1 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to save a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: I'm Annie Reese and I'm Lauren Vocal Bam and today 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: we're talking about Easter eggs. Yes, I'm very excited for 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: this one. Yeah you, Um, you have a continuing tradition 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: of Easter egg hunts in your family, right, Oh boy? 6 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: Do I? And as we record this Easter is this 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: coming Sunday. And a lot of you listeners know because 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: I've talked about it before on the show. I've definitely 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: posted some stories about it. Um. I usually go home, 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: um to visit my mom for an annual Easter egg hunt, 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: and she still hides forty two. Why forty two? I 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: don't know why forty two, but we count them every 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: year because every year, me, a grown woman, does this 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: hunt by myself, UM, and I can't There's always one 15 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: egg I can't find, and I'm determined. I feel like 16 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: someone's messing with me. And there aren't actually forty two eggs. 17 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: And this year I was even going to count them myself, 18 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 1: but I guess I couldn't know if she removed one sure, 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: or if one of your brothers or exactly, because if 20 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: every year we can't find one and every time I 21 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: go home, like to this day, not for Easter, anytime 22 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: I go out into the yard and I look for 23 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: these missing eggs because by now there's a handful of them. 24 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: Sure where could they be? But I love, I have 25 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: always loved Easter egg hunts. I am very competitive. I 26 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: They had to put in place rules when I was 27 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: four years old because I would find like all the eggs. 28 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: So the rules or oh my gosh, okay, yeah, there's 29 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: a great picture from that year, um where like they 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: would even count down, like three to one, go, and 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: my mom took a picture right at the like go, 32 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: and I'm already out of the like you can barely 33 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: see me and my brothers are still standing there smiling. 34 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: It was off to the races. But yeah, I won't 35 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: be doing it this year because of quarantine, and I 36 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: am trying to figure out a virtual way we could 37 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: do it that is not like just making my mom 38 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: do work. Um. Yeah, And I really appreciate everyone who's 39 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: already written and asking about it and the suggestions. That 40 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: means a lot. It means a lot to me. I Uh, 41 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: I think I stopped having Easter egg hunts by the 42 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: time I was about six or so, but my my 43 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: dad up until his death, every Easter would send me 44 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: peeps and he would usually forget to do this in 45 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: the later years until like a couple of days before 46 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: Easter and wind up spending like thirty dollars like FedEx 47 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: overnight ing me a package of peeps because he wanted 48 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: me to have my Easter peeps. And uh, this was 49 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: way after I had stopped appreciating eating peeps, and it 50 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: was that it was just so sweet. I didn't want 51 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: to tell him to stop. I was like, oh, Dad, 52 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: you gotta get your thirty dollars worth peeps. It's actually 53 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: like three dollars worth butts right, you know, Oh my gosh, 54 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah. See, I didn't. I didn't like candy, 55 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: so I successfully campaigned to replace the candy with money. Um, 56 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: and I make and continue to make a lot of 57 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: money on Easter dang all right, yeah yeah, yeah, I'm 58 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: not a big Easter candy fan. And we'll be talking 59 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: about that some some more in a minute. Um. I 60 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: also love dying Easter eggs and we still do that 61 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: as well. And a few years ago my mom even 62 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: bought me like like way over the top splatter system. 63 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: You put the egg in and you like press it up, 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: sprays out all the time. Yeah, we fancy, we fancy. Yeah. 65 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, I did like a like 66 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: I've been saving for who knows why, um, this Star 67 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: Wars like the prequel trilogy, like themed Easter egg dying kit. 68 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: My roommates and I did that and it was pretty ridiculous, 69 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: um but great. How did they turn out? You know, 70 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: pretty pretty jankie if I'm being honest. But we had 71 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: fun doing it. They had some of those little like 72 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: like paper like sleeves or or like stages that you 73 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: could put them on that were like the little character 74 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: like the little characters, and so it was pretty adorable 75 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: and goofy, Please tell me there was an R two 76 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: D two one. There had to have been. I'll see 77 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: if I'll go through pictures and I'll see what I 78 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: can find. This is very important information I need to know. 79 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: I need to know there's definitely a Yoda one that 80 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: that I think we saved. But I'm wearing my baby 81 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: Yoda shirt right now. Yeah you are. YEA Easter is 82 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: a big day for brunch too, and I know a 83 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: lot of places are doing take away our delivery brunches 84 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and I'm going to assume probably wherever you 85 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: are as well, that's something you want to check out. Um. 86 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: And we have done a lot of egg adjacent episodes, 87 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: and we talked about that in our brunch episode complimentary 88 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: bar snacks, deviled eggs, which is a popular Easter food 89 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: here in the South. Um, the giant egg in the 90 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: Parokee episode. And now we're doing Easter eggs, not eggs, 91 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: but one day. Oh, I'm not ready. I'm not ready 92 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: for it yet. Yes, it's it'll be a big one. 93 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: We're doing a similar thing with potatoes. We've done a 94 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: lot of things around potatoes, but not potatoes yet. Yeah. Yeah, 95 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: we're just chipping chipping away at the egg egg there, um, 96 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: and the and the potato egg, both of those eggs. Yes, 97 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,559 Speaker 1: which king first, the egg or the potato egg. We'll 98 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: answer that question on another day because we have to 99 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: answer this question, is Easter eggs? What are they? Well, 100 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: Easter eggs are either literal or figurative eggs decorated in 101 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: ostensible celebration of the Easter holiday, which is itself a 102 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: Christian feast day. In the stensible celebration of the resurrection 103 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,799 Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ and like kind of like low key, 104 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: like a celebration of the bounty of spring. If Easter 105 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: eggs are actual eggs, they might be hard boiled or 106 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: have the innards blown out, and the shells might be 