Easter Eggs

Origins of traditions shouldn't be lost if people of our generation pass them on to our grandchildren.
That's how traditions start.
It's often amazed me how many I have started in the family!

I hope someone in your daughter's family uses those institutions, Maggie, otherwise they will disappear.
Does she have a library? I notice there's no mention of that.

My daughter, for your information, works a 60 plus hour week and is childfree. That doesn't stop her appreciating facilities being available for others to enjoy.

Oh, chill out for goodness sake, GracesGranMK2.

The only unbelievable thing on this thread is your constant huffing and puffing.

Maggiemaybe. Who do you think will keep up these traditions just so your daughter can enjoy them? Unbelievable.

Yes, tradition is important. As my DD1 once put it, she's glad she lives in a place with a church, a cricket club, a WI, a scout hut. She doesn't use any of them, but it's good to know they're there . I don't think any tradition is seriously under threat in this case though.

I've looked at other eggs. None of the ones I've looked at actually call them Easter eggs on the packaging.

A lot of fuss about nothing.

Too true Grandmama our traditions are very important.

Now, pedantic Ana some of it's ears means some pieces.

The name Easter Eggs is a tradition, traditions are important. Other traditional names are disappearing. Shrove Tuesday is more widely known now as Pancake Day. It's almost impossible to find a card saying Mothering Sunday. That has changed into Mother's Day (not sure where the apostrophe should go!!). The origins of these traditions are being lost.

I can't eat chocolate, nor do I want to, Roses so you cannot threaten me with that I'm afraid.

I didn't cast a 'leaden pall of gloom and doom' I just defended everyone's right to call things whatever they want to against the so called Christians who thought the most important thing to their religion at this point in time was complaining in the press about the way the eggs for an egg hunt were defined. There are people on here who feel they have the right - for various very odd reasons - to tell others how they may or may not call a chocolate egg. All I have said is they don't.

Some of its ears...? How many did it have?

The ears first, although DGD likes to eat the tail first!

Don't worry Yorkshiregel about Cadbury's dropping 'Easter' from Easter eggs, they seem to have dropped 'chocolate' from what they claim to be chocolate too.

www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/40tlrn/have_kraft_changed_the_recipe_for_all_cadburys/
Am I allowed to put on that link?
It is far ruder than anything on Gransnet

Yes, Thorntons or Sainsbury giant bunny ( DGS gave me some of it's ears last year, and it was very yummy) similar price to the Thorntons one but bigger!

I must be getting old, I love all the Fred Astaire movies!
I saw Top Hat at the theatre, it was lovely (but not with Fred I must admit).

Aww that's lovely Jalima ?

They just don't make them like that any more!

So called Christians? Who are you refering to ? And why have you cast this leaden pall of gloom and doom onto the thread? There will be no choccy Easter Egg for you this year, the Bunny will pass you by.

Easter bonnet parade at school this week

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYac9O3GYTM

Thornton's, Thornton's

I saw one today and hinted but I doubt that I'll get one. There is something most satisfying about cracking an egg and scoffing the chocolate.

Must remind DH to get my Easter Egg soon, before all the best ones go!

Bury your head in the sand by all means Roses. Of course it could be quicker or it could be slower. How long do you think the Queen or King can remain the Defender of the Faith when the country is more diverse and the heir to the throne has said he wants to be Defender of Faiths.

You can have your Easter Eggs; no one at any time has said you can't. The only people who have given orders about what we should call eggs in the spring holiday have been the so called Christians.

Just another glom and doom scenario..... and one man's opinion.Nobody is able to say that sort of stuff with any certainty.
In any case we are still a Christian country with the Queen as the head of the church
So it's still Easter eggs all the way.

We have concerts in our local church

You're not looking Roses. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

This is not the article I quoted the figures - although they are drawing on the figures from the same census - but it is really very interesting: 2067: the end of British Christianity It is quite a long article but this is the beginning:

It’s often said that Britain’s church congregations are shrinking, but that doesn’t come close to expressing the scale of the disaster now facing Christianity in this country. Every ten years the census spells out the situation in detail: between 2001 and 2011 the number of Christians born in Britain fell by 5.3 million — about 10,000 a week. If that rate of decline continues, the mission of St Augustine to the English, together with that of the Irish saints to the Scots, will come to an end in 2067.

That is the year in which the Christians who have inherited the faith of their British ancestors will become statistically invisible. Parish churches everywhere will have been adapted for secular use, demolished or abandoned.

Worth reading on to see the changes in our society that are taking place whether we call eggs Easter Eggs or not

Every poll you look at has a different percentage of Christians in the UK. You've just quoted from one which suits your agenda. Not much point really.