Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter Fortune Cookie

Throughout North America, , the Easter holiday has been partially secularized, so that some families participate only in the attendant revelry, central to which is (traditionally) decorating Easter eggs on Saturday evening and hunting for them Sunday morning, by which time they have been mysteriously hidden all over the house and garden. Chocolate eggs have largely supplanted decorated eggs in Australia.
In North America, eggs and other treats are delivered and hidden by the Easter Bunny in an Easter basket which children find waiting for them when they wake up. Many families in America will attend Sunday Mass or services in the morning and then participate in a feast or party in the afternoon.
In the UK children still paint colored eggs, but most British people simply exchange chocolate eggs on the Sunday. Chocolate Easter Bunnies can be found in shops, but the idea is considered primarily a US import. Many families have a traditional Sunday roast, particularly roast lamb, and eat foods like Simnel cake, a fruit cake with eleven marzipan balls representing the eleven faithful apostles. Hot cross buns, spiced buns with a cross on top, are traditionally associated with Good Friday, but today are eaten through Holy Week and the Easter period.

Today Easter Fortune cookie reads "Wish You A Good Journey"- This is good for those who plan to take your Spring Break Vacation.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's funny how America tends to secularize religious holidays, mostly for the commercialism. Why don't they secularize Lunar New Year or Ramadan?
There's no market.

Anyway, I look forward to more fortune cookie sayings from you!