Easter isn't Easter without.... (you tell me)

from JoeUser Forums

One of my favorite things, when I was younger and would get all excited about Easter, the basket full of candy and goodies, etc., was finding the big honkin' Pecan Nougat Egg in the basket that I knew I'd soon be slicing up and enjoying the taste of.

The image and text below comes from the web-site of Mary Sue candies. The makers of the object of my Easter desire.

12oz Pecan Nougat Egg

12oz Pecan Nougat EggWhen I was a young man, I'd find these little beauties in the grocery stores in my area and would be assured of having at least one of these to enjoy during the Easter season. Sadly, the stores in my area aren't carrying these candies as often as they used to. I guess they feel the candies are too expensive, or that there just isn't enough of a market for them considering so many people are on diets and trying to lose weight.

Thankfully through the magic of the Internet, I was able to find the web site for ordering a few of these treats from and am now looking forward to getting them somewhere near Easter. Yummm.

Anyway, the whole thing just reminds me of Easter of my youth, and for me helps to complete the Easter experience. So, without these treats, well, it just isn't Easter for me.

For you? Please feel free to use the comments area to tell me about your own thoughts on Easter and what really makes the holiday for you.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

I could have also included above, and will mention it here, that it's also not Easter unless my brother has tucked away a chocolate bunny that he won't touch until it's turned completely white from rotting away up in his closet. 

That's an additional memory from my youth.  Myself and my youngest brother would be quick to open the boxes that had the Chocolate bunnies in them, pull the candy eyes off them and crunch them away.  The middle brother (I am the oldest in the family) wouldn't touch his though, and wouldn't let anyone else touch his.  He would tuck that think away and keep it forever if possible.  When he left the house for the military my mother found a chocolate bunny that was estimated to be 8+ years old up in his closet.  Hidden there where no one else would find it, or at least wouldn't try to eat it if they did find it.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
My oldest 2.  One was born the week of easter, and the other's birthday is often on easter.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
a lemon cake with fluffy white frosting and coconut decorated with jellybeans and peeps
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
My husband?

We've been lucky. When he joined, he was in AIT during Easter but came "home" that weekend. The next year he left for Afghanistan just after Easter. Then he got to come home a month early from that deployment and was there for Easter. And he was home last year.

This is our first solo Easter. And baby girl's first Easter.

When I was a child my parents would buy us gifts in addition to a fully-stocked Easter basket. They hid them around the house, unwrapped, and we had to find them. That was fun.

Also, I love Cadbury eggs.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Seeing little girls wearing their Easter bonnets,  the smell of Easter Lilies in the churtch, 

and children having an Easter egg hunt on a front lawn somewhere in Ourtown, USA.

As a child it was always a chocolate egg with our name written on it in yellow icing

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

the other's birthday is often on easter

about every 11 years?  mine falls on Easter usually that often.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top





the other's birthday is often on easter


about every 11 years?  mine falls on Easter usually that often.



Hard to say since he is only 20 now.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
How 'bout the resurrection of Christ?


You know, I've only ever celebrated Easter (or Christmas) as a secular holiday.

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

How 'bout the resurrection of Christ?


You stole my answer!
So I will have to add to it...
Easter wouldn't be Easter without Easter Eggs. I haven't missed a year of dyeing eggs as long as I've lived.
And black jelly beans! My fave!

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Traditionally for us, Church and observing other rituals, food wise that is.

We don't turn on the fire until after Noon. No meat eating on Good Friday.

One of the biggest food type we eat around Easter, Easter bun and cheese. Not American cheese either, the thick cheddar that comes in the orange tin (can).

I take the kids to an Easter Egg hunting event.

On Sunday morning before sunrise, I place a glass of water with an opened egg inside of it at the window where the sun will kiss it and create something in the glass, a kind of prediction as to what might be in my future. I do it for the fun of it in memory of my mom!


We don't celebrate Easter Monday here and that I miss a lot. That is party central day back home. I think I'll take the monday off this year just for the hell of it!
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, I got the package with the 3 Pecan Nougat Eggs I had ordered yesterday.  Brought one of the eggs into work and sliced into it this a.m.  Yummmmmmm.  Sugar high.  Sweet sticky mushy nougat and pecan stuck around it.  I had a second "dose" this afternoon.  I'm sure the sugar rush will wear off about the time I get home from work
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Historically, according to the calendar this time of year coming up is called Easter. Yet, some folks are trying to change that even moreso than has already been done. You older ones will remember this time of year that we got as school vacation time was called "Easter vacation". Now, it's called "spring break". Last week, some one in California town has decided that the word "Easter" should be expunged from all things preferring instead the Spring bunny, and Spring Egg hunt, etc, etc, etc.

So, at first, Terpfan, I thought that might be the topic of your blog.......I was heartened to read that it was about recounting family traditions---and loving Pecan nougat Eggs...and getting them at Easter.


Religiously, the 40 day Lenten period ends and the Easter Triduum is a wonderous time which begins the 7 weeks of the "Easter season ; a season full of life. For those who believe Jesus has opened up a whole new world of risen life. This is good news to fully enjoy and let the meaning sink in. Nature cooperates by ushering in springtime and trees sprout new leaves, flowers blossom, birds sing and animals come out of hibernation.

Personally, I have 8 siblings, so the tradition is a family get-together with a baked ham and sponge cake for dessert. Vacuuming little pine needles from my Christmas tree will move to "grass" kind of stuff that comes with the Easter basket goodies.