Easter

[farla]

It's Easter.

Easter is possibly the best holiday ever. It's got bright colors, a number of inexplicable yet adorable traditions, candy, and egg-laying pastel bunnies, which is possibly the best idea ever. Plus it's got creepy Christian death stuff added in for gravitas and part of the celebration involves eating one of the cute animal mascots. (Well, apparently some people eat turkey, because some people are weird. I didn't know anyone willingly ate turkey. I thought it was just a thanksgiving requirement.)

Comments

[bay115.livejournal.com]

I thought people eat turkey on Christmas too. O.o

[farla.livejournal.com]

What? No!

Even if you were the sort of person that wanted more turkey in your life (ie, insane), you can't eat it for Christmas, because you just ate it for Thanksgiving (and turkey being what it is, may still have some). Christmas tends to be a ham, but pretty much any meat animal, including duck or goose, are also fine. Easter is ham or lamb or, apparently, lasagna. It's the only one of the three where a meat main dish isn't mandatory, too. (Which makes the turkey thing all the more inexplicable.)

Also, I think rabbit probably fits in here somewhere, but people don't eat rabbit where I live, so I'm not sure if that's more Christmas or Easter. Probably Christmas, though. Easter rabbits aren't going to be much of a meal.

This stuff probably matches up with the food normally available at the time - you want to eat the birds, which you fatten in the fall, for your fall and winter feasts, while Easter has the baby mammal option.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

People eat Rabbit on Easter?

FWIW, Italians traditionally eat goat.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Really? That fits with the general theme of Easter meat, but no one here does, at least that I've heard.

I wonder why? (I haven't really seen goat in stores...if that's been true for a while, it may be that immigrants made the substitution ages ago and their kids just carried it on under the impression the new stuff was tradition. Or possibly goat is considered a poorer meat and with prosperity came change.)

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure we got some huge family-wide explanation this year, but I honestly was watching sports and didn't care.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out why I capitalized 'rabbit.' WTF, self?

[(Anonymous)]

Easter: Another holiday the Christains stole from the Pagans, yay.

My friend ate turkey for Easter, since the store had them on sale.

And for the record, turkey is delicous. <3

[farla.livejournal.com]

Bah, it's not really stealing, just sort of layering it on top. It's not like they made the Easter Bunny into Saint Whoever the bunny and chicken keeper, who spreads the word of Jesus' resurrection to all the people through chocolate notes or something.

And for the record, turkey is delicous.

Why do you lie so much, Anonymous? Do you hate freedom and/or America?

[(Anonymous)]

Anonymous the first speaks the truth. It is tasty. =P Note also the non-american countries who snigger at America, who pretends to require a reason such as Thanksgiving to consume turkey. The is no requirement. -_-

[farla.livejournal.com]

Anonymous the second is also crazy -.- Turkey's an American animal. We almost wiped out the bird (actually did in a bunch of states). Then we realized other stuff tasted better and stopped eating it so much. Now it runs wild and free across the backyards. Do you see chickens running wild and free across backyards? No, because people would eat them.

America sniggers at silly non-American anons! who are clearly jelus of America's awesome prosperity and suchlike, and think the bird is tasty and special for being American. This is the only possibility, because turkey is not legitimately tasty. And even if it wasn't actually untasty (which it is), it still wouldn't be worth the effort of manhandling the whole thing into an oven, then dismantling the remains.