Teach Me Something Tuesday #20

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EASTER EGGS

People think it’s fun to proclaim Easter traditions as silly and consumerist. And yes, that may be true to some extent, but don’t you dare say anything bad about Easter Eggs! They are genius! Throughout history, eggs have been used as a symbol of rebirth, and used in many Spring traditions throughout ancient history:

Ancient Persians painted eggs in celebration of Nowrooz, their New Years celebration, which falls on the Spring Equinox. There are sculptures on the walls of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire, depicting followers bringing eggs to the temple in celebration of the New Year.

Eggs dipped in saltwater are often the first item of food eaten during Passover Seder. Symbolic of rebirth, eggs are often served to mourners after a funeral, and are therefore used to symbolize the (non-human) sacrifices made at the Temple of Jerusalem during ancient Passover traditions.

Pre-Christian Saxons celebrated the goddess Eostre (sounds a lot like a certain holiday, eh?) with a feast on the Spring Equinox, which of course included eggs, symbolizing the rebirth of Spring. Oh, and wouldn’t you know it, the symbol of the goddess Eostre was the hare.

In Christianity, the egg is a symbol of the tomb of Jesus after his crucifixion. While appearing dormant on the outside, the hard shell of the egg represents the rock encasing the resurrected life inside. Orthodox Christian eggs are traditionally dyed red to represent the blood of Christ.

So you see, Easter Eggs make perfect sense! Maybe you might want to consider dying eggs this year. Not as a symbol of your religion, but as a celebration of humanity and the traditions that bring us together, which are more alike than we may realize. And then go buy some of those Reeses peanut butter eggs. Yum!

NOW TEACH ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW!

categories TEACH ME | Craig | datetime April 7, 2009 5:19 am

113 Comments

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 8:22 am

    No easter eggs for us this year since we’re leaving Sunday morning. Although I will be purchasing some amazing Cadburty mini-eggs. Mmmmmmm. Peanutbutter eggs? Gag.

    Did you know that the Poison Dart Frog, though completely adorable http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2123418706_c48a118323_o.jpg (if slightly pissod off looking) is the most poisonous animal EVER? You can extract enough poison from one of these little angels to kill 2200 people. They live in the rainforests of Central and South America and store poison their skin they synthesize from chemicals in the food they eat. Two micrograms of this poison (enough to fit on the head of a pin) will easily kill a human. So look but don’t touch and DON’T LICK IT!!!!

  • By bernd, April 7, 2009 @ 8:25 am

    It was an early trick of Christianity to take local non-Christian holidays like winter-solstice and spring-equinox and claim them for their own celebrations, thus Christmas and Easter got their spot on the calendar. I know Easter’s date is based on the lunar calendar, but it’s always right after the spring equinox. They learned that among other things from the Romans, who did not change religions in their newly conquered territories but just put a statue of the current emperor into the local’s pantheon. (Which led to trouble with those pesky monotheists…)

  • By bernd, April 7, 2009 @ 8:28 am

    Tam, but how will all those gay guys and little girls get their princes, if they can’t kiss the frogs?

  • By Craig, April 7, 2009 @ 8:45 am

    Long time no see Bernd! Welcome back!

    Tam: Aw, come on. All the cool kids are doing toad.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 8:46 am

    Bernd: Good too see you. I missed you. Ummm, well, I suppose these guys might appeal to some of the gay crowd, what with the flamboyant colors. But really, we all know the pretty boys are trouble. Stick to the boy next door (simple tree frog or green frog) and you’ll have a much greater chance at happy ever after (especially the not dying part). Toads however might be a pass though, warts are never attractive no matter the level of royalty involved.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 8:59 am

    The slang term “toad” orginates not from the amphibian as most would suspect, but from a centuries-old tradition of the now-extinct Toa tribe in central Turkey. The duret — or tribal leader — after marrying a man and woman would have sex with each (separately) on the first full moon of their new marriage. This was considered as a blessing and goodwill toward their gods. Through the centuries, tradition was slowly altered and eventually the duret simply slept with both parties together on their wedding night, regardless of the lunar phase.

    Now, of course, “toading” is when a bridesmaid and/or groomsman is invited into the honeymoon bed by a newly married couple.

    So now you know. :-)

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 9:12 am

    bernd: Awesome to have you back! :-)
    Tam: Warts are hot.

