Why Hasnt The Us Embraced The Chocolate And Alcohol Binge?

[jd_1984]

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.

[hc4361]

The link

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/03/why-america-does-not-embrace-easter-chocolate-binge

[dannyk13]

They do:-
http://usafederalholidays.com/easter-holidays/

[gangesboy]

Here's the link from the original Guardian article published last year
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/03/why-america-does-not-embrace-easter-chocolate-binge

[jd_1984]

Yeah that's the article I read and borrowed the literature.

Just wondering why it isn't embraced? I noticed this whilst I was there.

[hc4361]

Danny's link says the Americans do have Easter eggs

[Islay]

Have you tasted American chocolate yuck!! Who would want to binge on that?

[237SJ]

Hershey eggs are in the shops at easter and they do have the egg hunts and egg rolls in the US - there is even one at the White House.

[CrapAtCryptics]

//Most British people have Friday and Monday off while the kids are off school, meaning four days of unalloyed boozing and eating//

I can think of a great number of people who still have to carry on working, some of them so the boozing and eating can go on.

[mikey4444]

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.

[pastafreak]

Easter is a holiday here...which means 4 days off for most people plus children have term breaks. So...a reason to relax and "celebrate". In the US, good Friday isn't a federal holiday,nor is Easter Monday recognised.

[Eve]

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.

[Chipchopper]

Am I the only person who likes American chocolate.
I think Reece's butter cups are absolutely delicious!

[mikey4444]

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 !