Easter Eggs

Perhaps they could sell them with circles on throughout the year, ie the circle of life? instead of hot cross buns appearing just after Christmas!

gillybob

I am sure that children still like Cadbury's but mine will get a Thornton's bunny, like it or not - other makes are available, eg Lindt etc

Note to self : Politics and Easter egg threads - avoid

Now I'm off to have an early hot cross bun

NanaandGrampy

Now I wonder what the Cross on the hot CROSS bun stands for?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone started baking them with OOOOO's on them (just to be on the safe side)

I think Cadbury's chocolate still appeals to children though Blinko .

Actually you are wrong GGm2 .

Politically Correct;

.....conforming to a belief that some language, policies or measures that could cause offence or disadvantage to members of particular groups of society, should be eliminated.

In other words remove the "offending" word... Easter, Christmas etc. and use the more "acceptable" words spring or winter.

For the record GGm2 I am not a modern day Christian or any other kind of Christian. But I do accept that this is a Christian country and I do try to live by Christian morals.

Anyway I thought we had agreed that this was all a non-story anyway?

Agreed Blinko

I've boycotted Cadburys since Kraft took them over and made the chocolate sweet and quite unpalatable. There some lovely chocolatier companies around now. They do real chocolate.

The Archbishop of York said removing the word Easter from Cadbury eggs was "tantamount to spitting on the grave" of John Cadbury. When asked about it Theresa May said she thought it was a "ridiculous decision". Jeremy Corbyn has said "Why should they be Cadbury rather than Easter eggs". Now I may have missed something but none of them have said that chocolate eggs MUST be called Easter eggs. They have each expressed an opinion. I haven't noticed people being forced to ask for Easter eggs in shops rather than ask for chocolate eggs. Being the cynical type I wonder whether this is all a publicity stunt by Cadbury just to raise their profile at what is a profitable time for chocolate manufacturers.

We like Kathe Wolfahrt Easter, the GC and GGC love, it's all good.

N&G perhaps it would be more use keeping away from threads where people do not seem to understand the meaning of the religion they call their own but treat that religion as if they belong to a club that makes them superior in some way and therefore able to dictate the wording of an advert. I don't think this would just apply to the 'Easter' word.

I do hope those of you spend Good Friday in possibly fasting and prayer, in repentance, meditation and reflection on the agony and suffering of Christ on the cross and celebrate your belief in his rising from the dead on Easter Sunday have a Happy Easter.

Lurking round every corner, roses . A hot cross bun sounds just the thing to set one up for a hard day of defending democracy, NanaandGrampy, but I'm not sure about that design on the top....

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! maggie ( they haven't been on GN then have they, or they would be expecting them.)

Note to self : Politics and Easter egg threads - avoid !!

Now I'm off to have an early hot cross bun.....

I would call it logic and the defence of democracy Anya but I will not reply in kind by describing those who think they can dictate to others because they call themselves Christian.

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.

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 imagine all children, whatever their faith will be allowed to join in.

My argument is that people who say they may insist on the word Easter being used in connection with an egg - or else they take offence and take to the press - are just wrong in the power they believe they have over both none Christians (the majority), the English language, and the direction which we are moving in. They are trying to bully people into using a word, in a particular place, where those paying for the advert did not choose to.

I really don't know how to get through the density of misplaced moral outrage other than by saying, again NO ONE IS STOPING YOU USING THE WORD EASTER but equally I defend the right of those not wishing to use it to do whatever they want too.

Maggiemaybe I'm one who does appreciate your sense of humour

Used to be we knew the kind of threads where lurked the humourless and over-intense but now they're invading everywhere.

Run for the hills

I can't believe this thread is still going!! As a Christian (not a so-called Christian) I don't care what you call the chocolate eggs on sale at this time of year - you can call them chocolate bunny butt nuggets for all I care. What is important to me is the celebration of the resurrection of Christ, which I will be doing in church. Chocolate eggs have been sold at Easter, as a money making exercise by chocolate manufacturers, for a very long time and so most people call them Easter Eggs - no-one is forced to call them that. This is something which has been blown up at of all proportion - not even the DM is talking about it any more!

Gordon Bennett. It was a lighthearted remark about traditions being important. You two should really take a long hard look at your attitude.

theconversation.com/easter-egg-row-is-an-undercooked-mess-that-feeds-english-nationalism-75749

Maggiemaybe please don't think that being rude adds to your argument.

It really doesn't matter how many hours your daughter works. If the church fabric is not paid for it they will not be able to keep it and if they clergy cannot be paid for they will not be able to run the church and it will be sold off. It is those who attend the church who pay but you seem to be saying, as with the pub, cricket team and WI that your daughter expects a free ride when it comes to her 'traditions'.

Is there a public toilet in the village, Maggie?

That's what you get for mentioning your daughter on this thread, Maggie.
What you said about her had absolutely nothing to do with chocolate eggs, which by the way, can be bought all the year round.

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

Gillybob YOU are part of the PC brigade in this instance. No one is saying you may not call them Easter Eggs. You, and those like you, are emoting about something that just hasn't happened. It is you and those who use their "Christianity" to try and enforce calling chocolate eggs Easter Eggs each and every time it is used. You are being the enforcers - no one else.

What does that make me think of modern day Christians - not a lot. What does it make me think of those who cannot get past emoting and use logic - even less. But go ahead, shout, scream and emote and I will keep trying to calmly explain the gaps in your logic which seem to require name calling to emphasise just how hysterical those who are insisting the rest of us live by their made up rules.

Well, as none of her family live there, dj, no, we don't use them . And yes, she has a library. Anything else I should have mentioned?

This thread gets odder by the hour .