Easter.

[spookyevilone]

Easter - when Christians celebrate the resurrection of a dead Jew by eating ham. (stolen from Crystal.)

My family didn't eat ham for Easter dinner. My fault - I loathe all pig meat. No idea why, I just couldn't handle the smell of it and even the thought of trying to eat it caused me to gag. Being a hunting family, we generally had some form of game. In many instances, we had rabbit for Easter dinner.

This lead to some trauma when I was little. I freaked out, which caused several of my brothers to concoct an elaborate story. We weren't eating the Easter Bunny, we were eating a traitor rabbit that had tried to steal the Easter Bunny's identity by holding him hostage so Generic Rabbit could take his job. My brothers had noticed something fishy, because Generic Rabbit wasn't white like the Easter Bunny, and had followed him to his secret hiding place and captured him, rescuing the Easter Bunny. Because Generic Rabbit had been a bad, bad bunny, he had to be killed for his crimes and since it's bad to waste food, we cooked him and ate him.

It made sense, and it wasn't the magical chocolate-bringing bunny we were eating, so all was made right with my world.

Until I went to school the next morning and the teacher asked us all to tell the class what we'd done for Easter. That was an interesting parent/teacher conference.

I hope all of you in LJ land had a good holiday.

Comments

[neko038.livejournal.com]

Ok, your brothers rock. That is a great story. Mine would have just taunted me with teh fact that yeah it was the Easter bunny and watched me cry. Cuz well that is what they do. But hey I still think my brothers rock just in another sort of way.
Crys

[fairiedust1975.livejournal.com]

yeah... I was gonna say.... that sounds kinda sweet for a brother... in a brother sorta way.