This is what true freedom looks like.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Yes, you can choose to decorate eggs OR potatoes. Why not apples! This is true freedom. No shegingping telling you what you can and can't decorate!
+1 capitalism
What's crazy to me is that people won't even buy local eggs that are still being sold for cheaper. A year ago, the free range and pasture eggs were going for $5-7 a dozen in my area and still selling. We sell eggs for a relative that pasture raises chickens and we were selling out weekly at $4 a dozen. Had to raise price to $5 a dozen because of feed cost and we have just gotten no sales in weeks. People just, in general, have stopped buying any eggs. A guy down the road from us sells for $4 a dozen still and he's fully stocked. It's kind of surreal. Meanwhile the cheapest eggs at the store are $5+ and the pasture raised type store eggs and in the teens. It's a few days before Easter and I haven't sold a single dozen eggs in two weeks.
Why didn't we do that before but for vegan reasons?
Most Americans aren't vegan. Also, the egg is symbolic for fertility and much of Easter traditions are based on the pagan Ester traditions, which celebrated spring and fertility. Hence the eggs and bunnies. I think it might also be because of how they're dyed and how that might not work on potatoes. Maybe it'll be a new tradition though.
idk man potatoes get me pretty fertile myself...
And any red-blooded being with taste, true. But I don't think European pagans knew they existed when Ester was a thing. If they had, it very well might have been a staple in Easter too.
Oh absolutely not they had no clue, but honestly Christianity utilised so many pagan traditions as well as Norse and Greek gods why not chuck in some South American food into the mix at this point, finalise the gumbo-ification of western religon!!
Mmm. Gumbo. My only guess is that by 1492 the Catholics forgot what syncretism was.
Good.