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).

Chardonnay
Eggsactly.

Think a few pages of my bible are missing. Not aware of any celebrations in the form of the consumption of chocolate Easter eggs occurring back then! Couldn't care less if it said Easter on it or not. It's chocolate!

Anais That's what I was reading!!
Sooo many angry people complaining about Halal chocolate eggs.
Who the F Are these people?!

There's also comments saying that someone's been going around 'injecting hiv' into chocolate bars - you couldn't make this shit up

Funnily enough, my parents (church goers) always told me that chocolate eggs were not really Easter eggs because chocolate wasn't anything to do with Christianity. We did however blow the egg out from small holes pierced in chicken eggs & paint them!

Op Here you go

Ostara Traditions

Spring or the Vernal Equinox Arrives Between March 20 - 23

Also known as: Lady Day or Alban Eiler (Druidic)

As Spring reaches its midpoint, night and day stand in perfect balance, with light on the increase. The young Sun God now celebrates a hierogamy (sacred marriage) with the young Maiden Goddess, who conceives. In nine months, she will again become the Great Mother. It is a time of great fertility, new growth, and newborn animals.

The next full moon (a time of increased births) is called the Ostara and is sacred to Eostre the Saxon Lunar Goddess of fertility (from whence we get the word estrogen, whose two symbols were the egg and the rabbit.

The Christian religion adopted these emblems for Easter which is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. The theme of the conception of the Goddess was adapted as the Feast of the Annunciation, occurring on the alternative fixed calendar date of March 25 Old Lady Day, the earlier date of the equinox. Lady Day may also refer to other goddesses (such as Venus and Aphrodite), many of whom have festivals celebrated at this time.

You are welcome

Happens every year, like errrrrr Easter. Fucking gammons.

Insp - I know Christians like to claim a link between Easter eggs and Jesus, but it's very far fetched. The date was chosen because it was already a popular festival, like Christmas.

Well yeah we know it’s actually hard boiled eggs which are rolled down a slope 🙄
but the chocolate eggs can be rolled and broken and eaten too. Cool beans!

Well yeah we know it’s actually hard boiled eggs which are rolled down a slope 🙄 but the chocolate eggs can be rolled and broken and eaten too. Cool beans!

It’s all eggstremely clear now.

maiden
Thank you! I am now well informed on the origin of the Easter egg thanks to the gobshites on the Cadbury page! I've been googling for hours! (I lead a very interesting life!)

Wiki is so reliable!
Lol

yeah right....

and if you google

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.

link number 1:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/cadbury-banned-easter/

Cadbury spokesman also offered a comment on the controversy to the Independent denying any effort to eliminate or downplay references to Easter:

“Most of our Easter eggs don’t say Easter or egg on the front as we don’t feel the need to tell people this — it is very obvious through the packaging that it is an Easter egg,” said the unnamed spokesperson, who denied that political or religious correctness is behind the move.

Although there may be some truth to the claim that the word “Easter” is not prominently displayed on all Cadbury chocolate products, the company has clearly not “banned” references to that holiday in their product packaging.

Not Wiki

Wicca.com

wicca.com/celtic/akasha/ostara.htm

It's a load of crap too, someone posted the same on FB and I did a 30 second search of my usual online supermarket and found that a large number of the eggs included the word 'Easter' and that included Cadbury eggs.

Wiki is indeed 'so reliable'
But let's face it, not many people needed it to know chocolate eggs and tombstones was a load of bollocks, eh Rosie?,

Alabama Do you think I agree with what people are writing? See OP!

Oh for f**k sake, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with christianty. Who even reads the box, its just buy, unwrap, stuff face with chocolate. I wish religious people would stop trying to force their ideas on everyone else. Its a CHOCOLATE EGG ffs.

What is the point of this thread? I am tired of the anti Christian rhetoric, usually over petty issues like this one, with the trendy pagan line being trotted out to discredit something they clearly despise, Christianity, directed toward the uninformed.

It seems to me that the only purpose for this thread and others is for spewing contempt for Christianity. I know that the posters here will sneer and attack like they always do, but I felt it was time for somebody to say something. I have no desire to engage here because your minds are closed. But I wanted to at least say to the op and posters that I for one, and maybe I’m the only one, do not agree with their mocking.

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

Re the Easter Bunny query, maybe whilst rolling the giant chocolate egg away from his tomb Jesus nearly squashed a nearby rabbit?

It is very obvious through the packaging that it is an Easter egg,
Ha! This!

thanksjane

Hmmm...plausible! 😂

Here are pictures of Rowntrees eggs over the years - hardly any mention of Easter....
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12744749.How_many_of_these_Rowntree_Easter_Eggs_from_the_1970s__80s_and_90s_do_you_remember_/#gallery38

Doesn't take much searching to find the same for Cadburys and the others. This is a nasty story whipped up to incite othering of non-Christians.