Easter Eggs

It seems every thread I read on here lately has degenerated into a bun fight. In this case perhaps I should specify the hot cross type.

if I wasn't trying to abstain from chocolate for Lent (and diet) I would buy the whole lot tomorrow and gobble them up over the weekend

A banana or an apple just isn't the same

And they now come in four different sizes . Granny bunny, mummy bunny, Little bunny and teeny baby bunny. Come on...... You would have to have a heart of steel to eat one of these.

they are too cute to even contemplate eating.

Oh, I don't know gillybob, they sit around at the end of the supermarket aisles saying 'eat me, eat me'
The only trouble is, just like Alice, if you do eat them you grow larger.

Despite the attempts of my parents to brainwash me as a child I never think of Easter in a religious context although I accept some do. It is of no significance to me other than receiving lovely chocolates as a childhood memory and as a prefix to chocolate eggs. Now GC are on the scene it is lovely to think we can have Easter egg hunts.

Yes, I believe they are dj the problem with them is that they are too cute to even contemplate eating.

Not sure about special labels though.

Aren't Lindt bunnies on sale all year round?
Do they make special labels for them this time of year?

Oh for goodness sake GGm2 it was meant kindly.

In a "don't take yourself so seriously", kind of way. (hence the dare I say and the teensy bit). Oh it doesn't matter.

If I have really offended you. You have my apologies.

I don't think so dj unless you shop at a kind of "open all hours" corner shop.

You can hardly miss them in all the supermarkets.

They tend to appear not long after Christmas The winter festival.

Perhaps you could explain why you telling me to lighten up a bit is going to make any difference to anything gillybob? I now just think you make personal remarks. Has life improved? No.

Perhaps we need another thread - like the kitchen or pantry or whatever it is - for Discusseds of Gransnet, so others know not to go there because it is just people who want to be opinionated not discuss something

Does anyone go into a shop and ask for Easter eggs any more?
Don't you just go and pick them up from a shelf?

I am very good at being "disgusted". GGM2

It's a bit of a hobby of mine.

Maybe you just need to (dare I say) lighten up a teensy bit?

Might change my name to trulidisgusted

Obviously it matters not a jot that the OP said "IMO this is not right. Easter is a Christian celebration, and this is a Christian country. We celebrate Lent, Easter, Whit Sunday and Christmas as we have always done."

which was where I got the idea that this was how she felt. That and the fact that the next poster said;

"This is disgusting. They ARE Easter Eggs ! No matter what the PC brigade think. They are chocolate eggs given at EASTER."

These alone would have led me to believe it mattered enough for people to want to forcefully put their argument that this was 'not right' and 'disgusting' This was then followed by several people seemed to think the whole thing was aniti-Christian and we were then told it was 'PC gone made' because the word Easter was not included in front of 'egg' so I thought people really meant they were as cross, put out and insulted as they sounded and that they somehow believed the word Easter was left out in a deliberate way to insult Christians.

Strange I know to take what was said as what was meant.

Elegran!

Why does anyone talk about anything? It doesn't HAVE to be a campaign to change/preserve/condemn/debate anything. It can be just an observation, or a mild annoyance. It could even be - shock, horror - just a chat.

Are there people combing the threads for an argument to join in with and escalate? What a storm in an egg-cup!

Not quite sunseeker. I have only ever commented on the rather bullying attitude taken in the name of Christianity over the Cadbury's advert.

Why voice an opinion unless you want something to change? Sentamu's comment was particularly uncalled for imo. But people on here were going in the same direction. It just seemed more of 'angry opinion' brigade.

Well Jalima if you will go around doing little rants( or big ones) it will take it out of you.
Nothing like an ear or two ( or more) of Thorntons Easter Bunny to give you strength though.

Threads do meander from the original OP - how else did Christmas get a mention on here?

I need some chocolate to cheer me up, I feel quite emotional

GGM2 With respect it was you who said people are attempting to force people to call chocolate eggs Easter eggs

Your reply at 8.37

Sunseeker, you have just made my point except for "no-one is forced to call them that" as that is exactly what some people, including some on here, aided by the Archbishop of York and the Primeminister who chose to go into print about it, have tried to do

As I have said previously, the Archbishop of York, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have all put forward an OPINION of the decision. Nowhere has anyone said people MUST call them Easter eggs, just as you have not said people must not.

What is your problem? You are just being over-emotional about nothing. No one has said anything against the parade.

Even funnier!

Little rant??

Peace and Joy at Easter to all Gransnetters

That was in answer to Jalima's little rant.

No one, especially not me, is trying to stop their parade or their bonnet wearing or relating it to the Easter holiday (for some) or a Christian celebration (for others).

I know about the tradition of new clothes at Easter - we always got a new outfit when I was a child which we wore to church on the day. What is your problem? You are just being over-emotional about nothing. No one has said anything against the parade.

You do not seem to 'understand' that this thread was about some people's objection to the word Easter NOT being used in an advert. Nothing more, nothing less.

Jalima, you don't seem to understand what is being said. I am sure that the children at the school will enjoy their Easter Bonnet parade but that is nothing to do with Christianity.
I understand perfectly thanks and understand all about the early Church hijacking pagan festivals and some of the traditions.

Why do you think I don't understand? I know full well that Easter bonnets have nothing to do with early Christianity, but it's a tradition, wearing a new bonnet to church and perhaps new clothes on Easter Sunday after the sombre days of Lent.
Here's one explanation:
^Easter was once known as the "Sunday of Joy." After the Civil War, mothers and daughters who had donned the dark colors of mourning for such a long time began wearing colorful flowered hats and elaborate corsages as part of the Easter celebration. Their hats were adorned with blooming and fresh flowers. If the flowers were not blooming they would make them from paper, ribbon, feathers or sea shells.

Joy - seems to be missing from some posts

A chocolate rabbit can't have too many ears, yum