Easter Eggs

'Easter' it's just a word and for those who hold it special, you don't need 'the word ' it's in your hearts and minds. Let the word go if I means that others can join in the season. The word will never disappear from those places that truly celebrate the Biblical Easter. It's Soring, new life, new hope ......let it be for everyone and without conflict. Be bigger than that.

PC gone mad. I am an atheist but also a cultural Christian and for the whole of my 60 years the chocolate eggs sold at Easter have been called Easter eggs and that is what they should remain.

I am actually even crosser with the National Trust than I am with Cadbury's. The latter is a company which exists to make money so they will take any route to maximise their audience and profits.

The NT, however, was set up to preserve houses and land for the nation. This aim is meaningless wthout the cultural and historical contexts in which the houses were built.

If the organisation, as it has by banning Easter,takes up a leftwing internationalist, anti-religious stance to rub the noses of the British people in their imperialist mess then it is betraying its founder' principles. I think most NT members value the culture and traditions of their own country even if they do not actually believe in the Easter bunny.

It isn't actually Fake News either, the latest on it is that the word Easter was quietly dropped from the website promoting Easter Egg Hunts in NT properties to Egg Hunts or Cadbury Egg Hunts.Due to the hue and cry the word has been reinstated.That wasn't to do with Cadbury posters or shops etc but the advertising on the NT sites, I expect some bright spark thought if it was Egg Hunt rather than Easter Egg Hunt it would pull in more punters!

Brilliant..even more chocolate for me then!!

My "point" GGm2 is in response to the OP which says Just heard that Cadbury chocolate factory are dropping the Easter from Easter Eggs. Obviously so that they can sell them to other religions

Now I have realised that this may be a non-story or fake news or whatever (although DJ's link would suggest otherwise) but my point remains "leave our religious festivals alone"

Christmas is Christmas (even if some idiot council renames, it the Winter Festival) Easter is still Easter etc.

Actually the NT is trying to encourage young families to visit and easter egg hunts are popular with children. I guess Cadbury s are sponsoring these and providing eggs to keep costs down for NT and gsini g some promotion so its a win-win situation for these two organisations - or it was till all the negative publicity occurred which actultI think is ridiculous and not worth getting steamed up about. It doesnt stop anyone houng to church to celebrate Easter and it maybe raises some awareness in the children!

NOBODY HAS BANNED EASTER honestly does no one ever read the facts!

The thing I object to is that slowly, but slowly, we are being encouraged to accept that our religion is on its way out. One of our churches in Shrewsbury is now filled with things to sell ie jumpers, crafts, books, nothing at all to do with Christianity. This is something that Jesus reacted to strongly. Then we were told we cannot wear our crosses at work in case we offend other religions, who are allowed to walk about wearing turbans and burkas, so that is hypocritical. Red cross windows must not display the nativity. The German Stollen cake is being sold to replace Christmas cake, maybe we may not be calling it that soon? Perhaps crosses on hot cross buns will also be phased out?

In actual fact I am not sure that this is about religion at all. I think Cadbury have realised that if they chop the Easter word from the name they can sell their eggs all year round and to a wider range of customers. In other words this is about GREED. Or of course it could be that Cadbury chocolates are nothing like the original product and so sales have been going down. If they go down much more because people do not like 'Hershey chocolate' then we might see Cadbury closed down altogether?

I don't think anyone has said that Easter is banned paddyann

Or have they?

Nope, nobody has said it at all gilly

I am not a Christian but appreciate and value that I live in a Christian country and feel very strongly that Christian festivals are celebrated and Easter should be mentioned by the NT. all this PC is rubbish

I suppose it was easy to put this one out there after Christmas being removed from many things and changed to "winter" on many adverts.
I believe if we have room all are welcome in our country but I also strongly believe we should keep our traditions or all countries will be the same. If you don't like our traditions then go to a country that suits you. Our traditions are constantly being eroded. For ex. you can no longer say blackboard in schools but it's fine to say whiteboard. we are bending over backwards to accommodate and losing our own identity and traditions in the process. For the last 60 years ( and my parents before me) we have waited excitedly for "Easter bunny" and I will continue to pass that tradition down my family. In this horrible, nasty world it's wonderful to have some happiness so let's not spoil that.

Goodness, Poly580 I didn't know that the Easter Bunny was UK tradition dating back to heaven knows when. I always thought it was an American import, and a rather naff one at that as what on earth do bunnies have to do with Easter? As far as I'm concerned we're not losing any 'traditions' at all.

