Chuck Bao
4/7/2007, 11:02 PM
Did you make Easter eggs this year? Do you give Easter eggs to strange kids? Okay, not strange kids, but kids that you don’t know. You know what I mean.
I’ve only just started a tradition of this, just a couple of years actually. And, I’m wondering about it.
I’m asking if it’s proper – giving out Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies to the heathen kids as if it’s Halloween.
I noticed last week that my grocery store that specializes in things foreign had Easter baskets on sale. But when I went back to buy them this week they were sold out.
After walking up and down every aisle, I noticed that they sold tamarind fruit in little wicker baskets. I bought a lot of them wicker baskets with tamarind inside.
There wasn’t any of that fake grass stuff either. So, I bought pastel cotton balls. Who buys pastel colored cotton balls to wipe their kids’ butts anyway? Strange, that.
But, there were lots of chocolate bunnies on sale. Lots. The chocolate bunny industry must be…what’s the word I’m looking for…globally prolific?
So, I spent all night making the boiled eggs and dyeing them. I really don’t have the recipe on making boiled eggs and the vinegar and food coloring portions, but I did my best.
Best effort:
http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/kanunu/easterbaskets2.jpg
When my friend came by this morning, the one who is supposed to help me distribute them to the kids at the street market today, he said that I should have just stopped and handed out the tamarind because 1) tamarind is healthier, 2) it’d be much less work, 3) it’d be much cheaper and 4) why go all out for something that people aren’t really going to understand.
So, we bagged up all the tamarind I threw in the trash and we’re going to give it to the kids along with the ugly dyed eggs and choco bunnies.
It’s a new tradition – a tamarind Easter.
What is your Easter tradition?
I’ve only just started a tradition of this, just a couple of years actually. And, I’m wondering about it.
I’m asking if it’s proper – giving out Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies to the heathen kids as if it’s Halloween.
I noticed last week that my grocery store that specializes in things foreign had Easter baskets on sale. But when I went back to buy them this week they were sold out.
After walking up and down every aisle, I noticed that they sold tamarind fruit in little wicker baskets. I bought a lot of them wicker baskets with tamarind inside.
There wasn’t any of that fake grass stuff either. So, I bought pastel cotton balls. Who buys pastel colored cotton balls to wipe their kids’ butts anyway? Strange, that.
But, there were lots of chocolate bunnies on sale. Lots. The chocolate bunny industry must be…what’s the word I’m looking for…globally prolific?
So, I spent all night making the boiled eggs and dyeing them. I really don’t have the recipe on making boiled eggs and the vinegar and food coloring portions, but I did my best.
Best effort:
http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/kanunu/easterbaskets2.jpg
When my friend came by this morning, the one who is supposed to help me distribute them to the kids at the street market today, he said that I should have just stopped and handed out the tamarind because 1) tamarind is healthier, 2) it’d be much less work, 3) it’d be much cheaper and 4) why go all out for something that people aren’t really going to understand.
So, we bagged up all the tamarind I threw in the trash and we’re going to give it to the kids along with the ugly dyed eggs and choco bunnies.
It’s a new tradition – a tamarind Easter.
What is your Easter tradition?