Unpopular Opinions Post [NOT 5/3/21]

5/3/21 brightersideoflife 50

Hi, friends! HAPPY FRIDAY, WE MADE IT!!!

Unpopular opinions post.

Easter candy is far superior to Halloween candy.

If you don’t like black jellybeans? Just eat the rest! Or get the Starburst jellybeans which are fucking delicious.

Don’t like Peeps? Use them for rice krispie treats or one of these other 18 things.

https://www.delish.com/holiday-recipes/easter/g3312/peeps-hacks/?slide=2

When I was a kid, Easter candy baskets were waaay better than going trick-or-treating.

My grandma would get us chocolate Easter bunnies from Fannie May when I was a kid, and those were delicious. I will admit I thought it weird when I would hear an adult refer to Fannie Mae because why would the same company do mortgages and candy???

avataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravatar

50 Comments

  1. I find Easter and Halloween candy to have equal numbers of abhorrent concoctions.  Jelly Beans are the Candy Corn of Easter candy.  I will say, though, that the Cadbury hard shell eggs are fucking glorious.
     
    I am sick to fucking death of Meghan Markle and the whole “royal intrigue” thing.  As much as Americans love to shout from the rooftops about how we fought a revolution for a reason, as a people we sure can’t get enough of these rich assholes.  Enough already.  Everyone just shut the fuck up and go play polo.

    • Well there’s also like 18 variations of “rich women who live in ____ city and this is what they do” shows on TV, so clearly there’s an appetite for obsessing over what socialites and wealthy women do. She’s kinda the apex of that I guess in some ways because she literally married into a royal family. 

          • My wife and I can’t watch HGTV because it enrages us.  Especially the demolition of perfectly good houses in the name of some shitty “upgrade” or “refresh”.  I can’t hear the term “open it up” without wanting to commit some sort of felony.  Also, bathroom vanities with two side-by-side sinks are an abomination.  Why not side-by-side toilets?  

        • It isn’t just the rich. Watch Judge Judy. I’m sure the litigants are chosen for their pettiness and freak factor. Damaged cars. Roommate troubles. It’s not a real courtroom, it’s a televised mediation session and the show picks up the damages awarded. “Judgment for the defendant in the amount of $214.” You humiliated yourself on national television to get $214? And this episode will be in reruns for as long as humans roam the earth? And it used to be that the show would fly in the freaks from around the country and put them up for a night, so I guess they at least got a little LA vacation away from their mean, pinched, uneventful lives, however briefly, but now, because of the pandemic, they draw from the LA metro area and I would guess the wannabe reality stars drive themselves to the tapings. This I completely don’t understand.

        • My friend in Vancouver is part of a family well established in (mostly white) Vancouver High Society.   His two brothers (who he has been feuding with) and their wives were asked by producers to appear in the Vancouver version of shallow awful people who should die in a fire.  The matriarch put her foot down.  She’s a dignified woman who protects said family dignity with the same ferocity that a Wolverine would her den.  Don’t blame her.
          I laughed when my friend told me about it.

    • I haven’t seen a decent post-holiday sale in about a decade or so, but back then, I felt like there was a much bigger selection/better discounts on easter candy.
      I suspect that there has been some widely-used software that makes pretty accurate predictions, so that stores end up with minimal excess inventory now.  It’s kinda disappointing, now the after-holiday sale is rarely more than a couple shelves, when it used to be almost 1/2 an aisle…

      • I wonder if it also corresponds to the “pre-made” Easter baskets you can buy now that are all cellophane-wrapped up with candy in there. 

        Like maybe more people buy those so there’s less interest in buying 10 bags of Easter candy to put together baskets for the kiddos?

  2. Don’t like Peeps? Use them for rice krispie treats or one of these other 18 things.

    Better yet, put them in a vacuum chamber and see what happens.

  4. I had a very exciting and busy evening. I went out to get the mail around 5 an found a little dog running loose in the neighborhood.  He came right to me, was a friendly little guy. He was wearing a collar but the tag was worn and I couldn’t read the phone number. But he was wearing a microchip tag so I brought him in to call the company. Fanny, who misses the company of other dogs, was immediately enamored of him. They ran around the yard for hours. When it got too cold outside they ran around the house. They rested together and played some more. The people finally called and came to retrieve him. Fanny cried as they carried him away. It was so cute and sad. I should get her a friend but I don’t know if I can walk two dogs at once. Maybe I should try fostering to see how it goes. Any suggestions?

    • @Hannibal I will bow out of answering you, as I am your friend with four dogs, who would love to have a fifth dog. Sadly, he who shall not be named has committed no recent offenses egregious enough to warrant dog number five. All dogs are good dogs. Maybe go small, for balance? 

      • My 80 lb girl loves little dogs. This was a Malti-Poo, maybe 12 – 15 lbs, and they had a wonderful time together. She enjoyed having an unexpected play date so much. It broke her houndy heart when he left. A little friend might be just what she needs.

        • Butcher Dog very much misses having a playmate.  She used to go to work with Mrs. Butcher and play with another coworker’s dog.  Every time someone walks their dog by the house, she’s in the window with her tail wagging.  I regularly suggest to Mrs. Butcher that the dog needs a playmate–preferably a very large playmate that she can crash into without hurting it (she loves crashing into things full tilt boogie).  Mrs. Butcher’s response so far continues to be:  “You have two choices.  You can have a playmate for the dog.  Or you can have me.”

    • …I’m not at all sure about this but I vaguely recall there being something about cadbury’s creme eggs only being “available” in the run up to easter…so when shops eventually ran out of whatever they’d ordered up then they were out until the next year

      …which would imply that either people didn’t buy all that many or some places over-ordered by a considerable margin because I thought they were available year round until whenever it was I asked someone in some newsagent or other why there weren’t any…mind you that was the UK…& some several decades ago…so I don’t know if it was ever true…much less still is?

      • Far as I know shops still only stock Cadbury cream eggs in the run up to Easter after Easter if they’re gone they’re gone
        Tho I’m sure you could find them online if you really wanted to

        • Yeah there’s like 3-4 aisles of Easter candy at Target right now.

          Most of it is just the usual candy in bags but with pastel wrappers or other theme packaging. Like mini KitKat bars in pastel wrappers or Hershey’s miniatures in wrappers with eggs on them. 

  6. As an atheist easter is very problematic. On one hand, delicious candy, OTOH, no satisfactory way to separate it from its roots, at least December 25th can be tied back to pagan beliefs.

Leave a Reply