Easter lamb

I like lamb. I don't like this trend of having it slow cooked though. And shredded. Lamb should be pink.

It’s traditional.
It’s seasonal.
It’s on offer at Tesco.

I doubt very few people eat it symbolically (except for the Passover).

I’m a Christian and I had beans on toast. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No, they don't think about it at all.

I loathe lamb, and the smell

I don’t really understand your argument? Surely if you’re celebrating new life, you’d eat something young and not old?

A 2.7kg (approximately 6 lb) duck is typically a young, prime table bird, usually around 7 to 8 weeks old.

A duckling is generally considered a baby duck from hatching until it is about
6 to 8 weeks old, at which point it grows its full adult feathers and begins to look like a small adult. They are covered in downy fluff when born, begin growing feathers around 3 weeks, and are typically fully feathered by 6 weeks.

You can eat whatever you want, but duckling is arguably a newer life than lamb.

But I don't think most people do see it as a festival of spring or new life. That's your spin on it. For those who aren't Christian or Jewish it's not really a festival or celebration of anything particularly.

As a compromise, how about mutton dressed as lamb? 😃 🐑

That sounds cool. I would try it if I saw it. There was one organic meat man at our market but he vanished.

But yeah I've got lamb, half a leg marinaded in red wine with rosemary and garlic stuck in.

Christians believe God WAS Jesus, God in human form. God brought himself to the world die for our sins. The passion of Christ is the frailty of his humanity in conflict with the divine, to show both human and divine exist in God. I'm not a Christian but that's how I was given to understand it.

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Quite.

Lots of Christians are celebrating Easter. Lots of Jews are celebrating Passover. Lots of people are not celebrating anything other than a holiday and an excuse to eat a lot of chocolate and have a family meal.

A tiny number of people are celebrating a pagan festival or any concept of new life.

Why, if we like the taste so much?

Or maybe not eat dead animal full stop…

The religious side of it is it represents Jesus as ‘the lamb of god’ so Christians eat lamb to commemorate Jesus’s sacrifice.
Lamb is also the first fresh meat available in spring after winter marking the start of spring and because the meat is easily available it’s a popular choice

It's not equivalent though. Lambs are nearly a year old when they're slaughtered for meat. They're not new born. It's not too much different from the age cow or chicken when killed for their meat.

Virtually nobody celebrates a pagan Easter. Nobody I know is "celebrating new life" in a pagan way, it's all leftovers from the Christian celebrations, which others point out might borrow from Passover traditions. At a push it's a celebration of Spring, and I do think of lamb as "spring lamb".

I hate lamb…it tastes like the smell of farm 🤣🤣

We quite often had a spinach and egg savoury pie thing for Easter growing up (torta pasqualina...with 33 layers of pastry for the number of years Jesus lived).

It was very tasty but sadly a bit beyond my cooking skills.

So what you're actually complaining about is that a lot of people have different beliefs from you and they're eating lamb and you don't want them to.

Have a word with yourself.

Do you not have Google, OP?

I mean, you're on the internet anyway and this is a pretty easy question to answer accurately without asking a whole bunch of strangers who may or may not have any idea.

You do realise lamb is traditional?
Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household....12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.12:6You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.12:7They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.12:8They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs....12:11This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the Passover of the LORD.12:12I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.12:13The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.12:14"This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.