The marshmallow bunnies and chicks were called “PEEPS” made in PA. When I (an American) lived in Rhodesia, we made EASTER nests for the kids with colored grass leading to the nests which the kids had to find in the garden. We made crosses out of the palms we got on Palm Sunday.

@cremebrulee4759

2 жыл бұрын

They are still called Peeps. That hasn't changed.

@joseeallyn9950

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Peeps! And green 'grass' in Easter baskets ! Our palms were made up into crosses by people in 'The Missions' which helped them financially.

We got a new dress, dress shoes, a hat and gloves. But, then, I’m older than you, Julie.

Peeps are the marshmallow candy you were trying to remember. We also received Easter Baskets with candy, a solid chocolate rabbit maybe coloring books crayons and plastic eggs with money in the egg. New clothes were also a big deal. Church was also a special service.

Terry's chocolate oranges Luke mentioned are only sold at Christmas where I live in the central US. I think it must be because they fit so nicely in a Christmas stocking.

@cricket8438

Жыл бұрын

We love them and I order them from a shop in London all through the year.

Luke, on American Easter: "It sounds a bit kitch to me." I had to laugh because I had childhood Easters exactly as Julie describes, down to the plastic eggs filled with candy and the new clothes for Easter Day church. They were definitely kitch. But they were also wonderful. And, most American children probably don't sleep much on Easter night thanks to sugar-induced mania..

@jillianwaterfield9937

2 жыл бұрын

We decorated eggs either hardboiled or blown out. We would get a palm at Church on Palm Sunday too. I'm from Canada.

@kathrynwitte3398

2 жыл бұрын

*Kitsch

@citizen321654

2 жыл бұрын

@@jillianwaterfield9937 Same for us, Chicago. And we would turn the palm frond into a cross.

@julieroyce4497

2 жыл бұрын

New dress, Sunday shoes, gloves and purse! Palm crosses were given out on Palm Sunday and shrove Tuesday was pancake day. US (grew up both on the west and east coasts) and Protestant background.

In Lithuania the Palm Sunday is celebrated by making very intricate dried flower, weeds and juniper arrangements, which have a shape of a staff. In the morning of Palm Sunday the first person who wakes up, takes the staff and goes around the house lightly hitting sleeping people and saying - it’s not me who’s hitting you, it’s the staff. On Easter Sunday - some people go to church, some don’t. But we all eat Easter breakfast with hardboiled eggs which are decorated with various patterns : natural dyes made out of onion skins, herbs or painted with vax and dipped into different dyes to reveal multi colored eggs.

Oh my gosh, Julie your memories of Easter bring back so many lovely memories of my childhood Easters. Got a whole new outfit, had the Easter bunny, ate and hid the real hardboiled eggs but sometimes we didn't find all of them. My dad would when he mowed the lawn months later 🤣

Easter Week is my absolute favorite time of the year! Our traditions (growing up in New England and New York) were much like Julie's. The new Easter dresses were enormously important, especially walking into Church as everyone else was checking them out! We dyed eggs that the Easter Bunny hid, and we always had an Easter basket waiting when we woke up. As far as gifts, they were small, always included a stuffed animal of some sort, and were things the Easter Bunny knew we'd appreciate for a long time - a book, a piece of costume jewelry, something like that. BUT, Julie, I'm surprised you didn't receive a cross made from the palms on Palm Sunday. We always looked forward to getting them and hung them on our bedroom walls until they were replaced the subsequent year.

@stuartm6069

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised Julie didn't know about the Cross made of palm fronds. Most Protestant religions do not put an emphasis on Palm Sunday. The Palm fronds are very common in Catholic and Episcopalian/Anglican Churches. I had never heard of palm frond crosses growing up. It wasn't until I married a Catholic that I found out about them.

@lorigray9291

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartm6069 I did not know that. Thanks for telling me!

@okienana11

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartm6069 we had the Palms for Palm Sunday but not the cross. I was raised in the Methodist church.

@janethays3408

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartm6069 We have the palm frond crosses at my church on Palm Sunday, and it is non-denominational Christian church. Palm Sunday is a very big deal.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

We never got palm crosses till we moved to England. I'm Anglican, but my church in Virginia didn't do that. My mum could remember getting them in the Episcopal church in HER childhood in the States though. Love getting them every year now; one of my favourite parts of Easter.

