What are your favorite Easter treats?

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What do you look forward to most this time of year?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Cadbury Eggs	23
Peeps	5
Reeses Eggs	4
Old-Fashioned dyed, hard-boiled eggs	3
Plastic eggs with prizes in them	3
Baskets full of cheap toys	1
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― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

ah, I didn't notice that linking had changed:

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― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I personally don't like them but what about jelly beans?

― lindseykai, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

:( i knew I'd forget something. . .but you can get jelly beans all year! The other things on this list are (fairly) seasonal. (peeps and other holiday reeses things excluded)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm Cadbury cream eggs are good. But I happen to know that the Easter bunny is leaving A. and I some See's scotchmallow eggs, which are even better. The bunny had to order them online, but they will be worth it. Kids are getting some other See's stuff. CANNOT WAIT.

― Sara R-C, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Um, we get *proper* chocolate eggs (or bunnies) from the bakery. We, as Belgians, are completely spoiled, I know.

― nathalie, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Solid chocolate or baked? (dammit, can't believe I forgot choc. rabbits!)

I saw Martha Stewart making a chocolate rabbit once. That woman's nuts.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

i voted for peeps because that is the food single most likely to cause me to die

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 6 April 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

She's creepy. There's something off about her.

Baked? Uh, they are hollow inside. Sorry, as much as we're *swamped* with chocolate, I don't know anything about the preparation. :-(

― nathalie, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

i don't really eat these anymore but
i like the cheap foil-covered small chocolate eggs or the cadbury mini eggs. i wld eat a cadbury creame egg but am pretty sure it'd make me sick/die.
oh, and solid rabbits!!

i am kind of against expensive/"good" easter chocolate/rabbits/eggs for some reason

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wah? Why for??? I think Belgians are *raised* on good chocolate so we get all snotty about mass-produced chocolate.

― nathalie, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I like to go the store on the day after easter and buy those cheap choc. bunnies for like 75 cents.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i know.
maybe because i think, why not just buy a chocolate bar or whatever if you want good chocolate? nostalgia is a bitch in this case
xpost

post-easter discount rules

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

i am not saying that Allan or similar brands don't suck, i'm just saying i am powerless against the Allan bunny with generic krispy bits that my mom sends in the mail every easter

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

They do discounts? Wow. I should check that out.

I got some tin-foiled eggs from Ophelia's creche.

AH KRISPY BITS RULE. Yum yum.

― nathalie, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I like the hard sugar eyes.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think Martha also made her own Peeps which is really insane.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Russell Stover chocolate eggs with various fillings (coconut, marshmallow, truffle, etc). Can't wait until they go on sale next week.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

definitely cadbury creme eggs although i haven't had any this year. yet.

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

i have been scarfing this overpriced jelly belly bunny corn crap for weeks now - it's the only decent candy corn i can find these days
http://jellybelly.com/NR/rdonlyres/B917A7EC-2931-407D-85D9-4A17C161F075/0/1098354.jpg

― gershy, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite treat is a peep war!

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

or peep jousting if you prefer that term!

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

I become a raving fattey chocolate-scoffing fool at Easter. They're all really damn cheap this year because of a price war, but I bought snobs ones for my folks in Harvey N before I realised I could have had about 500 eggs for the same price.

I might have to go shopping tomorrow. I want a Yorkie egg. And one of those creme eggs that is the size of an easter egg. But not one made with slave labor.

― stet, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

What no hot cross buns? :( Best easter treat!

Or is this just about candy? In which case Lindt bunnies thx

― Trayce, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about hot cross buns. (except in terms of the nursery rhyme) Pls to describe them.

― Ms Misery, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

I VOTED FOR CADBURY EGGS!!!!!

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hot cross buns: fruit buns, usually loaded with dried fruit like sultanas/currants and mixed peel, with spices like cinnamon, so a sort of sweet bready thing. Best consumed like fruit toast: hot toasted with loads of melty butter.

― Trayce, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

i would like one, k thnx.

― Ms Misery, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

maria bought a big portugese sweetbread with an eggshell in it. that's a pretty friggin' eastery thing to buy.

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

i think of the hot cross buns as easter fruitcake. but way better than fruitcake. like trayce described. also, i always had them with crosses made out of frosting (like the powdered sugar hot water kind, not buttercream) on top.

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah sometimes the crosses are just flour and water, and some have a glaze, some dont. Theyre similar to pannetone, which I also love heaps.

― Trayce, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

omg hot cross buns YUM. I am always amazed when I run across people who haven't tried them. They should still be available in bakeries through Saturday. They are sort of a Lenten treat.

My husband made some for us a few weeks ago using the bread machine. SO FANTASTIC WOW.

― Sara R-C, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

fuck an eggshell, there are hard-boiled eggs baked into that bread! who the hell thought of that idea?

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

so, how where do you read the poll results? I need to see Cadbury eggs win

― Dominique, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

how where

― Dominique, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

hot cross buns are great great great. i used to buy the entenmann's kind.

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder what the shelf life is of a hard-boiled egg in a huge loaf of sweet bread is. i just ate one one of the eggs. pretty tasty. one of them was a little too green for me to eat. then i stuck a huge piece of the bread in the oven and got it all toasty and put butter and honey all over it. very good. viva easter!