107 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: dyed or otherwise decorated. If their figure ative, they can 108 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: be oh gosh anything um uh. It can be other 109 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: edible options like molded chocolate or marspan or hard candy 110 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: or cake or pastry um. All those are common. Some 111 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: inedible options, like a molded plastic eggshells are sometimes filled 112 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: with candy or money, um or other treats, or they 113 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,559 Speaker 1: can be treats unto themselves, like a fabulous jeweled Faberge eggs. Yes, 114 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: I found more than one article lamenting the plastic egg, 115 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: how it was like the antithesis of what Easter was 116 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: supposed to represent. And I really appreciated that I didn't 117 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: have to search too hard to find multiple arguments. I've 118 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: always liked a plastic egg because it could be it 119 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: could hold anything. Yes, oh, I do too. Like we 120 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: when we died eggs, we didn't usually hide those ones, 121 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: but sometimes we did. We did both. We did both, Okay, 122 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: so numbers. We do have some numbers. One hundred and 123 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: eighty million eggs are sold for Easter in the United States, 124 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: like actual eggs, not like chocolate eggs or anything like that. 125 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: Yet ten million people plan on dyeing some of these eggs, 126 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: and since the invention and widespread adoption of plastic eggs 127 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: for hiding, both of those numbers have gone down substantially. 128 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: Really see, I feel like it's two separate issues. You 129 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: die some eggs and you hide some plastic eggs because 130 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: if you don't want to hide the diet eggs, because 131 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: then you're just going to crush your pretty diet eggs anyway, exactly, 132 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: and the wait, okay, this really surprised me. Easter candy 133 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: out sells both Halloween and Valentine's Day can really exactly. 134 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: I would have thought it was Halloween for sure, but 135 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 1: then both of us are big Halloween fans, so maybe 136 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: that's coloring our judgment there. Yes, yes, and I guess 137 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: there's no like I was able to campaign for money 138 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: for to replace candy for Easter, but I couldn't be 139 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: like on Halloween. Hey, yeah, no, it doesn't work as well. Nope. 140 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: One report from twenty nineteen estimated Americans would spend five 141 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: point seven four billion dollars on food for eastern and 142 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: around two point five billion of that is estimated to 143 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: go to candy. Yeah yeah, so about half peeps. Let's 144 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: talk about peeps. Yes, oh gosh, very very divisive food. 145 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: I know. According to the company, they make five point 146 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 1: five million peeps a day, and up to a third 147 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: of all peeps sold are for decoration. They their own 148 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: website says that is wild. That is wild. I know, 149 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: I know. I'm thinking I need to get some from 150 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: my previously mentioned Avengers themed gingerbread D and D diorama. 151 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I want you to do that so much. 152 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: And I can tell you from personal experience that peeps 153 00:09:53,080 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: will last years, years unchanged. That's don't ask how I 154 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: know that. I it's you know, we all make mistakes, 155 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: that's true. I totally hear you, Lauren. On Easter, we 156 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: collectively eat one five billion peeps. Okay, eat or purchase. Well, 157 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: I think it's said eat, but I don't know how 158 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: they would know specifically that we're eating that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um. 159 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: There are so many flavors of peeps, at least twenty 160 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: four I think The oddest flavor I saw was pancakes 161 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: and syrup, which I imagine would be very coying, but 162 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: I could be wrong. Oh and speaking of dioramas, there's 163 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: a peep diorama contest. How have I missed this? Maybe 164 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: you could? You could enter yours, you could enter next year. 165 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: I really appreciate your vote of confidence, Flora, but I'm 166 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: gonna set some expectations. It's not a contest injury worthy, 167 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: but it would give people some laughs. I think, there 168 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: you go. That's you know, it's not always about winning, 169 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: that's true. I need to change. This is why people 170 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: think I'm a Slytherin. It's the journey that counts. The 171 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: first contest took place in two thousand and four. When 172 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: it comes to eating the chocolate Easter bunny, according to 173 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: Chocolate Manufacturers Association and National Confectioners Association, s of Americans 174 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: go years first when eating them. I also saw one 175 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: number that was sixty that was frequently reported as well, 176 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: So it's still a majority, but it's up there right right. Um. 177 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: A ninety million of these chocolate bunnies are produced each year. 178 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 1: M hm uh. Sixteen billion jelly beans are pumped out 179 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: to meet Easter demand. According to one chart I found, 180 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: cherry is the most popular flavor. Not quite an Easter 181 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: egg unto themselves, but they are sort of egg shaped. Yeah, 182 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: I bet it. Said a lot of decoration as well, Yeah, totally. Yeah. 183 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: We used to make those. My mom would make those 184 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: cupcakes with like the green shredded coconut on top and 185 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:35,599 Speaker 1: then the three pastel colored Eminem's. Oh okay, so I 186 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: think there is a lot of like decoration going on 187 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: in the Eastern dessert world. Sure, okay, I love this. 188 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: Apparently in County Durham in England, there is an Easter 189 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: tradition of egg tapping, basically two people hitting hard boiled 190 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: eggs together to see which one cracks first. I've read 191 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: that this is a thing in places. Just it's just 192 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: a thing, and I never heard of this, and it 193 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: seems amazing. Please yeah, just like it just seems very silly, 194 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: but I love it and the eggs. For this particular one, 195 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: they had to be submitted the day before um and 196 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: judges look for signs that the egg has been dipped 197 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: in beer or covered in nail polished things like that. Yeah, 198 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: I do love that. For this one, it is so 199 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: serious that they're like no, no, no, no, no no. 200 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: You give us the eggs, make sure they haven't been 201 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: tampered with, and then and then you can tap your 202 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: eggs together. We can't undermine seriousness that this egg tapping competition, 203 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: not at all. Never I would. I would not dare no, 204 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: no me either. So that's kind of a roundup of 205 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: some numbers, some not so Easter egg based, but a 206 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: lot of that candy ends up in Easter