When you were a kid. what was the first thing you went for in your Easter basket? Mine was Reese's peanut butter eggs

[debm55]

and pink jelly beans. How about you?:

[mwmisses4289]

1. The chocolate bunny, of course.

[debm55]

3. Thank you very much, mwmisses4289.

[LuckyCharms]

2. The marijuana, Deb.

[debm55]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. Thank you LuckyCharms.

[Emile]

5. I remember getting a baby blue chicken.

Brother, and my sister got one too. Dad put up a little chicken wire in the backyard, and I watched them lose their color and turn white. Then one day when we were all in school, they all escaped.

[debm55]

6. I got one too, though mine was pink. I put it in a box next to the furnace to keep it warm. It died overnight.

[wnylib]

18. Did you have chicken dinner the next day?

[Emile]

19. I bet grandma & grandpa did. I don't remember, I was probably in the first grade.

[wnylib]

20. I ask because my aunt and uncle bought 3 ducklings

one Easter for their 3 sons. They lived on 10 acres outside of town. I was a city kid, but that uncle was my godfather and I spent 2 weeks at their home every summer when school was out.

As the ducks grew, they had free range of the property. Then, one summer day while I was at their home for my usual 2 weeks, they decided to "harvest" the ducks. Both my aunt and uncle had grown up on farms where they had occasionally killed a chicken for dinner.

I was about 9 years old. They asked me to help them round up the ducks into a corner of their lot so they could grab them. When one of the ducks got close to the corner, I ran forward and shooed it away to save its life. My uncle sent me indoors. I heard the squawking when they were caught and then the silence.

Next day at dinner, they tried to pass off the duck to me as chicken but I refused to touch it. I told them that I knew what the "chicken" was. I ate mashed potatoes with butter (no gravy) and veggies. .

My uncle said that my family was not vegetarian and I ate meat at home, so what was the problem? I told him that I would not eat something that I had personally known. He dropped the subject.

[debm55]

21. That's sad. I am proud of you for chasing the duck away and not eating it.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Thin Mints

If I were lucky enough to score some, that is.

[debm55]

9. Thank you very much, EYESORE 9001

[Coolgoober]

8. Anything Chocolate

Still raiding the grandkids baskets of the chocolate these days. The countdown begins 7...6...

[debm55]

10. That's funny. Thank you Coolgoober.

[HappyH]

11. I would check to see if the chocolate bunny still had ears.

I was about 9 before I realized rabbits had long ears. My mom would eat the ears off the chocolate bunnies and carefully re-wrap them so no one could tell.

[debm55]

12. HAHAHAHHAHAHHA. Thankyou HappyH. That is so funny.

[viva la]

13. I just put the Reese's eggs in my grandson's basket.

I put them inside plastic easter eggs. So there's an egg in the egg. I hope that will appeal to a 4-year-old's sense of humor!

[debm55]

14. Very cute and funny. viva la. I am sure he will like it.

[TlalocW]

15. I actually started on the candy I didn't like as much

And went from there. Leaving the good stuff for later.

[debm55]

16. Thank you very much for sharing with us, TlalocW. That is a great idea.

[wnylib]

17. Chocolate bunny

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much for sharing with us. wnylib.

[AllaN01Bear]

23. CHOCOLATE RABBIT , i go after the ears first . and then, jelly beans

i got a chocolate rabbit sitting on my desk as i type saying eat me , eat me for 2 weeks . going on the attack of the chocolate bunnies on the day. muwhaheahahaha.

[debm55]

24. HAHHAHHAHAHAH. Thank you very much for sharing, Bear. Sounds good.

[malaise]

25. The Cadbury Easter Egg

😀

[debm55]

27. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Do you still eat them now???? They are good. Enjoy, malaise.

[malaise]

29. Haven't eaten one in decades

Will check tomorrow to see if they are in my supermarket.

[FuzzyRabbit]

26. Dyed hard boiled eggs.

We were not allowed to eat candy on Easter. But the day before we had fun dying them different colors.

[debm55]

28. Thank you very much for sharing with us.

[Norrrm]

30. The chocolate bunny.

Now, I am old and wait until they are on sale for half price or better.

[debm55]

31. hahahah, Thank you Norrrm. Love it

[NNadir]

32. If I recall, it was the marshmallow bunnies covered in dyed sugar, but it could have been the chocolate covered...

...marshmallow eggs.

The bunny was always last.

My father would give my grandmother the money to put the Easter Baskets together.

We'd stop at my Grandmother's house after church, pick her up, and she'd bring the baskets.

Maybe the delay of having to sit through church had something to do with me becoming an atheist. (Just kidding...other things were involved.)

[debm55]

33. Thank you very much for sharing, NNadir. So you liked peeps?

[NNadir]

34. Peeps. Yes. My wife will sometimes get them for me...

...on clearance after Easter.

She knows, unlike anyone else, where the child resides in me, all marshmallow and sugar.

[debm55]

35. Thank you very much, NNadir, I liked peeps when they were a little stale.

[gopiscrap]

36. peeps

[debm55]

37. Thank you very much . gopiscrap, when I was a kid, i liked the yellow ones