I have forgotten how eggs got into the Easter tradition or maybe I didn't really look into it. This comes from wikipedia and seems an astonishing sort of origin:
"The use of eggs as favors or treats at Easter originated when they were prohibited during Lent. A common practice in England in the medieval period was for children to go door-to-door begging for eggs on the Saturday before Lent began. People handed out eggs as special treats for children prior to their fast."
What about chocolate and Easter?
"At that time, it was customary to save eggs until the end of the fast, and some eggs were also decorated. The chocolate egg appeared in the 18th century, when the idea of emptying eggs and filling them with chocolate was introduced as a way of marking the end of the fast."
According to Wikipedia chocolate eggs first appeared at the court of Louis XIV in Versailles, and chocolate eggs were produced in 1725 in France and continued thereafter.
The big moment of the big chocolate egg is a highlight of Easter. It is either British Chocolatier J.S. Fry & Sons or Cadbury who created the first modern chocolate Easter egg. Definitely Cadbury is known for the invention of machinery that made pure cocoa butter that could be moulded. Most reports of when chocolate came to Easter dwell on this moment - in 1875 Cadbury released their first line off chocolate Easter eggs - the hollow ones. They were filled with sugared almonds.
So I guess the story of Easter and chocolate is that it got into Easter through eggs. The egg story is the complicated one to me. Many legends and religious myths are part of this tradition.
I found some pictures of Koi in the Lightroom database, and have been editing them to showcase the Koi.
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