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Assorted Easter Facts
April 9th 2007 00:25
The first Easter baskets were made to look like bird's nests.
In medieval times a festival of egg-throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boys. It was then tossed from one choir boy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.
Each year witnesses the making of nearly 90 million chocolate bunnies.
When it comes to eating of chocolate bunnies, it is the ears that are preferred to be eaten first by as many as 76% of people.
Adults prefer milk chocolate (65%), to dark chocolate (27%).
By tradition, it was obligatory (or at least lucky) for churchgoers to wear some bright new piece of clothing - at least an Easter bonnet, if not a complete new outfit.
The painting off eggs is traditionally called Pysanka.
In Latvia they play an Easter egg game in which each person takes a hard boiled, coloured egg and in two's they tap the ends of their eggs together. First the wide ends of the eggs are tapped, then the narrow ends, followed by 1 wide and 1 narrow end. If your egg breaks you leave the game for the next person to try. The player left with an unbroken egg is the winner.
Americans consume 15 million jellybeans at Easter, many of them hidden in baskets. If all the Easter jellybeans were lined end to end, they would circle the globe nearly three times.
In Greece, people paint hard-boiled eggs red and bake them into sweet bread loaves on the Thursday before Easter. The red colour stands for the blood of Christ.
Reading detective novels and crime thrillers has become a popular Easter occurrence in Norway. Paaskekrim (Easter crime) refers to the new crime novels available at Easter. Professors at the University of Oslo believe the growing tradition of reading about crime at Easter stems from the violent nature of Christ's death.
Children in Guatemala go out onto the streets on Good Friday to remember Jesus' journey to the cross.People bang drums and let off fireworks. This starts at 5am and goes on until after midnight!
Some people also dress as Roman soldiers and at 3pm, which was the time Jesus was put on the cross, everyone changes into black clothing.
Easter was called Pesach by early Christians. It is a Hebrew name for Passover. Today, the name for Easter in many cultures in Europe are similar to the word Pesah such as in:
France - Paques
Spain - Pascua
Italy - Pasqua
Albania - Pashke
Greece - Pascha
Norway - Paaske
Holland - Pasen
Sweden - Pask
According to the Guinness Book of World Records the largest Easter egg ever made was just over 25-ft high and made of chocolate and marshmallow. The egg weighed 8,968 lbs. and was supported by an internal steel frame.
In medieval times a festival of egg-throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boys. It was then tossed from one choir boy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.
Each year witnesses the making of nearly 90 million chocolate bunnies.
When it comes to eating of chocolate bunnies, it is the ears that are preferred to be eaten first by as many as 76% of people.
Adults prefer milk chocolate (65%), to dark chocolate (27%).
By tradition, it was obligatory (or at least lucky) for churchgoers to wear some bright new piece of clothing - at least an Easter bonnet, if not a complete new outfit.
The painting off eggs is traditionally called Pysanka.
In Latvia they play an Easter egg game in which each person takes a hard boiled, coloured egg and in two's they tap the ends of their eggs together. First the wide ends of the eggs are tapped, then the narrow ends, followed by 1 wide and 1 narrow end. If your egg breaks you leave the game for the next person to try. The player left with an unbroken egg is the winner.
Americans consume 15 million jellybeans at Easter, many of them hidden in baskets. If all the Easter jellybeans were lined end to end, they would circle the globe nearly three times.
In Greece, people paint hard-boiled eggs red and bake them into sweet bread loaves on the Thursday before Easter. The red colour stands for the blood of Christ.
Reading detective novels and crime thrillers has become a popular Easter occurrence in Norway. Paaskekrim (Easter crime) refers to the new crime novels available at Easter. Professors at the University of Oslo believe the growing tradition of reading about crime at Easter stems from the violent nature of Christ's death.
Children in Guatemala go out onto the streets on Good Friday to remember Jesus' journey to the cross.People bang drums and let off fireworks. This starts at 5am and goes on until after midnight!
Some people also dress as Roman soldiers and at 3pm, which was the time Jesus was put on the cross, everyone changes into black clothing.
Easter was called Pesach by early Christians. It is a Hebrew name for Passover. Today, the name for Easter in many cultures in Europe are similar to the word Pesah such as in:
France - Paques
Spain - Pascua
Italy - Pasqua
Albania - Pashke
Greece - Pascha
Norway - Paaske
Holland - Pasen
Sweden - Pask
According to the Guinness Book of World Records the largest Easter egg ever made was just over 25-ft high and made of chocolate and marshmallow. The egg weighed 8,968 lbs. and was supported by an internal steel frame.
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Comment by Francis
Passionate Apathy
Yeah, when I was a kiddie my parents put straw in our Easter baskets- this helps the eggs we found during the hunt get a softer landing and a chance to survive to be the next week's featured deviled eggs/egg salad sandwhiches.
It also gave us the chance to hone our hunting skills as we dug through the straw for the jelly beans and chocolates to put us into a sugar-crazed frenzy before being unleashed for the Hunt.