    (not really)

  • By Nicole, April 7, 2009 @ 9:35 am

    Yum! I love Reese’s Eggs, they are the best! I’ve already gone through 3 packages of them this Spring. I’m also addicted to Little Debbie Easter Puffs, they are amazing! Happy Easter :)

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 9:40 am

    Nicole: I’ve gone through two and a half packages of those damn Reese’s Eggs! I’ll need to jog those off or it won’t bode well for my Equus debut. :-P

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 9:43 am

    Oh, and just as an observation: Only on Puntabulous will there be sex dolls one day and Easter the next. ;-)

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 9:46 am

    Tam: “So look but don’t touch and DON’T LICK IT!!!!”

    If I gah a nickle for every time I’ve hear that……

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 9:47 am

    had

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 9:48 am

    keyboard issues

  • By GoKitty, April 7, 2009 @ 9:55 am

    I was always more of a fan of the sickly gooey sweetness of Cadburry Eggs

  • By Craig, April 7, 2009 @ 10:03 am

    “I’ll need to jog those off or it won’t bode well for my Equus debut.”

    I think that’s the sound of an angel getting its wings. Or a million Puntabulous readers (read: Dave S. admirers who tolerate Craig’s nonsense) squealing.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 10:03 am

    Mark: LOL “Keyboard”…is that the euphemism they’re using nowadays? ;-)

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 10:20 am

    Craig: Don’t worry — I’m not Allan, I’m just a horse. :-)

  • By Ryan, April 7, 2009 @ 10:31 am

    I read recently that the use of eggs at Easter was also a result of a combination of economics and chicken biology. Before we did some animal husbandry magic, chickens were sensible and only laid eggs in spring. This caused eggs to be cheap, abundant, and fresh around Easter time.

  • By David, April 7, 2009 @ 10:40 am

    Dave S.: I would fly out there to see the show if you were playing Allan. Are you Nugget? We still want photos.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 10:45 am

    David: No, I’m not Nugget. :-) I won’t be wearing much — a stylized horse head and what amounts to a leather g-string. :-( Not excited about the g-string.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 10:46 am

    Mark: You are too funny.

    Ryan: But what happened to the colored chickens that laid colored eggs. Did we breed those out of existence? Nothing screams delicious like a purple egg with pink polka dots.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 10:47 am

    And I can’t believe people eat that Reese crap. Why couldn’t ET like M&Ms? Peanut butter should be out lawed. Even peanut butter cookies. The smell alone makes me want to yak.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 10:53 am

    Tam: Whaaaatt?!? Peanut butter is the food of the gods! It’s awesome! And I may or may not rub it all over myself and let puppies lick it off.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 10:54 am

    Sorry — too much coffee this morning. :-/

    …channeling Craig there for a sec with the ‘may or may not’… ;-)

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 10:59 am

    Oh, and I totally made up that toading thing. :-P I don’t even know what toading would be…

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 11:00 am

    Dave: The puppies can have it. You don’t WANT to know how long that jar of peanut butter has been sitting in my cupboard. Since the last time my parents visited probably.

    I’m on my third cup of coffee. I should start spontaneously vibrating soon. I never drink this much coffee.

  • By Hayden, April 7, 2009 @ 11:12 am

    Arthur Fonzarelli, aka Fonzie or The Fonz, had a middle name. Herbert.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 11:34 am

    And we can blame that same Happy Days character for the term “jumped the shark.” It was when Fonzie jumped a shark on water skis that’s considered the point where the series began to go too far to catch viewers’ attention and marked the downslide in the quality of the series. It’s now the slang term (of course) for when any series has served its usefulness and begins to creatively slide downhill.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 11:35 am

    And that’s actually a true one. ;-)

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 11:35 am

    I didn’t mention a thing about toads.

  • By Jonah, April 7, 2009 @ 11:42 am

    Jumped the shark example:
    Dave S jumps the shark daily with his third comment

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 11:51 am

    Tam: “the puppies can have it”. Does that mean I can have your lick. ;-)

  • By Xi_Heather, April 7, 2009 @ 11:59 am

    Taking this back to Reese’s PB cups (seriously Tam??? No peanut butter??? But….what else would you put on a banana sandwich?), the originator of the PB cup is Harry Burnett Reese, who worked in the dairy of Milton S. Hershey — founder of Hershey’s.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 11:59 am

    Jonah attempts to jump the shark, misses, and lands in its gaping, razor-toothed maw where he’s mangled into a bloody mass of…of…

    Oh, damn it, I just can’t do that to you, Jonah. I mean, what’s a hero without his always-losing nemesis? ;-)

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 12:02 pm

    And Reese’s is pronounced “Rees-us”, not “Rees-ees”. :-)

  • By Ryan, April 7, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

    Dave S.: If the writers of Happy Days had taken that course, the episode would have been remembered for completely different things.

