Easter and Easter eggs

[Langue_doc]

Easter's coming up. Are you doing Easter eggs this year? I'm usually quite extravagant about dyeing and painting eggs for Easter, but not this year, alas, as eggs are still a luxury in our city.

[apl68]

No children, so I've not done the Easter egg thing since I was quite small.  I did get a couple of those filled chocolate eggs that they have around Easter, and enjoyed one last night.  I'll probably have the other on Easter itself.  Maybe when I go to the grocery store next week, I can find some on clearance.  They didn't seem to have many, though.  I wonder whether sales of those have been up, since real hen fruit is so expensive.

[Hibush]

The fad this year is the Easter potato.

Have you considered doing that?

[Vkw10]

We're dyeing jumbo marshmallows this year, mainly to see how well it works and to use up several partial bottles of food coloring. I might dye an egg or two, if I'm in the mood for boiled eggs on my lunch salad.

A neighbor is buying a dozen eggs a day from three area stores, determined to have enough for her family's traditional four generation egg dyeing party.

[dismalist]

Interthreadality.

I learned from this thread and from the egg price thread that for some people hens' eggs are substitutes for chocolate eggs which are in turn substitutes for potato eggs. Not perfect substitutes, mind you, just substitutes in some uses.

Reminds me of an Econ 101 dictum: Substitutes of substitutes are substitutes. Complements of complements are complements. Substitutes of complements are complements.

This further reminds me of when I was TA in 1971 or '72 and I had to grade the econ exams. One question was: The Canadian government is thinking of legalizing marijuana. The beer and wine sellers are for it, the tobacco sellers are against it. Using the concepts substitutes and complements, explain why this is rational behavior.

One female student wrote: There is nothing better than to have a bottle of Boone's Farm Apple wine in one hand and a joint in the other. I gave full credit.