eggs. Sure, yeah, 207 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: it's Easter egg adjacent. I mean there there's also there 208 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: are peeps that are shaped like Easter eggs are they're 209 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: really Yeah, there's bunny shaped ones. There's Easter bunny shaped ones, 210 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 1: and I believe there's egg shaped ones as well the 211 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: whole wide world. I know. Y well, that's the rest 212 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: of my day. We do have a lot of history 213 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: for you, oh my gosh, we do. But first we've 214 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: got a quick break for a word from our sponsor, 215 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: and we're back. Thank you sponsored, Yes, thank you. Um 216 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: and okay, so so history of Easter eggs, the practice 217 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: of decorating eggs and eggshells goes back thousand to sixty 218 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: five thousand years, um, like the middle of the Stone Age. 219 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: Uh Ostrich eggs with designs scratched into them were found 220 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: in what's now South Africa, dating from that period of time. 221 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: They were pab be used for storing water um and 222 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: later they might have been intentionally colored bright hues like 223 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: blues and reds. Those are the those are the oldest 224 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: records we have because ostrich eggs are so much bigger 225 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: and sturdier than chicken eggs. But but certainly by the 226 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: fourth century see chicken eggs have been found that are 227 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: thought to have been part of various holidays and end 228 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: of burials. UM. One was found in the tomb of 229 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: a girl in Germany, dating from around that time. The 230 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: Easter egg tradition dates back to medieval Europe. Whether or 231 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: not it originated with Christianity, that's doubtful. A lot of 232 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: historians think that Easter and a lot of traditions associated 233 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: with it, originated with an Anglo Saxon festival held to 234 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: celebrate winter's end and the coming of spring and to 235 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: honor the goddess Estra or Ostara or Eostra, the Germanic 236 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: goddess of dawn and spring. Eating eggs was part of 237 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: the festival, and there was also perhaps a tradition of 238 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: bearing them to promote fertility. However, I think there is 239 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: literally one mention of this goddess and historical records, so yeah, 240 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: this one is a complicated one to sess out and 241 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: a little little bit more on this later. But um 242 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: but okay. So the one historical, historical kind of in 243 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: scare quotes record that we have of of the goddess Easter. Um, 244 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: it's from the seven hundreds CE. And this Christian English 245 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: writer bead bed Bill, I've heard different pronunciations. I'm not 246 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: sure how to say it. I apologize, um, but but yeah, 247 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: he wrote about the worship of this Anglo Saxon goddess 248 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: Ester in times past previous to his Um, but yeah, 249 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: there's no other written record of her, and oh more 250 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: on her later. It's great, okay, in the meanwhile. In 251 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: the meanwhile, at the time, Christian missionaries frequently held Christian 252 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: Holy Day celebrations around the same time as pagan festivals, 253 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: with the end goal of converting folks to Christianity, and 254 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: to make conversion more appealing, several pagan traditions were adopted 255 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: and or adapted into Christian celebrations. So probably maybe this 256 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: is where the Easter egg got its start, Yeah, all 257 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: of us in medieval Europe Um. Around the same time, 258 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: a roasted egg was also part of Jewish Passover uh 259 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: Satyr traditions um, which is another spring holiday that is 260 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: historically tied to Easter. So like maybe eggs came into 261 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: Easter that way to or right? Yeah yeah, yeah, another 262 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: theory and it's one I know we have mentioned before. 263 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: Has much more to do with stricter Lent rules that 264 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: did not allow for the eating of eggs, no animal 265 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: products at all. But you can't tell him stappling eggs, 266 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: so folks would collect and hard boil the eggs for later. 267 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: Since Lent builds up to Easter, it would make sense 268 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: that the eggs would be handed out that day, often 269 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: to those that couldn't afford meat, and that they would 270 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: become associated with the holiday. Worth noting. Decorated eggs have 271 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: also been a tradition of Iranian New Year, which takes 272 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: place on spring equinox for thousands of years, and it's 273 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,959 Speaker 1: also viewed as a symbol of fertility. Also worth noting, 274 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: and languages like French and Spanish, the words for Easter 275 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: come from the Greek or Latin word for passover. So yeah, 276 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: like you were saying lauren. As far as dying eggs 277 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: or Easter, one of the first records of that came 278 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: out of twelve and nine Britain and one Edward, the 279 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: first to celebrate Easter. Edward commanded that four d and 280 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: fifty eggs be decorated with gold leaf or died to 281 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: hand out as gifts. Meanwhile, uh, folks, and let's now Ukraine, 282 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: we're developing traditional pisnki. I think I'm saying that right. 283 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,479 Speaker 1: Let me know if I'm not. Uh. These are like 284 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: wax bersist too, died eggs, originally for for pagan purposes, 285 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: but around this time merged into Christian beliefs. Um and yeah. 286 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,719 Speaker 1: On these patterns of wax are are applied and then 287 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: uh die is applied in layers um, and then more 288 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: wax than more die, and then the wax is all 289 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: melted off to reveal these intricate designs and and shading 290 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: created by all of that layering um. And this is 291 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 1: a folk art that continues today. Oh, I love it. 292 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 1: Thirteenth century English towns people gave their Lord of the 293 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: Men or Easter eggs and bought them as good Friday 294 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: offerings at their churches and just f a I I 295 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: went on a very unnecessary rabbit hole about this whole 296 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: lord of the Manner thing because I was I just 297 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: wanted to know what I was talking about. So I 298 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 1: was like, what does that actually mean? And apparently you 299 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: can like still try to get that title today, but 300 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: it's really difficulty. I found like modern legal blogs about this, 301 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: and again I had to remind myself, this is a 302 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: food show. Time to stop looking up how I can 303 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: become a lady of the banner. But anyway, the Vatican 304 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: sent a young Henry the eighth and egg in a 305 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: silver case around Easter time towards the end of the 306 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: fourteen hundred's and this type of gift was called an 307 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: egg