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).

In my catholic school indoctrination education I have never ever heard that Easter eggs are symbolic of the tombstone rolling away I thought it’s something about the egg - new and everlasting life business type of thing??

Proof...
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entropy
Oh dear...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*

So you know that Paganism influenced Christianity? As new religions developed, they each made up their own tale branched off with their own interpretation. Christians decided it was all about the tomb.

entropy
Oh dear...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

So you know that Paganism influenced Christianity? As new religions developed, they each made up their own tale branched off with their own interpretation. Christians decided it was all about the tomb.

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Rose

I think using an oval as a symbol for a tomb is very misguided. It would have been very hard to 'roll' it out of the way. Also using chocolate to symbolise the material is also strange as Jesus could just have eaten his way out of the tomb.

I think with hindsight it would have been better for christians to use spherical rocks to represent the tomb, the material is more representative of a rock and its also more 'rollable'. perhaps the church could start selling Easter rocks?

@NotACleverName I thought the exact same about the smarties egg (I'm 32 this year)
Also agree about the gammon brigade ..love that phrase, I hadn't heard it before 😂

I'm not sure what 'the gammon brigade' is? Can anyone explain?

walking

I'm going to start a campaign.

Mince pies to be packaged as Christmas Mince Pies.
Turkeys to be packaged as Christmas Turkeys.

Otherwise how will we stop the Muslims from taking over Christmas?

I hadn't got the impression that the people up in arms about this were upset because they thought that Easter Eggs should have Easter written on them to honour God or something. I think the people who are upset about it are those Daily Mail types who believe that 'the Muslims' are ruining everything about Britain, just like the EU used to do (anyone remember that straight banana obsession?). They may or may not be church-going Christians, but that is secondary to their membership of the anti-PC brigade.

Yes, the loudest complainants are using their (ahem) deeply held Christian beliefs to make their point. I wonder how many of them actually go to church or have set foot in one in their entire life?

sorry op I meant that post (with the Google search) as a general people are fucking stupid and should not be allowed to share anything on fb or anywhere without proving they have checked the the link

fed up of hiding things like "Facebook is trying to remove this image" bollocks

The Gammon Brigade.

White men who turn up on things like question time a froth about immigration.
Rather neatly illustrated in this picture.

Simon Oh haha! All the frothing is playing havoc with the old blood pressure! Thank you!

I have sympathy with the Easter egg brigade. They have always been known as Easter eggs, not chocolate eggs so if you're going to call them anything on your packaging, why not Easter eggs. My presumption/theory is that when Cadbury's first started calling them chocolate eggs it was because Christians didn't like Easter to be commercialised.

If only more christians were like daffodildelight I would have no problems. It's when we hear the following type of rhetoric-

"Poor us, our Christian values are being stripped away, we are so discriminated against, how dare they take Easter away from us, chocolate eggs are so important to our sacred festival" bollocks which just reinforces their complete lack of insight into the huge privilege they enjoy and their refusal to acknowledge the truth behind their quite obviously made up/ stolen traditions !

I think I can cope.

They have always been known as Easter eggs, not chocolate eggs so if you're going to call them anything on your packaging, why not Easter eggs.

Yes. Look at the old packaging in the op. Easter plastered all over them.....

Ferrier - Easter is written on the boxes. It's a non issue.

I grew up in a staunch Catholic house - we had a chocolate egg (singular).

Easter eggs were the ones we mum hard-boiled and painted and took to the hill little slope outside the church and rolled them down.

Ffs

This winds me up so bloody much at easter!!!

It's got to a point now where I have to comment if I see a gullible friend/relative/friend of friend sharing this insane story.

Even if it is the case, what's the bloody issue? Easter is plastered absolutely everywhere, we get 4 days off for it - it's going nowhere.

Scooby I think you'll find it's not usually Christians taking issue with this but rather British Nationalists.