Pre-dyed Easter eggs? Seriously?!?

[bluesbassman]

So I walked by the cold case where the keep the eggs in my local grocery store, and there they were, bold as brass: Pre-dyed Easter Eggs!

I mean what the heck is the point of that? Half the fun was dying the eggs together with the kids.

[Archae]

1. It's for the fussy parents.

"MY little angel isn't going to get messy dyeing eggs!" :eyes:

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. y u mad?

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[jmowreader]

3. People are fucking lazy. Okay?

For a few months I worked in a grocery store. Someone once came in to buy the ingredients for homemade lasagna. On the list, and no I'm not making this up:

aluminum foil pan
pre-boiled noodles
jar of marinara sauce
package of pre-browned hamburger
package of pre-shredded mozzarella
package of cottage cheese

They actually sell all these things. The question is, what exactly is the fucking point of pre-boiled lasagna noodles? Or, more precisely, what is the point of pre-cooked everything that can't be better served by going to the freezer case for Stouffer's?

[struggle4progress]

4. It's possible to make a perfectly decent lasagna without boiling any noodles: just

use standard noodles, dry, and let the whole dish stand long enough to sog the noodles before cooking

[siligut]

5. There are dry noodles that you layer dry, but the recipe just includes more liquid

You bake it normally, and the noodles cook in the sauce. Actually good stuff, and I resent those hot, boiled noodles that tear when I try to layer them.

[murielm99]

7. When they are layered dry, the consistency of the

noodles in the finished product is much better. IMHO.

[siligut]

9. I agree, they tend to have more structure

Don't know how else to describe it.

[Incitatus]

6. Fresh/cooked pasta tastes better than dried pasta.

Different ingredients are also used, eggs are not used in dried pasta.

The pre-cooked hamburger is a little weird, though. I would never buy that.

[Bunny]

8. Sorry, I see nothing wrong with any of that.

I've never heard of pre-browned hamburger, though. Hmmm...I'm going to have to look into this. Stouffer's lasagne sucks, by the way.

Signed,

Bunny
Fucking Lazy

[murielm99]

10. LOL.

Thanks for being so unapologetic.