silver MHM. Later on in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, 308 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: some records suggest that British folks were dying eggs and 309 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: handing them out as gifts because the color red symbolized 310 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: joy in that area back then, it was a popular choice, 311 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 1: or possibly it was meant to represent the blood of 312 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. A lot of the color and patterns were 313 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: biblical in nature up until the eighteenth century. An area 314 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: of Lancashire, eggs were acceptable Easter Jews in the place 315 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,719 Speaker 1: of money, m and in some renditions of the story 316 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: or are like, we've talked about this a lot before, 317 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: a lot of times, frequently in Christianity, a lot of traditions, 318 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,479 Speaker 1: kind of religious leaders step in and try to explain 319 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: the religious reason behind while we were doing these things 320 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: we've already been doing for a long time. Yeah, or 321 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 1: or try to turn that tradition into a lesson in 322 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: a symbolism and in scripture. Yes, yes, so in some 323 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: retellings renditions, the hard egg shell is the ceiling of 324 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: the tomb that Jesus was placed in and the cracking 325 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 1: of the egg. The resurrection egg rolling meanwhile, which we're 326 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: going to talk to you, we're gonna talk about in 327 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: a minute, was allegedly meant to symbolize the rolling away 328 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: of the rock from the tomb. Yes, some sources suggested 329 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: Martin Luther held one of the earliest Easter egg hunts 330 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: and listening men to hide eggs from women and children. 331 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: That so, that would have been in about the fift 332 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 1: hundreds UM and certainly by sixteen eighty two there was 333 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: in place a German tradition of of an Easter hare 334 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: like rabbit who laid eggs for children to find. Um. 335 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: It was written about that year in an academic essay. 336 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: This brings us to the nineteenth century, and this is 337 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: when people pivoted to giving Easter eggs two children. Historians 338 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: think the impetus behind this might be shifting Victorian ideals 339 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: focusing on the importance of family, with particular attention paid 340 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 1: to kids. And then in tandem there was an interest 341 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: in older traditions. These things came together to make holiday 342 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: traditions more kid friendly, and one of these things being 343 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: dying of Easter eggs. The Easter bunny was a part 344 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: of this. To Easter egg hunts followed soon after. H Yeah, 345 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: and all of that was over in the English speaking world. 346 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: But um, But meanwhile, it is also around this time, 347 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: the early eighteen hundreds, that myths about the goddess Astara 348 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: started really cementing, thanks to, of all things, the German 349 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: Romantic nationalist movement and folklore. Is. Like Jacob Graham in 350 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: his book German Mythology, he proposed based on bead beds, 351 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: that guy's based on that dude's mentioned. Graham surmised and 352 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 1: he wrote that that Ostara must have been a widespread goddess, 353 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: and all of these other works over the next hundred 354 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 1: years by other folklorists just developed her mythology, UM, including 355 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: a story that she rode in a chariot drawn by birds, 356 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: and then later stories so that it was drawn by hairs. 357 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: And then some other people got confused later about the 358 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: wording there and assumed that she had transformed the birds 359 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: into hairs. It is wonderfully confusing, UM, but at any rate, 360 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: the story of a star's creation of the Easter hair 361 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: developed during the eighteen and nineteen hundreds and UM. Modern 362 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: tellings often include the idea that UM that this goddess 363 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: turned a bird into a hair to to save it 364 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: UM and then ingratitude it continued laying eggs, or that 365 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: she did it as a punishment, but such was the 366 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: hair's grief that she allowed it to lay eggs once 367 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,719 Speaker 1: a year. Oh wow, so the hair was really upset. 368 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't a hair anymore. The hair was really upset. 369 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: It wasn't a bird anymore. Okay that yeah, that makes persense, 370 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: no offense. Hairs, but like flying, yeah, flying, it's pretty rad, 371 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: I would assume, so yeah, uh so, yeah, deep thanks 372 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: to a literary historian, Stephen Winnick over at the Library 373 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 1: of Congress for looking into all of this. I love it. 374 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: And this brings us to a question I know you 375 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: all have at this point, the easter bunny. What's up 376 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: with that? What is up with that? The residing theory 377 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 1: is that German immigrants to America, specifically Pennsylvania, brought their 378 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: tradition and story of an eggling rabbit called ulster Hassa 379 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: or oxter Halls. Apologies is I you know, I took 380 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: like five years of Germany, but it's been a long 381 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: time this this may have happened as early as the 382 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: late sixteen eighties that this story made its way over 383 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: to America. But the first paper evidence that we have 384 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: from here are our drawings from the eighteen oots of 385 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: a hair kind of leaping over a basket of Easter eggs. 386 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: It makes sense with the whole fertility thing and rabbit's 387 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: reputation of you know, mating like rats. Um kids would 388 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: make nests hoping that the oster haza would lay beautiful 389 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: colored eggs inside of them, and I've read that often 390 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: um these nests where where the children would would put 391 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: down their hats like their little caps or bonnets, um, 392 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: and make a nest out of that and maybe like 393 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: maybe like fill it with colored flowers so that the 394 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: hair could eat it and and leave colored eggs. Oh. 395 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 1: The practice spread from from Pennsylvania across the country and 396 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: also expanded to include not only eggs, but also candy 397 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: and other gifts. The nest were replaced with baskets. Apparently 398 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: some families will leave carrots out for the Easter Bunny. 