Easter Eggs

Oh nanandgrampy you've just said my thoughts EXACTLY. Buy a different brand EASTER egg and enjoy watching children eat them.

So it is a cynical marketing exercise - nobody said it wasn't, but that happens all the time. Why does that allow 'Christians' to claim that the word 'egg' may only be used if it is prefaced by the word 'Easter'. That is surely political correctness gone mad. When did taking offence become a national obsession?

Why were the eggs only made for a limited time if they were not Easter Eggs?
They taste horrible now anyway so I haven't bought anything made by Cadbury since the company.

Sorry, the tablet does this sometimes.

Was taken over by an American one, and the chocolate is not chocolate anymore, or at least not the chocolate I like.

Did I miss something ( I might have done because I've only skimmed ...) but who said anything about claiming the word 'egg' may only be used when prefaced by the word 'Easter'?

I have boiled eggs for breakfast and have never felt the urge to call them Easter eggs .

BUT the chocolate ( reasonably limited time availability) eggs, bought for gift giving during the Easter period always have...and in my opinion always will be known as Easter Eggs.

Nothing to do with what religion I choose , that's how they have always been known and in my family at least that's the way it will stay. If you want to talk about political correctness GGM2 then lets talk about changing Happy Christmas to Happy Holidays, lets talk about flying the flag of St George without fear that someone will take offence . That's a whole other discussion I think.

The Tesco ad was fake news, by the way.

There are loads of holidays around Christmas N&G and I really don't see a problem with others saying something else if they choose to. You don't have to and I have never heard of anyone being made to.

I was a child in London in the forties, and later moved to Wales and then Hampshire. The first mention I ever came across of the easter bunny was when we moved to Yorkshire in 1970, where he/she was a big feature. We had young children then who eagerly adopted the story.

Surely the eggs are redundant if they aren't called Easter eggs? Christians, followers of other religions or people of no religion can still have chocolate all year round. The last two can also have chocolate shaped as Easter eggs without having to become Christians. There is no rule about it! It's money making, pure and simple but when you look at the price of Easter eggs and calculate the unit price of the chocolate it's probably scandalous! Christians can celebrate Easter without chocolate eggs!

What a ridiculous idea of Cadbury, that really is going too far, for heavens sake they are, and always will be, EASTER eggs given at Easter and no other time. What is their problem? All religions enjoy EASTER eggs,ie. chocolate eggs eaten at EASTER, call them what you will but the name is the same.

^Why does that allow 'Christians' to claim that the word 'egg' may only be used if it is prefaced by the word 'Easter'.
Well, sometimes 'egg' is prefaced by 'boiled', 'scrambled', 'poached' or even 'coddled'

Sorry, I just couldn't resist!

Easter has become very commercialised like Christmas, I think it is because Easter/Eostre is associated with this time of year when children look forward to chocolate eggs; everyone knows what anyone means when they say 'Easter Egg' but if it is just an 'Egg' it could be a boiled one.

My mother used to boil eggs with food colouring in the water on Easter Sunday so we had pink or blue eggs for breakfast.

Well just to be devils advocate, chocolate and bunnies have nothing to do with a Christian festival, just like Christmas and tinsel

Easter is not a religious holy day for many Jalima, it just happens to be the name of the spring holiday and is more to do with children being off school and finding things to occupy them as an chocolate egg hunt will to them. With 20% identifying themselves as Anglican, 10% RC and 17% as other Christian denomination Christians are now in the minority.

MaizieD We are NOT talking about Cadbury Cream Eggs. We are talking about Easter Eggs.

Thought I would clear up the confusion.

GracesGranMK2 That is exactly why people are beginning to rebel. We are a minority IN OUR OWN COUNTRY! Which is a Christian country with Christian values. If people do not want to follow our traditions they can celebrate their own.

When I was a child, Easter Good Friday's always meant Chocolate Easter eggs given out, a visit to the fair ground (wearing my new Easter coat), take away fish and chips and a visit to grandma and grandad's house where the whole family would enjoy their fish and chips together. Easter Sundays were another family get together with a lovely roast dinner and we were allowed to break into our Easter Eggs too.

But they do have to do with Eostre (her symbol was a rabbit or a hare) and Easter was so named by the pragmatic early Christians after the pagan festival as both symbolise resurrection and rebirth.

An Anglo-Saxon legend - the Easter bunny and eggs

An Anglo-Saxon legend tells how the Saxon goddess Eostre found a wounded bird and transformed it into a hare, so that it could survive the Winter. The hare found it could lay eggs, so it decorated these each Spring and left them as offering to the goddess.

It was also timed to coincide with Passover.

durhamjen Mrs May didn't think it was 'fake news' and neither did The Archbishop of York.

I stopped buying Cadbury's chocolates of any description when they switched to the American recipe - tastes like plastic!

A rose by any other name. . . .

The children - for they are the focus of so many posts on this thread - won't give a hoot if they are Easter eggs or not. They just want the fun of the hunt, and the chocolate reward at the end of it.

Although quite how the abomination that Cadbury produces nowadays can even be described as chocolate, is a mystery to me. Ghastly stuff now.

We didn't have Easter egg hunts (nor the Easter Bunny) when I was a child. Good Friday was not a day for celebration, we were given our eggs on the Sunday, and we were by no means a religious family.

GracesGranMK2 That is exactly why people are beginning to rebel. We are a minority IN OUR OWN COUNTRY! Which is a Christian country with Christian values. If people do not want to follow our traditions they can celebrate their own.

I expect all those whose religion were actually suppressed by Christianity felt much worse Yorkshiregel; no one is suppressing Christianity, people are just not choosing to commit to it and gone are the days when we burn those with a different religion or even a different view of Christianity or are you really suggesting we force people to believe - it has never worked you know although this religion has tried it over the centuries.

Surely you are not saying that this is the country of only those who choose to be Christian; it is, in fact, (rather than some strange fiction) a democracy for all those who are subjects of the Queen and the Christians really can't blame others if their numbers are dropping. No one is asking you not to call Easter Eggs Easter Eggs or Christmas Christmas but just that you extend the same open-mindedness and acceptance to their religion - or to no religion - as you expect for Christians. It is not just your country, it is mine too and everyone else no matter what they believe.

... Mrs May didn't think it was 'fake news' and neither did The Archbishop of York.

No they just took a cynical opportunity to get some press inches without finding out the truth of the report.

Well done, shoehorning politics into a thread about Easter eggs - any minute now it'll all be the fault of Brexit...