Easter Eggs - Where to buy in Medellin

mranderson says on Apr 8, 2009, 13:30:

You can always buy regular white eggs and color them. Isn´t that the fun of easter eggs? Making them yourself?

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bickerss says on Apr 8, 2009, 13:47:

no not fun at all - just looking to buy good, ready made chocolate ones.

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mranderson says on Apr 8, 2009, 13:58:

Oh. I didn´t know you were looking for chocolate.

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Mononoke28 says on Apr 8, 2009, 14:55:

Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny don't exist in Colombia, they're pretty much unheard of, so you'll have a very hard time finding anything Eastersy down there. Why? Because Easter is in fact a religious holiday that has absolutely nothing to do with a bunny or chocolate, I still don't get why they celebrate it that way here in the US actually. It's just a weird way of celebrating Christ's death in my opinion.

Diana

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onthemoon says on Apr 8, 2009, 15:46:

jajajja! you are right mono, had a hard time explaining it to my students...semana santa, dead jesus, easter bunny and hunting egs..jaja! =SS but well, traditions are tradtions, we have to respect that.
Bickers we celebrated at school with kinder sorpresa it is a chocolate egg shaped with a toy inside, havent tried them yet but kids love them. =)) you can find them in any candy shop.

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bickerss says on Apr 8, 2009, 15:51:

thanks - I will try and find a real one jajaja kinder surprise does not quitecut it jajaj!! I knew I should have flown in with some!!

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adrimm (Moderator) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Apr 8, 2009, 18:22:

chrispej says on Apr 8, 2009, 19:17:

There was a guy selling multi-colored baby chicks in Centro, Medellin one day last week. Never saw that one before. Wish I had my camera...

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mranderson says on Apr 8, 2009, 19:29:

Chris...those baby chicks were only a thousand pesos each. The secretary at my work bought a pink one.

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chrispej says on Apr 8, 2009, 22:41:

Yeah, that's right. The kids that passed by were all oohs and ahhs.....

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Mononoke28 says on Apr 9, 2009, 09:20:

chrispej says on Apr 8, 2009, 19:17: flag

There was a guy selling multi-colored baby chicks in Centro, Medellin one day last week. Never saw that one before. Wish I had my camera...
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If I'm not mistaken those colored chicks are called Russian chicks (pollitos rusos) and they're just spray painted in all kinds of different colors. When we were kids three of my cousins got 1 each, 3 total. Two died because the paint was too strong and toxic for them and the other one did make it and became a big ass chicken which I believe they killed for sancocho one day.

Diana

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Apr 9, 2009, 09:52:

Paint live chicks with toxic paint? That's kind of sick...
So, what do chicks and Easter hares have to do with Jesus and Roman soldiers? About the same as Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer has to do with the birth of a Jesus and the Slaughter of the Innocents.

Just that Easter like Christmas is one of those Christian holidays that overimposed much, much older holidays with their own rites. (We tell our kids both versions: the Viacrucis and the profetia: the self-sacrifice and the triumph of Life Over Death)

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Escape Artist says on Apr 9, 2009, 10:08:

If I'm not mistaken isn't Easter a celebration of the resurrection of Christ as opposed to the celebration of his death as one comment eludes to above?

And if my memories of the bible studies I attended as a youth are correct, isn't there a version of the story that Easter was actually a pagan holiday worshiping the goddess of fertility and thus, because of their prolific nature, rabbits have long been associated with fertility and its goddess Ishtar or Easter as it is known today?

EA

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Apr 9, 2009, 10:19:

I have never really studied the Bible or givenit much thought....I have always considered Easter the most shcizophrenic of our holidays: do we commemorate a death or celebrate a resurrection? Or both?

The rites of spring and life returning after the barren winter:yes, that is ancient.

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webmanco says on Apr 9, 2009, 10:27:

http://www.holidays.net/easter/bunny1.htm

The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season.

The bunny as an Easter symbol seems to have its origins in Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 1500s. The first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany during the early 1800s. And were made of pastry and sugar.

The Easter bunny was introduced to American folklore by the German settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s.

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bickerss says on Apr 9, 2009, 10:28:

The Easter Egg
Most children and families who color or hide Easter eggs as part of their Resurrection Sunday tradition have no knowledge of the origin of these traditions. Easter egg activities have become a part of Western culture. Many would be surprised and even dismayed to learn where the traditions originated.

“The egg was a sacred symbol among the Babylonians. They believed an old fable about an egg of wondrous size which was supposed to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates River. From this marvelous egg - according to the ancient story - the Goddess Astarte (Easter) [Semiramis], was hatched. And so the egg came to symbolize the Goddess Easter.”[11]

The idea of a mystic egg spread from Babylon to many parts of the world.[12] In Rome, the mystic egg preceded processions in honor of the Mother Goddess Roman. The egg was part of the sacred ceremonies of the Mysteries of Bacchus. The Druids used the egg as their sacred emblem. In Northern Europe, China and Japan the eggs were colored for their sacred festivals.[13]

The egg was also a symbol of fertility; Semiramis (Easter) was the goddess of Fertility. The Easter egg is a symbol of the pagan Mother Goddess, and it even bears one of her names.

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