399 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: We did this when I was a kid, did you really? Yes? Absolutely, 400 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: as like you leave cookies and milk for Santa, and 401 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: you leave carrots for the Easter Bunny. Okay, all right, 402 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: I we We were in Ohio and Pennsylvania though, so 403 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: maybe maybe it was a local thing. Yeah. Maybe. Another 404 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: story goes that Easter Bunny arose from a poor woman 405 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: who would hide eggs for her children to find on Easter, 406 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: and while searching for the mysterious hidden eggs, the children 407 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: saw a hair were hopping around and believed that it 408 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: had laid the eggs. Um. So my parents made Easter 409 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: baskets for us until I was in college, and mine 410 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: was usually movies because again, I didn't like candy that much. 411 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: But me and my dad we both loved movies. And 412 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: I gotta say, I know I've mentioned this on a 413 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: previous podcast, but I never want, not one single instant, 414 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: believed that the Easter Bundy was real. Um and I 415 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: toothfair yes, hook line, sinker Easter Bunny. My parents told 416 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: me that. I remember being like, no, I don't know 417 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: what you're trying not. I mean, you can make me 418 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 1: a basket. I really appreciate it, but I know there's 419 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: no Easter Bunny. I think I think the Easter Bunny 420 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: was the first one that I was like, Mom, Dad, 421 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: Like I was like five or maybe six. I was 422 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: like Mom, Dad, like, y'all don't have to I don't 423 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: have to pretend anymore with the Easter Bunny. And it's 424 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: it's okay, Like I like, I appreciate it, but you're 425 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: off the hook. Yeah, I think. I like even the 426 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: vision I had in my head, and this could be 427 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: the problem. I wasn't imagining like an actual rabbit. I 428 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: was imagining like a man in a suit, you know, 429 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: a huge yea, And the very idea of it freaked 430 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: me out and I just thought, no way, no, okay, 431 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: al Right, well we're getting into like murkami rookie territory here, 432 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 1: So let's move let's move on, all right. Uh. The 433 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: nineteenth century was also when we started seeing chocolate eggs 434 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: in France and Germany. At first, they were hard to 435 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: eat in a bit bitter, but with innovation, chocolate makers 436 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: were able to produce this sweeter, hollow chocolate eggs we 437 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 1: were more familiar with today. Yeah, the early eighteen hundreds 438 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: were a time of just amazing chocolate science innovations because 439 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: prior to then, people would grind and cook whole cacao 440 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: beans until they were a liquid, uh, cocoa liquor or liqueur. 441 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: And and this stuff is like cocoa butter, only like 442 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: scent cocoa solids. So it's really hard to make like 443 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: a solid chocolate the way that we think of solid 444 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: chocolates today. Most chocolate up until that time was was 445 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: drink rather than a solid food. And it's also kind 446 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: of like just like just like grainy and weird. But 447 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: in eight a Dutch chemist by the name of a 448 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: Conrad von Houghton, who looked sort of like Willem Dafoe 449 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: by the way, he created this hydraulic press that would 450 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: smoosh a whole bunch of the fats out of cocoa 451 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: liqueur um or liquor nails or whichever one um, leaving 452 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: a sort of pressed cake of mostly cocoa salads that 453 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: was only about cocoa butter. So at that point you 454 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: could grind this this cake into cocoa powder, which was 455 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: pretty much the same stuff we know and used today, 456 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: and which also could be treated um chemically so that 457 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: it plays nicer with liquids um as in with alkaline salts, 458 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: which is called dutching or Dutch process. For this, dude. 459 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: You might have seen packages of cocoa powder in the 460 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: store that say that their Dutch process, and that's what 461 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: it means. Yeah, So at that point you can combine 462 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: this cocoa powder back with cocoa butter in order to 463 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: create like a creamy and malleable final product that can 464 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: in fact be molded into solid bars or whatever. The 465 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: first molded bar, ever, was, was supposedly produced in seven 466 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: by an English family of chocolate makers, the Fry family. 467 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: Yes that Fries. Anyone who's not famil year with British 468 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: confectionery is probably very confused. Believe me. It's a whole thing. Um. Uh. 469 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, they developed their chocolate cream bar um which 470 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: has which is chocolate with some creamy fond in the 471 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: center in eighteen sixty six, and then the UK's first 472 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: chocolate eggs in eighteen seventy three. Well then in eighteen 473 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: seventy nine another chocolate maker rolled off Lint, and yes 474 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: that Lint developed counching um, which is the heating and 475 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: mixing and aerating process that develops the flavor and texture 476 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: of chocolate, making it even easier and more affordable to produce, 477 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: which really helped open up the chocolate industry. Meanwhile, Canbury 478 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: canberry eggs debuted in eight seventy five. Oh yes, arrival 479 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: of Fries. Uh. These these first Cadbury eggs were hollow 480 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: and filled with sugared almonds um, and their first decorated 481 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: eggs had chocolate piping and marzipan flowers. They would introduce 482 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: their milk chocolate eggs in nineteen o five, which is 483 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: just really caught on um. And then the two companies, 484 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: Fries and Cadbury would would join forces in nineteen nineteen. 485 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: The early nineteenth centuries also probably when we got edible 486 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: Easter bunnies, probably invented in either Germany or America. The 487 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: first were made out of a sugared pastry. Some of 488 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: these bunnies had hard boiled eggs inside them. I don't 489 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: understand it, but I but I appreciate it, you know. Yeah, 490 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: it's like a nick cage at the end of Spider 491 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: verse when as the Rubik's cue. It's the same thing, 492 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: exactly like that. I'm sure that that was the inspiration. Yeah. Um. Meanwhile, 493 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: the first bunny shaped chocolates may have been produced in 494 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: Munich in the eighteen fifties, as that chocolate technology developed. 495 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: Candy eggs had made it to America by the eighteen eighties, 496 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: and in eighteen eighty five we see the most opulent 497 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: version of the Easter egg, the Faberge egg. Um. Czar 498 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: Alexander the third had had the first made that year 499 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: for his wife, Empress Maria on Easter for their twentieth 500 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: wedding anniversary, and it was already a tradition in Russian 501 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: Orthodox families to exchange decorated eggs after services on Easter, 502 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: and so Alexander ordered one from this kind of up 503 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: and coming jeweler whose work Maria liked. Peter Carl faberge, 504 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: and the first one that this company made for them 505 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: UM was a deceptively simple, white enameled egg that opened 506 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: to reveal a golden ball like a yoke, which itself 507 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: opened to reveal a small golden hen, which itself opened 508 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: to reveal a tiny diamond replica of the imperial crown 509 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: and a ruby pendant. Whoa, I know, right, the hen 510 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: comes first? