I’m unsure what my Irish grandmother would have said about it, but the alleged animal rights group PETA has asked the White House to change the traditional Easter Egg Hunt this year. Instead of chicken eggs, they are recommending dyed Easter … potatoes.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on the White House to roll a different way this spring — swapping chicken eggs for potatoes at the annual Easter Egg Roll. https://t.co/9eBg4krRjP pic.twitter.com/l8wOqvyvxu
— The Hill (@thehill) March 12, 2024
A potato won’t break like an egg if you step on it. You can also make Vodka with them (though perhaps not after dying). But you could erase Easter by combining it with St. Patrick’s Day. Drinking. Potatoes. None of that dead on the cross and rose bodily to heaven business. The Catholics are, after all, accused (by some) of hijacking Easter from the pagans (She was a goddess of spring pictured with eggs and rabbits), so it’d be one of those what goes around comes around things. Related: The New State Color Will Be Potato
Call it Social Justice.
And with St Patrick’s Day on the 17th and Easter on the 31st, you could turn it into a Spring Saturnalia. Two weeks of drinking and not thinking about Ukraine, the open US border, escalating drug deaths, crime and violence, or the fact that potatoes are cheaper than eggs in the Biden Economy. You can then rise from your alcoholic stupor, sunglasses over your eyes and a pounding ache in your head to set the screaming little leprechauns loose with their burlap easter sacks to collect the little spuds (undyed because I bet that stuff is terrible for the environment).
Just don’t use White Potatoes; that would be racist.
