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Title: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: Ms Bev on April 12, 2009, 03:57:48 PM
Post by: Ms Bev on April 12, 2009, 03:57:48 PM
We're all so tired of spiral sliced hams and turkeys, we all decided on traditional corned beef and cabbage family dinner.
Bev
Cabbage Queen
Dare To Do Your Own Thing!
Oh, that's right......you did!
Oh, that's right......you did!
Bev
Cabbage Queen
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: myles on April 13, 2009, 06:39:11 PM
Post by: myles on April 13, 2009, 06:39:11 PM
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!
Myles
great cabbage hat!
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 13, 2009, 07:44:49 PM
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 13, 2009, 07:44:49 PM
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
Janet
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: myles on April 13, 2009, 07:55:40 PM
Post by: myles on April 13, 2009, 07:55:40 PM
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
Myles
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: Lisbeth on April 15, 2009, 03:59:09 PM
Post by: Lisbeth on April 15, 2009, 03:59:09 PM
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."
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: myles on April 15, 2009, 04:36:02 PM
Post by: myles on April 15, 2009, 04:36:02 PM
Never thought of it that way, I'll have to pass that along.
Myles
Myles
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: Miniar on April 16, 2009, 07:55:27 AM
Post by: Miniar on April 16, 2009, 07:55:27 AM
I'm Icelandic, we don't eat "Ham" for any holiday because "ham" is common and cheap..
We have Lamb.
We have Lamb.
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 16, 2009, 11:29:37 AM
Post by: Janet_Girl on April 16, 2009, 11:29:37 AM
Quote from: Lisbeth on April 15, 2009, 03:59:09 PM
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
Title: Re: No ham dinner this Easter
Post by: Mr. Fox on April 17, 2009, 03:54:32 PM
Post by: Mr. Fox on April 17, 2009, 03:54:32 PM
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.