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah, well, I mean but 511 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 1: it's all inside an egg. So oh, it's the egg. 512 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: It's the egg, and then the chicken and then the egg. 513 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: This is the problem. This is why we can't get 514 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: to the bottom of that. I feel like that was 515 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: a very like true detective moment for a second there. Okay, 516 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: the egg is a flat circle, all right. So over 517 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: the next few decades, UH Alexander and then later his 518 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: his son Nicholas would UM every year commission these eggs, 519 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 1: and they became ever more elaborate and super world famous UM. 520 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: And these days, these days they are often viewed as 521 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: like a concrete symbol of the frivolity that doomed UM 522 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: the Russian Imperial family during the Revolution of the nineteen teens. 523 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: Easter eggs are beautiful, though gosh, they're real pretty. They're nuts. 524 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: That is. That is my recommended rabbit hole of the day. 525 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: I love it. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, 526 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: New Jersey drug store owner William Townley invented Easter egg 527 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: die tablets in five colors. You just added water and white, 528 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: vinegar and boa lah and I totally forgot that you 529 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 1: added vinegar and that's and it gives it that really 530 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: particular smell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I totally forgot about that. 531 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: They were enough of a success that Townley renamed his 532 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: business pause registered trademark diet company. He got the name 533 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:33,479 Speaker 1: from the Pennsylvania Dutch word for Easter, Poston, again tying 534 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: back to passover. Yeah, exactly. In eighteen seventy six, the 535 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: White House hosted its first Easter egg Roll. Um, if 536 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: you haven't heard of this, it's an annual event we 537 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: have here in the United States held on Easter Monday, 538 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: where families congregate on the White House South lawn and 539 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: the kids have an egg rolling race, among other activities. 540 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: Uh in a vent I by the way, find hilarious 541 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: and creepy because there's also someone dressed as the Easter Budding. 542 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,520 Speaker 1: But like the costume was really weird. It's just like 543 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: standing around freaks me out. Is this the Easter Bunny 544 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: you're always picturing when you were a kid? Kay of 545 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: kind of maybe just seeing I don't know. Uh. Nevertheless, 546 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: it is the largest yearly event at the White House. 547 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: It's big enough that there's a lottery now to get in. 548 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:29,759 Speaker 1: About thirty thousand people attend, depending on the source. The 549 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: tradition of taking hard boiled eggs and rolling them goes 550 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: all the way back to Andrew Jackson or James Madison 551 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: and became a popular activity in Washington, d C. Frequently 552 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill after what must have been one heck 553 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,800 Speaker 1: of a role. In eighteen seventies six, Congress passed the 554 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: law prohibiting that Capitol hillgrounds could be it could not 555 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: be quote used as a children's playground. Um. Then President 556 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,360 Speaker 1: Hayes opened up the White House South on for the 557 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,319 Speaker 1: festivities in eight He actually opened it before, but I 558 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 1: think it got rained out. So that was the first 559 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: year official that it happened, right, Yeah, The first egg 560 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: race didn't happen until Nixon in nineteen seventy four, and 561 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: it was preceded by games like egg picking, where you 562 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: try to crack the shell of a hard boiled egg 563 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: with your own but without cracking your shell. And egg croquet, Yeah, yeah, 564 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 1: the egg the egg tapping like we were talking about before. Yeah, 565 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: it sounds very yeah. Um, and egg croquet, which is 566 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: a game where you'd use a fan to move a 567 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: hollowed out eggshell. And that sounds so fun to me. 568 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,759 Speaker 1: I'm so angry that I have not been making more 569 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,400 Speaker 1: use of my egg shells. Gosh, set up a whole 570 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: thing here. Okay, we we need to as soon as 571 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: we can be physically in the same place at the 572 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: same time, and again, we need to do this. Yeah, 573 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,319 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm so excited. The tradition was put 574 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: on hold during World War Two, but President Eisenhower revived 575 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: it in nineteen fifty three, and apparently that year it 576 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 1: was a free for all. Here's a quote. By noon, 577 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,839 Speaker 1: the grounds were a dreadful mass of mashed eggs, gooey chocolate, marshmallow, 578 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:25,320 Speaker 1: melting jellybeans, and picnic midden. Most unexpected casualty, A press 579 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 1: photographer lost both shoes. What what kind of day was? He? 580 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 1: I A very strange one, I assume, I assume. In 581 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: two thousand nine, President Obama formally invited gay and lesbian 582 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,879 Speaker 1: couples and their families to attend. Yeah. Back to Easter 583 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 1: egg dying and hunting. More and more middle class folks 584 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: started adopting these things in the early twentieth century as 585 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 1: they built up more disposable income. It was even more 586 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: adapted when Easter became a national holiday, so people had 587 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,279 Speaker 1: more time and more reason to do things like die 588 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:06,240 Speaker 1: Easter eggs and do Easter egg hunts. And apparently, according 589 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:11,040 Speaker 1: to dictionary dot com, easter egg was a derogatory term 590 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 1: for a woman who wore too much makeup in the 591 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties, indeed, all painted up like an Easter egg. Sure, 592 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: I guess. Well, let's talk about Peep's Lauren. Oh. Sure. 593 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: They were a product of the nineteen fifties and Russian 594 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,520 Speaker 1: immigrant to the United States Sam Born, who founded Just 595 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,919 Speaker 1: Born Like It, a candy company. In the beginning, one 596 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: single peep took an entire twenty seven hours to make. Yeah, 597 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 1: nowadays it's about six minutes. Martial Yeah, yeah, I know 598 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: all about the See our Marshmall episode on a fair form. 599 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,239 Speaker 1: More on that one m h to save money in time, 600 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,600 Speaker 1: American chocolate maker, Richard Palmer of R. M. Palmer Confectionery 601 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 1: started making hollow chocolate bunnies as opposed the solid ones. 602 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: I've actually never heard of this company, but they're still 603 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: up and running. Oh yeah, yeah, I've I've definitely eaten 604 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,520 Speaker 1: things from from that company. So