C&B Holiday Edition: The Best Easter Candy

BUCK: It is Good Friday and coming up here on Easter weekend for those of us who celebrate. I’ll be celebrating with my family here in New York City. And because we’re at the first iteration Clay of the new generation because my sister has a little baby who’s about 18 months old now, so he is the centerpiece of all family gatherings now.

CLAY: Oh, of course. Yeah.

BUCK: We just sit around like, “Oh, my gosh. Is that the third word that he just learned how to say?” and we all like, “It’s amazing!” You’ve been through this a few times. I haven’t been through this before with new member of the family like this, a baby. But there are some pretty intense debates that break out over the best Easter candy.

And I’m just gonna say, I don’t understand what’s with all the hate around Cadbury Eggs lately. I mean, Cadbury Eggs, I think, are fantastic. I’m also a big jellybeans guy. I don’t even mean the fancy jellybeans. I’ll go old school jellybeans. So there’s that.

CLAY: I’m gonna be super controversial here, Buck, and I’m gonna ride or die with Peeps. I like Peeps.

BUCK: This is Clay the contrarian. There’s no way you like Peeps.

CLAY: I am a big marshmallow guy, right? Like, I’ve always been a big s’more guy. And effectively you’ve got some sort of, you know, like sprinkle on top of a marshmallow. I’ll eat it all day long. I like Peeps. I’m not afraid to scream it from the rooftops. The kids may not be big fans, but I don’t know about…

Buck, my kids are all-in on the Easter bunny like they have been all-in on Santa. And the Easter baskets that the Travis boys maybe have gotten have been too good, and so my first grader this morning, he came up and he said, Dad, you know how we can track Santa, which tracking Santa is a great way on the app to get your kid in bed Christmas Eve although, by the way, did I even mention this, Buck? Santa on the Santa Tracker app from NORAD or whoever puts that thing out, they had a mask on Santa in a sleigh.

BUCK: Unacceptable. Unacceptable.

CLAY: Come on. But he said —

BUCK: Was it an N95, though, Clay? Because Santa needs to take the virus seriously.

CLAY: No. Wasn’t even an N95. The fat old man, he could be in danger from covid.

BUCK: The elves could fashion an N95 for him.

CLAY: He said, hey, Dad, is there an Easter bunny tracker app? And I said, you know what? I don’t know. I bet there is somewhere. So, Santa and the Easter bunny both very popular with young side of the Travis household. And the Peeps are gonna come and they’re gonna arrive and nobody else is gonna eat ’em and I’m gonna eat ’em.

Now, I don’t think you can pound a bunch of Peeps in a row. It’s like some of these fruity drinks that are popular now, the Claws drinks, you know, these women drink, I don’t understand and some men. I don’t understand how you drink like three or four of them. But you can have like one. I can have one or two Peep without, like, falling party.

BUCK: So, according — this is just from History.com, and this is one of the things where I feel like you never find out and everyone says, “No, I know the real…” But, you know, sometimes the origins of words, the origins of tradition. According to History.com, for whatever that’s worth, “[T]he Easter bunny first arrived in America in the 1700s with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and transported their tradition of an egg-laying hare called ‘Osterhase’ or ‘Oschter Haws.’

“Their children made nests in which this creature could lay its colored eggs.” So, to those of us today who think a giant bunny hopping around — an eight-foot-tall bunny hopping around — shooting out brightly colored eggs sounds like an acid trip, it turns out this goes back to the 1700s and a German tradition of an egg-laying special bunny or hare and that that is where this tradition sort of caught on from. But, yeah. That’s what it says.

CLAY: A lot of Easter egg hunts. I like the boiled egged, right? A lot of you make the colored eggs for Easter, as many people do. I enjoy — much to the kids’ chagrin — ripping off whatever color they have and eating the boiled eggs underneath. That, to me, is pretty outstanding.