April 17, 2025 • 9 mins
As Easter approaches, Anney and Samantha dig into a basket of Easter memories around food and traditions.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Andy and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I've never told you direct If
I hurt, are you? And welcome to another edition of
Happy Hour. As always with these segments, if you choose
to drink or whatever you're choosing to do, please do
(00:27):
so responsibly. It's just a nice Generally we don't always succeed,
but it's supposed to be kind of a winding down
time or just a time where you and I can
chat and hopefully you listeners enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are you sitting on anything, Samantha.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I am all my bubble water strawberry watermelon, A.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nice nice I've got a bit of a hot toddy situation.
I had a bit of a late night that I'll
talk about a future episode. And so last night I
slept really hard, and you know that feeling when you
sleep for the hard and you actually wake up kind
of like disoriented. Yeah, yeah, so I'm kind of like
(01:06):
my throat was a little I think I was breathing
very deeply. Ah, but it was a very nice sleep,
but I was just kind of this morning a little whoa.
But Okay, as we're recording this, it is tax day.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It is tax Day.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It is tax Day, but it's also coming up on Easter.
So I mean, Samantha and I have made it clear
we're not very religious currently, but I did grow up
in a religious household, so I just kind of wanted
to talk about some of the things that I my
family used to do for Easter. I did try to
(01:44):
look into Usually when we do these holiday based episodes,
I can find several articles about women who are like,
why are you making me get making Easter basket? So
I did look into that. But Samantha, did you have
any do you have any like foods that you were
so stay with Easter, or any memories that you have?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So one thing specific that I would always get growing up.
I was an odd child that did not love chocolate chocolate.
So the one thing I did like though, was white
chocolate oddly enough, which is super sweet in comparison to
but my so my growing up, I always got white
chocolate Easter bunnies. My mother made sure to have that.
(02:24):
My dad loves dying eggs, so we would do that
even when fighting, so we would have tons of boiled eggs.
We would have tons of boiled eggs. We're not actually
doing that this year. I was told by my family
that they weren't do that because there's no children. But
I'm also wondering if it is the egg crisis, which
would make me laugh hysterically if you know my family,
you know the you know like that. But I don't
think that's it. But I mean maybe I could be,
(02:48):
It could be. But all of that to say is
that's the biggest memory. Also that I would always get
a book, and it was usually the old school Nancy
Drew or Hardy.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Boy books that I would get at Easter.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I don't know why. I remember that. I remember eating
bits and I would save it for like months of
my white chocolate Easter Bunny while reading my new book.
So that's something I do remember. What about you?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's nice? Food wise? We had We always had ham.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, that is an Easter favorite.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Deviled eggs, which I know you don't like, but hold
host of the show Caroline loves them, right.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Favorite she has. She is so Southern and loves it
so much. She has a specialized egg shelled egg dish. Yes, yes,
and my mother did too. My mother has several the
fancy version and then the tupperware version so you can
travel with it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, my mom did have that too. I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Those were the two go tos, and then usually like
peas or asparagus. I've said it before. I was never
a big candy person, so I'd usually get the candy
and trade it for something. But my mom would make uh,
she'd make these cupcakes that had like the green coconut
grass on tap and then the pastel M and ms
(04:03):
as eggs, and I loved though for some reason.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Probably could be memory. I just saw edible grass yesterday
and I was like, what is what is this?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Why is this?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Why is this?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Why is this a thing? Because you know, you have
the Easter basket and that has the grass and all that,
and that's exactly what it looks like. But apparently it's edible.
I guess maybe you put it on like food stuff
as well, like if you do a specialized cake that
you want to be over the top because it's not
the coconut thing. I've seen for years that that is
(04:34):
gin eggs Boomer tradition, but like the edible grass is
new to me, so I'm very like, I'm like, do
they put this in the basket and tell you to
eat that too?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'm I have questions I have questions.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I will also want to add my mother used
to make like the fancy, fancy baskets for people to have,
like care package baskets, so I have baskets were very pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The baskets can be very pretty. My family only did
that once and then we found them before we were
supposed to find them, and they got mad, and so
they never did it again, which is fair. I don't understood,
and take it back.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's what they say about Santa Claus too, which.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
By the way, I never believed in the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I believed in Santa Claus were an embarrassing amount of time,
but I never lived in. But anyway, I was a
very competitive egg hunter. That was my favorite thing, and
to the point they put in rules specifically for me
where I couldn't I had to they everyone else got
a head start.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I was gonna say, did you have to sit back?
Like five minutes?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We had like gold eggs and I was only allowed
to find one. It was so frustrating. That's me. There's
a picture where I'm like glaring. I obviously can see
it and I can't get it. I was so mad.
But that was my favorite part of Easter.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I loved it, but I can only imagine, like how
much work that was for my mom to put all
all the stuff in there and then hide the eggs
and put that together for us. Something else I found
out is a Southern tradition which completely makes sense to
me when I read about it. Is the whole Easter
dress thing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I was always Southern. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, my family, my grandmother sometimes would take me out
to get an Easter dress. I hated it because I
was so insecure with my body. But I did like
the getting of the dress.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But you know, as an adult, I definitely don't do it.