yeah, the history of 605 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,759 Speaker 1: plastic eggs is a bit murky. We do know that 606 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 1: father and son team Irwin and Donald Wetter, patented hinged 607 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,640 Speaker 1: plastic eggs in so people didn't have to struggle with 608 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: finding the right have the right to havelves or are 609 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: them coming apart at the wrong time. As a kid, 610 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,520 Speaker 1: I definitely preferred that the hinged ones. Their company was 611 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,400 Speaker 1: also involved in the creation of that green plastic grass 612 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: often found in easter baskets. Gosh. Yeah. As as a young, 613 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: slightly anal retentive, Lauren like really disliked that easter grass 614 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: because it got everywhere everywhere. It was chaos. It was 615 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 1: chaos in plastic grass form, and I didn't I didn't 616 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,240 Speaker 1: approve it was chaos, you are correct, And I didn't 617 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: like it, Like it got so tangled in the center. Yeah, 618 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: and you weren't sure if there was something in there, 619 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:10,840 Speaker 1: and it was like rough, rough times. Alright, quick, easter 620 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 1: egg pop culture aside. So like the pop culture term. 621 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 1: I feel like we've talked about this in a previous episode, 622 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: but well we'll recap it. You probably know, but these 623 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,719 Speaker 1: Easter eggs are something that a creator adds in for 624 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: people to find. They're usually kind of like funny or 625 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 1: a message in movies or video games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 626 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: yeah exactly. Uh. Though the first recorded instance of this 627 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 1: term didn't take place until one of the first known 628 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,360 Speaker 1: easter eggs was in the game Adventure, as seen in 629 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,480 Speaker 1: the book and movie Ready Player One, which is self 630 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 1: is all about Easter egg Oh my gosh. Yes. One 631 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 1: of the most famous running Easter eggs is the Stanley 632 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,240 Speaker 1: cameo in Every Marvel Movie. An article at huff Post 633 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: claims that Steve right over at Atari Coin Easter egg 634 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty and it was actually after this whole first. Actually, 635 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,719 Speaker 1: some earlier ones have been found, but it's one of 636 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,799 Speaker 1: the first ones found an Adventure. The higher ups sort 637 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 1: of freaked out about it because it's just essentially like 638 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,200 Speaker 1: created by this guy. Um and a kid wrote in 639 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,600 Speaker 1: and said he loved it and he was so excited, 640 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,720 Speaker 1: and the higher ups were like, oh, this is terrible, 641 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,440 Speaker 1: but right convinced them that they should think of it 642 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 1: as a good idea because this letter they got from 643 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: the kid, he was so excited he found it. He 644 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 1: found something that wasn't supposed to be in the game 645 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 1: that was a little like not like oh, man, like 646 00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: you found this weird thing. Yeah, exactly like finding an 647 00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,680 Speaker 1: Easter egg. And he according to this article, he didn't 648 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: even know it was really a thing that he had 649 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:50,520 Speaker 1: coined until pretty recently. So he also in uh in 650 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 1: the eighties, the the Cadbury Bunny audition commercials started coming 651 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: out in nine. Um that those those commercials where the 652 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: Cadbury bunny, which which is this clucking bunny there they're 653 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,040 Speaker 1: the Cadbury Company is like holding auditions for the next 654 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 1: Cadbury Bunny and all kinds of animals show up. But 655 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 1: but but the kind of like like moral at the 656 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,759 Speaker 1: end of the commercial was for a long time that 657 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: that like the bunny was the best at the job, 658 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,760 Speaker 1: so it would always get the job. At these days, 659 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,480 Speaker 1: new bunnies are like crowned every year and it's really sweet. Um, 660 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 1: this year's winner is a dog from Ohio. The dog 661 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,479 Speaker 1: is named Lieutenant Dan because it has lost its hind 662 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,440 Speaker 1: legs but still gets around just fine and like a 663 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: little doggie movement helper aid and they put they put 664 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,440 Speaker 1: a little bunny ear bunny earhead band on it, and 665 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 1: it's real. Is this real? Cute? Oh? That is cute. Yeah. 666 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,200 Speaker 1: I did have some pet rabbits growing up. Yeah, yeah, 667 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:56,240 Speaker 1: Fluffy an Amber, and my brother's rabbit's name was Shack, 668 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: and Shack was scrappy. Shot got a fight with a dog, 669 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,480 Speaker 1: Oh my god, and like came out victorious. How big 670 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,319 Speaker 1: was the dog on the smaller side of medium but 671 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,240 Speaker 1: medium bigger than a rabbit for sure? Oh yeah, okay, 672 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,560 Speaker 1: but Shack was like no, yeah, yeah, he had a 673 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,840 Speaker 1: scar though he was in titts. I've I've never really 674 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,239 Speaker 1: met a rabbit that I didn't get the distinct impression, 675 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,160 Speaker 1: like I didn't want to eat my eyeballs like all 676 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,479 Speaker 1: of them who have been kind of aggro um. So, 677 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. I've heard that some rabbits are delightful. 678 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 1: I've to be fair, I have not interacted with that 679 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,840 Speaker 1: many of them, um, and most of them have probably 680 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,840 Speaker 1: been in like petting zoo kind of situations where the 681 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,799 Speaker 1: rabbit is probably just done, just done, and I get that, 682 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, so yeah, we both can understand, we can appreciate. 683 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:58,120 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, but yeah that um that brings 684 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 1: us to to the end of this our episode about 685 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,080 Speaker 1: Easter eggs, it does. It was a good one. It's 686 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,240 Speaker 1: a fun one. Yeah. Absolutely, I could have kept researching 687 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,960 Speaker 1: for a long time. I really really really want to 688 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,640 Speaker 1: do an episode about Cadbury now, all kinds of all 689 00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,719 Speaker 1: kinds of off shoots of research to do well. I 690 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:24,200 Speaker 1: love it when that happens. Future, the whole world ahead 691 00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:29,239 Speaker 1: of us. Absolutely, But in the meantime, we do have 692 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,359 Speaker 1: a little bit more for you. But first we've got 693 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,040 Speaker 1: one more quick break for a word from our sponsor, 694 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,880 Speaker 1: and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, thank you, and 695 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:54,000 Speaker 1: we're back with That was a fun body one, though 696 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 1: it might not have worked out in the vocal. Yeah, 697 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,080 Speaker 1: it was good. It was a good hop hippie hippie hop. Yeah. Yeah. 698 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,400 Speaker 1: I Lauren and I are having to develop what I'm calling, 699 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,440 Speaker 1: uh podcast posture because of the way our closet studios 700 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,040 Speaker 1: are set up. So I really appreciated the chance to 701 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,160 Speaker 1: move first such a straighten up yeah, like like actually 702 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:23,319 Speaker 1: extend your spine in some way. Yes, yeah, yes, it 703 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:28,719 Speaker 1: was nice. Melissa wrote, Hi, ladies, not to add to 704 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,400 Speaker 1: the cravings in this time of quarantine and hall to travel, 705 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,919 Speaker 1: but on listening to the bond Me episode, I had 706 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,000 Speaker 1: to share one of my favorite Toronto restaurants, bond Me Boys. 707 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,440 Speaker 1: It's like if a bond Me restaurant had a baby 708 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:45,080 Speaker 1: with five guys. Kim she poutine or puzza. It's incredible. 