Talk:Easter egg
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Erm, I suspect the bit at the end about "deep fried easter eggs in scotland" is an urban myth. Is there anyone there who can testify to having found such a thing. (if so was it any good? ((and what is the recipe?!)))
- Aye, I think this needs a cite -- can't see a hollow chocolate egg surviving deep frying that well. A deep-fried Creme Egg sounds more plausible, but I've never seen one. Mendor 18:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
"One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command make love with not war?."
That quote can't be correct....? "Make love not war," you mean?-
--- I would move the article on easter eggs (decorative) here. It is what is meant by the vast majority of the population when they say easter egg. Even if Google might show otherwise. - SimonP 18:01, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Fine with me. It would seem to be more logical. Just make sure the edit history doesn't get lost (i.e. delete this page and then MOVE the easter egg decorative here). Jor 18:05, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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- The majority of the history is still in this article so I think in this case it is best to just copy and paste. - SimonP 18:57, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
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- Go ahead :) Jor 18:58, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Weird article...
Its all about the mostly defunct tradition of egg decorating- there should at least be a partial mention of the chocolate eggs which today are what you are taken to mean when you say easter egg --Josquius 11:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- Depends where you live. Bazza 12:04, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article incomplete
I'm surprised that the article completely leaves out the fact that colouring of and exchanging of eggs at the beginning of spring has been a tradition in Persia from before the birth of Christianity.
Agrred the article seems to have been written by Christians seeking to distort history as usual. It makes no mention of the Teutonic goddess of spring "Eastre" which is patently ridiculous in fact no mention of the obvious pagan origins of easte rat all : The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." Despite attempts to Christianise it Easter is accepted by all scholars to be a pagan fertility rite in origin celebrating the rebirth of life in spring.
- More propaganda. Any actual evidence to back your claims? How about signing up for an account and signing your comments? Dogface 05:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Easter Egg roll at the White House
The article says that The most well-known egg roll is done at the White House. It might be the most well-known in the US, but it may not be anywhere else. Until there's a citation to prove the assertion, I have amended it to the Easter Egg Roll has become a much-loved annual event on the White House lawn. Bazza 12:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Easter Eggs in video games
It would be interesting to disambiguate Easter Eggs and create a new article about "Easter Eggs" in video games, that is, secret areas, messages, or objects put into games which is popular among today's game designers. There's certainly enough about those to make a new article for it.--67.172.10.82 21:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- You may perhaps be looking for Easter egg (media), which is linked at the top of this article. Powers T 15:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Easter-Orthodox Easter eggs
The material already in the article fits in well with what i have heard, that is not described: two people each holding such an egg, and crying different versions of the Resurrection news (in Greek, for Greek O.) while they hit them together to see which one's shell is cracked -- the cracking symbolizing the opening of the tomb. Someone should be able to get the details better than i would manage.
--Jerzy•t 04:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