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Portuguese sweet bread ("Massa Sovada" or simply "Massa", "Pão Doce" and the Easter version with eggs is better known as "Folar") is a bread made with milk, sugar and/or honey to produce a subtly sweet lightly textured loaf. It was traditionally made around the Christmas and Easter holidays (often with hard boiled eggs baked into the loaves for the latter holiday) as a round-shaped loaf, but today it is made and available year round. The bread is usually served simply with butter and is sometimes eaten with meals (breakfast in particular), but often as a dessert.

Portuguese sweet bread is common in both Hawaiian cuisine and New England cuisine as it was brought to those regions by their large Portuguese immigrant populations.

http://www.bakerina.com/old-images/portuguese_sweet_bread.jpg

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

clementine in century city has hot cross buns! i think i'll go there tomorrow and get one!

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

I used to love easter egg hunts, even when the eggs had nothing in them. Every year, I would always find one in my dad's shoe and one on the mantle, behind a plant.

― Tape Store, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a dozen hot x buns today. Fresh outta the bakery, still warm :D Mmmmm.

― Trayce, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Tokyo Roze, we think alike: I'm looking forward to Russel Stover's gold foil bunnies, stored in the freezer and eaten slowly over the next week. Also those mint marshmallow things, you're completely right.

― Laurel, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't had hot cross buns, but I want to make Armenian easter bread on Sunday, it looks like this:

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― Maria, Saturday, 7 April 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh grr it is cute and golden and braided

― Maria, Saturday, 7 April 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

cadbury eggs seriously make me feel like my teeth are melting into unorganized slabs of enamel

― the sir weeze, Saturday, 7 April 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

What, you don't like that?

― Sara R-C, Saturday, 7 April 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Cadbury eggs=more messy than gyros, which is my gold standard of sloppy foods. ALSO sir wheeze otm, they make my teeth scream for their own fear of mortality.

Whereas peeps are just the classic inhalable good yum.

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I learned that every xmas and easter, my mom would wait a week after or so and buy all the mega-clearance candies and then save them to shill out a year later. Her thrifty scheme made it so fresh jellybeans, peeps, et. al. just taste strange and feel way too soft. MOM YOU HAVE RUINED ME.

― Abbott, Saturday, 7 April 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but who really prefers a fresh peep to a stale one?!

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

INSANIACS, that's who.

― Abbott, Saturday, 7 April 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

i ated hot cross bun

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/201/450042907_b476319d4c_m.jpg

― get bent, Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

mmm

― tehresa, Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

this version was like a (hot) cross between irish soda bread and raisin challah and the best cinnabon EVER

― get bent, Sunday, 8 April 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 8 April 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://i17.tinypic.com/2hwjls6.jpg

― StanM, Sunday, 8 April 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Peeps by FAR, but what seems to be glaringly missing in the poll is CHOCOLATE of all sorts! Chocolate rabbits, chocolate cars, chocolate rabbits-in-cars, etc etc etc....

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 8 April 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

once, when i was a kid, my mom put these things in my easter basket that i've never seen since. they were like jelly beans but without the shell, and covered in those little candy things that nonpareils have on them. damn, those were good.

My mom did that for me today! But the weird thing is that there was only one. And it was good...very different.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

peeps are quite disgusting

― admrl, Sunday, 8 April 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

go back to scotland, buddy

― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

But he's right!

― Laurel, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

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― Matt, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bugger.

Simnel Cake, was the point

― Matt, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Americans hate peeps too, they told me!

― admrl, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

cadbury's and peeps both disgust me.

Tracye, Friday after this thread I saw Hot Cross Buns in the grocery store! I was shocked and excited but didn't buy them as grocery store baked goods usually suck.

I got an easter basket from my MIL. It colored eggs, chocolates and reeses eggs. hooray!

― Ms Misery, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yum, now I have See's scotchmallow eggs. SO GOOD.

Sam, I wish my MIL sent me an Easter basket! A. and I usually just get stuff for ourselves when we are shopping for the kids. Reese's eggs - also awesome.

― Sara R-C, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

why is "stale peeps" not it's own option?

― jessie monster, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

its, rather. :(

― jessie monster, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

haha Jessie, I left a whole verb out of post above. I type way too fast and never edit (at least not here)

― Ms Misery, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

peeps in landslide

― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

WHat abt Blood & Body of Christ, the treat that is the reason for the season?

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite Easter treat is cash money :)

I got two Kinder Surprise eggs this year.

― jel --, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

WHat abt Blood & Body of Christ, the treat that is the reason for the season?

The only one I had this year!

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't dig too much on Christ, but I do always try to eat human flesh every easter.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Kingfish posted this link on another thread in case you missed it. pretty bizarre stuff:

Peep dioramas

― Ms Misery, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

How could reeses eggs only get 4 votes?!?!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

how did peeps only get 5???

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

damn cadbury egg mafia. . .

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

ally, it's because ILE is not populated by 7 year olds?

― ian, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

did you see that washington post peeps diorama thing?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

ian, have you read ile?

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

not often, no.

― ian, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

ok, that explains it.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

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