709 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,399 Speaker 1: I love it so much. I think he would do. Yes, 710 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,680 Speaker 1: I want that so badly, kim She Puttina, I'd never 711 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,879 Speaker 1: thought of I want that. I know, I know we're gonna, 712 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,879 Speaker 1: like when this is all over, finally over, We're gonna 713 00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:03,080 Speaker 1: have so many food adventures to go on. Oh yeah yeah, 714 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: really really important food adventures. Oh yes, that is one 715 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,520 Speaker 1: of them. Meanwhile, Kenna or Kina wrote, I consider myself 716 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,920 Speaker 1: a pretty good cook and an okay baker. I've made pretzels, cakes, cookies, muffins, 717 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,560 Speaker 1: carrot cake, and several deep dish pizzas. But for some reason, 718 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,840 Speaker 1: bread eludes me. Multiple attempts with various breadmakers have turned 719 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,279 Speaker 1: into inedible pastes of flour and gunk. Last time I 720 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,040 Speaker 1: tried to make bread. I used it to lure a 721 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,960 Speaker 1: friend over for an afternoon of writing, only to find 722 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,560 Speaker 1: after two hours that the delicious smell coming from the 723 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,239 Speaker 1: bread machine was, in the words of my friend, a 724 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:42,320 Speaker 1: sad piece of brick. The yeast alas was dead. Fast 725 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:46,120 Speaker 1: forward to quarantine, two weeks since my last grocery run. 726 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,800 Speaker 1: My available vegetables are carrots, onions, and potatoes. Just carrots, onions, 727 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,280 Speaker 1: and potatoes. There might be a brick of frozen spinach 728 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,839 Speaker 1: in the freezer, but frozen spinach does not a meal make. 729 00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,120 Speaker 1: So I get the bright idea to make potato nyolki. 730 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,200 Speaker 1: I lay out the ingredients potatoes, parmesan, butter, flour, and 731 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,360 Speaker 1: I'm just filling the pot up to start boiling potatoes 732 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,360 Speaker 1: when I read the step after boil skin potatoes and 733 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,320 Speaker 1: put them through a potato racer. What I wonder is 734 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,920 Speaker 1: a potato racer, and more importantly, where can I get 735 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,360 Speaker 1: one without leaving my house. A quick search of the 736 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,760 Speaker 1: drawers turned up and no such things, So I resigned 737 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,800 Speaker 1: myself to a soup made of carrots and onions until 738 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:30,400 Speaker 1: I remembered something wonderful. My grandmother's knuffles or k nuffles. 739 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with knuffles. I hadn't had any in 740 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,680 Speaker 1: about ten years because the only time my mom made 741 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,920 Speaker 1: chicken knuffle soup was when she was seriously trying to 742 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,320 Speaker 1: stock the freezer. It is far, far superior to chicken 743 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,239 Speaker 1: noodle soup. And the only problem was I didn't have 744 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,879 Speaker 1: a recipe neither, it turns out, did Google. I could 745 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,560 Speaker 1: not get a single English language site that acknowledged the 746 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,800 Speaker 1: knuffles were a thing. The spelling here is k and 747 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,279 Speaker 1: U F f l e s. By the way, I 748 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,839 Speaker 1: couldn't get a single German language side with recipes. When 749 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,280 Speaker 1: I searched nuffles. I finally pulled out the nuclear option. 750 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,239 Speaker 1: I called my mother quote it's just one egg, one 751 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,920 Speaker 1: cup of flour, and half a teaspoon of salt. She said, 752 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,040 Speaker 1: because even now, at least a decade since either of 753 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,960 Speaker 1: us has set eyes on this dish, she had it memorized. 754 00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,680 Speaker 1: I followed her instructions, made delicious tiny doughballs for very 755 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,040 Speaker 1: carroty soup, and enjoyed it for several days. I even 756 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,720 Speaker 1: posted the recipe to my blog, whereupon a friend told me, actually, 757 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,879 Speaker 1: that's just spaetzel needless to say, After a discussion of 758 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,160 Speaker 1: what was and was not Spatzel, held mostly over Facebook, 759 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:40,040 Speaker 1: my mother weighed in on the issue. It's spelled niffle, 760 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:46,680 Speaker 1: she said to my everlasting now permanently enshrined on the internet. Shame, 761 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,400 Speaker 1: that's why you couldn't google a recipe for my next 762 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,919 Speaker 1: trick of grain baste hupris. I'll try to make sour dough. 763 00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,360 Speaker 1: After all, I have half a dozen probably dead packs 764 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,600 Speaker 1: of active dry yeast, three half used bags of flour, 765 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:06,839 Speaker 1: and time there you go. I gotta say I love 766 00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:11,320 Speaker 1: nuffles and niffles. Yeah, all of these words are amazing 767 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:16,200 Speaker 1: and I approve of them. Yeah. Hey, I believe I've 768 00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:24,040 Speaker 1: never heard of at least niffles. So fun. Yeah, I 769 00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,279 Speaker 1: need to go. I need to go look up some 770 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:31,440 Speaker 1: we should do. We should do a Spitzel episode. Yes, 771 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,120 Speaker 1: I have had that so few times in my life, 772 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,160 Speaker 1: but every time I do, I'm like, this is so good. 773 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,960 Speaker 1: It more often just tiny, tiny dumplings fried with onions. 774 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,120 Speaker 1: Pretty good, pretty good turns out surprise, surprise, weird in 775 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,640 Speaker 1: butter Yeah, weird delicious, Oh my gosh, And I want that. 776 00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,320 Speaker 1: The cravings, the cravings, Um, thanks so much to both 777 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,560 Speaker 1: of them for writing in. If you like to write in, 778 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,719 Speaker 1: we would love like to know what your Easter game is, 779 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,360 Speaker 1: if you are really good at decorating, what are you 780 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,480 Speaker 1: doing for Easter? What projects are you working on during quarantine? 781 00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,279 Speaker 1: Um all of the above. You can email us at 782 00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,880 Speaker 1: hello at favor pod dot com. We're also on social media. 783 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,200 Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at 784 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,400 Speaker 1: savor pod, and we do hope to hear from you. 785 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,880 Speaker 1: Savor is production of I Heart Radio four more podcasts 786 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,200 Speaker 1: my Heart Radio. You can visit the I Heart Radio app, 787 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,960 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. 788 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,960 Speaker 1: Thanks as always to our super producers Dylan Fagin and 789 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,120 Speaker 1: Andrew Howard. Thanks to you for listening, and I hope 790 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,759 Speaker 1: that lots more good things are coming your way.