  • By Nicole, April 7, 2009 @ 12:06 pm

    Hey Dave S. Good luck with your debut ;) I just spotted Bliss Chocolate Easter Eggs at the store, and that means there is another Easter Candy that I think I need!

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

    Mark: I always share with my friends. Lick away.

    Heather: Okay, the whole backstory, when I was about two or three my uncle gave me this freaking humungous spoonful of peanut butter and I gagged on it. To this day, even the smell will sometimes trigger a gag reflex. I’m to the point where I can make my daughter a PB&J sandwich but that’s about it. I like peanuts though, just not once they are ground up including peanut sauce in Asian cooking, peanut butter cookies, Reeses (pronounced properly) products, peanut butter in ice-cream flavors, etc.

    Due to my aversion, my daughter really could care less about peanut butter because she so rarely had it growing up and 95% of schools up here in Canada are peanut free due to allergies so she could never take it to school anyway.

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 12:29 pm

    Dave S: Hearing people say Ree-see cup is almost as irritating to me as hearing people say Nu-Cue-ler instead of Nu-cle-ar. I can’t tell you how many times I have screamed at the TV over that one.

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

    Or “Wal-Mark”, Really!…the T is that hard to pronounce????

  • By Xi_Heather, April 7, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

    Tam, that’s so sad. I guess I won’t be sending you buckeyes for Christmas. [Buckeyes are chocolate covered peanut butter balls.]

    Shouldn’t Ree-sees be the plural of Ree-sus?

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

    Xi_Heather: No, for the same reason feces isn’t the plural of “fecus”, (a homophobic term). But that reminds me, I also hate the Joneszes and the Daviszes. :-)

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 12:48 pm

    OK, not the Daviszes, but you get my point

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 12:49 pm

    But it works for Davies.

    I’ll shut up now.

  • By Enrico, April 7, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

    Mmmmm…. Reeses….

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 1:02 pm

    Heather: Sorry, no buckeyes. But generally anything else chocolate works for me. :-)

    Mark: But can I axe you a question? ARGGGHHH!

  • By Polt, April 7, 2009 @ 1:02 pm

    Cadbury caramel eggs are the next best thing to sex. Just sayin’…

    Dave S., I’ve seen you in little more than a g-string (and got multiple photos to prove it), adn you got nothing to worry about. The horsehead thing…that would bother me more.

    Oh, and to the topic at hand:eggs. I had an egg recently with two yokes in it. I felt kinda bad eating it, cause the eggs coulda been twins…but then I realized there’s enough chickens in the world and chowed down.

    HUGS…

  • By Polt, April 7, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

    Tam: Mama Polt makes outSTANDing buckeyes…just ask Dave S. and his kids. :)

    HUGS…

  • By Craig, April 7, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

    Uh oh Tam. I say “axe” instead of “ask”. :-(

    When I got to college, my upstate friends met a friend of mine from high school and asked her to say “ask”. When she said it properly they said they thought it might be a Long Island thing. My friend promptly said no, it was a Craig thing.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 1:12 pm

    Craig: Then I guess someone who kills interrogators would be an ask murderer…

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

    I concur wholeheartedly… Mama Polt is an outstanding buckeye maker. :-P

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

    I <3 Mama Polt

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

    ::snicker:: that <3 looks like something comepletely different than a heart…

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

    Craig: Practice before I get there. Task, ask, task, ask. :-) I thought it was an urban black youth thing. Are you hanging out with a gang?

    Polt: I’m sure they are lovely, your Mama’s buckeyes, but I would hate to wretch in front of the poor woman while I tried to eat one to be polite.

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 1:23 pm

    Dave S: I’m glad you answered my question about the <3, I was going to axe you if you had lost your mind.

    Tam: Have you ever tried Virgina gourmet peanuts? They are the large ones that are fried in peanut oil and look like they have little blisters all over them. They don’t taste anything like the puny GA peanuts that you get in p-nut butter or those little bags.

