Easter Egg Hunt

Why have I not started eating my Easter eggs? I must be a FULE!

apparently our American friends don't have Easter eggs as we know them.

Mini eggs - C/D?

Smarties Mini Eggs are the best egg shaped confectionary in the world, after Kinder Surprise of course.

How do you know them?

Or any kind of marshmallow Easter treat

Britons generally have never been near Paas dye in their lives. That is because their brown eggs are difficult to dye.

Americans dye hard boiled eggs the night before, and get chocolate rabbits instead of chocolate eggs, unless you count the small foil wrapped eggs.

My cousin won an ENORMOUS chocolate egg -- the size of a two-year-old -- and brough it to breakfast this morning We cracked open the sucker and inside it was a stuffed panda (??). We did not eat the panda.

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(must hunt out 1kg bar of Dairy Milk that is lurking somewhere under the bed)

You order your tea. They bring you a Lipton teabag in tea-pon form in its bag next to A SLICE OF LEMON and water in a metal pot that wasn't even boiling when they poured it in there, back in the kitchen. And a COLD mug. Then you have to send the waitron away for the milk you already asked for once while you figure out how to brew using too-cool water that can't be poured boiling directly on the bag due to an obscure health regulation. I do not understand why this is; nobody - not even the people working in the faux-British restaurant I used to be taken to by English neighbours - can explain beyond 'health department says so' so don't go looking for an intelligent answer as to why, considering that pot of coffee is boiling madly away on the counter with the full approval of diner society. My sister's been waiting tables like her whole life and knows she can't make tea the way the British would like because of the health department, but not why pouring boiling water on is so infra dig. I've even tried 'oh, go on, be a rebel' with wait staff but to no bloody avail.

This mindless waste happens in places that claim to serve an afternoon tea as well. I'm sure even Tea and Sympathy in NYC (run by Brits) has to comply. My English neighbour had/has Typhoo loose tea sent over in huge boxes so I was very lucky there, as learned the right way straight off, giving me one more fucking thing to quibble with servers about.

I'd have to concur about most Americans hating tea because they've never had a nice cuppa. When your supermarket choices are between Lipton, the evil Bigelow (they do a type of tea called Constant Comment which leaves me constantly commenting on how shite it is) and a bad Twinings replicant, it's not going to be fun, is it?

hahaha

after studying across the pond I came to love tea. I try to make it to the brit ex-pat store to get some but that's not often. and for some reason I can't make it very good myself. :/

The idea of a chocolate egg with a hollowed-out center filled with some little trinket is completely amazing to me. And right now, since winter's temporarily made a return to this place, I think I would love some real, honest-to-goodness British-style hot tea. Hm.

Seriously, if I can work out a way to post them without them getting smooshed and you want some let me know!

Me too! Didn't you just love its darling little bell?

Is everywhere that sells the Lindt gold bunnies required to display them in the same slightly sinister isometric army formation?

I then ate two Lindt chocolate bunnies. He said "daddy bite the bunny's head this time!".

I also got marshmallow buunnies and chicks.

We got Easter Eggs at work today! Am I allowed to eat these, seeing as it's still technically Lent? (Does Lent end at Palm Sunday or Good Friday?)

I've got a Crunchie Easter egg. I was disapppointed to find that the entire *egg* was not made of Crunchies. But it does have two crunchies in the packet. My colleagues got Chocolate Orange easter eggs and Malteesers easter eggs.

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipes/cremeegg.htm

yeah, once a year, from december to the following october.

easter eggs = uneconomical way to buy chocolate. so mother sends me lindt bars every year (lindt bars are probably just as bad from a chocolate per unit money perspective, just with better chocolate) and every year i tell her not to bother the next year. partly because W12 postmen have a peculiar habit (twice in the last three years) of making me go to the depot (ie the far corner of the lorry park opposite the bbc studios) to pick them up despite them fitting easily through the letterbox.

There is also a Cadburys Creme Egg on my desk but science has finally discovered the ONE FORM of chocolate I don't like and it will remain uneaten.

oh boy

you got ripped off. THEYRE SUPPOSED TO BE CHOCOLATE!

cadbury creme eggs rule. well, the inside anyway. I freeze them then bite the top off, eat the goo inside and throw away the chocolate shell. gold.

Easter Egg Hunt

I am trying really hard not to borrow one of the kids' Creme Eggs right now.

We did this last year in the garden; we filled the eggs with treats and cars... (there were edible eggs later)

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We'll do it again tomorrow morning but it won't be in the garden (0C out there as I type).

(Actually, the cars might have been next to the eggs - they clearly wouldn't have fit inside).

For a while I thought that 0C might be a typo. And for a moment I thought the same about 'cars'. But I think I worked it out in the end.

It is so flipping cold!

So cold that now there are a couple of inches of snow covering everything and I am repeating my weekly "curse this windy shitheap of a frozen island, we're emigrating" schtick. On the other hand, I got an Easter Egg this moaning.

where do you live? the Shetlands?

England is situated on a frozen windy rain-lashed shitheap of an island and it's only hypothermic brain damage could make anybody think otherwise.

My girlfriend hid 18 eggs for me in the living room+kitchen while I was still dreaming about broken drumsets in the bedroom. She's the best. She didn't like it when I complained that none of the eggs contained quarters, though.

that sounds delightful.

well, something else that could make one think otherwise, about the English climate: times when it is hot and sunny.

If memory serves, we have had heatwaves in England the last two summers.

and in fact, the temperature in London today is warmer than that in New York City.

for proof of that, type the two cities in here:
http://www.temperatureworld.com/

Our Easter Egg hunt was a resounding success; Tallulah was almost as adept as her older sister at finding them, they helped each other out and even joined forces to tidy up all the empty plastic shells a couple of hours later. Then Ava did some hard-boiled egg dyeing. We delivered rice krispie treats (which Ava helped to make yesterday) to all the neighbourhood kids this afternoon, decorated with an Ava-painted bunny. Better than Xmas? Well, certainly colder.

There was an easter egg hunt at my brother's place yesterday, he has one kid, my other brother has 2, and somone else had 2 or 3 kids, so it was tremendous fun watching a bunch of 2 to 6 year olds dashing about with their little plastic Wiggles bags, shrieking I FOUND SOME MOOOOOREEE and trotting about proudly with their bags stuffed full. Weather was lovely and overcast mild, the neighbours looked on with a grin, it was very cute.

It's nearly that time again!

I have my eggs ready!
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It's technically now Easter Sunday in Britain. Anyone running an Easter Egg Hunt maybe needs to be laying out the eggs now!

I blow eggs and dye them!
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004

No chocolate, but a decent boiled egg. Before that I watched a Christian service from Southark Cathedral. One of the priest fellows gave an exegesis of something a priest chick had just read out; I quite liked it.

After all that the Pope came on and I turned the sound down. He evidently had followers from all over the world, flying their flags and cheering when he mentioned their countries.

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Mine got stolen.

Easter Egg Hunt. () < oh look, there's one

Can anybody spot th(_)e Easter egg?

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Spam and eggs is it?