As`a kid, my favorite Easter candy was ____
If you were given a candy filled Easter basket as a child, what were your favorites? Chocolate eggs, jelly beans, those colored confection eggs (yuck), marshmallow choc. covered eggs, peanut butter filled....Least favorite? Did you go around the yard or house for an Easter Egg hunt for both real & candy eggs? Plastic eggs that are filled with candy or $ are kinda fun, too! Fancy-pants chocolate or cheapo, which candy would you like to find in an Easter basket this year?
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35 Comments:
Those pecan-covered nougat eggs. What I hope the Easter bunny doesn't put in my basket this year is pantyhose. For some reason I used to get them every year. Maybe because they came in these plastic egg-shaped containers. I don't know if they still make them. I think they were called "Leggs." Anyway, they don't belong in an Easter basket and you can tell the Easter bunny I said so!
elizabethw at 6:56AM on 02/28/08
The large pectin jelly beans - especially the black ones! - and the malted milk ball eggs.
moibec at 7:29AM on 02/28/08
The chocolate bunny, of course!
SSMom at 7:40AM on 02/28/08
purple jelly beans! Still my favorite.
NanaJoie at 7:51AM on 02/28/08
As a child we each go a basket with artificial grass and a solid chocolate bunny that was probably about 12 oz. After church there was an egg hunt out in our yard that yielded only hard boiled, hand colored eggs. They were converted to potato salads, egg salad sandwiches and... As time went by, we joined community hunts that had everything but boiled eggs (plastic eggs with coins, wrapped candy, "gold" token that were exchanged for the grand prizes...). I can remember when Iceberg Chocolates arrived on the scene and instantly became the favorites. Today? Bring on the Mocca Lattes.
czken at 8:17AM on 02/28/08
BTW; chocolate covered marshmallow anything is just plain nasty!
czken at 8:18AM on 02/28/08
It's probably pretty gross to admit this, especially considering the fact that I'd probably still eat one today, but I REALLY loved those Cadbury egg things. They were chocolate eggs filled with caramel, but sometimes they were filled with a more strange, lighter colored substance. The weird ones with the mysterious filling were my favorite.
PumpkinBear at 8:27AM on 02/28/08
Anything made of white chocolate, I just loved white chocolate as a kid.
jonfoxx at 8:33AM on 02/28/08
Large Chocolate Perugina Eggs. Like this. Although they were hollow, there was always tons of chocolate and usually a Catholic prize inside. A picture of the Pope or some such other religious trinket. They were yummy.
Never really was a fan of Peeps. Lots of friends blow them up in the nuke.
chiff0nade at 8:42AM on 02/28/08
We used to have to search high and low for our Easter baskets - that was the fun part. I liked the chocolate bunny and some of the jelly beans. My sister was alergic to nearly everything, so she got white chocolate and peeps. I felt sorry for her. The neighbor kids got Easter baskets the size of VW bugs filled with tons of candy and toys and money. I couldn't figure that out. Still mystifies me to this day. Sometimes the Easter egg hunt was conducted in the snow and that made it easier to spot the eggs we had colored the day before. Getting all new clothes, Easter bonnets, purses (even little girls), first pair of stockings and tiny heels, and being with the grandparents, aunts & uncles & cousins - that was the best. We all shared our candy too, even those who got VW's.
PerkyMac at 9:40AM on 02/28/08
PEEPS!
Absolutely loved them when i was a kid. What's not to love, gooey hunks of sugar covered in sugar!
VerasTastyFreeze at 9:53AM on 02/28/08
I loved the whole Russell Stover basket 'experience'--the cute stuffed bunny, the maple cream eggs, the strawberry cream and orange cream eggs, the proper tough-skinned jelly beans (none of those teeth-catching jellly belly bean nonsense), and the chocolate peanut butter or marshmellow bunnies, although the marshmellow centers were a bit sweet, even for me, as a kid.
Never had peeps, and don't like 'em--only ate them later as low calorie treats, and now I never eat them. Not a big Cadbury egg fan, either, by taste, but I did like the 'idea' as a kid.
And I always tossed the cocconut nest, after trying to unsucessfully extract the jelly beans.
