bats

How long has he or she been around then? I'm sure we didnt have Easter Egg hunts and bunnies in olden days when I was a girl.

There were Easter eggs, paste eggs as we lived in the NE. A new frock on Sunday. No Easter bunny stuff.

Teaandtoday5

I seem to remember having an Easter egg hunt on an airforce base when I was a kid. But it could have come from Americans.

And also egg japping (I really hope that’s not racist...) which was kind of conkers with hard-boiled eggs, but no strings. And dyeing eggs with onion skin.

BristolUK

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Oink

The Easter Bunny used to bring an assortment of increasingly garish supermarket chocolate eggs, which usually contained a toy or a mini version of a brand name candy bar. He usually left them with other presents on the dinning room table, thankfully we never had to look for them. As per other gift giving celebrations, we usually and often absurdly, benefited as proxies in our parent's marital conflict.

bats

Yes! Jabby eggs or maybe it was jappy eggs. We did that, and colouring them too.
Are you by any chance from the NE?

You had gifts at Easter?!

MillieF

Yes, we had gifts at Easter too...

Eggs everywhere but I don't recall bunnies either? If I were asked to draw a picture of Easter, I wouldn't stick a bunny in it...fluffy chicks and gambolling lambs, but not bunnies.

How interesting.

BristolUK

The Easter Bunny meant nothing at all to me until I started to read Peanuts.

Then it became as familiar as The Great Pumpkin who, as we all know, rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere.

Teaandtoday5

Yep. Although you probably wouldn't know it to talk to me.

caretaker

I'm considering getting a small chocolate bunny and cutting just the tip of one ear off, then using a little funnel pouring some brandy in to make my own liquor chocolate. Will it melt right away and make a mess?
Edit: I found a recipe. https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/watch-the-whiskey-bunny/
What I had in mind was easier, just a temporary flask. Bristol your idea about having ice cream on deck just in case of breakage is good.

BristolUK

My mum used to tell me that the crystallised sugar in chocolate liqueurs was to help seal in the liquid.

But what about all those that don't have sugar in - apart from an ingredient in the chocolate itself? I think it was one of those untruths that parents tell kids.

If it does get messy, mix it with some ice cream for a treat. I did that back in Montreal with a box where the wrappers wouldn't come off properly due to seepage.

I did actually complain to the makers and they sent me a replacement box. It had the same problem. But the boozy, chocolate ice cream was very nice.

Oakvillian

We used to decorate blown eggs (a lot of cakes and scrambled eggs got made in the weeks before Easter - I'm sure cake isn't a very Lenten thing to eat...) and hang them from a few sprigs of willow (nice fluffy buds) or hawthorn (spiky, but pretty yellow flowers) depending on when Easter fell. I think that's a German tradition, probably picked up on a BAOR posting or two.

Chocolate eggs were a thing as far back as I can remember, usually waiting for us at the breakfast table rather than having to be hunted down, but I don't think we ever had anything to do with an Easter Bunny.

I can't remember which comedian it was I was listening to on the radio the other day, but he had rather a good long-winded story about the whole Easter thing; a small partof it was a "reinterpretation" of the story wherein Jesus took all his mates out for a meal at the Olive Garden, where he said he was popping away for a few days, and might be hungry when he got back so could they please take a bunch of these chocolate eggs and scatter them around outside where he could find them just in case. Oh, and could they also look after his pet rabbit for a while...

Jingsamichty

Bit of trivia for anyone who doesn't know: Where does the name "Easter" come from?

Well, there was an old pagan festival to celebrate Spring, called something like Oestre. It celebrated Spring and new life. Hence, Easter being taken over by Christianity to associate with the "new life" of Mr Jesus Christ the Risen.

The pagan symbols of new life in Spring never went away, e.g. eggs, lamb, new bunny rabbits etc. Even the name "Oestre" gets eggy with oestregen.

So there you go, Easter really IS about eggs and not about Jesus.

EDIT: That's also why Easter is a flexible date rather than a fixed date... its always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox. Well, that doesn't sound very Christian, does it? It's not, but it's because Oestre was celebrated on the first full moon after the spring equinox. The Christians added the Sunday bit!

bats

Ditto

Hawthorn flowers are white sometimes a pink tinge the only yellow I can think of is forsythia but that doesn't have spikes.

We had Easter eggs sometime on Sunday afternoon I think.

DandNHill

That’s really interesting.

So I googled the origin of the word Paques ( the French word for Easter). It would appear that in this case it comes from Pessa'h which was the celebration of the Jews escaping Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea.
Strange isn’t it out these things come to be!