April 4, 2026 • 12 mins
As Easter approaches, Anney and Samantha dig into a basket of Easter memories around food and traditions in our classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Smith. I'm open to stuff.
I never told you, production I heard you, and today
we are bringing back a classic happy hour that we
did on Easter because despite the fact that I completely
(00:28):
forgot it, this is Easter weekend, as.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It comes out, this was early.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, well I feel like it was late. So that's interesting. Yeah,
it lands all over the place. I do have. I
don't really do anything special for Easter anymore, but I
make like a spring meal. I make a bright spring meal.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You don't do the hunt anymore when your mom gives
you all the.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Money, Yes, I don't. And so that's you know. Not
only is this time, but one of the reasons I
wanted to bring this up is as discussed in this episode.
I loved that. Yeah, I was jealous. But it's funny
to me how many people tease me about that to
this day, Like I still get messages about not just
(01:18):
like the money aspect that I got money from Easter
ec hunting, but just that I did it so long
into adulthood, Like I've already gotten like four or five
messages teasing me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
About was jealous.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It was so fun everybody was jealous. Yeah, I'm not
mad about it. It's just kind of funny that I
somehow have cemented that in people's minds, where every year
this time rolls around and I get these messages, just
you know, fun teasing amongst friends.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Your mom was truly a great Easter bunny. She was
she really it is.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yes, she really put a lot of time into it,
a lot of effort, and it was fun. I have
a lot of fond memories of it, and I definitely
I need to contact her. I need to talk to
her because I miss her. I was thinking about this.
I was like, oh, that was so sweet. Yeah. So listeners,
(02:17):
whatever you're celebrating or not celebrating, it's just spring and
not being having allergies, whatever it is. We wish you
all the best, but we would love to hear any
traditions that you have. But in the meantime, please enjoy
this classic episode.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm welcome to stuff I've never told you, but I should.
I hurt 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 so responsibly.
(03:03):
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. Yeah,
and hopefully you listeners enjoy it. Are you sitting on anything, Smittha.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I am all my bubble water strawberry watermelon, A.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
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 it
slept really hard, and you know that feeling when you
sleep really hard and you actually wake up kind of
like disoriented. Yeah, yeah, so I'm kind of like my
(03:42):
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 2 (03:57):
It is tax Day, it is tax stay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
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 look into usually when
(04:22):
we do these holiday based episodes, I can find several
articles about women who are like, why are you making
me get make an Easter basket? So I did look
into that. But Samantha, did you have any do you
have any foods that you associate with Easter or any
memories that you have?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
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.
(05:00):
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 wonder roof is the egg crices, which would
make me laugh hysterically. If you know my family, you
know the you know like that. But I don't think
(05:20):
that's it, But I mean maybe I could be, 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.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Or Hardy Boy books that I would get at Easter.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't know why I remember that, but I remember
eating bits and I would save it for like months
of my white chocolate Easter Bunny while reading my new book.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So that's something I do remember.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's nice? Food wise? We had We always had ham.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, that is an Easter favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Deviled eggs, which I know you don't like, but whold
host of the show Caroline loves them.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Right, favorite she has and she is so Southern and
loves it so much. She has a specialized egg 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 1 (06:12):
Yeah, my mom did have that too. I forgot about that.
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
she'd make these cupcakes that had like the green coconut
(06:33):
grass on top and then like the pastel m and
ms as eggs, and I loved those for some reason.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Probably could memory. I just saw edible grass yesterday and
I was like, what is what is this?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Why is this? Why is this a thing?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Because you know, you have the Easter basket and that
has the grass and all that, and that's exactly what
it looks like.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But apparently it's edible.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
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
gin eggs Boomer tradition, but like the edible grass is
new to me, so I'm very I'm like, do they
put this in the basket and tell you to eat
(07:21):
that too?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I have questions.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I have questions, 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 1 (07:36):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Take it back. That's what they say about Santa Claus too.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Which, by the way, I never believed in the Easter Bunny.
I believed in Santa Claus for an embarrassing amount of time,
but I've never worked. But anyway, I was a very
competitive egg hunter. That was my favorite thing, and to
(08:15):
the point they put in rules specifically for me where
I couldn't I had to they everyone else got a
head start.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I was gonna say, did you have to sit back?
Like five minutes?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
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. I loved it.
But I can only imagine, like how much work that
was for my mom to put all the stuff in
there and then hind the eggs and put that together
(08:49):
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 2 (08:58):
I was always Southern. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
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. But you know, as an adult,
I definitely don't do it. I haven't. She was like
the person that did that for me, no one else.
But I learned it was a Southern thing, like women
(09:23):
in the Easter the past dress.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But some of the pastel dresses.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But like, yeah, having that perfect picture on Easter Sunday
with your basket.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes, yes, I have one. If we still, if we
still posted on social media, I have a picture of
my family that is exactly that. 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.
(10:08):
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 3 (10:20):
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 1 (10:28):
We'd rake it in man. But that's why the golden
egg was so it had twenty bucks in it. Yeah. 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? And
I was like, mom, and he left her business on
(10:53):
star did he left? He was my ride and he left? Okay, Oh,
he doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That relationship was over. V left one of your mom.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It was quite the thing. 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 fund memories with it,
especially the Easter a hunting that was my favorite, so
(11:31):
I would be 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 podcast,
or on Instagram and TikTok at Stuff I've Never Told You.
(11:53):
We're also on YouTube. We have a t PL stored
read book you can get wherever you get your books.
Things as always too our superroduce Christine, Excited Preuscer, My
Anderfred Trouper, Joey, Thank you and thanks to you for listening.
Stuff You Never Told usruction by heart Radio. For more
podcasts from my heart Radio, you can check out the
heart Radio app, Apple podcast or if you listen to
your favorite shows
Hey, this is Annie and Smith. I'm open to stuff.
