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Since when did carrots become part of Easter

66 replies

greenmeansNogo · 09/04/2022 20:24

Carrot decorations, even carrot chocolates and eggs and hats on water bonnets. AIBU, but apart from something a rabbit likes, they aren't even spring vegetables. I think they should get their own celebration, maybe try to muscle in on Halloween being orange and an autumn crop. Leave Easter for the chicks and eggs.

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DyingForACuppa · 09/04/2022 20:56

@eddiemairswife

What's wrong with hot cross buns and Simnel cake?
I love hot cross buns, but can totally leave Simnel cake.

Torta pasqualina (with eggs!) is our traditional Easter food. Oh, and chocolate, of course.

OutingHobby · 09/04/2022 21:00

Do you think they had carrots at the last supper?

LndnGrl · 09/04/2022 21:15

@SouthOfFrance

What does the Easter Bunny eat if its not carrots?
Easter eggs, of course Confused
MurmuratingStarling · 09/04/2022 21:24

@Hobbes8

I feel the same way about penguins and Christmas.
Grin

I think it's because penguins are pretty much always pictured in and around snow and ice. Ditto polar bears. And everyone associates snow and ice (and snowy scenes etc,) with Christmas. (In The Midlands, UK, where I live anyway.)

Funny really, because I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of times there has been snow on the ground on Christmas Eve, (and Christmas day, and Boxing day,) in the last quarter of a century!!!

But yeah, I got a pack of Christmas cards several years ago, with a mixture of things in the snow... Including robins, stags, snowmen, penguins, polar bears, and even hedgehogs in the snow! Hedgehogs hibernate between October and March, so the chances of seeing THEM in the snow is near to zero! And what have ROBINS actually got to do with Christmas? Confused

All very odd!

Since when did carrots become part of Easter
Since when did carrots become part of Easter
Since when did carrots become part of Easter
ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 09/04/2022 21:28

My (real) rabbits used to love kale and fennel best.

They turned their noses up at carrots

DuchessSilver · 09/04/2022 21:32

I blame Rebecca Rabbit

Hobbes8 · 09/04/2022 21:36

@MurmuratingStarling but penguins live in the South Pole! They’re as far from Christmas as it’s possible to be!

SolasAnla · 09/04/2022 21:36

@MurmuratingStarling
Robins have 2 stories
a Christmas story
Keeping baby Jesus warm
And an Easter one
Blessed by the blood of Jesus

www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/the-legend-of-robin-redbreast

MurmuratingStarling · 09/04/2022 21:38

[quote SolasAnla]@MurmuratingStarling
Robins have 2 stories
a Christmas story
Keeping baby Jesus warm
And an Easter one
Blessed by the blood of Jesus

www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/the-legend-of-robin-redbreast[/quote]
That's cute. Thanks for that! Smile Didn't know that!

MurmuratingStarling · 09/04/2022 21:38

[quote Hobbes8]@MurmuratingStarling but penguins live in the South Pole! They’re as far from Christmas as it’s possible to be![/quote]
True! Grin

OutingHobby · 09/04/2022 21:40

I like to buy Christmas cards with unexpected animals on. Dolphins was a good one.

Sbbhnfc · 09/04/2022 21:42

What does the Easter Bunny eat if its not carrots?

Cadbury's, sorry, Mondelez Caramel chocolate bars, of course.... (boom boom).

HollysBush · 09/04/2022 21:43

Ahh, that’s reminded me how in the early 00’s, DHs grandmother used to get the children new clothes at Easter (usually colourful bargains from B-Wise, do they still exist?). I thought it was great as we were so short of money.
Carrots? Yeah, not really an Easter thing I agree.

BabyofMine · 09/04/2022 21:50

Behold. I actually took a picture of this in Home Bargains because I was so shocked such a thing existed!

Since when did carrots become part of Easter
OutingHobby · 09/04/2022 21:51

@BabyofMine

Behold. I actually took a picture of this in Home Bargains because I was so shocked such a thing existed!
What's an egg token? This all seems a bit complicated.
MurmuratingStarling · 09/04/2022 21:52

An EASTER EVE box?! What fresh hell is this?! Shock

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greenmeansNogo · 09/04/2022 21:54

Maybe I've missed that we need to leave a carrot out for the Easter bunny, a bit like we do for the reindeer at Christmas 😂

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MurmuratingStarling · 09/04/2022 21:54

@greenmeansNogo

Maybe I've missed that we need to leave a carrot out for the Easter bunny, a bit like we do for the reindeer at Christmas 😂
Grin
Alwayspaintyournails · 09/04/2022 21:55

Easter clothes have been a thing in our family since I was a child. My grandparents used to buy my siblings and I dresses, cardigans and sandals or indeed money for a new outfit when we were teenagers.

My parents still do the same for my children.

HollysBush · 09/04/2022 21:55

It’ll be rabbit on the shelf next.

AChocolateOrangeaday · 09/04/2022 21:57

That will be the next thing, leaving a carrot out the night before Easter Sunday for the Bunny who has hopefully left eggs.

BabyofMine · 09/04/2022 21:59

@HollysBush

It’ll be rabbit on the shelf next.
Ssh now, don’t give them ideas!!
bembridge11 · 09/04/2022 22:00

Rabbits eat carrots... that's why

Howmanydaysuntilfriday · 09/04/2022 22:02

they should get their own celebration, maybe try to muscle in on Halloween being orange and an autumn crop

😂

Silversprinkles · 09/04/2022 22:08

@SouthOfFrance

What does the Easter Bunny eat if its not carrots?
Small cheeky children Wink