HeartofGlass at 10:27AM on 02/28/08
You know, I never had Peeps until I was given them once from a relative while attending college. And now I know why I never had them. And I never liked teh Cadbury Creme Eggs, either. My brother loved them, though.
However, I ADORE jelly beans! Why do they only really promote them around Easter? They should be year-long! Or maybe that was a part of the fun....that their promotion around Easter made them somehow more special. Either way, my favorites were the orange and red ones, but any of them are still great!
Traveller at 10:51AM on 02/28/08
Peeps. Only the yellow chicks, though. All the new ones are imposters.
eatmyfood at 10:55AM on 02/28/08
Who says I stopped eating Easter candy...Cadbury Mini Eggs are the best. They are NOT the creme filled things. Never had those. Never want them. As a kid we always got the malted eggs, Jelly Bellies stuffed into those plastic eggs, and some little toy like a kite or a small lego kit or a Playmobile figure. Mom bought a few lbs of jelly beans and kept the leftover ones hidden. When she wasn't around, I'd search high and low until I found them. My grandmother made a rabbit shaped yellow cake with whipped cream frosting and then covered with coconut and it had large jelly bean eyes and nose.
sqtip at 11:03AM on 02/28/08
I used to looooove the malted milk eggs with the hard coating over the chocolate.
At Easter, we'd leave a carrot for the Easter bunny, right outside the door on a paper towel. I don't know why EB got special treatment, because we never left anything for Santa.
The next AM there would be a basket, a chewed carrot, and rabbit droppings. I had to clean up the mess before I could dig into the basket.
One year I was making a great big fuss about having to clean up the droppings, using huge wads of paper towel to pick up the scattered bits, and my mother said, "Oh, quit making such a big deal out of it, they're just raisins and you eat them all the time!"
Well, in my child-mind, I thought that she was saying that raisins come from rabbits, rather than that these were not rabbit droppings, they were really dried grapes.
To this day, I still can't eat a raisin. Yes, I know what they are. It doesn't matter. The little kid in me refuses to eat them.
dbcurrie at 11:05AM on 02/28/08
My mom would take me to a local candy store (Lagomarcino's)where we would look at the Easter display. It was a giant chocolate egg shell that opened up to display smaller wrapped choclates tucked inside. It was the most amazing thing to ponder as a kid. (how did they make it? Would the Easter bunny bless me with such an amazing treat?) Needless to say, I never got one of those. But the memory of it lives on!
bisbee at 11:10AM on 02/28/08
I'm old and BCCE (Before Cadbury Creme Eggs). We got jelly beans, foil wrapped milk chocolate eggs (a lot like a Hershey's Kiss), chocolate bunnies, sometimes Peeps, chocolate marshmallow eggs, and the big chocolate covered eggs from See's (usually with nuts, nougat, marzipan, etc. inside). We usually got the See's lollipops, too.
Flame away, but I always despised the big chocolate See's eggs, the Peeps (shudder), and the chocolate marshmallow crap.
The chocolate bunny was the first thing I ate, followed by jelly beans, See's lollis, and little chocolate eggs. My dad (or the trash) got the rest.
LoCo at 11:24AM on 02/28/08
@LoCo........remember the chocolate coins? They were wrapped in gold paper that did not want to come off. I wonder if they came from somewhere hot and melted into the chocolate. If you were successful in ripping off all the gold foil, you were not rewarded with delicious chocolate. We didn't have any good candy in our baskets back then. Later on, they started making better jelly beans - spicy or fruit flavored. Ours all tasted the same except the black which had a licorice flavor. I think that's why they were my favorites - at least they tasted of something other than just sugar. The bunnies were pathetic, but we didn't get chocolate much, so we ate them.........very slowly.
PerkyMac at 11:33AM on 02/28/08
I loved Cadbury Mini-Eggs. Still do. I also loved the foil wrapped eggs, especially the slightly larger ones filled with peanut butter. The peanut butter ones all had gold wrappers, unlike the multi-coloured solid chocolate eggs. I never liked the creme eggs.
blush at 11:57AM on 02/28/08
@LoCo...........I think See's are a CA company? They never made their way into my basket.
PerkyMac at 12:03PM on 02/28/08
I've always liked jelly beans best. The ones with a thick sugar coating you could suck off, leaving the jewel-like center.