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
She was like the person that did that for me,
no one else. But I learned it was a Southern thing.
Like women in the Easter the pastor dress.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
The families have to match. Like for my sister specifically,
she did that. My parents did too. Don't get me wrong,
because it was Easter Sunday. You go to service, you
have that dress. Everything is in pastels. I remember all
of my past not all of them, but some of
the pastel dresses. But like, yeah, having that perfect picture
on Easter with your basket.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yes, yes, I have one. Still if we still posted
on social media. I have a picture of my family.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
That is exactly that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All the kids look semi miserable, and I'm looking at
the eggs. I'm already like where are they? But I
did enjoy it, you know. The sad thing is like
during the pandemic, my mom, that was one of the
things we tried to do is we tried to get
together for Easter because I love she would still put
on the Easter egg hunts for me.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The amount of money you met, you you got all
those Easter egg hunts. I was like, okay, first of all,
we only got candy, but we got more real eggs
than anything else.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We'd rake it in man. But that's why the golden
egg was so it had twenty bucks in it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Also, I remembered that was one of the final death
knells of me and my ex boyfriend, as we were
dying Easter eggs together with my mom, and my mom
was like, don't you have a crush on this other guy?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And I was like, mom and he left business star
she did. He left. He was my ride and he left.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, didn't care that relationship was over one of your mom.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It was quite the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
These days, I don't go home for Easter anymore, but
I do make Usually it's more of a spring thing
than an Easter thing, but I make like a spring
pasta or something like, something very bright. So that's what
I'm planning on doing this year. But I do have
a lot of fun memories with it, especially the Easter
a hunting that was my favorite. So I would be
(08:46):
really curious listeners. We always love hearing about other people's
traditions or memories, so please write in. Write in with
those or any anything you celebrate like that we would
love to hear it. You can email us at Hello
at stuff Wenever Told You dot com. You can find
us on Blue Sky at Mom's Stuff podcasts, or on
Instagram and TikTok at Stuff We've Never Told You. We're
(09:08):
also on YouTube. We have a t pelic story read
book you can get wherever you get your books. Thanks
as always to our super produce Christine or executive producer
my Andrew Trooper Joey.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thank you, and thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
For listening Stuff I've Never Told Us production by Heart Radio.
For more podcast from my Heart Radio, you can check
out the heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or where you
listen to your favorite shows.
Hey, this is Andy and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I've never told you direct If
I hurt, are you? And welcome to another edition of
Happy Hour. As always with these segments, if you choose
to drink or whatever you're choosing to do, please do
(00:27):
so responsibly. It's just a nice Generally we don't always succeed,
but it's supposed to be kind of a winding down
time or just a time where you and I can
chat and hopefully you listeners enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are you sitting on anything, Samantha.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I am all my bubble water strawberry watermelon, A.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nice nice I've got a bit of a hot toddy situation.
I had a bit of a late night that I'll
talk about a future episode. And so last night I
slept really hard, and you know that feeling when you
sleep for the hard and you actually wake up kind
of like disoriented. Yeah, yeah, so I'm kind of like
(01:06):
my throat was a little I think I was breathing
very deeply. Ah, but it was a very nice sleep,
but I was just kind of this morning a little whoa.
But Okay, as we're recording this, it is tax day.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It is tax Day.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It is tax Day, but it's also coming up on Easter.
So I mean, Samantha and I have made it clear
we're not very religious currently, but I did grow up
in a religious household, so I just kind of wanted
to talk about some of the things that I my
family used to do for Easter. I did try to
(01:44):
look into Usually when we do these holiday based episodes,
I can find several articles about women who are like,
why are you making me get making Easter basket? So
I did look into that. But Samantha, did you have
any do you have any like foods that you were
so stay with Easter, or any memories that you have?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So one thing specific that I would always get growing up.
I was an odd child that did not love chocolate chocolate.
So the one thing I did like though, was white
chocolate oddly enough, which is super sweet in comparison to
but my so my growing up, I always got white
chocolate Easter bunnies. My mother made sure to have that.
(02:24):
My dad loves dying eggs, so we would do that
even when fighting, so we would have tons of boiled eggs.
We would have tons of boiled eggs. We're not actually
doing that this year. I was told by my family
that they weren't do that because there's no children. But
I'm also wondering if it is the egg crisis, which
would make me laugh hysterically if you know my family,
you know the you know like that. But I don't
think that's it. But I mean maybe I could be,
(02:48):
It could be. But all of that to say is
that's the biggest memory. Also that I would always get
a book, and it was usually the old school Nancy
Drew or Hardy.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Boy books that I would get at Easter.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I don't know why. I remember that. I remember eating
bits and I would save it for like months of
my white chocolate Easter Bunny while reading my new book.
