Easter will be celebrated next Sunday.
I still remember the candy we used to get as kids: chocolate bunnies, a rainbow of jellybeans, marshmallow "peeps" and those wonderful diorama eggs made of sugar. Each of those eggs had a peephole that allowed you to look at scenes of little boys and girls hunting for Easter eggs, fields and flowers and, of course, Easter chicks and bunnies.
Those eggs were my favorite Easter confection. I wouldn't eat mine right away, or sometimes even for weeks: Those Easter (or Spring, anyway) scenes were just so pretty that I didn't want to risk ruining them from breaking the egg!
I think what I loved best, though, was that I felt like I was looking at an Easter scene with a covering of snow, or one inside an Igloo. It was like getting the best of both seasons.
The dioramas themselves were inedible: They were usually made of paper. Those eggs are harder to find today, and the ones that are available have dioramas that aren't nearly as elaborate. As I understand, the reason is that a government regulation says, in essence, that if a candy is edible on the outside, it has to be edible inside. So the dioramas are now made of candy, which is more difficult to turn into pretty scenes than paper or plastic are.
Still, I am tempted to get one: I still think it would be fun to look at a Springtime scene with a coating of snow.
It would be different from the one I saw while pedaling over the RFK Bridge this morning:
That, on the first full day of Spring!
I still remember the candy we used to get as kids: chocolate bunnies, a rainbow of jellybeans, marshmallow "peeps" and those wonderful diorama eggs made of sugar. Each of those eggs had a peephole that allowed you to look at scenes of little boys and girls hunting for Easter eggs, fields and flowers and, of course, Easter chicks and bunnies.
Those eggs were my favorite Easter confection. I wouldn't eat mine right away, or sometimes even for weeks: Those Easter (or Spring, anyway) scenes were just so pretty that I didn't want to risk ruining them from breaking the egg!
I think what I loved best, though, was that I felt like I was looking at an Easter scene with a covering of snow, or one inside an Igloo. It was like getting the best of both seasons.
The dioramas themselves were inedible: They were usually made of paper. Those eggs are harder to find today, and the ones that are available have dioramas that aren't nearly as elaborate. As I understand, the reason is that a government regulation says, in essence, that if a candy is edible on the outside, it has to be edible inside. So the dioramas are now made of candy, which is more difficult to turn into pretty scenes than paper or plastic are.
Still, I am tempted to get one: I still think it would be fun to look at a Springtime scene with a coating of snow.
It would be different from the one I saw while pedaling over the RFK Bridge this morning:
That, on the first full day of Spring!
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