(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . New Day Cafe: Easter Sunday 2023 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-09 Good morning, Cafe! Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate. For the others, a quick trip down memory lane, and a bit of nonsense. Grab a cuppa and something tasty and join us, please! All are welcome to join the fun, the silliness, the conversations. If you don’t know...just ask! Some things really do require a bit of explanation. There will be a few surprises along the way, all good ones, we hope. We are here to keep building the Daily Kos Community. We post Mon-Sun at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. Pie fights will be met with outrageous ridicule and insults. Trolls will be incinerated and served at the next group BBQ. As briquettes. For those wondering, Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the Vernal Equinox. So, when spring arrives, find the next full moon, and the following Sunday is always Easter! Not as easy as knowing when Christmas falls, but doable. Because other Christian sects track it differently, there has been a push to find common ground for the date. In November 2022, the Patriarch of Constantinople said that conversations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches had begun to determine a common date for the celebration of Easter. The agreement is expected to be reached for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 2025. The week before Easter is known as Holy Week, which includes, I kid you not, Spy Wednesday . As a kid, I never heard it referred to this way. When I first heard it, I thought I was being kidded. Nope. They really do call it Spy Wednesday. We always got a new outfit for Easter, as did almost everyone we knew. It lasted us through spring and summer for at least one year. I was really glad when we stopped with the hats, because hats for girls were stupid looking. Now, though, I’d love it! Leaving aside the other religious connotations of Christian Easter, let’s take a look at this Spring Festival. Rather like Christmas, Easter has taken on a more secular theme over my lifetime. Emphasis has changed to a Spring Festival and goodies for the kids. When I was a little one, we had Easter baskets stuffed with fake grass (always green, tyvm) and filled with different kinds of cany, but always including an Easter Egg; ours were from Mary Sue I used to walk past their factory on a daily basis, and the smell of chocolate….perhaps that’s where my love of the stuff started?? We each got to choose our favourite egg. Mine was chocolate buttercream, one had fruit and nut, another had coconut buttercream, and dad had...none. He was not a candy person, but he did love jellybeans...once a year. He loved the black ones, so I m ade a deal with him. He could have all mine in trade for others of his. Mum often would make either a cake in the shape of a rabbit, or cupcakes, decorated with green-tinted coconut for the “grass” and jellybeans, with a pipe cleaner to from the handle of the “basket.” The best part, though, was the chocolate Easter Bunny. Most of the time, it was one of those hollow ones. Every now and then, though, my father would score us a solid chocolate rabbit!!! As with any other holiday involving candy, we were not allowed to “indulge” much in the morning or until after supper, really. That kept the sugar rush to a minimum. We always….always...had lamb for dinner on Easter. This craziness of “ham is the traditional Easter meal’ just blows my mind. It began as a Jewish feast….I don’t know any Orthodox Jew who ate ham!! But lamb got expensive and ham was cheap, and marketing took care of the rest. The one song for kids that I remember from Easter: So, what do you remember about Easter? Do you still celebrate? Or have you gone just for the Spring Festival way of doing things? In any case……. Happy Spring!! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/9/2161084/-New-Day-Cafe-Easter-Sunday-2023 Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/