Do you have the Lindt Gold Bunny in the US it is the number one selling chocolate bunny in Britain.
I do not remember hiding eggs in Britain as a child but children seem to do it these days I think it is something that has been imported from the US.
Easter bonnets and baskets were a tradition but sort of went out but I believe local schools are bringing back the bonnet tradition and with the easter egg hunts becoming popular maybe the basket will make a comeback.
I don’t remember what kind of bunny it was.
Two things and 2 very different things. The true meaning of Easter and resurrection but also the fun side and many traditions and special food which have nothing to do with story of Easter. As my parents were in catering (fish and chip shop) often bank holidays were working days for them but at the time due to UK trading laws Good Friday was a day off, nowadays with the change to the Sunday trading law Good Friday now with certain limitations a fish and chip shop can open. So to me as a child it was one of those rare times that a holiday could be celebrated with my parents, Good Friday and Christmas Day were the only 2 such days.
2) What if any are your family traditions for Easter?
My mum would make Hot Cross Buns or if she had been too bush with the shop buy them and we would eat them for breakfast and it would also be like Christmas morning one of the rare times we would have coffee. Coffee when I was a child was not so popular among the ordinary folk though instant was changing that, we would we have proper coffee though mum did not like instant, often the individual filter packs that you put over a cup.
3) Eggs or bunnies or chicks what is your chocolate treat?
Though when I think about it we did have chocolate bunnies and chicks my main memory are large chocolate eggs often tied with fancy ribbon. My dad always tried to buy me the largest one he could find. Owning a shop meant he had contact with various reps and often managed to get an unusual egg or box of chocolates that you could not get otherwise. We used to have small eggs but I mainly remember those being used by mum to decorate a sponge cake she would make for Easter Sunday.
4) Did you make or wear Easter bonnets at school or church as a child?
Being a church family we were still one of the families that held onto the tradition of a new dress and hat for Easter. I would have a new summer dress for Easter because of course it was not quite summer often I would have to wear a coat or cardigan with it. Yes I would have a new hat or bonnet as a young child one of those dreaded ones with the elastic to either go under the chin or under your hair. It was still tradition at that time for most women and some children to wear hats at our church and how I hated them but until I grew up I did as both my parents believed that women and girls should wear a head covering in church.