I'm wondering if the "hollow chicken egg shells" used for cascarones have given way yet to the two sided colored plastic eggs that are sold in the USA around Easter time.

I knew nothing aboout cascarones in the late 1980s/early 1990s when I switched from hard boiled eggs to plastic eggs. For my family's Easter egg hunt I filled some of these eggs with different denominations of coins, and put jelly beans in the others. When all the eggs were found, my children had to count the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters that were in their eggs. The one who had the most money was the "winner" of the Easter egg hunt. Their "prize" was the applause that they received.

Part of the reason why I changed to plastic eggs was that I thought it was so wasteful to throw away real eggs since people are starving overseas {and in this country too}. Not to mention that finding well hidden hard boiled eggs weeks and maybe months after Easter can be such a downer.

:o)