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When we first moved to Accy I was gob smacked because almost everybody eats their Easter Eggs on Easter Sunday.
Why is this.
Even religious people do this and they are supposed to know about Easter?
Perhaps Accywebbers can enlighten me.

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i ate mine about 3 weeks before easter....only cos i'm greedy n fat :D;)

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We started ours on Good Friday, we're not religious so not really sure which day your supposed to eat them, though Sunday is Easter Day I think.

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are you not supposed to??:confused:
im not religious either so dont know the crack!!
my kids ate them before and on the day, are you suppose to keep em or summat???

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doesnt matter when you eat them they were only ever made to make some one rich chocolate has nothing to do with the bible

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what do you mean anne does it really matter when we eat em, as davo69 said chocolate is naff all to do with the bible, so please enlighten us:p

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[quote=ANNE;410040]When we first moved to Accy I was gob smacked because almost everybody eats their Easter Eggs on Easter Sunday.
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Have lived in Accy 80 plus years and this is the first time I have heard that. Look forward to any verification.

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Thanks Willow -- I must have been typing when you posted.

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easter eggs don't last two minutes in our house. They are there to be eaten aren't they? As Homer would say "Mmm chocolate".

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Never thought about it before -- eaten them at any time. Off shortly to Canterbury and if I see the Archbishop will ask him about it.

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Is it not to celebrate the end of the fasting period of Lent when traditionaly on Easter Sunday, catholics may cease their fasting and start again whatever they gave up for lent, after they attend Sunday mass.

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I'm with Willow. Traditionally Easter eggs should be eaten on Easter Day, as that is the day the women who were going to annoint Jesus's body, saw that the stone, later represented by an egg, had been rolled away from the entrance to the tomb.

Another reason why we use eggs to celebrate the resurrection is that one is mentioned when Mary Magdalene went to visit Emporer Tiberias.

Tradition relates, that in Italy Mary Magdalene visited the Emperor Tiberias (14-37 AD) and proclaimed to him about Christ's Resurrection. According to tradition, she took him an egg as a symbol of the Resurrection, a symbol of new life with the words: "Christ is Risen!" Then she told Tiberias that, in his Province of Judea, Jesus the Nazarene, a holy man, a maker of miracles, powerful before God and all mankind, was executed on the instigation of the Jewish High-Priests and the sentence affirmed by the procurator Pontius Pilate. Tiberias responded that no one could rise from the dead, anymore than the egg she held could turn red. Miraculously, the egg immediately began to turn red as testimony to her words. Then, and by her urging, Tiberias had Pilate removed from Jerusalem to Gaul, where he later suffered a horrible sickness and an agonizing death.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/mary_magdalene.htm

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I never thought that Easter eggs had any religious status. I thought they symbolised the start of Spring :eek: mthead's also just explained they symbolise the tomb ...... eeeee you learn sommat new every day. :)

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I don't think it matters when you eat them, but it does matter which end you start eating first. Much debate has been raging on this point ever since Swift described the consequences of choosing the wrong end.

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I, too have always kept the Easter Eggs until Sunday...and i was always taught that an egg looks dead, but has the essence of life.....Jesus was dead, but after the resurrection he was alive in the hearts of men.

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Have you never heard of comfort eating?

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the lord dide on good friday and rose a gain on easter sunday so thats why we eat our eggs on a sunday

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I eat my Easter Eggs on Easter Day (or I would if I got any - which I don't). Easter Day is the Sunday.

I open my Christmas presents on Christmas Day, too. Am I missing something here? :confused:

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They must have a different Easter in some towns. :D

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why do we eat them at all?????

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lol but what has it got to do with easter?

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I think maybe the original poster is one of the eastern european immigrants that some have complained about stealing all the jobs, and belongs to the Coptic or Orthodox church . :confused: :confused: ;) ;)

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I have always believed that we should not start eating Easter eggs until Easter sunday.This being the day that Jesus rose from the dead and the eggs signify new life. Anne,when do you think is the right time to eat the eggs?

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Has anybody told Mick? :D

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Let's not forget Anne is originally from Preston.

Rather than eat the Easter eggs, she was brought up to believe she should be rolling them down the hill in Avenham Park.;)

http://www.prestoncitizen.co.uk/news...for_easter.php

Sorry Chuck(y egg) couldn't resist it.:D

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Mmmm lots of interesting answers here. Rindy's right. Well sort of.
This is what I was led to believe, firstly by Mum n Dad and later through Sunday School.
Good Friday was the Day that Jesus was Crusified. He rose again 3day's after the Crusifiction.
Day 1 Saturday, Day 2 Sunday, Day 3 Easter Monday. Assention Day.
The Chocolate eggs are to represent the rolling away of the tomb stone. It was considered unlucky to eat the eggs before Easter Monday without rolling them, till they broke.
On Easter Monday in Preston has always been a big event were the eggs would be taken to Avenham park and rolled down the big green hill. If it was raining then we wern't allowed to eat the eggs untill they had been rolled in the house and broken.
If they were to symbolise the start of spring Tinks we would be eating our yummy choccy in March.