We called Easter Grass in the Easter Baskets...Yes all the candies Julie's saying yes we got as well..Great to know England's traditional Easter.)(Dinner after Church was usually Baked ham,mom added pineapple rings marishino cherries on top of the ham.Potatoe salad,devil eggs,Greens, macaroni and cheese,corn,Yeast Rolls.

@caropapa

2 жыл бұрын

Our traditional dinner in New Zealand on Easter Sunday was roast lamb and all the trimmings.

@gailsmith5755

2 жыл бұрын

Since our Easter dinner was aways ham, our potato salad was always German potato salad, made with bacon, and the moisture was not Mayo, but vinegar, sugar, and the bacon grease. it was always served warmed, but not hot. We had it yesterday, and will enjoy the left-overs today.

I remember many of the same things other Americans have mentioned here. I always got a big chocolate covered egg in my basket that was filled with a firm candy filling that contained nuts, sometimes cherries or coconut and you would cut slices of it off. In addition, we always had pictures taken in our new outfits with our Easter baskets. And I always loved (and still do) singing Christ the Lord is Risen Today at church. The music at church is always very joyous and celebratory including a brass quintet. Easter dinner always included ham.

I'm Canadian so my Easter traditions aren't like Julie's. However, I believe that's less to do with her being American than her religious affiliation or denomination. Traditions also vary regionally. Other people's experiences might vary on that account as well. My parents were devout Mennonites. No frivolities or fantasies like Easter bunnies and egg hunts or even Santa for me. At a very young age I was taught that only Jesus was real. As a young child, the first time I was told that soldiers nailed Christ to the cross on account of my sins, I was traumatized to inconsolable weeping. Yes, I'd put red shoe polish on my lips once to see what (forbidden) lipstick might look like and got spanked for it, but was that so evil as to merit such pain to the Son of God? I had questions. Always. I did, however, get new spring/summer clothes and got to choose what I wanted from the catalogue; however, that was mainly a practical thing as I'd mostly outgrown last year's clothing. With the arrival of a more liberal pastor, things relaxed a little as I got older so I also got some hard candy eggs, a chocolate rabbit and chocolate eggs. Chocolate covered marshmallow bunnies or eggs were the worst imposters. I'd pick one thinking it was chocolate and bit into a mess of odiously sweet goop. Though my mother made the most delicious paska (Easter bread) I much preferred Christmas as it had better food--turkey rather than ham and way more cookies along with candles and a tree for better atmosphere. That said, I still buy myself a (solid chocolate) bunny from a top tier chocolatier every year simply for the childish pleasure of biting its ears off. Deeply satisfying, that.

@phyllisanngodfrey6137

2 жыл бұрын

Being raised by Catholic parents. All Sundays started with going to Mass as a family. Easter and Christmas are both very religious holidays for me ❤️

@TWROC96

2 жыл бұрын

For many families, it is a combination of fun activities for the kids both outside of church and in church- dyeing eggs with the family the night before Easter then Easter baskets the next morning for the kids then off to church then home for dinner with family and egg hiding after lunch. Religion and kid activities can go together and make the kids excited for the event.

@findingbeautyinthepain8965

2 жыл бұрын

@marie landry I hope this doesn’t sound ignorant, but is there a Church of England in the US? I’ve never seen one here on the East Coast, but perhaps there are more in other areas of the US. I’m very interested to find out.

@chatterjeelinda4

2 жыл бұрын

@marie landry , I'm sure I've seen the palm leaves in the USA. Maybe just some churches 🙂

@janethays3408

2 жыл бұрын

@@findingbeautyinthepain8965 It’s the Episcopalian Church

I grew up many places in the US. We always got a palm frond or spear on Palm Sunday. We also got a special Easter dress and hat. The marshmallow candy you are looking for is Peeps. When I moved to Colorado for marriage, my husband’s family always got huge chocolate eggs filled with more chocolate from a candy and ice cream shop that has sadly gone out of business. My children remember it fondly.

Now in the USA it is now not permitted to have toys in the centre of chocolate eggs. You can carry a gun, but you cannot have a toy inside chocolate.

@gayleford8277

2 жыл бұрын

oh no, does that mean no Kindersurprises?

