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What do chocolate bunnies and colored eggs have to do with Easter?:confused:šŸ¤·
 
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What do chocolate bunnies and colored eggs have to do with Easter?:confused:šŸ¤·
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I canā€™t say for sure about the chocolate bunnies, never mind peeps, but colored eggs, especially colored red has been a long tradition in the church. I was taught by my grandfather, who was Serbian Orthodox, that the egg was dyed red to symbolize the blood of Christ shed on the cross, the hard shell represents the sealed tomb, and the cracking of the shell represents the opening of the tomb and resurrection.

I also think that eggs were one of the things that people didnā€™t eat during lent. Since the chickens didnā€™t give up laying during lent, there was always a large number of eggs at the end of lent that had to be eaten. Voila. A need to get rid of excess eggs and a great symbol for life come together.
 
Looked into the Christian symbolism of rabbits, and itā€™s mixed: some good meanings, some bad meanings.

The good meanings often involve rabbits being a symbol of vitality. Their speed, when fleeing a predator, is supposed to represent the zeal of Christians to avoid temptation and sin.
 
Mikeoffaith said:
I canā€™t say for sure about the chocolate bunnies, never mind peeps, but colored eggs, especially colored red has been a long tradition in the church. I was taught by my grandfather, who was Serbian Orthodox, that the egg was dyed red to symbolize the blood of Christ shed on the cross, the hard shell represents the sealed tomb, and the cracking of the shell represents the opening of the tomb and resurrection.

I also think that eggs were one of the things that people didnā€™t eat during lent. Since the chickens didnā€™t give up laying during lent, there was always a large number of eggs at the end of lent that had to be eaten. Voila. A need to get rid of excess eggs and a great symbol for life come together.
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Funny thing, I was taught what your grandfather taught you by my Polish mother! When we dyed the eggs, we used not only the American dyes, but also did some eggs using onion skins for an amber color and beet juice for red, like they did in Poland.
 
ā€œMadam, sometimes a chocolate bunnyā€¦is just a chocolate bunnyā€.
Freud on a bad day.

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Iā€™m allergic to chocolate, so you all can have my bunnies ok?
 
You all can have those Cadbury eggs too. I never liked that nasty gooey filling.
 
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What do chocolate bunnies and colored eggs have to do with Easter?:confused:šŸ¤·
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As others have said, the egg is truly a symbol of new life; very appropriate. Chocolate bunnies have become part of the scene in order to incease the profitablility of candy makers, to a large extent. I will say, however, that after abstaining during Lent, chocolate is a symbol of celebration so it might have some meaning after all.
 
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What do chocolate bunnies and colored eggs have to do with Easter?:confused:šŸ¤·
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Well AFA as the eggs go, anciently during Lent, eggs were part of the fast so they would an over abundance of them come Easter, is part of the reason for them.
 
We have bunny day on Saturday. Itā€™s fun, but probably has an expiration date as my kids get older and care less and less. Theyā€™ve pretty much accepted Iā€™m the tooth fairy, their resolve is weakening about me being the easter bunny.

On Sunday, we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ, on the third day after His crucifiction. God willing, there will never be an expiration date on this celebration.
 
NeuroTypical said:
We have bunny day on Saturday. Itā€™s fun, but probably has an expiration date as my kids get older and care less and less. Theyā€™ve pretty much accepted Iā€™m the tooth fairy, their resolve is weakening about me being the easter bunny.
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I canā€™t speak for your kids, but Iā€™m still very interested in colored eggs and chocolate bunnies. šŸ˜›
 
NeuroTypical said:
We have bunny day on Saturday. Itā€™s fun, but probably has an expiration date as my kids get older and care less and less. Theyā€™ve pretty much accepted Iā€™m the tooth fairy, their resolve is weakening about me being the easter bunny.

On Sunday, we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ, on the third day after His crucifiction. God willing, there will never be an expiration date on this celebration.
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Iā€™m 24 and I still get an Easter Basket. šŸ˜Š I have also given my hubby an Easter Basket since we started dating. I think I just like giving/recieving presents. lol
 
Mikeoffaith said:
I canā€™t say for sure about the chocolate bunnies, never mind peeps, but colored eggs, especially colored red has been a long tradition in the church. I was taught by my grandfather, who was Serbian Orthodox, that the egg was dyed red to symbolize the blood of Christ shed on the cross, the hard shell represents the sealed tomb, and the cracking of the shell represents the opening of the tomb and resurrection.

I also think that eggs were one of the things that people didnā€™t eat during lent. Since the chickens didnā€™t give up laying during lent, there was always a large number of eggs at the end of lent that had to be eaten. Voila. A need to get rid of excess eggs and a great symbol for life come together.
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The rabbit is a symbol of the resurrection because they bear their young in spring which arise from undergroundā€“like rising from the grave. Chocolate is simply a sweet, of course. Iā€™d much rather eat a chocolate bunny on Easter morning than a real one. In fact, Iā€™ve never tasted roasted rabbit or ā€œconeyā€ as it is called in England.
 
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