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Benedict Arnold

What does your family usually have for Easter dinner?

When I was a kid we always had ham,  scallop potatoes, baked beans, devil eggs and rabbit shaped ice-cream cake for dessert. It was disgusting. I hate all that stuff. 

Posted - April 17, 2019
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  • Yeah nah :/ will be going for brunch with my family. No ham, real or fake:)
      April 17, 2019 10:27 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Enjoy.  I'm sure you have better choices.   LOL 
      April 17, 2019 10:28 AM MDT
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  • 34283
    Brown sugar ham,  sweet potatoes, baked beans, green beans, doubled eggs and pies for dessert.
      April 17, 2019 10:40 AM MDT
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  • Almost the same as what we had then. I’m not sure  if double eggs are the same as what I call devil eggs, but I’m guessing yes. 
      April 17, 2019 10:47 AM MDT
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  • 34283
    Yes I call them doubled eggs. A friend of the family calls them angel wings. But I think most people call them deviled eggs. 
      April 17, 2019 10:51 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    If I ate that food, I would be in a coma. 
      April 17, 2019 12:12 PM MDT
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  • 34283
    LOL. I gotta go to the store. 
      April 17, 2019 12:50 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Can you at LEAST have one live salad on the table for me?  I care about you.  That will keep you plugged up for days.  
      April 17, 2019 12:51 PM MDT
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  • 34283
    We do have salad and a veggie tray. (LIVE salad???)
      April 17, 2019 1:01 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Live, meaning NOT cooked.  This passes for live.  I'll take it.  And I'm a tad relieved.  

    If you are like my family was, we ate everything BUT the salad. LOL
      April 17, 2019 1:21 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    My family always joined the big family get-together ... and it was potluck meal.
    So there was always ham, rolls, scalloped potatoes au gratin, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows), green beans (with the crispy onions around, of course), deviled eggs, plenty of desserts, salads - whatever else people brought. 
    We always had between 30 and 50 people, so lots of food. 
    And of course there was the "kids table".  lol

    The main meal was around 1pm ... then a "cold dinner" of leftovers around 5-6pm.


      April 17, 2019 2:42 PM MDT
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  • Holly shizzat, that’s a lot of people :)
      April 17, 2019 6:42 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    Grandma had 8 kids (who lived) ... so them & spouses = 16
    Then each couple had 2-3 kids (grandkids) = another 20
    Then some grandkids invited "significant others" or friends ... 

    So yeah, lots of people.  We usually had to rent a grange hall for Thanksgiving, because EVERYBODY (locally) from both sides of my grandparents families showed up for that.
      April 18, 2019 7:33 AM MDT
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  • That sounds fun :)
      April 18, 2019 8:31 AM MDT
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  • 1893
    Usually Ham, veggies and potatoes of some sort.  May vary it up this year and do a baked fowl of some sort
      April 17, 2019 5:18 PM MDT
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  • Yeah, turkey dinner is better. 
      April 17, 2019 6:43 PM MDT
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  • 1893
    Roasting chicken stufffed with onions garlic and rosemary
      April 18, 2019 7:44 AM MDT
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  • Sounds good :) even better than turkey. 
      April 18, 2019 8:32 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    No we don't celebrate that.  Nor did my family growing up except when we went to the houses of relatives which we did sometimes when my father was on the road selling.  Don't remember what they ate. 
      April 17, 2019 6:28 PM MDT
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  • I see, my family was never religious but they still did « Easter stuff », like dinner and Easter bunny stuff.  
      April 17, 2019 6:44 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Hi.  Growing up we were Presbyterians but not religious and my parents went and supported our church mostly as part of their civic duty.  When I was reborn as Christian a number of years ago I came to question the genuine religious value of scheduled festivals and holidays.  Although I have no problem with people who wish to so celebrate. I have our extended family for both Thanksgiving and Christmas day (a lot of work but I have some help!)every year but for Gerry and I they are more secular celebrations.
      April 17, 2019 6:59 PM MDT
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  • I see:) when I was a child I wasn‘t  raised with any kind of religion in my family at all. So I didn’t even realize that Christmas and Easter meant more to some people than just Santa and the Easter bunny.  until I was a bit older. I think they were still teaching religion in school when I was grade one-ish because I remember it vaguely, but I know for sure it became illégal to teach it in schools when I was young. Expect obviously Catholic schools.    

      April 17, 2019 7:08 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Those holidays eventually accrued religiously useful secular symbolism. The Christ child (Christkindel) as the free gift at Christmas and the Easter rabbit to symbolize rebirth and renewal.  I went to secular private schools but we had prayers and Bible readings and some Christian teachings up to about 1970 after which that stopped out of fairness to those students and their families who were Jewish. 
      April 17, 2019 7:15 PM MDT
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  • I think it became illegal here because of the kids who were Johovah witnesses. I remember they even had to leave the class room when he stand for the National anthem in the mornings. Also one of those kids told me on each day demon monsters were going to come and eat all the kids who weren’t Johava witness and she’s be able to pet them. I went home  bawling that day. My mom went into the school and  lost it on the principal lol. 
      April 17, 2019 7:20 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Your principal was a Jehovah's Witness? 
      April 17, 2019 7:24 PM MDT
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