I am from Quebec and the tradtion that is strong here is to collect Easter water at the break of dawn on the sunday morning. This water does not corrupt and is said to have healing virtues. Brunch is a big thing, families gather and we eat ham usually glazed in maple syrup and omelet and of course every children is getting it's own chicken shaped chocolate.

@denisecampbell6736

2 жыл бұрын

Reading that had me licking my lips Renee-Claude. I adore Ham & Ham glazed w/Maple Syrup is even better!! I’m also the only one in my Family who likes Omelettes or even Quiche for that matter, so your Easter Brunch sounds heavenly to me. 😊. Have a Blessed Easter w/your Family from my Mom & I in Northeastern Ontario. 😊😊

@mnizourin

2 жыл бұрын

@@denisecampbell6736 Thank you Denise, you have my mom's name ;) I wish to you too a very Blessed Eastern this Year :)

When I was little in the early 1960's.We had the Easter Bunny sit on the back of a convertible and toss candy to us as he was driven down the street! I got a new dress and hat each year back then.I love coloring Easter Eggs. My Mom would put the yummiest Easter candy in baskets! Happy memories! Happy Easter from Vermont

Thanks for the memories of Easter. My mom would take me shopping for a new dress, gloves, patent leather shoes & purse. Yes, we would go to church on Easter Sunday, then have egg hunt & a course we got a basket filled with goodies. My mom would make a sweet braided bread with the palm fronds around the bread from Palm Sunday. Then we would get together with my aunts, uncles & cousins for a family meal. Hope you, Luke & family have a great Easter.

@e.urbach7780

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just about to make our Sicilian Easter Bread (a sweet braided bread) later today!

We sometimes did blown out decorated eggs (I live in Michigan, USA). Remember the hollow sugar eggs that had beautiful dioramas inside them?

@janethays3408

2 жыл бұрын

My grandmother used to blow out eggs, trim a large hole in the side and make really pretty dioramas in them. Sometimes she made them Christmas themed as tree ornaments. I remember the sugar ones, too. You don’t see those much any more.

In PA we got a new Easter dress- and COAT! My grandmother bought them, I suppose she did it for all the grandchildren but I never noticed anyone else’s... I wonder what she did for the grandsons. New suits? She didn’t give gifts other than birthdays and Christmas, but she always bought church coats for winter and spring. We blew out eggs too- not just “European”.

We live in Kansas, which is a couple of states south and a hair to the the west of where Julie is from. My sister and I always got a new Easter dress and shoes. Our Easter baskets, left for us by the Easter bunny, always had little foil covered chocolate eggs, a chocolate bunny, marshmallow eggs maybe a book or small toy. We always went to church and then home for a big Easter family lunch. Baked ham, deviled eggs, scalloped potatoes and lots of desserts to follow.

In Canada, we are culturally a real mixture between American and British traditions, as we are commonwealth country.

@reneejones5675

2 жыл бұрын

same in New Zealand,

@celticlass8573

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of American things did you do? We didn't do anything that Julie mentioned. And never any Peeps lol.

@terri-annemcsweeney3451

2 жыл бұрын

And in Australia 🇦🇺

It's nice to know how the British celebrate Easter. I've learned so much from Luke about the way they celebrate their Christmas, Valentine's, and now Easter!

I make each of my gran children aged 15years to 2 years a Easter bag decorated, they then have the Easter hunt, collect all the eggs which are shared equally between them after, it’s very competitive and fun day, I live on a acreage in a beautiful rural setting, it’s a fun happy family day, followed by big lunch on the deck with views of the Gold Coast bliss, I’m one happy Oma🐰🐰