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 1:27 pm

    Mark: Virgina? Seriously? :-P

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 1:29 pm

    I’ve never seen a single one having sex, I swear!

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 1:31 pm

    Damn wireless keyboard!

  • By Bradford, April 7, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

    Here’s a fun fact:

    Just because you’re the 17th person on line out of 2,000 for a Jeopardy audition doesn’t mean you’ll make it onto the show. Overeagerness is not a category.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

    Mark: Never had the occassion. My uncle (the same one who made me gag) tried growing peanuts one year. I don’t think it worked, too short of a season up here. I’ll keep an eye out for Virginia peanuts, but might have to go to Virginia to find them. We have Planters up here though? Go Mr. Peanut.

  • By Ryan, April 7, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

    <3 looks like <3 when it gets emailed.

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 1:38 pm

    Tam: The bad part is that Planters peanuts was founded near here, in Suffolk VA. The local hospital is named after Amedeo Obici, the founder of Planters. Yet they only use puny GA style peanuts in their products. But thats because the large VA/NC peanuts are reserved for gourmet purposes.
    Oh God, I sound like I’m working for th Chamber of Commerce.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 1:43 pm

    Mark: I had my day to promote Canadian Beef (that was a TMST as well), today is Virginia Peanut day. :-) I saw the Alton Brown show on Food Network where he talked about different types of peanuts, but up here we get only one kind and I have no idea what they are. Probably Georgia, I think they are pretty small.

    And what the heck kind of name is Amedeo Obici? Did he wear a monocle and top hat?

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 1:51 pm

    Tam: LOL, no he was from Italy. And actually the hospital was named after his wife Louise. Their remains are interred in the garden of the hospital.

    Hey, it is TMST, so I’m not just rambling! :-)

  • By Hayden, April 7, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

    At the Hayden tenement pickled eggs are preferred over easter eggs. Anyone else like them or even know about them?

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 2:02 pm

    Hayden: I’ve never actually had a pickled egg, but they are very popular in bars in Western Canada. Its kind of a cliche to have a gigantic jar of pickled eggs sit on the bar. I’ve heard the side effects are kind of nasty.

  • By Hayden, April 7, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

    Tam: they are soooo good with beer…..

  • By Xi_Heather, April 7, 2009 @ 2:13 pm

    Mark, I’m not sure I’d place a lot of confidence in a hospital that had a cemetery attached.

  • By Chris D., April 7, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

    I LOVE Cadbury Cream eggs! They are available in Europe all year long, but are usually on available in the US around Easter. I used to have my English cousins bring some over on their visits.

    Craig: Do you also say “So I sez…”, when recounting a story. I think I speak mostly normaly, however my southern boss acuses my of throwing a W in the middle of “coffee”, and ending “gas” with a Z. ;)

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 2:27 pm

    Heather: Now that I think about it; There has been one or two people who have died at that hospital. Maybe even three! Don’t know where they are buried though. I’ll do some digging!

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 2:30 pm

    Chris D.: Fugetabowtit!

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

    I can’t eat cream eggs (ready for more of my weird food issues?). I hate runny egg yolk and the yellow stuff in the middle of a cream egg reminds me of that, so it makes me gag again. Sigh. I seem to have an active gag reflex don’t I?

    While we’re at it, ice-cream that has been half-melted and stirred up in a bowl? That REALLY gets me, just thinking about it makes me feel queezy.

  • By Mark, April 7, 2009 @ 2:38 pm

    Tam: The engagement is off. I Love eggs with runny yolks on toast. You use the extra toast to swipe up the yolk from your plate.

    And I “always” stir up my ice cream until its like soft serve, then eat it.

    But at least now when you come to visit I won’t have to axe you how you like yor eggs. :-)

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 2:41 pm

    Mark: Scrambled, scrambled always works. I’m sorry we can’t work out our differences. I hope you find another straight girl to share your BF with and you will be very happy together. *sniff* *sniff*

  • By Dave S., April 7, 2009 @ 2:56 pm

    Mark & Tam: “Like sands through the hourglass…”
    ;-)

  • By Polt, April 7, 2009 @ 3:17 pm

    I hate pickled eggs, although they’re a big thing around here. And if we’re talking about dialects, here it’s big to say “You-ins” like “You-ins all like pickled eggs, right?” HATE that….

    HUGS…

  • By Polt, April 7, 2009 @ 3:18 pm

    <3 is a heart????? Good GOD, I always thought it meant like you were kissing the object of the <3! Which IS kinda like a heart, but not really.

