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Capitalism's gentlest heist: toddlers laundering candy through grass in broad daylight.
means An organized search for hidden eggs (real or candy-filled), traditionally held around Easter, where children hunt for prizes planted in gardens, lawns, or parks.
from The custom blends two old threads: eggs as an ancient symbol of spring and rebirth (long predating Easter, tied to pagan fertility rites later absorbed into Christian tradition), and the German custom of the 'Osterhase,' an egg-laying hare who judged children's behavior and hid treats for the good ones — a folk figure German immigrants carried to America in the 1700s, where it eventually hopped into the Easter Bunny and the backyard hunts we know now.
- origin
- Protestant Germans linked eggs to Easter resurrection symbolism
- white house tradition
- egg roll on lawn dates back to 1878
- plastic eggs
- invented 1950 so candy survives rain and reuse
- real risk
- hidden hard boiled eggs occasionally go undiscovered for weeks