Dyeing Easter... Marshmallows?

[elisem]

 Some news and commentary outlet just published a story about how eggs were so expensive right now that Americans were turning from dyeing Easter eggs to dyeing marshmallows or other substitutes. OK, fine, whatever, I thought. And then I got to this sentence:

“This is such a great idea!” one person commented. “No one eats the colored eggs, so these will actually be eaten!” 

What the whatting WHAT?

So I have to ask people. If you grew up dyeing Easter eggs, did you eat the dyed eggs?

Poll #32966 did you eat your dyed easter eggs?

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Did you eat the dyed Easter eggs?

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Of course I ate the dyed Easter eggs!
39 (79.6%)

Eat the dyed Easter eggs? No!
2 (4.1%)

We didn't do Easter eggs.
4 (8.2%)

Clicky!
4 (8.2%)

Comments

[radiantfracture]

We poked a hole in the egg and blew out the inside, which could then be made into scrambled eggs, and just painted / dyed the shell. I don't think I'd be very tempted to eat the marshmallow either.

[batwrangler]

We also hollowed the eggs before dying them, using the insides for scrambled eggs or French toast, but I know other people who dyed and then later ate hard-boiled eggs.

[pameladean]

We ate them and ate them and ate them. There was lots of egg salad, mostly. But they also turned up in your bagged lunch if you wanted one of those -- we tended to alternate between buying school lunch and taking one made at home.

P.

[anne]

We carefully put cracks in the hardboiled shells so we could have multicolored egg salad, even.

[jesse_the_k]

That sounds glamorous!

[batrachian]

Seconding this, albeit frequently unintentionally.

[mrissa]

Yes, I too didn't realize you had to do it carefully, it happened pretty naturally for us. Confetti egg salad, my mother called it.

[anne]

We decided pretty early on that the accidentally-cracked ones weren't pretty enough. An early example of "go big or go home."

[sine_nomine]

I note that I will, in all likelihood, NEVER eat a hard boiled egg. But it was common in my childhood home to eat the dyed ones, even if I didn't do the actual eating, so I said yes

[jenett]

Growing up, we hardboiled and then dyed and then ate things with hardboiled eggs until out of eggs. (This was not a hard problem: my father liked them, and they make a reasonable snack.)

These days, I blow them out for spring equinox and we do magical things with them, and I make quiche or something with the insides.

[naomikritzer]

We weren't even Christian but my mom thought dyeing eggs was fun so would hard-boil a dozen of them and buy us dye. (She also bought Easter candy, specifically the chocolate-covered marshmallow eggs, which she called bunny eggs.) Anyway, the colored eggs got stuck back in the fridge when we were done and then taken to school in sack lunches, is my admittedly vague recollection (it's been a while).

[vcmw]

We ate them.
We did not deliberately crack them as that would have made knocking them a fraught endeavor. You have to knock your eggs to see whose winning egg is lucky.

[kellan_the_tabby]

that stuff's made outa food, I ain't wasting food

[azurelunatic]

We ate the ones dyed with the kids' vinegar dye kits, I am pretty sure.

The Ukrainian decoration process ones, no. That involved using a kiska to put wax on the egg at various stages of dyeing, and used a less friendly dye. The eggs wouldn't sink into the dye right without their contents, so they were blown out after they were dyed.