-contra, blowjob trial, patriot act, iraq war, war crimes in iraq, subprime mortgage scam

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (14 children)

There's a lot to unpack here:

  1. This is going to be one of things future generations look back on like we look back at the Great Depression (I'm trying not to think about Great Depression 2)
  2. The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
  3. Why can't people just use the reusable plastic eggs? Bonus is you can put candy inside.

Edit: Okay, thank you. Apparently we just did "Easter Eggs" wrong growing up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

No one is using potatoes. Even the article confirms it when they tell you they saw online hacks make a video about how to do this for clicks. That’s their fucking source. TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

um. you eat the dyed eggs. did your family just toss em?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah it’s the one time a year I enjoy hard boiled eggs for breakfast for a few days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

We made potato salad with them before we started using plastic eggs

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boil em, mash em, stick em in an egg salad.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.

How so? Did your family just throw out the eggs after Easter or something? Because we always just ate them in the days after when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We made pretty the eggs we would've boiled and eaten anyway. The week after easter we'd be all 'dad, you ate the one i wanted to eat!!' because we decorated it the prettiest so it was ours. It was incredibly rare the eggs didn't get eaten. We also had hollowed out eggshells my grandmother painted that we'd put in a place of honor every year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Eastern European or Slavic ancestry? My family is partly Czech and my aunt did kraslice eggs, they were hollowed out and painted with elaborate designs, we had a bunch in the breakfront cabinet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Polish! I never really thought about why she did it. That's really neat! I'll have to ask dad if that's what inspired her to make them. We inherited them, and had a little stand, but she had a whole elaborate display I wish I could remember clearly.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Wait, do people just throw away the eggs?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. Not us or anyone I know anyway. We decorate eggs, and have some plastic hollow eggs we've used for maybe 10 years to hide stuff in. Then we eat egg salad for a couple of days.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yup, plastic is always a great solution to something temporary and likely disposed of.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Waste of food? Y'all don't eat your Easter eggs? And now that we are using potatoes, too, after the hunt just mix them together with some mayo, paprika, onion and celery and make potato salad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Why would it be a waste? Theyre getting eaten. Plastic is way worse overall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago
  1. Yes
  2. Don’t you drain them out? Weird. Make the patterns, make a tiny hole, drain it out. That way you get an omelette.
  3. Plastic is bad. Truthfully, I don’t know enough about the carbon footprint of a chicken egg, but the plastic will live forever.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

In ~~Soviet Russia~~ america, we use potato for everything.

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