AIBU to not want to eat rabbit on Easter Sunday?

[FireBelliedToad]

Just because...well... the Easter Bunny

IL's planning to get take away from local restaurant. Set menu, 4 courses. Main is rabbit. Not something I would choose, but I'd make the effort to eat it if served. However, I don't want to tell my DC we'll be eating rabbit at Easter. And would you expect your Dc to eat it?

Eating the Easter Bunny sounds like quite a cool thing to do. You could put on an appropriate soundtrack, too :

‘Briiiiight eyes, burning like fire....’

I think it's teaching ingratitude personally AgeLikeWine. 'Thanks for the eggs, Bugs, now nestle down in this cosy oven tray for a rest...'

YABU.

It's a part of our culinary heritage and a relatively cheap and sustainable meat. Wild rabbit is certainly had a happier life than a factory farmed animal. Our local butchers often stocks it.

We have venison at Christmas so I guess that's eating Rudolph? I think you're being a bit weird about it.

Could you tell them it's 'cat'?

The one that has been going round to every Mumsnetter and shitting in their garden.

A lot of ‘you either eat meat or you don’t’ posts - strangely I believe meat eaters are free to choose which animals they do and do not eat. I wouldn’t want rabbit, dog, cat and don’t eat lamb as I believe every animal deserves a bit of a life so try to avoid baby animals! I don’t care if that’s hypocritical - I’m allowed to make my own choices.

We didn’t have the Easter bunny when I was a kid. Yes you got drawings of rabbits and chicks and wee lambies frolicking on Easter cards... but no crazy rabbit delivering eggs (why a rabbit and eggs??)

I'd consider lying to them, but I can imagine someone else saying something about the rabbit being delicious, so maybe not...

YANBU to not want to eat or serve your children rabbit on Easter or any other day. Few are happy to eat every type of meat that exists. I don't care if it's hypocritical. Unless I were literally starving, I wouldn't eat a dog. Non-meat eaters can pretend not to understand the distinction if they like, but there's a big difference between eating something you're used to eating and something that is unacceptable according to your culture or personal beliefs.

I've never eaten rabbit in my life. I don't know anybody who's cooked a rabbit, certainly not my mother, for any family meal. I've never been in a restaurant that had rabbit on the menu. I've never been offered rabbit in 60+ years of eating out and dinner invitations. Am I alone in never having the desire nor even the opportunity to eat rabbit if I wanted to?
Do they sell it in Sainsbury's? I don't fancy the sound of it tbh but that's probably because my experience hasn't trained me to recognise it as food.

...if you eat meat, you eat meat, not only the non cute and fluffy ones.
That's not true though is it. Meat eaters don't eat all meat. I don't pop down to the local zoo shop to pick up an elephant chop or some minced gibbon, I don't go for a walk in the woods and forage myself a couple of hedgehogs or a fox for dinner.

I eat virtually anything including offal etc but I won’t eat rabbit. I had too many of them as pets as a kid, to me it would feel like most people would view eating a cat or guinea pig.

YANBU
Yuck! - not envy!

I never realised eating meat meant you had to enjoy every meat available, I wouldn’t eat rabbit because it doesn’t taste very nice and we’ve had pet rabbits, I also dislike duck meat (and would like a pet duck).

I eat vegetables too, but don’t like all vegetables, or do I not get to have a preference? If I eat carrots then I must also eat turnips?

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

Could you tell them it's 'cat'?

The one that has been going round to every Mumsnetter and shitting in their garden.

🤣

If they're young, I wouldn't tell them what meat it is. If they ask, tell them it's rabbit, but leave it at that and don't make a big thing about the Easter Bunny. If they say they don't want to eat it, I would accept that, but I don't think it's a good idea to create the issue where it might not even exist.

@Lookatthemshine

A lot of ‘you either eat meat or you don’t’ posts - strangely I believe meat eaters are free to choose which animals they do and do not eat. I wouldn’t want rabbit, dog, cat and don’t eat lamb as I believe every animal deserves a bit of a life so try to avoid baby animals! I don’t care if that’s hypocritical - I’m allowed to make my own choices.

Do you think the other animals you eat are anything more than babies??

@HeyGepetto

I never realised eating meat meant you had to enjoy every meat available, I wouldn’t eat rabbit because it doesn’t taste very nice and we’ve had pet rabbits, I also dislike duck meat (and would like a pet duck).

I eat vegetables too, but don’t like all vegetables, or do I not get to have a preference? If I eat carrots then I must also eat turnips?

I think the point is that some meat eaters act all outraged about the cruelty or grossness of eating one animal but manage to distnace them self from another.

FYI lookatthemshine

When we were kids we used to go and choose a lamb from the farm... to be slaughtered and put in the freezer.

Children often aren’t naturally sentimental, I also had friends whose parents always had 2 pigs in the back field that were always known as Egg and Bacon or whatever, until they landed in their freezer.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

Could you tell them it's 'cat'?

The one that has been going round to every Mumsnetter and shitting in their garden.

@NameChangedForThisFeb21

Yuck. Poorly thought out by the restaurant. YADNBU.

Why is it yuck?

I don't eat meat personally but, if you would usually eat rabbit meat or at least try it then I can't see that Easter should change it. If you think your kids would be bothered don't tell you what meat it is.

@Lookatthemshine you realise Lambs are actually quite big and sheepy when they go to market? They aren’t those little fluffy gambolling things! Wouldn’t get much meat on them. Bet you eat chicken and those poor buggers get super fattened and killed within weeks. Lambs are far higher welfare.

That point aside I’m now concerned that I know for a fact my kids would find the entire idea of eating the Easter bunny fucking hilarious.

I’ve raised monsters

Oh the venom! I don’t give a toss what you think - I live rurally, I know where meat comes from but I’m allowed my own choices - which apparently is very upsetting for some of you headcases out there! Catch a grip - yes ViolentFern I’m talking to you.

For some reason mum used to call every meat ‘chicken’ if we asked what it was. We are any critter going, and weren’t remotely squeamish (used to go to the meat market with dad to stock the freezer) but for some reason everything was chicken. I only balked at liver... 🤢