Easter

I'm on my own as well! Virtual lunch?

Interesting, isn't it, that Easter (i.e. spring) is about chocolate eggs now . Ask any bunch of not too indoctrinated kids what Easter means and they'll say "chocolate eggs". I've done it and got that response. I love it.

i love Easter because when i walk down the street on Easter Sunday, strangers say to me "He is risen!"
it's the only time of year that Christians come out of their closets...

You are on, jeni. What shall we have for an aperitif? I think I will start with a Buck's Fizz, so I can pace myself.
I know a tiny restaurant overlooking a bay of very blue sea on Lesbos.
However, I am willing to try your favourite restaurant.
Any more people flying solo?

Pernod! Not too much diluted?

Should we have a new thread for virtual Easter lunch on lesbos?
Sounds like Greek food to me! I ADORE mezze!

When did Easter bunnies start - I'm sure that when I was a small child we never had bunny's. Chick's, eggs, hot cross buns and obviously the story of Easter - but bunnies...
And Easter Egg hunts - that never happened either - or did I just have a sad childhood without these things?
Oh dear - I'm off on the "bunny theme" again, got them on my mind at the moment, sorry!

No! My first memory of Easter is losing my two front teeth on a piece of toast and marmalade on an Easter Sunday breakfast!
I've never eaten marmalade since then!

O.K. I will start a new thread!

Fine! I'm to bed !
See you all tomorrow!

Are those bunnies and egg hunts a US invention, like trick or treat?
Bunny more popular here in Oz I think, than in UK.

Last week GD was drawing an Easter picture, it was of the Easter bunny and some eggs in a garden except the bunny looked exactly like the Lindt one and even had the bell round it's neck.

Eggs have beena symbol of birth, rebirth and life generally in all sorts of faiths and beliefs for a massively long time - although chocolate ones are relatively recent. The Easter Bunny has surely got to be a Disney invention.

Not into the religious thing, but as a family we have always loved our hot cross bunnies - particularly with lashings of butter.

butty!

I reckon that the Easter bunny, egg hunts and valentines day are American imports. Oh and maybe Trick or Treat as well?

absent yes! "Easter" is a corruption of "Oestre" or "Eostre" (linked to Astarte) who was the goddess of dawn / spring and whose special festival was the spring equinox.

I'm not raising anything contentious, but do find it fascinating how many world religions give thanks for new life in the spring - for the resurrection of life, one might say.

That and virgin births seem to be common to a lot of them!

granbunny where do you live in a Christian enclave? I have never outside of a church heard any stranger say 'he is risen'. Hot Cross buns, it's sad they are available all year round. As a child, even though everything else was closed on Good Friday, our local village baker was not. My brother and I used to go and collect the family breakfast - something we really looked forward to. The Easter egg and bunny is the salute to the start of Spring

Anyone else sick of chocolate yet?Had one large egg that I intended to make last a week...but I ate it all and now feel yeuk!

Pass the rest over to us then grannylin

Egg hunts are a thing of my childhood. But they were not chocolate! We coloured boiled eggs..either by boiling them wrapped in onion skin, wool etc or painted them with watercolours on Good Friday then the Easter Rabbit ( Spring Hare?) stole them and hid them in the garden! had to find them on Easter Sunday for breakfast. had to go through the ritual of trying to crack each others egg ..the one that cracked least was champion! Mum also always got up early on Good Friday to make hot cross buns for breakfast.
i keep all these 'traditions' goig in our family now..but not religious..more a recognition of Oestre goddess of Spring!

p.s i do not get up early to bake... i buy from the baker!

Lots of Easter hares in German speaking countries. I have two Easter branches in the window. One is a branch in bud with small wooden eggs on it; it will blossom by the end of the week. The other is a branch which came down in that big storm (1987?) which we painted white and has Christmas ornaments on then and at Easter Bunnies with all sorts of eggs, chicks, birds, butterflies and bees.
Not sick of chocolate...............yet. My novalty eggs from shysal's post went down a storm (as did the creme eggs hidden inside. Sadly the same can't be said for Simnel Cake; new Bosch 3D oven iwas weird; can anyone help. Should I use it as a conventional one. Two tries at Simnel Cake (NEVER failed in ordinary fan) both disasters.

HELP PLEASE!!