Happy Easter, College Candies!

I don’t know about you, but on a scale of early morning Church in panty hose to eternal bliss, Easter treats rank pretty freakin’ close to the top (and almost make putting on panty hose worth it). I’m not sure if it’s the pastel colors, the bunny shapes, or the peanut butter to chocolate ratio in those Reese’s eggs, but there’s just something special about the snacks that pop up this time of year.

And you know what’s even better? Getting to enjoy them without having to risk gaining the Freshman (or Sophomore/Junior/Senior/Super Senior/Depressed Grad) 15 with only a few weeks left in the school year. So I put the best of the best into this here gallery.

Enjoy.

Just don’t lick the screen; do you have any idea how hard that is to clean? (Note: I do. Don’t ask.)

Ever since we were little kiddies, we’ve enjoyed the little party extras that come along with Easter Sunday.  Yes, I am thinking about peeling back the wrapping of a gigantic, dense and chocolaty Easter bunny, and biting off its head.

The greatest thing about Easter is not the flowery dresses or the long church services (sorry God), but the array of tasty candies to choose from. But that is where the issue arises. As much as you may be tempted to do so, you can’t eat every single candy in the basket, at least in one sitting. Unless you have the metabolism of a hummingbird in flight and no little cousins who cry when you eat all the Peeps.

So the question is, which candy do you grab first?  Which candy makes you start your Easter countdown on Halloween? If given an Easter basket, WWJD?

Deep Fried Fat. Mmmm.

Everything’s bigger in Texas—especially calorie counts. This Tuesday, Texas State Fair officials announced eight finalists for this year’s Big Tex Choice Awards, a contest for innovative and inevitably artery-clogging food. The list includes heart attack-inducing treats like Texas Fried Pecan Pie, Deep-Fried Peaches & Cream, and—drumroll, please—Deep-Fried Butter.

That’s right: straight-up sticks of butter, wrapped in dough and fried. America, this is why we’re fat.

As disgusting as the dairy and dough combo sounds, though, I have to admit that I’m a little curious about how it would taste. That got me thinking about other weird, gross-but-kinda-good sounding foods that I’m embarrassed to admit I want to try.

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I think Easter has become an underestimated holiday. It’s unfortunate that it’s never at the top of the favorite list with similar holidays. I think we fail to see the gloriousness of a low key, no stress holiday because Easter isn’t flashy like the Fourth of July. No one is staying up to wait for the Easter bunny or doing last minute Easter present shopping or tuning into the Easter parade.

It’s true Easter should probably be about religion, and Jesus, and morning mass and whatnot, but I love Easter for a different reason. … it is one of the only holidays that is all the fun and none of the work.

First of all, Easter usually involves a little miracle called brunch also known as the magical union of breakfast and lunch. I always enjoy the meshing of meals. Most of the time that means popcorn for dinner or leftover pizza for breakfast, but brunch is different. Brunch picked the best meals of the day to incorporate croissants and cold cuts, spinach quiche, fruit salad, and bagels – pretty much a spread from heaven. I also enjoy any meal that makes drinking before noon classy instead of trashy (hello mimosas).   Read More »

For those of you who hail from faraway places, who can’t hop home to bask in the unconditional love and glazed ham of home, you need not don lingere and whore yourself on a street corner to get your fill of Easter fun. Plus it’s too damn cold for that.

Furthermore, some of us, I’m not saying that this was me, may have spent the last depressing holiday sitting in a dark dorm room, afraid to leave for fear of running into canoodling couples. Do we really need to repeat that fatfest with Peeps and Cadbury eggs? I think not. Spring is the time of mini-dresses, not baggy sweatpants.

How is a college girl to survive Easter?

1. Get yourself in the mood. Turn on some low music, light a few candles, lock your door and click on this: www.dailybunny.com.

2. Pink Peeps are made of pure chemicals, but so is pink TaB. In the sprit of the season, make yourself a little cocktail I like to call a Lil’ Kim (what ever happened to her anyway?) because it’s full of fake stuff and it’s bright like a plastic wig. One can of TaB energy drink, a generous amount of vodka, topped off with at least four cherries. Sweet like a Peep, not too hard on the old waistline, and it’s pretty much guaranteed to make you smile.

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