So that's something I do remember. What about you?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's nice? Food wise? We had We always had ham.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, that is an Easter favorite.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Deviled eggs, which I know you don't like, but hold
host of the show Caroline loves them, right.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Favorite she has. She is so Southern and loves it
so much. She has a specialized egg shelled egg dish. Yes, yes,
and my mother did too. My mother has several the
fancy version and then the tupperware version so you can
travel with it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, my mom did have that too. I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Those were the two go tos, and then usually like
peas or asparagus. I've said it before. I was never
a big candy person, so I'd usually get the candy
and trade it for something. But my mom would make uh,
she'd make these cupcakes that had like the green coconut
grass on tap and then the pastel M and ms
(04:03):
as eggs, and I loved though for some reason.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Probably could be memory. I just saw edible grass yesterday
and I was like, what is what is this?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Why is this?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Why is this?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Why is this a thing? Because you know, you have
the Easter basket and that has the grass and all that,
and that's exactly what it looks like. But apparently it's edible.
I guess maybe you put it on like food stuff
as well, like if you do a specialized cake that
you want to be over the top because it's not
the coconut thing. I've seen for years that that is
(04:34):
gin eggs Boomer tradition, but like the edible grass is
new to me, so I'm very like, I'm like, do
they put this in the basket and tell you to
eat that too?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'm I have questions I have questions.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I will also want to add my mother used
to make like the fancy, fancy baskets for people to have,
like care package baskets, so I have baskets were very pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The baskets can be very pretty. My family only did
that once and then we found them before we were
supposed to find them, and they got mad, and so
they never did it again, which is fair. I don't understood,
and take it back.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's what they say about Santa Claus too, which.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
By the way, I never believed in the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I believed in Santa Claus were an embarrassing amount of time,
but I never lived in. But anyway, I was a
very competitive egg hunter. That was my favorite thing, and
to the point they put in rules specifically for me
where I couldn't I had to they everyone else got
a head start.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I was gonna say, did you have to sit back?
Like five minutes?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We had like gold eggs and I was only allowed
to find one. It was so frustrating. That's me. There's
a picture where I'm like glaring. I obviously can see
it and I can't get it. I was so mad.
But that was my favorite part of Easter.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I loved it, but I can only imagine, like how
much work that was for my mom to put all
all the stuff in there and then hide the eggs
and put that together for us. Something else I found
out is a Southern tradition which completely makes sense to
me when I read about it. Is the whole Easter
dress thing.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I was always Southern. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, my family, my grandmother sometimes would take me out
to get an Easter dress. I hated it because I
was so insecure with my body. But I did like
the getting of the dress.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But you know, as an adult, I definitely don't do it.
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
She was like the person that did that for me,
no one else. But I learned it was a Southern thing.
Like women in the Easter the pastor dress.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
The families have to match. Like for my sister specifically,
she did that. My parents did too. Don't get me wrong,
because it was Easter Sunday. You go to service, you
have that dress. Everything is in pastels. I remember all
of my past not all of them, but some of
the pastel dresses. But like, yeah, having that perfect picture
on Easter with your basket.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yes, yes, I have one. Still if we still posted
on social media. I have a picture of my family.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
That is exactly that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
All the kids look semi miserable, and I'm looking at
the eggs. I'm already like where are they? But I
did enjoy it, you know. The sad thing is like
during the pandemic, my mom, that was one of the
things we tried to do is we tried to get
together for Easter because I love she would still put
on the Easter egg hunts for me.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The amount of money you met, you you got all
those Easter egg hunts. I was like, okay, first of all,
we only got candy, but we got more real eggs
than anything else.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We'd rake it in man. But that's why the golden
egg was so it had twenty bucks in it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Also, I remembered that was one of the final death
knells of me and my ex boyfriend, as we were
dying Easter eggs together with my mom, and my mom
was like, don't you have a crush on this other guy?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And I was like, mom and he left business star
she did. He left. He was my ride and he left.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, didn't care that relationship was over one of your mom.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It was quite the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
These days, I don't go home for Easter anymore, but
I do make Usually it's more of a spring thing
than an Easter thing, but I make like a spring
pasta or something like, something very bright. So that's what
I'm planning on doing this year. But I do have
a lot of fun memories with it, especially the Easter
a hunting that was my favorite. So I would be
(08:46):
really curious listeners. We always love hearing about other people's
traditions or memories, so please write in. Write in with
those or any anything you celebrate like that we would
love to hear it. You can email us at Hello
at stuff Wenever Told You dot com. You can find
us on Blue Sky at Mom's Stuff podcasts, or on
Instagram and TikTok at Stuff We've Never Told You. We're
(09:08):
also on YouTube. We have a t pelic story read
book you can get wherever you get your books. Thanks
as always to our super produce Christine or executive producer
my Andrew Trooper Joey.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thank you, and thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
For listening Stuff I've Never Told Us production by Heart Radio.
For more podcast from my Heart Radio, you can check
out the heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or where you
listen to your favorite shows.
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