    Man, this really IS a Teach ME Something Tuesday!

    HUGS…

  • By Craig, April 7, 2009 @ 3:19 pm

    A friend of mine recently made pickled eggs and shared them with me. I have to say, they were a lot better than I was expecting! Though I shouldn’t have been so surprised. Pickles? Hard boiled eggs? What’s not to love?

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 3:29 pm

    I think I’m afraid to try pickled eggs. Not sure why. I like hard boiled eggs, I like pickles. Maybe someday, when I’m back in a hick bar in Western Canada. Oh wait, that means never. Guess I’ll have to go visit Hayden then.

    Polt: This is what you type when someone breaks your heart </3 See, its been sliced. Learned that from my 13 year old. Drama queen.

  • By TwoPi, April 7, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

    Tam: My eyes saw “Drama queen”, my subconscious said “Dancing queen”, and my conscious memory conjured up Frank Zappa’s “Dancin’ fool”.

    Which is how I’ve ended up sitting in my office, singing “I’m a…drama queen-ee-eee-ee-eeen, I’m a … drama queee-eee-eeen-ee-een. I may be totally wrong but I’m a queen!”

    Why yes, that IS way too much information.

  • By TwoPi, April 7, 2009 @ 4:01 pm

    “Tweet: Craig really needs to start exercising. His pants are suffocating him.”

    That sounds like either a cheezy opening line to an adult film, or the premise of a wickedly awesome Clive Barker novella.

  • By Michelle M., April 7, 2009 @ 4:11 pm

    Jelly Beans originated as a smaller form of Turkish Delight and first became popular during the American Civil War. They became associated with Easter in the 1930s.

    Corresponding with the release of the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Jelly Belly released an assortment of Bertie Bott’s Beans. They have egg yolk flavored beans and pickle flavored beans, which I suppose could be combined to make pickled egg flavored beans. Or you could just eat a vomit bean, which probably tastes similar.

  • By Hayden, April 7, 2009 @ 4:18 pm

    2pi: i love clive barker

  • By Polt, April 7, 2009 @ 4:21 pm

    Craigger’s pants are so lucky. (but I wonder…are there mesh shorts underneath?) *snicker*

    HUGS…

  • By Craig's Pants, April 7, 2009 @ 4:28 pm

    There is nothing between me and Craig. He goes commando.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 4:59 pm

    Michelle: Too funny on the pickled egg comment.

    Have you ever had real Turkish Delight from turkey. ACK!!! Jelly beans are waaaay better. (Except for those weird flavors.)

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

    Shoot , that should have been a second capitalized turkey, not made from turkey (gobble gobble) but from the country. Candy made from turkeys? I don’t think so.

  • By GoKitty, April 7, 2009 @ 5:31 pm

    I want to walk down the aisle to David Bowie’s “Modern Love”

    *nods to himself*

  • By Michelle M., April 7, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

    Tam – some candy is made with gelatin (horses hooves/connective tissue – yum), so maybe turkey candy isn’t so far fetched.

    GoKitty – Great song.

    Where’s john?

  • By bernd, April 7, 2009 @ 7:01 pm

    I’m not allowed to surf the internets at work anymore, which let’s me onto puntabulous only in the evening, when y’alls are all commented out. So I just read the daily thread and long for the good old days.

  • By Michelle M., April 7, 2009 @ 7:26 pm

    bernd – been there. I feel your pain.
    Every so often Craig posts at night (which is lovely for us night owls). Night posts are awesome. Hint, hint.

  • By Michelle M., April 7, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

    Oh – and there’s always the Argyle Lounge. Which is mysteriously underutilized…

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

    Bernd: That is sad. :-( We miss you lots.

  • By Enrico, April 7, 2009 @ 7:59 pm

    Polt: is my version of a heart because it has an “E” in it. You probably never understood when I did that at the end of comments/posts…

  • By Sven, April 7, 2009 @ 8:00 pm

    There were two discrete Hittite Empires. The one mentioned in the Bible was the smaller one. The other one defeated the three major empires of its time (Babylonia, Assyria and Egypt), but within three hundred years had collapsed and was virtually erased from history. Its capital, Hattusa, was in modern-day Turkey and it used an Indo-European language: their word for ‘water’ was ‘awa-ta-ur’ – one of the oldest recorded citations of a (phonetically) modern English word.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 8:10 pm

    I’m feeling kind of OCD about making this thread reach 100.

