Pre-filled Easter Eggs... laziest things
 

How lazy has society become - pre-filled easter eggs!!!!! I mean, for real - is it that hard to open a plastic egg and put a few pieces of candy in it?

So, time to share - what products do you think are contributing to the laziness of society? or is there something that you wish would be invented to make you just a bit lazier.

I enjoy filling easter eggs...

Actually those eggs can be pretty nasty to open and close. If I'd Americanized enough not to say "Bollocks to that we don't celbrate easter in any way shape or form", I might consider paying more for them to be prefilled. But I'm too lazy/mean/British/environmentally friendly to buy new ones each year, so pre-filled would not be an option. Also we don't use them for easter -they make great dinosaur/shark eggs etc for themed birthday party treasure hunts -but only whem filled with our special treasures.

My laziest thing is using the drive-thru. It usually takes longer than going into the building, so I have to be feeling pretty bloody lazy to take that option.

I don't know what you're talking about. All the eggs we get here for easter are chocolate. I don't mind breaking a few of those open at easter time.

Prefilled Plastic Easter Eggs are the Springtime version of those nylon net Christmas stockings. Not great, but not the worst possible option.

True laziness is buying colored-before-you-buy-them chicken's eggs. My local convenience store sells them.

I also have issues with any method of home-based egg dying that does not involve margarine tubs, vinegar, and tablets of dye that fizz when they hit the vinegar. Eggs should then be precariously dipped into the dye using a piece of bent wire. Particularly skillful dyers may do bi and tricolor striped eggs using these limited tools. Designs scrawled on the egg in white crayon before dying are also acceptable.

Cups with the dye that releases from the plastic, or worse still, the plastic sleeves that you slide onto the eggs and boil into a sort of Eastery shrink wrap are cheating.

Oh, man. Now I have to hit the store and grab the basic Paas kit.

Hmmmm....we don't do egg dying over here too although I've heard of this tradition before.

We used to have an egg painting competition every year when I was in the Brownies (and every year I used to be furious because I was sure the winner had had parental help - sore loser)

Being pretty lazy myself I'm all for modern conveniences. One step too far for me was pre-filled rolls. By Warburtons I think - the filling was actually baked inside them to save you having to bother with a knife and a piece of cheese. However I did fill my boots when they were being sampled in my local supermarket. I don't make moral judgements if it's offered free.

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They are filled with small sweets and scattered over fields and parks for children to participate in Egg hunts/fights. It's like Halloween at Easter -the little 'uns carry pastel-coloured wicker baskets to collect them and sometimes wear bunny ears, the big kids are on a mission with a pillowcase.

I want to make a documentary where I eat nothing but seasonal candy for an entire year...Kinda like that guy who ate nothing but McDonalds for whatever amount of time.

Aren't eggs, as a rule, usually pre-filled by the chicken?

So really, it's you DIY people who are breaking with tradition! hehehe

The only pre- filled eggs here are the Kinder ones (you have those in the States) and Cadbury's Cream-filled eggs, and having the latter who needs anything more???

Lunchables -- overpriced & bad nutritionally. But it's fast!!

Great for lunches in Elementry School. :D

Since they are sold in the refrigerated section, next to the hotdogs, I always have a problem with them. I don't think they are sufficiently shelf-stable to sit in one's cubby for four and a half hours and be eaten in safety. I guess they are the only option, though, with more and more schools being declared peanut-butter free zones.

Lunchables are banned in many schools in the UK. Peanut butter isn't as far as I'm aware.....

(added this in after as an example)

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They have so many preservatives in them they'd probably last a week.

When did this happen?

Just because some people are allergic to peanuts doesn't mean that they should take it away. You just have to make sure there are other options.

You have to understand that some people are so allergic that some other kid eating peanut butter is enough to set off an attack. And rates are climbing. In another 300 years we might consider peanuts to be poisonous, plain and simple, and be confused by these historical writings that clearly refer to eating them.

Over the last 5 years.

it's so crazy here that they don't make the kids wash their hands before they eat lunch, but they do afterwards just in case they came into contact with peanuts whilst visiting one of the few areas in school where peanuts are allowed. :rolleyes:

At my infant/ middle school (5-12) we used to line up and wash our hands after the bell rang for lunch. Then depending on which lunch sitting you were on, most children used to go outside to play on the playground or the school field before being summoned in :)

Wow, never heard of that before.