When I was a little girl a favorite treat for me was eating thousand year old eggs or 皮蛋. At our family dinners I would wait impatiently as my grandmother ate her share first (at Chinese dinners the elders always had the first pick). She loved the shining smooth black and green eggs with the unique creamy/jellyish texture as much as I did. But always, when my dearest grandma caught me greedily eyeing the diminishing pile of thousand year eggs she would quickly choose a nice piece with her chopsticks and gently place it in my rice bowl. Yum, yum! Thank you 奶奶!
Imagine then my childish delight to discover that my beloved thousand year eggs were being featured (so I thought) in the made for TV stop motion animation "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", a Rankin/Bass production that was shown on TV every year at Easter. In the story the Easter Bunny loses his job to a badass goth bunny named Irontail. Even his Easter eggs are turned green-black inside and out. Just imagine that: Thousand Year Old Easter Eggs!
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Irontail with his magic (black) egg |
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Peter Cottontail with his Easter eggs turned green by Irontail |
Pine branch or snowflake like patterns appear on some eggs |
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