Easter Eggs

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Elegran!

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Goodness me, another thread with some very irritable contributions. FWIW, I ate my toasted hot cross bus before I read the comments here. Of course, when growing up we only had hot cross buns on Good Friday. We wore our new frocks, coats and shoes to Church on Easter Sunday, said items all bought by our grannies. Not many members of my family are Church goers now but we all celebrate Easter by arranging to spend time together. I'll be cooking the traditional (in my family) lamb for lunch on Monday when my lot come round. Some of us will be climbing the local hill together on Friday, where tradition means a cross will be carried up the hill and a small service held. I'll be there because it means something to me so far as faith goes but also because it was a tradition when I was growing up for many family members to gather there. My uncle would buy me a candy floss from one of the stalls afterwards - very exciting.

Sorry but I just have to say this whatever the repercussions. People think Lindt chocolate bunnies are too cute to eat but are happy to eat baby lambs!
I can't get my head round that one.

You should be on the vegan thread nightowl or did you mean to be?
I think the 'too cute to eat bunnies' is just an expression ( am sure they get eaten pdq)
especially the Lindt ones.

Iam we have been talking about traditions on the Wales thread.Traditions ( including our own family traditions) are the thread that binds us to family and country.

Well I've always had a problem with 'Hot Cross Buns' which are not buns but in reality 'cookies' (with added spice and pastry cross) of the same genre as Cream Cookies and like scones, crumpets, fruit loaf, etc. (except for the similar Bridge Rolls which are Rolls, therefore in the bread and rolls category and in Aberdeen, where a 'Cookie' is a soft, floury roll, like a bap), come under the generic term Tea Bread, are usually served with butter, sometimes jam, and go on the middle plate of the cake stand, above the sandwiches and below the cakes (and buns).

A BUN is a plainish member of the small cake family - e.g. a simple iced bun, or fruit bun, becomes a cake if it is fancied up e,g, a Fairy or Angel Cake. Buns and cakes go on the top plate of the cake stand.

Of course, like everything else, the entire nomenclature, has gone to hell in a handcart, with buns having become enormous half bun, half topping, monstrosities called Cup Cakes, although none are baked in a cup, and Cookies are now semi-soft big biscuits, although they are not twice baked - more like half baked.

Interesting to see local differences in terminology, Granny23. I'd never heard of a cookie till the American version became well known over here. And we always had bread buns (NE England), so hot cross ones are fine by me. DH (Yorkshire) talks of bread cakes!