Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
The Daily PollTHE OLDER WE get, the more we might notice that long-held traditions seem a little arbitrary.
Here’s a few, for example: why do we confine the practice of eating chocolate eggs to Easter? Why don’t we just eat regular-shaped chocolate? And if chocolate eggs are preferable, why don’t we eat them all the time?
Today, we want to know what your attitude is towards Easter eggs. Are you looking forward to cracking open one of those bad boys this Sunday? Have you been unable to wait? Or are you uninterested in the rigmarole, and would simply rather eat a chocolate bar?
Will you eat an Easter egg this weekend?
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Looking forward to the “how many easter eggs have you eaten” poll after the weekend.
This weekend i shall be mostly eating chocolate.
@Brian Dunne: That a Fast Show reference?
@Garbhán Ó Ruis: it is! Do you like it sir?
@Brian Dunne: Aw bugger.
@Fiona O’ Dwyer: You beat me to it!
I’ve been overdosing on Cadbury creme eggs for the past month. You can buy 5 in a box in Tescos and I’ve been going mad on them
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: how DO you eat yours is the big Q??
@Aurelio Na Fodhla: I bite the top off and lick the cream out :)
@Gearóid MacEachaidh: you can buy a box of 10!
@Helen McKernan: no stop it!? Where?
Shame on the voters who don’t care for Easter eggs. What is wrong with some people??
We’ve still got tins of Quality Street left over from Christmas. Chocolate is so ubiquitous these days, there’s little novelty in fancy versions of it.
Love this tradition. A bunny that gives you a chocolate egg on Easter Sunday to celebrate Jesus rising from the dead. In a country that probably did not have chocolate or bunnies. Need a pedantic Pat to explain this one to me. Without Google.
@Jason O Flynn: I bet your fun at parties
@Jason O Flynn: I’m not Pat but i am pedantic. Eggs are symbol of birth and new life so was linked with Jesus rising up etc.
As a result, people didn’t eat eggs during length for that reason and held off on them until Easter Sunday. Somewhere along the way, the eggs changed to chocolate eggs but I’ve no idea how the water bunny fits in to it all.
@Jason O Flynn: it’s spring. Nature’s rebirth. The coming of the sun. Rabbits symbolise sex. Absolutely nothing to do with christianity.
@John: Jesus fought the Easter Bunny atop Mount Eremos in Israel for the prize (a chocolate egg).
The Easter Bunny bested Jesus in three rounds of Paper, Scissors, Rock – in doing so God granted upon the victorious rabbit the ability to lay chocolate eggs once per annum.
The Easter Bunny subsequently bestowed these powers upon Joseph Fry (Fry & Sons Limited) in 1873 for a fee of £100 and the rest, as they say, is history.
@Conrad Stapletwin: You slipped up and I can prove you’re lying. Who says Paper, Scissors, Rock ? I call fecal matter of the bovine variety.
@Darren Byrne: I copy/pasted that tale from Bible.com, so please don’t shoot the messenger.
Perhaps we’ve all been lied to?
@Jason O Flynn: sur didn’t the almighty love a good easter egg?
@Martin Reilly: Well, your mum says I am.
@Jason O Flynn: ancient fertility rites, probably, maybe. Even Easter is named after the Goddess Ostara, allegedly
I’ve had multiple Easter eggs already. The joys of being non-religious. Used to celebrate the end of Ramadan with my old work colleagues too, the feasts were mighty.
Total waste of money. Would rather have a few chunky bars of Cadbury’s than a wafer thin egg at three times the price.
As a diabetic with 5 kids I love Easter.
I plan to eat my children’s Easter eggs when they have had enough.
Maybe I have the wrong crowd but the Irish researchers give the world the dates for Easter because, for whatever reasons, we were always good with timekeeping going back to the era of the Newgrange alignment and the lunar calendar stone of Knowth.
I always wanted to explain to people, including my compatriots, how the calendar system was put together, then the 24-hour day and equal hours, minutes and seconds, but nobody really wants to know.
I suppose a treat for readers is that the period from the birth of Adam to the first drop of rain of Noah’s flood through the artificial genealogy of Genesis 5 is 86,400 weeks mirroring the 86,400 seconds in one day. The major clue to the structure is the 365 years lifespan of Enoch and a wink to 365 days in a year.
Again, maybe I have the wrong crowd.
@Carrickview: Enoch Burke?
@Desmond Lyons:
The creationists have nothing on the secularists, after all, nobody in their right mind would argue against the timekeeping principle that the Earth turns once every 24 hours and a thousand times in a thousand 24-hour days. The secularists disagree because they follow the dictates of an empirical icon-
” It is a fact not generally known that, owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are [24-hour] days in the year” NASA /Harvard
I didn’t come here to humiliate people but to remind them of the timekeeping heritage on this island.
My goodness, what did our ancestors do to deserve this humiliation?.
@Desmond Lyons: Why
@Desmond Lyons:
They’re just not the same anymore. Cheap flimsy chocolate, rubbish tiny filling, ughh… I used to be able to knock my friends out, trying to crack one open on their heads lol. Now they disintegrate while you’re unwrapping them. Not worth the money. Boo!!!!!!!!
I got a lovely orange flavour one that I’m tempted to demolish early hehe :D
have your say