I was brought up by churchgoing parents; no bunnies but Easter eggs because they symbolised new birth and life, which ties in with the Resurrection and the 'birth' of a new religion.

Cadburys creme eggs have never been called Easter eggs. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

It was a cynical marketing exercise.

The quality of Cadbury chocolate is nowhere near as good as it used to be because it is now owned by US company Kraft who meddled with the recipes to cut costs.

Today's cartoon by Steve Bell in the Guardian sums up Treesa and the whole fiasco very well:

We have been boycotting Cadbury since they reneged on the deal they had with the staff prior to a over bid, they promised to keep jobs in Keynsham and Birmingham. In the blink of an eye the entire staff at Keynsham were redundant, jobs were moved to Poland and the land up for sale for housing all at massive profits. Gone are the days when the initial ideology of the founders was the welfare of their staff whilst making an acceptable profit, it's all about huge profits, rich directors and stuff the staff with redundancy and zero hour contracts. I'm amazed Cadbury still have a consumer market. And their chocolate tastes awful now anyway.

I shall certainly not be buying any made by Cadbury 's - in fact I haven't bought anything of theirs since they were taken over by Kraft and changed the chocolate recipe.

It is similar to the Red Cross shops not being allowed to put a nativity scene in their window displays.

I have a devout Muslim friend who thinks we are bonkers not to be proud of our Christian festivals.

As I said previously SallyDapp I haven't bought Cadbury products since that shameful broken promise. I have no idea what the chocolate tastes like now but others have also told me it has changed beyond all recognition!

Poly58 - you said ...

'For the last 60 years ( and my parents before me) we have waited excitedly for "Easter bunny" and I will continue to pass that tradition down my family. In this horrible, nasty world it's wonderful to have some happiness so let's not spoil that'

I agree with you and tried to do just that last week on GN and put a post about Easter on chat, however, no-one responded.

I'm not at all upset (maybe felt a bit stupid for writing it) but it did make me wonder if Easter is 'on its way out'.

On reading this post it seems that it's not.

This ridiculous story was just about the design of the poster used by the National Trust, where the word Easter was prominent in several places, for anyone who cared. Just another distraction from serious news.

I have always been puzzled as to what an item of chocolate confectionary has to do with Christianity or Easter.

Great image,Cleopatra and I agree... they are putting wax in them now like they do in Hershey bars. Ugh.

As to the eggs, when I moved here all those years ago I didn't know they were hollow! Some evidently come with smarty stuff inside, but hollow and at those prices?

FAKE EGGS !!!!

I have not bought Cadburys since finding out it was not true blue British made.But then what does being British mean any more these days.?

I referred to this in a post yesterday when I hadn't known that the news story had been exaggerated.

Now that I have seen further details, I agree with CleopatraS that this appears to be a cynical marketing exercise by Cadbury's who did a deal with the National Trust (NT) requiring the use and promotion of their company's eggs.

Unfortunately so much advertising now follows a format where events and TV programmes, etc are accompanied by a prominently displayed slogan such as "...Company....brings you/is proud to sponsor the [event]".

IMHO the NT were foolish to agree to drop the word "Easter" and substitute it with the word "Cadbury's" to promote their Easter Egg Hunts this year, but it won't stop people generally using the words "Easter Eggs" to describe the chocolate eggs sold at this time of year.

I agree that there are more serious issues in the news, but we should not be surprised if people are upset when they see what they regard as British traditions such as Easter Eggs at Easter being renamed for marketing purposes.

No, big solid chocolate eggs just wouldn't work, Lewlew. They'd hurt your teeth - and they wouldn't look pretty either with those desperate tooth scrapes down them . I used to have a similar problem with Toblerone (didn't stop me eating them though).

Easter is a celebration of new life, and can be symbolised in chickens popping out of eggs and newborn baby animals. There is no need to remove the name, for Christians it means Christ rising from the dead, and for non-Christians it is a celebration of Spring.

The Easter Bunny has nothing to do with the Christian religion, so hunting for eggs this mythical beast has dropped is a secular festival. Just as Father Christmas has nothing to do with the Christian festival of Christmas. (Technically St Nicholas might have started it, but I am not going there)

Christians may choose to add in these secular bits to make their celebrations even more fun for their children, but there is no religious aspect to it.

So whilst I will be in church at Easter (and indeed most weeks of the year) I am not bothered about renaming secular activities. In fact I would be quite happy to have the two separated, Spring Egg Hunts and Father Winter?