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

[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?