Our American Easter was a combination of both Julie's and Luke's experiences. We all received new Easter outfits as well, even new shoes and Easter bonnets (that's what our Gran would call them) or fancy matching headbands. It was a celebration of springtime, a fresh new season, and it represented new life! Colouring Easter eggs was generally done on the Saturday before Easter in our household. We would start Easter morning by attending the Easter Sunrise service, followed by the Easter service at our church. Afterward, we would have longtime reservations for Easter brunch at a special restaurant. Returning home, we would then do our annual Easter egg hunt with all of our siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, close family friends, and even a few neighbor kids. Our plastic eggs would have messages written on them in marker: "He Is Risen!", "He Is Risen Indeed!", "Hallelujah!", "Happy Easter!", "Happy Ressurection Day!", John 3:16-17" and "JESUS LOVES YOU!", etc. They would contain I.O.U's, with a promise for a scoop of ice cream from our favorite ice cream shop, or a cinema ticket, jellybeans, bubble gum, small trinket toys, and even coins! There was always 'The Golden Egg'; which held a $20.00 bill! Later, we had a large traditional Easter dinner. In our family, it was usually a honey-baked ham with all of the traditional side dishes: Scallop potatoes, potato salad, and, or, mashed potatoes, freshly baked dinner rolls, green beans, Julian carrots (of course), roasted corn on and off the cobb, and various other salads, which included freshly cut fruit salad. As we grew older, our Easter baskets became more sophisticated. The girls (teens) would receive make-up, fragrance, higher quality chocolates, and a special piece of jewelry (cross, a heart, flower, a Holy Spirit dove necklace, or bracelet). The boys would receive playing cards, drum stix, new guitar strings, a harmonica, music CDs, gift cards, etc. In addition, we all would receive a new devotional to keep us grounded on the true meaning of the holiday. Oh, how I miss those days, especially now when so many of my family members have gone on to be with the Lord in heaven.

I’m glad to report that we had a mixture of both of your Easter celebrations! New clothes, shoes hats and gloves for church. We did get palm on Palm Sunday and made them into crosses ourselves. We woke up to baskets filled with Easter “grass” candy, mostly chocolate and marshmallows peeps! Small toys. We did dye hard boiled eggs and sometimes they would be in the basket, but not always. We had egg hunts that were more like Luke’s. But later on plastic eggs found their way into the hunt, filled with tiny toys or money! Always had lots of family for a large ham dinner! Great memories of family and cousins!

Growing up in my era we received a palm frond on Palm Easter. We always had a new dress for Easter. Of course we decorated eggs earlier and they were hidden and we had a hunt after Church. We stuffed ourselves on eggs and candy out of our basket before a large family dinner. Often dinner was a leg of lamb.

I haven't seen anyone mention those cakes in the three-dimensional shape of a small, resting lamb, frosted with white frosting and coconut. The cake was usually very dense and dry, so we spooned strawberries or chocolate syrup over our slices.

@Bruniebear

2 жыл бұрын

My mother had a lamb mold and used to make those cakes. Coconut died green was also used to make a bed of "grass" for the lamb to rest in.

@carolheyen7249

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Forgot about that, my mother-in-law still makes lamb shaped cakes. She puts brown m&ms around the rear end as “bunny poop” to make the kids laugh. It works. 😂

@Bruniebear

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolheyen7249 I bet it would!

We blew eggs,that was for fancy decorating.

Greeting from Carmel by the Sea - yes Julie, new Easter dresses (mostly pink) and baskets galore.... I wrote to the Easter bunny to wake me to no avail... One year our golden retriever Katchina had a literal 'field day' when she discovered and ate her way through all of the glorious colored hidden eggs in the garden - Lucky Ducks to have such happy memories of this special holiday. Wishing everyone much love, peace and a very Happy Easter xoxo

We would get a skipping rope, I remember getting a hoola hoop one year. That colored plastic we called it straw. We also got chocolate eggs and egg shaped candy. Happy Easter

I’m a southerner here in the US and we did the whole Easter outfit and hat too but chocolate was huge with us - Easter basket full of it - of course the marshmallow was obligatory but my least favorite- we always got a big chocolate bunny and the big thing was if it was solid or hollow. The baskets were filled with plastic grass and of course we dyed eggs but my mother usually only made egg salad with the ones that didn’t sit outside in the warm spring air waiting to be found lol.

@findingbeautyinthepain8965

2 жыл бұрын

Yessss! 😍 I came to the comment section expecting all Americans to talk about the solid vs hollow chocolate Easter bunny debate. I’m shocked that you are the first person I’ve seen mention it. It was a very big deal that we ALWAYS got home made solid chocolate Easter bunnies in our baskets! 🐣 🐰🪺

Ohio, USA here: I also grew up going to church every Sunday. I'm 20 years older than Julie, so we had "Sunday clothes" that were different than School Clothes and certainly not Play Clothes that you changed into after school or church. We did get a new dress for Easter, plus new black patent shoes, maybe a hat and little white gloves. I don't think we had Easter baskets, but we did have an egg hunt after church. But it was real hard boiled eggs (this was in the 50s and 60s -- I don't think there were plastic eggs then.) My dad hid all the eggs and sometimes he forgot where they all were and we would find them weeks later --rotted of course! lol. Luke: we did blow out eggs and color the shells. but then we taped one end and filled the shell with Jell-O so when you peeled off the shell you had a Jell-O egg. Also, Luke, I gave my kids Terry's chocolate Oranges!! in their Easter baskets and in Christmas stockings!

