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So THAT's Why We Eat Eggs At Easter

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20.04.2025

Person holding a traditional dyed Easter egg

The crosses some Christians get on Ash Wednesday? Sure! Lent, which is meant to mimic Jesus’ 40 days in the desert? Great!

Both of those Paschal traditions make sense to me, given the religious basis they’re built on.

But looking at my own chocolate Easter egg, which contains Eton mess truffles and boasts a “crunchy biscuit shell,” I can’t help but think: “None of these words are in the Bible.”

Not that that’s a problem, of course – I don’t mind that my Christmas tree and 24-pack of Ferrero Rocher have little to do with the holiday’s origins, after all.

It’s just, why eggs? And why chocolate eggs, in particular?

It’s to do with resurrection

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