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.