For us Palm Sunday we got our palm’s and made our cross, I still do it lol. As kids we had a whole new outfit shoes, dress, glove, hat and little purse. We colored eggs the night before and after church we had our egg hunt and our Easter baskets. We had chocolate bunnies but the best was the fudge egg my Grandma had made for all us kids. And Luke there is no Easter chicken lol. I will never for get the Easter my sister was chased my Grandma’s Bantam chickens 🐓. 😆🇺🇸

You are on the verge of 100K subscribers!!!!! Really enjoy watching/listening to Julie & Luke!!

@denisecampbell6736

2 жыл бұрын

Not anymore they’re not. It’s 3:50 am EST as I’m typing this & they’re just hit it!!! Congratulations Julie & Luke!!! 💐🍾🥂

@longwaytotipperary

2 жыл бұрын

@@denisecampbell6736 Yay!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!! 💯💥👏

Peeps and Easter grass, Julie. My mom would always decorate my Easter basket with pretty ribbons too. Some of the plastic eggs would have coins inside when we were little. For a while, we lived next to my grandparents. That was the best. Our Easter baskets were waiting there and we would have our Easter egg hunt in their backyard. You didn't quite get to Easter dinner, but I'm sure you did that as well. We always had ham and often a pineapple upside down cake. We don't hide much chocolate - it would all melt, even on Easter.

@audreyvann5336

2 жыл бұрын

Also, room temperature boiled eggs are much better. We have hens that lay brown eggs, so I got some white ones at the store to color with my kids on Saturday.

It's funny, because I remember my grandmother talking about the people who never came to church except on Easter Sunday! She said that they just wanted to show off their Easter outfits! I hadn't thought about that for years!

Grew up in Canada...we blew out the eggs to paint the shell case. Hunted for chocolate Easter eggs that The Bunny hid. We always also hada store basket each with Easter candy and a skipping rope or outdoor toy. Our Terry's Chocolate Orange was only at Christmas in our sock. Yes, on Palm Sunday we took home blessed Palms for the home. I thought Palms depended on you religion or specific church.

@debbiepreston7538

2 жыл бұрын

Mine was the same, but we got new outfits, I’m Canadian also

@fitzmatheson

2 жыл бұрын

In Canada we would blow and decorate eggs. Easter chocolate was huge. We got new outfits, gloves, hats, coats and shoes. Easter dinner was a big family event with grandparents, aunts uncles and cousins with a huge ham, Turkey, and leg of lamb with various veggies

Peeps were the marshmallow bunnies and chicks, 🐇🐥, my favorite as a child. Dying Easter eggs the evening before was so fun❣ Getting a kite to fly was great! Sometimes we would get a bottle of bubbles, or yo-yo. We would also get a new Easter dress, sometimes a spring dress coat and white gloves❣ My brother would get new dress pants, shirt and bow tie or a tie. These of course would be new church clothes.

In Canada, a few weeks before Easter, my mother would serve us scrambled eggs for many breakfasts, by poking a hole with a large needle in each end of the egg and then she would blow out the whites and yolk. The emptied eggs were washed and stored until we had enough to decorate with coloured dye tablets dissolved in vinegar. After Easter, we would take turns hiding them all around the yard for our siblings to find. Good memories!

I am 57 and as a child in Northern Ireland Easter Sunday was the day we were allowed to open the chocolate Easter eggs we had been given by friends and family. The new outfit for church didn’t come into play until Children’s Day which was usually in May. On Easter Monday we first went to collect whin flowers and added those to the boiling water along with white shelled eggs and then they turned a beautiful shade of yellow. If Easter was early and the whin not out we would have boiled our eggs in tea leaves instead. After that stage was completed then we set to decorating them and then finally as a family rolled them down a hill to see who could roll their egg the furthest while keeping it in tact. It has all changed somewhat now with Easter eggs hunts and Easter bunnies. Oh, and my mum always gave me a box of Lindt chocolate Easter chicks, what a treat!

