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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Hiding Eggs
What convinced me to get these though was the name: Hiding Eggs. It seems obvious that Judson-Atkinson Candies is well aware that these aren’t for eating! They’re for hiding ... possibly without any hope of every finding. They’re all individually wrapped, which is great for throwing in Easter baskets or reassuring when you find one stuck in the sofa cushions in August and shrug and eat it anyway.
They come in the standard color & flavor variety of fruit jelly beans: Orange, Lemon, Grape, Cherry, Lime and Vanilla. I’m not going to lie to you, this is not a comprehensive review, I didn’t eat all of them. I tasted the purple, orange and white ones and that was it. Read the Brach’s Bunny Basket Eggs review for my complete rant on the subject of these candy impostors (not that they’re BBBE impostors, but that they’re masquerading as edible confections). The centers are soft and grainy, the shells are crunchy and grainy. The flavor layer is very mild, but the tastes distinct enough that you could probably tell them apart with your eyes closed. Each egg is a substantial hit of sugar, weighing in at a little over 13 grams each and about 50 calories (yes, that’d be 13 grams of carbs!). So if you’ve been having trouble finding the Brach’s, or just want a brand that’s made in the USA (most Brach’s products are no longer made here), Judson-Atkinson Candies has your new favorite hiding egg. Added bonus, they were only $1.49. The one thing that I find so enchanting about these is that they’re part of a rather extensive line from Judson-Atkinson that includes all different sizes of these eggs. Pigeon Eggs (small marshmallow eggs), Hen Eggs (medium marshmallow eggs) & Turkey Eggs (large marshmallow eggs). The Turkey variety tops out at about 1/3 larger than the Hen Eggs (which I think I’ve reviewed here ... it’s so hard to tell). They’re an important part of Easter, I’ll grant you that. I’ve had mine for the year (just like I used to eat my bit of Pork & Sauerkraut for New Year’s as a kid ... for the record it was the pork that I didn’t like, I love sauerkraut), so I should be very lucky. Since they’re wrapped they may make good filler for pinatas, so pick some up on clearance next week. These have a marshmallow center, so contain gelatin and are not suitable for vegetarians. Related Candies
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I’ve had a few different varieties of these, but the Brach’s eggs are still the best. I’m one of those “devoted followers” you mention, waiting all year to devour a bag or two of these babies.. yum!
OH! I cannot stand any type of these. I think they are horrible and always hated getting them in my basket for Easter.
When I was young and received these a couple of years in a raw at a school event (My parents were smart enough not to buy these) it always made me want to shoot the Easter Bunny in the head. What a cruel joke on a kid! Here is something called candy and should be good… SURPRISE! “We work real hard at the candy factory to use special banned chemicals and horrifying techniques to take sweet delicious sugar and turn it into a foul tasting rock hard lump of (pick your expletive)!”
I hadn’t realized before this year that candy makers have stopped calling these marshmallow eggs. That’s what they were always known as when I was growing up.
I guess that there is such a proliferation of other styles of marshmallow candies being made these days that people were getting confused?
These were never my favorite candy in the basket, but I liked them well enough. I’m a deconstructionist when it comes to eating many kinds of candies. It makes them last longer. With these eggs, I’d nibble off the candy shell as much as I could, then slowly chew the filling.
We rarely ever went to church when I was a young kid. We always hit up the major holidays though (Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day). One of my main enduring memories of Easter as a youth is these gosh-forsaken wretched excuses of candy. The church where we’d always go (of my great-grandmother) always haphazardly scattered a million of these things (give or take a few hundred thousand) all over the ground. The fun part was gathering as many of these as we could. That is where the rosy memory ends though.
It must have brought a great amount of joy to see all of our gleeful faces, which were anticipating our bounty of expected wonderful candy treats, turn into absolute horror and disgust when we took our first bites. These things are more painful than a swift kick in the gut. I, for one, vow to never subject my three daughters to such a horrendous, trust-crushing piece of candy.
Ugh! The only time I ever got these was at the Easter parties they threw at church when I was little-- they’re forever linked in my mind with uncomfortably ruffled dresses, squeaky new patent leather shoes and really watery red Kool-ade…
I always ate these FIRST from out of my Easter basket, even before any chocolate! I just love the so-called “Hiding Eggs”.
Now my daughter goes on her own “Easter Hunt” looking for these at the store. When she finds some, she buys me a bag, too. They are becoming hard to find. We love them. Please don’t stop making these because there are followers out here in California.
These ARE getting hard to find...and I have to admit, they always say “Easter Basket” to me. Yeah, I’ll admit I like them a lot. I looked everywhere this season and I couldn’t find them anywhere. Back when I was a kid, it was these and jellybeans in the basket. Maybe a few foil wrapped chocolate eggs thrown in there too if we were lucky. These were always my favorites!
i would like to know if the turkey eggs are avialable after Easter
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