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Why Hasnt The Us Embraced The Chocolate And Alcohol Binge?
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The US – where one of the main industries is the packaging of senseless holidays – has never quite embraced Easter festivities like us Brits do...
This is a country that created Grandparents’ Day. And National Doctors’ Day. And National Boss’s Day. It’s a country responsible for modern-day Halloween.
In the UK Easter is a public, or bank holiday. Most British people have Friday and Monday off while the kids are off school, meaning four days of unalloyed boozing and eating. It makes for a huge boost to British business (aside from the money lost from having so many people not working for two days)
Ask for an Easter egg in an American deli and you’ll get one of two things: a hard-boiled egg, or a blank look. There’s nothing wrong with either, but it seems very "un-American" ??
I was in the states a couple of Easter's ago and it seemed very different.
This is a country that created Grandparents’ Day. And National Doctors’ Day. And National Boss’s Day. It’s a country responsible for modern-day Halloween.
In the UK Easter is a public, or bank holiday. Most British people have Friday and Monday off while the kids are off school, meaning four days of unalloyed boozing and eating. It makes for a huge boost to British business (aside from the money lost from having so many people not working for two days)
Ask for an Easter egg in an American deli and you’ll get one of two things: a hard-boiled egg, or a blank look. There’s nothing wrong with either, but it seems very "un-American" ??
I was in the states a couple of Easter's ago and it seemed very different.
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Hershey chocolate is revolting...it tastes like sick !
Apparently they use sour milk to make it...revolting.
But on my travels in the States and staying with my friends in New England and the Mid West in many occasions, I have noticed Easter certainly doesn't seem to feature in the average American community, in anything like a prominent way as it does here, and I don't think its anything to do with Easter Eggs. Strange.
Apparently they use sour milk to make it...revolting.
But on my travels in the States and staying with my friends in New England and the Mid West in many occasions, I have noticed Easter certainly doesn't seem to feature in the average American community, in anything like a prominent way as it does here, and I don't think its anything to do with Easter Eggs. Strange.
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I spent an Easter in the States (California) and there was egg painting and an Easter egg hunt with friends over and gorgeous Easter baskets made up for me and the other kids for the morning (before the Easter egg hunt) then a big get together in the evening with friends of the family I was staying with.
Can't remember the typical Easter Eggs like we had here but had a beautiful hand made and wrapped Easter basket filled with lots of small chocolate eggs and sweets and such.
Can't remember the typical Easter Eggs like we had here but had a beautiful hand made and wrapped Easter basket filled with lots of small chocolate eggs and sweets and such.
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Chipchopper...actually I am with you all the way with the peanut butter cups.
Its strange that our American friends think so highly of chocolate that tastes of sick, but then again, they seem to labouring under the impression that Bud Lite is really beer !
One of my favourite CAMRA jokes ::::::#
What is the difference between Bud and Bud Lite ?
Bud Lite has even more water in it !
Its strange that our American friends think so highly of chocolate that tastes of sick, but then again, they seem to labouring under the impression that Bud Lite is really beer !
One of my favourite CAMRA jokes ::::::#
What is the difference between Bud and Bud Lite ?
Bud Lite has even more water in it !
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