The Victorian Easter Bunny

That's true. They'll tell us that their bunny is much better than the American version.
It was bigger and wasn't all dressed up in silly clothes.
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I've always wondered how the Brits got a rabbit mixed up with colored Easter eggs. Are either of them traditional symbols of Easter from bygone eras?
My response has no real substance, but I just read your post and then I looked at your avatar featuring Gen. Sherman. Naturally, my imagination went immediately to Uncle Billy saying what you posted, and I just started cracking up! I couldn't help myself. I hope this doesn't offend you.
 
My response has no real substance, but I just read your post and then I looked at your avatar featuring Gen. Sherman. Naturally, my imagination went immediately to Uncle Billy saying what you posted, and I just started cracking up! I couldn't help myself. I hope this doesn't offend you.
Absolutely not. I think Uncle Billy would be amazed and gratified that he made somebody laugh.
 
Holy Cow! It was the Germans! Calling @Schwallanscher and @2/241 !

"According to some sources, the Easter bunny first arrived in America in the 1700s with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and transported their tradition of an egg-laying hare called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” Their children made nests in which this creature could lay its colored eggs." Source
My German mother used to make coloured eggs for Easter and we would help her. Loved that tradition :bounce:
 
Back in the 1950s here in eastern Ohio, we had to buy the more expensive white eggs to color for Easter. Back then brown eggs were cheaper but they weren't too good for coloring.
 
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