Why do christians eat ham for Easter?

Answer 1

I'm Christian and I don't usually eat ham for Easter, sometimes for Christmas dinner, but it's nothing to do with our faith.

Answer 2

Seems like it became a tradition, because turkey was for Thanksgiving. And Christmas. So people wanted something different.

btw, when I was a kid the stores didn't have turkeys except during the holiday season. That is, Thanksgiving and Christmas. And actually it was lamb that was for Easter but lamb was even harder to get then turkey and so ham.

Answer 3

Pig meat is a pagan tradition at the Spring Fertility celebration and any other celebration.

While the early Jewish christians emulated Jesus by adhering to the Jewish dietary prohibitions, the non-Jewish christians did not change anything about their diet.

Indeed, they embraced their pagan traditions, declared them part of their own form of christianity and the result is Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, the very name Easter (from Eostre), and of course, pork.

Answer 4

It's a Pagan ritual started by Ishtar to commorate the death of somone by a pig. So each year the people were to have a pig dinner.

And it's not a world-wide thing or a world-wide Christian thing. Greeks usually eat Lamb. Italians usually have seafood. The French probably have a feast.

Answer 5

No... Easter is the launch of their criminal duty of Lent. immediately Lent many times potential them giving up something to connect their deity in suffering, even though it was once achieved through fact in an agricultural society, people had to end ingesting off the animals for a whilst to grant them a gamble to reproduce. they might permit the eggs strengthen to chickens instead of ingesting them, milk is going to the calves and lambs, pigs get to reproduce. by using Easter the subsequent technology of livestock is popular and that they are in a position to eat eggs, meat, and dairy back. Please observe that sensible pastoral people many times did this on their very own international, and replaced into in simple terms formalized by using Christianity; they did not invent it. Ham replaced into between the cured meats that lasted them in the process the wintry climate, and while the admonition against meat replaced into lifted, it replaced into the main delectable of the salted meats and replaced into oftentimes the 1st option to banquet on.

Answer 6

We always ate lamb... which is a bit odd... go to church, hear about the "Lamb of God," and go home and slather him in mint jelly and chow down.

Kids are easily baffled....

Easter - Lamb
Christmas - Roast Beef
T.G. - Turkey
New Year - Lobster

I don't like ham.

Answer 7

It is a cultural thing I imagine...ham is very popular in the South...

Answer 8

actually we arent supposed to eat ham...i've never eaten ham ever....u know why cos in the bible it says that we cannot eat annimal with cloven hooves and a pig has cloven hooves....we're not supposed to eat ham...

Answer 9

so I guess muslims an jews hate easter dinners

Answer 10

Traditions....easter is a pagan religion and nobuddy should be eating pigs. So...I dunno...good question. ~J~