No ham dinner this Easter

[Ms Bev]

We're all so tired of spiral sliced hams and turkeys, we all decided on traditional corned beef and cabbage family dinner.

Dare To Do Your Own Thing!



Oh, that's right......you did!

Bev
Cabbage Queen

[myles]

We just decided we aren't going to celebrate Easter anymore. Kids don't seem to mind. We did dye 12 eggs because we found old dying kits but that was it and had curry for dinner. We celebrate Cambodian New Year which is usually a week after or close to Easter.  That is our big family holiday.
Myles
great cabbage hat!

[Janet_Girl]

I had a ham salad sandwich and coffee for Easter.  It is just another day for me.  Maybe someday I will have a family to start holiday traditions.  But for now it is just myself and my two cats, and we really don't care about holidays anymore.

Janet

[myles]

Janet I understand what you mean about the family thing but holidays are over rated. For Christmas we go to Dim Sum, Powells, then a movie, a group of about 14 of us, several kids so a kids movie.
Myles

[Lisbeth]

I kind of have this thing against ham for Easter because it's offensive to Jews. Kind of like going, "Jesus is Christian. Nanur, nanur."

[myles]

Never thought of it that way, I'll have to pass that along.
Myles

[Miniar]

I'm Icelandic, we don't eat "Ham" for any holiday because "ham" is common and cheap..

We have Lamb.

[Janet_Girl]

I kind of have this thing against ham for Easter because it's offensive to Jews. Kind of like going, "Jesus is Christian. Nanur, nanur."

While it true that Jews not eat ham and Jesus was a Jew, Easter is a Christian holiday not Jewish.  Yes it is in the week of passover, because Jesus and his followers were celebrating Passover.  But is strictly a Christian holiday.

JMO
Janet

[Mr. Fox]

We don't even have an Easter dinner.  We've never done anything more than the morning egg hunt and search for the easter baskets.  For a few years the Easter baskets have been in plain sight, and this year there was just one Easter basket (we're mature enough to share now; that would not have worked when I was younger).  It was never a huge deal, and it's even less of one now; I'm the youngest, and I'm a junior in high school.  Easter has been less secularized than Christmas, so I think maybe that's why we don't care that much; it seems mostly like a religious thing.