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The word 'Easter' on Easter eggs

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InspMorse · 10/03/2018 21:51

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).

The word 'Easter' on Easter eggs
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lettingthedaysgoby · 10/03/2018 22:44

Ah, exactly what OP was saying. Carry on, nothing to see...

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 10/03/2018 22:44

I’m
Not showing any contempt for Easter. I like celebrating Easter. I don’t like chocolate eggs and they have no place in the Easter for me.

Original poster
InspMorse · 10/03/2018 22:45

LASH

Seriously? Have you read the whole thread? All the comments? Or just the 'pagan' ones?

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biscuitmillionaire · 10/03/2018 22:45

Those posts are probably Russian troll-bots!

MrsWooster · 10/03/2018 22:45

People aren't mocking Christians, they are acknowledging the pragmatic merging of existing pagan celebrations with Christian festivals whilst mercilessly mocking the brain dead fuckheads who will use any half baked reason to trot out racist bollocks. Hth.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 10/03/2018 22:45

Stray the there.

turnipfarmers · 10/03/2018 22:46

Look in any supermarket, it's all made up crap. Loads of eggs with Easter on including Cadburys.

SimonBridges · 10/03/2018 22:47

It seems to me that the only purpose for this thread and others is for spewing contempt for Christianity.

And who has done that?

merrymouse · 10/03/2018 22:48

Traditionally chocolate eggs symbolise the fact that people like eating chocolate.

Original poster
InspMorse · 10/03/2018 22:48

Today 22:45 MrsWooster

People aren't mocking Christians, they are acknowledging the pragmatic merging of existing pagan celebrations with Christian festivals whilst mercilessly mocking the brain dead fuckheads who will use any half baked reason to trot out racist bollocks. Hth.

This! ^
I do wish people woul RTFT!

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Hygge · 10/03/2018 22:49

This is the link to the Cadbury Website

The very first thing I saw when it opened was the word Easter in massive letters.

It said "Enjoy the Easter Fun" then there's a picture of a rabbit behind a big purple egg and the egg has "Join the Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt" on it.

There's a clicky button that just says "Easter" on it.

When you click that Easter button you go to an Easter page that has three other options at the bottom. One of them says "Find an Easter Egg Hunt' and the other says "Easter Range".

Click on that link and you get the word Easter in big letters at least four times, over a picture of six different products and I can see the word Easter on two of those. The others may or may not have it but the writing is small or not on the front.

The world has gone mad and the world is also to lazy to google because it's more fun just to make up nonsense for the outrage.

Apparently Cadbury's was founded by a Quaker man who didn't celebrate Easter anyway.

I love the retro packaging picture, I think I even recognise one of the boxes as one I received when I was little.

YesILikeItToo · 10/03/2018 22:51

I know this is not the actual point, but is anyone else loving those retro egg pictures? With a general nostalgia for the 70/80s, they seem so magical to me, even though I don’t remember any of them in particular. The designs are Strong, modern eggs seem a bit wishy washy.

entropynow · 10/03/2018 22:51

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

Oh dear, someone's been reading twopenny tracts or the Daily Heil again. They are pagan symbols of rebirth in Spring and Easter (from the Spring Goddess Eostre) is a pagan holiday cop-opted by the early church. I thought this was common knowledge, apparently not.
Sigh.

Original poster
InspMorse · 10/03/2018 22:53

YesIlikeittoo
I thought the same! Lovely designs! Nowadays very dull.

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NotACleverName · 10/03/2018 22:57

I'm sure I remember having a Smarties egg like that when I were a young'un (I'm 32 now).

The only people who get upset about eggs not having the word "Easter" on them are the gammon brigade.

daffodildelight · 10/03/2018 22:58

The Romans took over all the British festivals when they conquered us. When they later converted to Christianity they then celebrated Christ's birth and death on those same dates.
I am a Christian and have heard both views that the eggs symbolise new life and the door of the tomb. I personally think of them as symbolising new life (Jesus' resurrection).

I don't think it matters if different people have different symbolism regarding the eggs. I think it's nice everyone has their own version.
Many atheists celebrate Christmas as a non religious family get together. My kids enjoy the fun of dressing up and sweets at Halloween and I love to celebrate Diwali with my friend and we often celebrate Chinese New Year with our Chinese friend.
Respect and tolerance for everyone is what we should be aiming for (obviously not illegal things).

TheRebel · 10/03/2018 22:59

We’re atheists, so in our house we call Easter “Chocolate Egg Day” and Christmas is “Presents Day”

SheepyFun · 10/03/2018 23:06

As a practising Christian, eggs have very little to do with my faith, though I'm very happy to eat them! I don't mind what they're called.

I'd been told that the date for Easter is linked to the date for Passover, the calculations for which are given in the Bible. Unlike Christmas - there's no reason to think Jesus was born in the middle of winter.

CotswoldStrife · 10/03/2018 23:07

Ugh, my friend's husband posted the 'share if you think Cadbury should put Easter on the eggs' thing or whatever it was. He is known for sharing racist crap like that. I did point out it's not true rather like the majority of stuff that he posts

FrabjousDay · 10/03/2018 23:10

RosewhiteTips that's absolute bullshit.

An egg being representative of a stone? Now I've heard it all.
Sounds like they told you this tall tale of cultural appropriation in Sunday school and you swallowed it whole.

RoseWhiteTips · 10/03/2018 23:13

Nope.

Coffeeisnecessary · 10/03/2018 23:13

I thought that Easter was a good way of connecting the 2 festivals (pagan spring one and jesus dying) as it all kind of works, death and resurrection, end of winter and re birth of life in spring, isn't that what the eggs symbolise? Same as the lambs and rabbits, fertility and rebirth? Admittedly jesus didn't come back to life as a bunny but it all made sense in my head at (Catholic) school.

Walkingdeadfangirl · 10/03/2018 23:14

Why would any god ever use chocolate to celebrate a resurrection? Does no one get the irony of chocolate and obesity, diabetes... first world killers?

If religions want to appropriate chocolate for proselytising then shouldn't they make their own in stead of expecting Cadburys to do it for them?

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