The word 'Easter' on Easter eggs

[InspMorse]

Cadburys Easter egg advert popped up on my newsfeed tonight and I have just wasted a good 30 mins of my precious time on this earth scrolling through the comments left by complete morons people directed at Cadburys.

Apparently Cadburys have removed the word Easter from their boxes. This has been done (apparently again) to appease non-Christians, it is sacrilegious and many people are furiously are demanding that Cadburys reinstate the word EASTER on their packaging forthwith.

AIBU to think that the world has gone mad?
AIBU to think that 'God' (whoever or whatever he might be) doesn't give a flying fk what is written on the box of a chocolate egg?

0)For anyone who thinks they were labelled 'Easter eggs' in the past, Cadburys along with every other chocolate manufacturer have called their eggs 'chocolate eggs' for years. They sometimes add in 'Easter' but not always. (See attached pic of retro. packaging).

My buttons one said "This Easter egg belongs to..."

I can’t remember the last time I saw the word “Easter” on one of the boxes. It’s been chocolate egg for as long as I remember.

What’s your AIBU? Idiots are being idiots somewhere on the internet?

Amusingly Help for Heroes have released an egg for Easter too. I can't find the word Easter on the packaging.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/298948436

That's a lot of "apparently" that a five-second Google could have avoided.

The chocolate eggs are symbolic of Easter, specifically rolling the stone from the entrance of the tomb of Jesus Christ.

Removing the word will not remove the significance.

What’s your AIBU?
See OP!

I wonder how many of the outraged people complaining to Cadburys actually go to church?

Exactly Rose. Although the tradition/symbolism is in painted eggs not mass produced chocolate ones from multi-million pound corporations!

I pointed that exact same thing out using pictures of old Nestle Easter eggs when someone on my FB was ranting about it.

The chocolate eggs are symbolic of Easter, specifically rolling the stone from the entrance of the tomb of Jesus Christ.

Really? I thought the eggs were pagan, and just got adopted as part of the Easter imagery.

If they're really Christian, why don't we eat chocolate tombstones instead?

The chocolate eggs are symbolic of Easter, specifically rolling the stone from the entrance of the tomb of Jesus Christ

I seriously doubt this. Can’t wait to hear what the Easter bunny is meant to be symbolic of.

It's like all those Christmas cards that don't have religious pictures... disgusting.

(Insert homer gif here: "in case you can't tell, i'm being sarcastic"!!! )

I thought they were a pagan symbol of fertility and new life and were, like many pagan traditions, appropriated by christians as part of their recruitment campaign in the early years of Christianity.

I'm focused on what's inside the box rather than what's written on the outside!

Easter eggs are pre Christian anyway. It was a celebration of spring and when the chickens started to lay again.

Also, Cadbury’s haven’t removed the word, it hasn’t been there in years.

Constant - I got dragged to church regularly as a child, and I was definitely taught that the egg symbolises the tomb. When you crack it, it's jesus' tomb cracking open after 3 days.

Or, you know, total rubbish and an excuse to eat total rubbish, whatever you believe!!

Constant - I got dragged to church regularly as a child, and I was definitely taught that the egg symbolises the tomb. When you crack it, it's jesus' tomb cracking open after 3 days.

That sounds seriously far-fetched!

That’s is what Christians say the egg symbolises, and for many Christians I’m sure it does.
However eggs are a pagan carry over from the festival of the vernal equinox.

The eggs are pagan symbols of fertility in line with Oestara which celebrates new life and the spring and stuff.

The Christians blatantly nicked Easter

Easter eggs are definitely symbolic in several religions. The Easter bunny not so much!

Bloody hell! Since when has chocolate had any religious significance, it’s called marketing and we are all suckers for it!

Oh come on, the egg = tomb link is clearly ridiculous!

Easter is a pagan spring fertility festival, hence bunnies, eggs, chicks, lambs.

Easter= Oestara=oestrogen=new life, fertility.

Unless you're a creationist I suppose.

childmind Google Christianity and Easter eggs!

Chocolate eggs are not symbolic for Easter.

Eggs are.

Read the moronic comments on Cadbury's FB page - they fund Isis and 'contain halal' apparently. People believe utter shite.