I'd never eat chocolate bunnies, or anything else that had "eyes".
SB (still uncomfortable with the idea)
srhcb at 12:15PM on 02/28/08
One year I got a huge, solid white chocolate bunny. I had it for months but don't think I every finished it. I still love the malted milk eggs, and I will always have a place in my heart for peeps :)
luswim06 at 12:23PM on 02/28/08
LOL at all of your comments!! I liked & disliked so many of the previously mentioned candies. Absolutely think PEEPS are horrible creatures. Licorice jelly beans--yum.
Okay, who ate the ears off the chocolate bunny first?
JEP at 5:00PM on 02/28/08
Cadbury creme eggs....and there's a technique to eating them. I thought it was my unique individual technique until my husband told me he ate his the same way growing up.
jcrisco at 5:08PM on 02/28/08
Get out your gag bags--my favorite was (and still is) the heavenly hash eggs. I think their draw is that they're kind of hard to find, so when you do, it's like a pseudo-accomplishment.
BTW--peeps are vile. the only value they had in my easter basket was so i could throw them at my brother.
beth1 at 5:20PM on 02/28/08
@elizabethw--love the "Leggs" story!
Since so many like Cadbury eggs....do new flavors come out every year? Which are the best tasting?
M&M's peanut pastels (yay) always make an appearance at Easter as well as those huge chalky Sweet Tarts (nay)!
JEP at 6:39PM on 02/28/08
"As a kid?" "Was?" I just bought myself a box of Cadbury cream eggs yesterday. I coveted them as a kid. My mom would hide those and old British paper mache eggs filled with jelly beans and other goodies around our living room. She'd have to count everything because one year we missed a cadbury egg in a drawer and didn't find it for a good 6 months or so.
Cadbury came out with an orange cream center last year that I really liked. The caramel one never tasted good to me. Cheap caramel. I love Easter candy.
FigswithBri at 7:43PM on 02/28/08
I will admit it again..peeps
Never had the Cadbury Creme eggs as a kid but I also admit as an adult I have a strange likeness for them. I think they are kind of gross but can't stop myself from eating several each year.
mrsmoosie at 8:03PM on 02/28/08
Jep--I too ate the ears first ala Tyson-style. My favorite was and is Robin Eggs. I love all the colors and the mini choco layer between hard shell and malted center. The goal is to carefully eat the shell without disrupting the choc coating...I like to savor all 3 layers at a time...OCD, I know
kiki_tx at 8:46PM on 02/28/08
My favorite always was the Russell Stover coconut nests with the four little jelly beans in the center. Best was the pastel tinted white chocolate. I still really like the white non-chocolate stuff and really love me some jelly bellies. And I can suck on those chocolate covered malted milk eggs until the roof of my mouth is in shreds!
frederika at 10:06PM on 02/28/08
@frederika, you made me remember the chocolate covered coconut eggs that reminded me of a Mounds bar. I did love those! and @kiki reminded me of the Robin Eggs, which for some reason, were much better than ordinary malted milk balls.
I used to buy Dove chocolate bunnies for my kids (and maybe one for me). Why? Because they were SOLID chocolate, not hollow! Woo-Hoo.
Love @beth's comment about Peeps as ammo against brothers. I'm pretty sure I might have done that, too.
LoCo at 10:26PM on 02/28/08
Reese's Peanut Butter eggs. The big one in the yellow package. yum.
krispychikin at 11:45PM on 02/28/08
While on the subject of Peeps, my little town's local newspaper is having a contest for folks to build a three dimensional Peep diorama. I'm as serious as a heart attack. There are actually adult and children's catagories and there will be big prizes, my peeps! Bless my mommie's heart (er, I mean the Easter Bunny) for never bringing those teeth-rotting, jaw-aching granular little bastards into our baskets.
@LoCo- Yes on the robin's eggs! And my other fav was the small foil wrapped milk chocolate eggs - always Russell Stover. I'm sure it's the bunny's fault I love milk choc so much. I don't ever remember him delivering anti-oxidant rich dark chocolate to our house. I guess our bunny was not exactly a health fanatic.
frederika at 11:47PM on 02/28/08
Stale peeps. Kind of hard and chewy.
paris221966 at 12:03AM on 02/29/08