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?

I'd be very pleased if rabbit was the option - I think it's delicious. I don't come across it enough in restaurants and I find it too fiddly to cook at home because I always miss bones when I'm pinboning the meat.

I don't really understand the issue about the Easter rabbit - most people have lamb at Easter while all the lambs are in the fields. Children may have seen the lambs and will possibly make the connection - why is that different to having rabbit?

Lookatthemshine
Do you know what a head case is? Why are you calling me names like that?

don’t eat lamb as I believe every animal deserves a bit of a life so try to avoid baby animals!

Why did you say this then go on to say that you know all about the animals, which means you know they're all babies anyway.

Each to their own but get your facts right and don't call people names

@AlexaShutUp

I don't eat meat anyway, so I don't have the view that some animals are ok whereas others are off limits, but even I can see that expecting children to eat the flipping Easter Bunny is some kind of really sick joke!

And no, I wouldn't expect dc to eat it!

Agree with this .

@Enb76 a farmed rabbit can be delicious. Try a roast one, with bacon or Hungarian style, as paprikas and dumplings. Very tasty and nice.
My DGM used to have them and kill them for special occasions. Think my Mom refused eating them because when she was young, my DGF thought he was making a great joke (more like a Dad joke) and told her they were eating their farm cat but I loved a nice well prepared rabbit.

I’m vegetarian, but ate meat as a child. No, I wouldn’t expect my child to eat rabbit, (although they might choose to).

I’d probably say something along the lines of “a takeaway would be lovely, but I’m not keen on rabbit and I don’t think DC is either. How about X Takeaway?”

@Cattenberg why shouldn't a child eat a rabbit?
I would fully expect my daughter eat a rabbit, Easter or not. She ate deer steak and loved it, so did she love deer sausages and knew it was Bambi.

Even when I did eat meat, I wouldn’t have wanted to eat rabbit. I had a pet rabbit for a while. My granddad joked that he wanted to eat him, and I was genuinely worried that he might!

I agree that our reasons for eating some animals and not others are often illogical. That’s one of the reasons I gave up meat altogether. Pigs are surprisingly intelligent, for example.

God some of you have weird views. No meat isn’t just ‘meat’
Humans are meat ffs but we don’t cook each other up.
I eat beef, chicken pork and fish but would never eat lamb, sheep or rabbit because the thought of eating those turns my stomach! Just like eating cat or dog turns my stomach. Meat is not just meat. What a weird view. Would you eat dog or cat then?

Would you eat dog or cat then?

Just speaking personally, yes, I would, if it was a commonly eaten meat in whatever place I was in, and was prepared for me. I wouldn't kill and cook one myself, but I don't do that to the meat I eat already.

[quote Sstrongtn]@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 [/quote]
I know right? Fell bred sheep have it just about as good as a farmed animal possibly can.

You really can tell the people to whom the countryside is just some sort of vague idea on this thread...

This is the view from my front door 😂. Presumptuous t**t!

Rabbit is very tasty but I rarely eat it because of the cute bunny thing. There are sweet little lambs with there mums in local fields. I never eat lamb.

@dontsaveusername

If it's the cuteness that puts you off, I suggest you stick to Naked Mole Rat during the week and then Blobfish on Fridays.

If you do get rabbit remember its full of tiny bones.
You're going to have to tell dc to look carefully at what they're eating.

This is bonkers. Chickens are cute, cows are cute, lambs are cute, pigs are cute. Either you eat meat or you don’t! I honestly wouldn’t think twice about this. (Besides, isn’t the Easter Bunny a magic human-sized entity? Not an actual little rabbit?)

Fuck's sake. We don't eat baby lambs. I'm lambing right now. The lamb you eat is an animal which is at least 6 months old.
Good story OP

How about you don't eat any meat at all?

Rabbit is good, if done well.
Easter is not all fluffy bunnies; it’s about a man dying nailed to a cross.

It’s good for children to understand the provenance of the food they eat. Have they never collected eggs for breakfast? Nursery children here feed the village piglets until they’re old enough to have slaughtered.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles. That is about as revolting as the wood pigeons DH shoots and brings home to eat. To me they are flying rats, and no amount of ‘it’s free range, eaten in posh London restaurants’ crap convinces me!

I don’t eat pig, apart from the very rare bacon sandwich, since watching the film ‘babe’. 😂

@LemonRoses

Rabbit is good, if done well. Easter is not all fluffy bunnies; it’s about a man dying nailed to a cross.

It’s good for children to understand the provenance of the food they eat. Have they never collected eggs for breakfast? Nursery children here feed the village piglets until they’re old enough to have slaughtered.

Actually Easter was about rebirth and fertility before Christians co opted it.

I would eat dogs or cats. I would eat my neighbour of it came to it😂

Rabot can be absolutely delicious. We had them a lot when I was young. We didn't have an easter bunny, but if you just don't use ghe word "bunny" about the meat, it can be fine

Make up a nice rabbit lasagne . Popular with friends of dp in France.

Hoppinggreen. That may well be so, but the feat in current circumstances is the major Christian festival across the world. It’s not all about fluffy rabbits and cream eggs.

In fact, should she tell the children the rabbit also gave its life so others might live?

So it's wrong to eat the Easter bunny on Easter Sunday, but fine to eat him on his 364 days off? Seems a bit daft tbh! Personally I'm not a big fan of the taste of rabbit. I'll eat it, but I'd rather have something else.

It won't be the Easter Bunny, he's too busy. It'll be one of the old worker bunnies that got made redundant due to all the parents who won't let family buy the kids chocolate until they're 4