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Londoners Are Pigs (When Chocolate's Around)

April 5, 2007 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments


Big apologies are due to all chocaholic readers: we failed to tell you about an amazing experience you could have had in London this week. The Thorntons chocolatier set up a tasty publicity stunt in Covent Garden to celebrate Easter (and make a few more quid for themselves). The idea: the world's first edible billboard.

Measuring over 14 feet by 9 feet, this Easter billboard included 860 pounds worth of chocolate in the form of 128 chocolate panels, 72 giant eggs and 10 bunnies. In fact 5 bunnies were smashed during the building process, but there were spares waiting to hop in. We would love to tell you to go along and have a taste yourself, but the billboard, meant to last at least a week, was all eaten up by various passersby in a mere three hours. Maybe next year.

[Photo: pieter007]

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Switch Hitters

April 17, 2006 at 2:52 PM | 1 Comment



We were surprised to see that there weren't any articles today decrying the brutal traditions of Czech Easter Monday. When Prague was a little better fresher as a place for Americans to expatriate, the anti-Velikonoce editorial was a popular annual event, usually in right thinking newspapers like the Wall Street Journal.

For those who don't know, every year on Easter Monday, Czech men hit women on the butt with a stick and are rewarded with alcohol. It's a little more complex than that; the boys cut down a young willow branch, and braid it into a stick called a pomlazka. Then they switch girls on the backside with it, roaming the local village all Easter Monday morning. There's a poem they must recite to accompany the switching, which is all about making the ladies more fertile in the coming year, and some Czech women think it's bad luck if they are not hit with the pomlazka. When the poem is over, the boys get candy or a shot of booze from the girls as a reward.

Yeah, it's a little backwards; domestic violence is only a tradition in the U.S. on Super Bowl Sunday. Still, it's way more fun than filing your taxes was over the weekend.

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Go to Hell, Easter Bunny

April 14, 2006 at 11:57 AM | 0 Comments

Ignorant us, we didn't think the Easter bunny even made it to Germany. If he does come this year he better stay away from Karl-Friedrich Lentze.

The artist claims that by encouraging the consumption of chocolates, Mr. Easter Bunny also encourages the prevalence of heart attacks, strokes, and fat people. "The Easter Bunny is a sadistic and unscrupulous offender who preys on people's sweet tooth," he wrote in a complaint for local prosecutors. "Find this evil bunny, handcuff his paws and remove him from shops in time for Easter."

Lentze, by the way, seems to have a knack for the silly: in recent years he has tried to start a brothel for dogs, turn dog poop into a building material, and patent a machine to straighten bananas.

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