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ah thanx for that Anne, i never knew thats why we ate them :D

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chocolate was only brought in for the comercial market .nothing to do with easter .origanely people wood boil eggs and hand paint them as presents to give to one another to reprecent the bolder which was moved from the cave .were jesus was .

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eggs is eggs ;)

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just dont carry them all in one basket lol

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Ah well there you go, That explains it. Except he didn't rise 3 days after the crucifixion. He rose 'on the third day'. Friday was the first day, Saturday was the second day and Sunday was the third day. This is also why we have Sunday as our holy or Sabbath day. You know that "Six days shalt thou labour and do all that though hast to do but the seventh is the sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no work, neither thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor the stranger within thy gates etc etc..."? Well if you look at a calendar you'll see that Sunday isn't the seventh day. It's the first day.

The Jews (today and in Jesus's time) have Saturday as their Sabbath day because it is the 7th day of the week and they are doing like it says - mind you some ignore the manservant, maidservant and stranger bit and get other people to do things for them on the Sabbath even as far as switching a light on or off for very orthodox Jews.

The early Christians also kept Saturday as their Sabbath but somewhere along the way it was changed to Sunday in honour of the day that Jesus rose from the dead.

Ascension Day is another thing altogether. After his resurrection Jesus spent time with various people. He even had a picnic on the beach and chatted to a couple of chaps on the road to Emmaus but it didn't dawn on them who he was at first. It's generally regarded that he stayed 40 days after his resurrection before ascending to Heaven. This year Ascension Day will officially be May 17th - it's always on a Thursday but some churches sort of celebrate it on the following Sunday. Our church doesn't actually make a thing of it at all though and like "Whitsuntide" which used to be celebrated with Whit Monday walks and things it seems to have become largely forgotten nowadays.


Here endeth the lesson for today :D :D :D

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I never realy thought about eating eggs on Easter Sunday,seriously though is that why there are crosses on hot cross buns ,so we eat them on good friday..?

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i love hot cross buns :D

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butter melting on mine just took them from the grill yum yum

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Very interesting thread -- just shows one is never too old to learn. However, I am somewhat concerned as to wether or not Him / Her Up There will give me bad Karma for eating them before the official date. And by the way, as it was a Fiver to go in Canterbury Cathedral I didn`t get the chance to see the Archbishop. ( Footnote: I am rather careful regarding parting with Coin of the Realm these days.)

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lol i dont blame you Bert :D

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When i was younger and lived at home i was never allowed to eat my eggs until after church on Easter Sunday. Even now i won't let any Easter eggs be eaten until Easter Sunday. Kids moan, but tough.

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I was surprised my egg lasted till good Friday, it was given to me 2 weeks before!

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When do you stop eating Easter Eggs?

Last year my granddaughter got so many she was still eating them in July - she's only allowed a limited amount of chocolate a day. In October I found one lurking on top of a kitchen wall-cupboard. I had a look at it and the chocolate was all, sort of, filmy so I chucked it in the bin.

This year her mum pleaded with everyone not to buy her eggs so she got the money or presents instead - but she still got 4 of them and 2 chocolate rabbits. Sadly, no one bought her a dark chocolate one. If they had, I could have helped to save her teeth and prevent obesity - but I hate milk chocolate. :rolleyes:

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My daughter still has 3 left plus 4 cadbury's creme eggs and some mini eggs, I limit her, then pig out when she's in bed:D

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i reckon you should stop eating them when they go out of date ;) :D

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I got 2 - was was eaten on good friday/easter saturday and the other was eaten on Easter Sunday.

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well this thread has taught me a bit ...


as for the eggs we have always saved them until the sunday but only because we followed tradition , although i made my lot make them last for a few days after easter lol..


me personally always treat it as a day to have all the family round for a meal where poss

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Willow we were taught that Friday was the day of the Crucifixion and not day one. Saturday was day one, Easter Sunday we were given an hard boiled egg and a small chocolate egg in a little paper basket to take home and were always told NOT to eat it until Easter Monday. Day 3.
If this wasn't the case then why would we have Easter Monday?
I just naturally assumed that everyone ate their eggs on the Monday, but you live and learn.
Most people nowadays just assume the egg thing is to do with the Easter bunny.

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i bought 6 bags of cadburys mini eggs from tesco,s yesterday ..half price,,, i cant resist a bargain

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It's a Bank Holiday, not a Christian festival. Up to 1870 it was just an ordinary working day like any other and it has no significance whatever in the religious calendar.

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I'm sure that at one time they did close, and the only thing open was the fish market...and that was only open until dinner time. But times change and everyone seems to worship at the shrine of commercialism now.

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I can't decide if Cadburys creme eggs are getting smaller or if my gob is getting bigger :confused: :confused: :confused:

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you should buy them on the monday after easter there half price so you can have more yum yum!!

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I think they've got smaller. It can't be my mouth because I don't eat them. :D