Comments on: Easter Report

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:21:50 +0000

Scott, my dear elder cousin, I defer to you and to the rest of the family on this one. For now and for years to come. But someday…

By: Scott Butler

Scott Butler — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:41:09 +0000

Uncle Fitzhugh stays. What else would we do with the hole in the chimney that would remain?

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:17:20 +0000

I use bread at the seder, just like I use grape juice instead of vino.

Oh, I’m sure we could get some sort of blank plastic egg that could be convincingly covered. I like me my traditions, but when our family as a whole tips into veganism (a generation away) we’ll definitely come up with a fine substitute.

Remember the buffalo head, “Uncle Fitzhugh”, in the living room of the old ranch house? He’ll be buried someday. But critical mass in the family to do so doesn’t yet exist.

By: Funt Of A Thousand Faces

Funt Of A Thousand Faces — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:20:53 +0000

But if they weren’t required to lay then where would you get the eggs for Easter from. Are you saying you’d do away with the hunt? You seem to enjoy it so?
Oh and really, where do you make the distinction between the coloring, the hunting and the eating? They all involve use of the egg.

What do you use for the egg and the shank for Pesach?

By: Hugo Schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:12:47 +0000

Most of these eggs were laid by our very own ranch chickens, who are, at the least, treated reasonably humanely. Ideally, we’d just have sanctuary chickens who weren’t required to lay, but that will require a little bit more time in my family…

My wife’s family has a wonderful and wild finca in a remote corner of northeastern Colombia; it is very similar and very different down there…

Oh, and I do a vegan seder at Pesach.

By: Funt Of A Thousand Faces

Funt Of A Thousand Faces — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:59:10 +0000

Alright you vegan you, tell me how you make the distinction between the hiding, the dyeing and the eating.

BTW, are the eggs gathered there, or bought from a conscientious supplier…….or are they just plain ole’ poultry plant regulars?

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been developed an honest to goodness vegan substitute for this time honored ritual. It would seem that necessity would lead to such an invention.

As for me, I, of the unmarried, culturally reformed Jewish, spiritually evolving and heading towards at least vegetarian persuasion, spent the day coloring what may or may not have been humanely procured eggs with my two year old nephew who’s parents are Jewish, carnivorous atheists and noted the irony as we enjoyed ourselves and looked forward to a similarly multi-layered Passover.

BTW, is there a similar ‘compound’ for your dad’s side of the family or for your wife’s family?