I never told you, production I heard you, and today
we are bringing back a classic happy hour that we
did on Easter because despite the fact that I completely
(00:28):
forgot it, this is Easter weekend, as.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It comes out, this was early.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, well I feel like it was late. So that's interesting. Yeah,
it lands all over the place. I do have. I
don't really do anything special for Easter anymore, but I
make like a spring meal. I make a bright spring meal.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You don't do the hunt anymore when your mom gives
you all the.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Money, Yes, I don't. And so that's you know. Not
only is this time, but one of the reasons I
wanted to bring this up is as discussed in this episode.
I loved that. Yeah, I was jealous. But it's funny
to me how many people tease me about that to
this day, Like I still get messages about not just
(01:18):
like the money aspect that I got money from Easter
ec hunting, but just that I did it so long
into adulthood, Like I've already gotten like four or five
messages teasing me.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
About was jealous.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It was so fun everybody was jealous. Yeah, I'm not
mad about it. It's just kind of funny that I
somehow have cemented that in people's minds, where every year
this time rolls around and I get these messages, just
you know, fun teasing amongst friends.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Your mom was truly a great Easter bunny. She was
she really it is.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yes, she really put a lot of time into it,
a lot of effort, and it was fun. I have
a lot of fond memories of it, and I definitely
I need to contact her. I need to talk to
her because I miss her. I was thinking about this.
I was like, oh, that was so sweet. Yeah. So listeners,
(02:17):
whatever you're celebrating or not celebrating, it's just spring and
not being having allergies, whatever it is. We wish you
all the best, but we would love to hear any
traditions that you have. But in the meantime, please enjoy
this classic episode.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm welcome to stuff I've never told you, but I should.
I hurt 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 so responsibly.
(03:03):
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. Yeah,
and hopefully you listeners enjoy it. Are you sitting on anything, Smittha.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I am all my bubble water strawberry watermelon, A.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
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 it
slept really hard, and you know that feeling when you
sleep really hard and you actually wake up kind of
like disoriented. Yeah, yeah, so I'm kind of like my
(03:42):
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 2 (03:57):
It is tax Day, it is tax stay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
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 look into usually when
(04:22):
we do these holiday based episodes, I can find several
articles about women who are like, why are you making
me get make an Easter basket? So I did look
into that. But Samantha, did you have any do you
have any foods that you associate with Easter or any
memories that you have?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
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.
(05:00):
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 wonder roof is the egg crices, which would
make me laugh hysterically. If you know my family, you
know the you know like that. But I don't think
(05:20):
that's it, But I mean maybe I could be, 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.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Or Hardy Boy books that I would get at Easter.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I don't know why I remember that, but I remember
eating bits and I would save it for like months
of my white chocolate Easter Bunny while reading my new book.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So that's something I do remember.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's nice? Food wise? We had We always had ham.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, that is an Easter favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Deviled eggs, which I know you don't like, but whold
host of the show Caroline loves them.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Right, favorite she has and she is so Southern and
loves it so much. She has a specialized egg 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 1 (06:12):
Yeah, my mom did have that too. I forgot about that.
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
she'd make these cupcakes that had like the green coconut
(06:33):
grass on top and then like the pastel m and
ms as eggs, and I loved those for some reason.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Probably could memory. I just saw edible grass yesterday and
I was like, what is what is this?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Why is this? Why is this a thing?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Because you know, you have the Easter basket and that
has the grass and all that, and that's exactly what
it looks like.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But apparently it's edible.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
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
gin eggs Boomer tradition, but like the edible grass is
new to me, so I'm very I'm like, do they
put this in the basket and tell you to eat
(07:21):
that too?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I have questions.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I have questions, 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 1 (07:36):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Take it back. That's what they say about Santa Claus too.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Which, by the way, I never believed in the Easter Bunny.
I believed in Santa Claus for an embarrassing amount of time,
but I've never worked. But anyway, I was a very
competitive egg hunter. That was my favorite thing, and to
(08:15):
the point they put in rules specifically for me where
I couldn't I had to they everyone else got a
head start.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I was gonna say, did you have to sit back?
Like five minutes?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
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. I loved it.
But I can only imagine, like how much work that
was for my mom to put all the stuff in
there and then hind the eggs and put that together
(08:49):
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 2 (08:58):
I was always Southern. Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
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. But you know, as an adult,
I definitely don't do it. I haven't. She was like
the person that did that for me, no one else.
But I learned it was a Southern thing, like women
(09:23):
in the Easter the past dress.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But some of the pastel dresses.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But like, yeah, having that perfect picture on Easter Sunday
with your basket.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes, yes, I have one. If we still, if we
still posted on social media, I have a picture of
my family that is exactly that. 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.
(10:08):
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 3 (10:20):
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 1 (10:28):
We'd rake it in man. But that's why the golden
egg was so it had twenty bucks in it. Yeah. 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? And
I was like, mom, and he left her business on
(10:53):
star did he left? He was my ride and he left? Okay, Oh,
he doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That relationship was over. V left one of your mom.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It was quite the thing. 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 fund memories with it,
especially the Easter a hunting that was my favorite, so
(11:31):
I would be 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 podcast,
or on Instagram and TikTok at Stuff I've Never Told You.
(11:53):
We're also on YouTube. We have a t PL stored
read book you can get wherever you get your books.
Things as always too our superroduce Christine, Excited Preuscer, My
Anderfred Trouper, Joey, Thank you and thanks to you for listening.
Stuff You Never Told usruction by heart Radio. For more
podcasts from my heart Radio, you can check out the
heart Radio app, Apple podcast or if you listen to
your favorite shows
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