who came up with boild easter eggs and why?

Question

eggs

Answer 1

who cares, they taste yummy!

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Answer 2

The Easter Bunny has a long history. It was brought to America from Germany by immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area. It has become an integral part of the American Easter tradition and has to a lesser degree been accepted in the UK.

The Easter Bunny is usually considered to be a benevolent, vaguely supernatural creature that brings gifts to good boys and girls. Today these gifts are usually in the form of chocolate Easter eggs.

The origin of the Easter Bunny probably goes back to the festival's connection with the pagan goddess Eostre. Eostre (sometimes spelt Oestre) was a fertility goddess from whom we derive the word "oestrogen" and she is closely associated with fertility symbols such as eggs. The rabbit is known as a highly fertile creature and hence an obvious choice for Easter symbolism.

In fact the use of a rabbit is probably a mistake - the Easter "bunny" is more likely to be a hare, since it is the hare that is usually considered the sacred creature of Eostre. Hares have been considered sacred by many cultures including the ancient Egyptians who believed them to watch the moon during the night. Although hares and rabbits are related they are most definitely different creatures, as a certain Bugs keeps reminding us!

Answer 3

In the period around Easter Catholic and Anglican people fast, they`re not allowed to eat eggs (and some other things), since in the Middle Ages everyone was Catholic they needed something to do with the many uneaten eggs, so the gave them as an Easter present (a symbol of Easter today). But actually the best gift is the fact that Jesus rose from the death, so we don`t have to fear dead, but live with Him for eternity

Answer 4

well It's pretty much common knowledge that Easter is a Christian celebration of Christ's rising, but this holiday also has pagan origins. Where did the colored eggs, cute little bunnies, baby chicks, leg of lamb dinners, and lilies come from? They are all symbols of rebirth and the lamb was a traditional religious sacrifice.

Easter falls in the spring, the yearly time of renewal, when the earth renews itself after a long, cold winter. The word Easter comes to us from the Norsemen's Eostur, Eastar, Ostara, and Ostar, and the pagan goddess Eostre, all of which involve the season of the growing sun and new birth. The Easter Bunny arose originally as a symbol of fertility, due to the rapid reproduction habits of the hare and rabbit.

The ancient Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, and Hindus all believed the world began with an enormous egg, thus the egg as a symbol of new life has been around for eons. The particulars may vary, but most cultures around the world use the egg as a symbol of new life and rebirth. A notation in the household accounts of Edward I of England showed an expenditure of eighteen pence for 450 eggs to be gold-leafed and colored for Easter gifts. The first book to mention Easter eggs by name was written five hundred years ago. Yet, a North African tribe that had become Christian much earlier in time had a custom of coloring eggs at Easter. Long hard winters often meant little food, and a fresh egg for Easter was quite a prize. Later, Christians abstained from eating meat during the Lenten season prior to Easter. Easter was the first chance to enjoy eggs and meat after the long abstinence.

Some European children go from house to house begging for Easter eggs, much like Halloween trick-or-treaters. Called pace-egging, it comes from the old word for Easter, Pasch. Many old cultures also attributed the egg with great healing powers. It is interesting to note that eggs play almost no part in the Easter celebrations of Mexico, South America, and Native American Indian cultures. Egg-rolling contests are a symbolic re-enactment of the rolling away of the stone from Christ's tomb. The decoration of small leaf-barren branches as Easter egg trees has become a popular custom in the United States since the 1990s.

Further Easter References:

• Top 10 Ways to Use Hard-Boiled Eggs
• Traditional Easter Foods History
• Easter Egg Coloring History
• Easter Foods

Answer 5

Check with the Greek Orthodox Church. Boiled eggs is one of Their traditions. Nearly all My Greek friends here in Australia give painted boiled eggs at Their celebration of Easter. Don't forget that They hold it on a different day to the rest of the Christian world. Mind You We (Australians) also give chocolate 'Bilbies' (a kind of a rodent-like marsupial) instead of Rabbits (because they are a ferral pest).

Answer 6

I think they boiled them waaaaaaaay back when because they needed to preserve food and they last longer that way.

Answer 7

the raw eggs were really messy.

Answer 8

Easy!

The chicken.

Answer 9

watch the new south park episode, it explains everything