Easter is a religious Holiday.
Jesus died for your sins. Emphasis on YOUR...not mine...YOUR sins.
There now that I've got that out of the way, I'm going to talk about what most people think about for Easter (other than that bunny and those eggs).
Easter Candy.
Let's start with the peripheral candy and work our way up.
(and I'm not talking about comparing brands...or quality...I'm talking candy hierarchy)
Coconut Creme Eggs
I don't know.....do they even make these anymore? I remember as a kid, working on one of these for weeks...gnawing off a little bit each day (or more likely, a couple of times each day). It seemed like these things weighed about 4lbs when I was little...more likely it was about 8oz. I think this picture is exactly the same egg I would have found in my Easter basket circa 1974 or so....and if that coconut egg from 1974 was still around today, I'm sure it would still be edible. Wow, I haven't even thought of these in 20...30 years.
Blast from the Past
Jelly Beans
(If you look closely there's a hidden image of Jesus in there)
Never a huge fan of the jelly bean...but Easter has to be the prime season for them, doesn't it? They would always eventually get eaten, but not until all the other candy was gone. These were usually harvested by digging through the plastic shredded green "grass" that filled your Easter basket.
Chocolate eggs
I'm talking the foil lined chocolate eggs. Didn't you hate it when the foil wouldn't come off the egg with the first try? Success was always getting the entire foil wrap in one piece. That was always the ploy to eat "just one more". Nobody wanted to be left with a partial piece of foil on that egg. That meant having to go back in and delicately attempting to get that last piece off by surgically removing it with your finger nail. This always resulted with scraping the chocolate with said fingernail, resulting in getting said chocolate under your nail. Nobody wanted this, but that's what happened...every time. Balls.
Fruit flavored tootsie rolls
Sorry, don't know how these got on here. These sucked.
Candy eggs
I don't even know what these are properly called, but you know what I'm talking about, don't you? Candy shell...chocolate on the inside. Sure you do. Love the crunch before getting to the chocolate. If I'm not mistaken, as a kid I recall trying to just eat the hard shell off before the chocolate on the inside. Obviously not as concerned with getting chocolate all over my finger tips as I was getting it under my fingernail. Oh, and in case you were wondering, egg shaped malted milk balls DO NOT fall in this category.
Easter M & M's
C'mon. M & M's are probably the King of all candy. Plain, peanut, peanut butter, dark chocolate, it doesn't matter what type (except maybe pretzel...sort of the ugly step child in the M & M family), M & M's are the perfect candy. Who hasn't found themselves dipping into the bowl full of M & M's more times than they should have?
Remember, they melt in your mouth, not in your hand. (not that they've ever spent enough time in my hand to prove this out)
Reese's Peanut butter eggs
Sorry, these are my favorite. Notice I had to show the bag image vs. just a single image. I have to think of them in plural. These have gotten so popular that they've now branched out to peanut butter eggs shaped like Christmas trees for Christmas (obviously)...pumpkins for Halloween...groundhogs for groun...well, I think you get the picture.
Cadbury Creme Eggs
Do you remember the first time you saw one of these? FREAKY. Break it open and it looks like a raw egg. Then you eat it. This has to be the sweetest of all of the Easter candies on the list. A dozen of these would put you in the hospital.
Peeps
Have to admit, not a fan. Maybe that explains why I chose this picture, at least subliminally. I don't know, maybe it's because I don't really like marshmallow...maybe it's the coating on the outside...maybe it's just because they suck. Peeps are huge now....every color, every holiday. You've got people with websites devoted to peeps. Everyone has their opinions..."Oh, I like them when they get hard" or "I like them fresh out of the package". Let me tell you folks...I've got a package of peeps in the back of a drawer in my kitchen from about four years ago and I'll bet they taste just as "fresh" as they did when I got them ...ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO.
Alright, let's put this post out of it's misery with the top Easter candy.
Chocolate Bunny
OK, probably not the best...but this is old school Easter candy we're talking here. I grew up with these hollow chocolate bunnies...by no stretch, not top quality chocolate. I'd always start at the ears and work my way down, how about you? If candy has a plastic equivalent, it's whatever those eyes are made out of. Over the years I've occasionally upgraded...you know...maybe Lindt...or solid chocolate...or whatever...nothing beats these cheap hollow bunnies. At least for taking up space in the Easter basket.
That's it...I'm going to dig out those four year old peeps and do microwave experiments with them.
Peace and love. Have a wonderful Easter and celebrate it however you choose
