Posted on 03/25/2010 9:15:07 AM PDT by marcbold
Among the peeves I keep as pets, chief is my loathing of the Easter Bunny. There are many reasons to hate the Bunny. I will get into why in particular the Bunny, but first to some other pressing business.
Why is it that religious holidays require mascots to make them palatable to secularists who otherwise wouldn’t give a fig about the celebration? While some mascots are cool in their own right, most add nothing and typically detract from the holiday’s expressed purpose.
Take the leprechaun. Actually, don’t take the leprechaun. I am pretty sure that taking a leprechaun is bad luck. But the leprechaun as a symbol of St. Paddy’s Day? A hard-drinking short guy consumed with greed is not a good mascot for a celebration of a great saint’s feast day. A good mascot for Christopher Hitchens’ Day perhaps, but not for St. Patrick’s Day...
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Bustards eat them.
At least, some of the larger bustard species (Kori Bustard, for example).
Fwied wabbit and homemade Fwench fwies were a childhood favorite. BTW, I always rooted for Elmer Fudd.
;^)
Anyway, if the subject is the borrowing of pagan holidays by Christianity, aren’t rabbits and eggs symbolic of fertility and the springtime?
So do the Germans and other people including many Americans. I forgot -- it's about hasenpfeffer time.
Recipe here: HASENPFEFFER
Lighten up on that. We Americans take everyone else's sacred or national days and turn them to drinking. St. Patrick's Day? Bottoms up. Cinco de Mayo? Mas cervesas, por favor. If we had more French settlers "Storming the Bastille" would probably refer to a mid July pub crawl. About the only one we didn't profane with excessive drinking is Oktoberfest ... and that's just because it started in Bavaria as the world's largest drinking party. :-)
All three of those seem to be one issue: She thought she was going to get CHOCOLATE. (Give her some)
Hey,can I...aaaahhh...get back to you on that?
Bustard is one of the largest flying birds out there.
Depending on who you ask, the heaviest flying bird is either the Kori Bustard or the Great Bustard.
The Bustard’s an exquisite fowl
With scarcely a reason to scowl
He escapes, as you see
Illegitimacy
By the grace of a fortunate vowel.
Yep, it's peppered rabbit.
Back during the Depression (the real one) my family often ate fried rabbit and many grocery stores and meat markets carried rabbit as a regular item. Some still do. Those bunnies were farm-raised because wild rabbits are infected with tularemia, a severe disease that could be transmitted to humans. For some reason wild cottontail rabbits (distinguished from jackrabbits where I grew up in Idaho) were said to be safe from the disease. I don't know if that's true.
Just consider the above a contribution of largely pointless trivia. As for the Easter Bunny, he's always been a symbol of fertility and fecundity, along with the eternal egg.
They can be microwaved, along with the peeps.
But first I’ll bite off their ears.
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