    I love how Sven’s post brings up Turkey which leads to Turkish delight, which ties into jelly beans which brings us back to eggs and Easter and the original post. Well done.

  • By Polt, April 7, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

    Enrickyricardo: I don’t understand much of what you write, but you’re just so damn adorable, I pretend I do and just go with the flow. Now, Richard Parker and I, we understand each other as if we read each other’s minds! And he’s like more lettuce, by the way, he’s hungry. :)

    HUGS…

  • By bernd, April 7, 2009 @ 8:20 pm

    I’m always disappointed by Easter in the US, in Germany it’s always a 4 day weekend. Good Friday and Easter monday are national Holidays, but here, if you didn’t know it was Easter…, mope.

    I can’t stand peanut-butter candy. But ‘natural’ peanut-butter, just made from peanuts and salt is great on a PB-J sandwich, and so healthy.

    Xi-Heather, you asked what you’d put on a Banana sandwich instead of PB? Nutella of course. http://www.nutellausa.com/ That’s what German kids grow up with, swoon.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 8:27 pm

    Bernd: Its a four day weekend for me. In Canada Friday is a national holiday and Monday is usually just banks, schools and government, retail is open on the Monday. I always look forward to a 4 day weekend. I’m off all next week next week and we are heading south of the border. So I have a super long weekend. :-)

    Nutella. MMMMMMMMM! I buy way more Nutella than peanut butter. We use a lot of that. Nutella on toast. But no banana, just straight up.

  • By Tam, April 7, 2009 @ 8:53 pm

    Post 100 for the win!!!!!

    On an Easter theme, when I was about 6 I got this wonderful foil covered rabbit that was kind of air brushed to look like a real rabbit. I refused to rip the foil to eat it. That rabbit sat in the fridge for nearly a year until my Grandmother finally chucked it. Talk about indulgence to let a kid keep a chocolate rabbit in the fridge for a year. I was even odd as a child. Sigh. (Which I’m sure surprises no one.)

  • By Craig, April 8, 2009 @ 7:12 am

    No days off for me. :-(

  • By Craig, April 8, 2009 @ 7:12 am

    Oh, and Nutella is disgusting.

  • By TwoPi, April 8, 2009 @ 8:23 am

    Hayden: I’ve been re-immersing myself in his writing; I especially like the Books of Blood as bedtime reading. (Well, except for the nightmares. Sigh.) His way with language is superb.

  • By Hayden, April 8, 2009 @ 8:39 am

    2pi: I have gone back to Clive recently as well. Still catching up on things I haven’t read but can’t wait to go back to Books of Blood, and time to watch the Hellraiser movies again….

  • By Xi_Heather, April 8, 2009 @ 8:40 am

    Nutella disgusting? I have nothing but awe for the people who managed to turn chocolate into a Lunch Spread.

  • By Craig, April 8, 2009 @ 8:44 am

    It’s not the chocolate that bothers me, it’s the hazelnut. Bleck!

  • By Tam, April 8, 2009 @ 10:01 am

    When I was 16 I was on a band tour in Europe (marching band, not rock band) and we stayed with a family in the Netherlands. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when for breakfast they served those chocolate sprinkles you put on cup cakes for your toast. So butter up some toast and cover with chocolate sprinkles. That was before Nutella or products like that had hit my little rural corner of Canada.

  • By Ryan, April 8, 2009 @ 10:42 am

    Nutella is yummy.

    I don’t get any days off either.

  • By Ryan, April 8, 2009 @ 1:05 pm

    Apparently, we got year-round fresh eggs not through animal husbandry but through the light bulb. Chicken biology doesn’t distinguish between artificial and natural light.

  • By Tam, April 8, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

    Ryan: Your just a font of chicken husbandry fact. That must get you a lot of dates. :-)

  • By Ryan, April 8, 2009 @ 8:05 pm

    Tam: I just read the Freakonomics blog.

  • By Ryan, April 8, 2009 @ 8:44 pm

    Both sets of grandparents raised chickens on their dairy farms, but I had little first hand experience with that. They had mostly phased it out by the time I came around.

  • By Tam, April 8, 2009 @ 10:05 pm

    I grew up on a farm and have plucked more than my share of chickens but no way in hell was I putting my hand inside. Haven’t thought of that memory in a long time. Way to go Ryan. LOL

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