Yes, Julie, In North-Eastern Ohio in the 60's & 70's, Palm Sunday brought palm fronds that were woven into crosses during the service/mass. New dresses, hats, gloves, and shoes for girls or suits and shoes for boys were de rigueur each year. Outdoor egg hunts were few and far between due to our cold climate, so the Easter Bunny was forced to hide our reuseable wicker baskets which we filled with "Easter" grass and left for the Bunny to fill. We received small toys, bubble soap, books, art supplies, whistles and such, in addition to foil-wrapped chocolate eggs, a large chocolate Easter Bunny (solid was better than hollow - ears always consumed first), Peeps, a dried sugar diorama egg with little scenes inside, and the hard boiled eggs which we had colored on Holy Saturday. Easter Mass was followed by a ham dinner and fixings/trimmings with Slovenian potica /nut roll and a coconut-covered cake in the form of a recumbent lamb. Thank you for sharing your individual traditions and your wonderful channel. Happy Eastertide!

I think that we, in New England (or at least on the farm in Vermont), may have stayed closer to English roots -- we absolutely hunted for small, foil-covered chocolate eggs and definitely decorated blown-out eggs rather than hard boiled.

@gnarbeljo8980

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I remember too (I lived in Boston, Connecticut and on LI as a child), not from a churchgoing family.

We got new shoes for Easter and inside the box was a small toy and a plastic egg filled with jelly beans. As adults my father would hide an egg filled with candy in the most impossible places to find. I remember one year it took one of my brothers almost the entire afternoon to find it. We still laugh and tell the story every year.

We always got new hats, dresses, purses, socks and shoes and gloves for Easter Sunday church. Egg hunts always included those marshmallow peeps in our baskets as well as a Terry's Easter egg (chocolate orange - for all occasions, gosh I love Terry's still have two in my freezer from xmas.......mmmmm) Happy Easter to all at Mapperton from Ontario Canada.......cheers!

I grew up in the time before plastic eggs. One year we dyed 12 dozen eggs! Yes! 144 eggs! Our dad taught us how to tell the difference between a raw egg and a hard boiled egg… a hard boiled egg spins and a raw egg doesn’t.

I think it is time for Julie to acknowledge her American traditions are her family traditions. I grew up in the northwest, and our holiday traditions are very different from what you experienced in Chicago. It truly is amazing we have an Easter bunny and religious Easter traditions, is very similar to Santa Claus and Christmas

LOL! As a Canadian (UK-lite), we celebrated Easter exactly the same way that Luke's family commemorated the season. We did however get new dresses (or suits for boys) and bonnets to wear to church.

We would get a new dress and shoes too. We would each get a basket filled with candy and small toys. Sometimes on the Saturday before Easter we would go to an Easter egg hunt which was the plastic eggs filled with mini chocolates. We would have Easter dinner with our relatives around 3pm. The game was to see who could make their Easter candy last the longest. We would color eggs but use those as part of dinner, then breakfast during the week.

Easter USA 1960s …. Friday night, after church, decorate dozens of hard boiled eggs with PAAS coloring ready for the Easter Bunny to hide. Saturday morning you grab your special basket and hunt, in the lawn, for colored eggs and a tall chocolate bunny. Then elaborate brunch to include deviled eggs. Yum. Sunday morning slip on your pastel Easter dress, Easter bonnet, white gloves, and off to church. Then Easter dinner at 3pm, spring lamb with mint jelly.

Hi from Pennsylvania. We hosted a young lady, from Ireland, over the Easter holiday. Easter 🐣 morning, I made her hunt for plastic Easter eggs. I put money in them, and in one of them, I put a gemstone ring. Another occasion, I had to dress up as the Easter bunny, because I was the only one who fit into the costume. I took a shot of liquor and put it on. I was hopping around while the kids were hunting for the eggs. One of the fathers squeezed my bottom. I turned around and slapped him. I’m not sure how many kids I scared for life. 😂 Remember to burn 🔥 your old palms. Don’t just throw them away - they are blessed. Wishing you a Happy Holy Easter!

I’m an American and we always got palms at church on Palm Sunday. Only a few people usually knew how to turn them into crosses. We also didn’t hunt for actual hard boiled eggs- we had the plastic eggs with candy inside. The hard boiled eggs were just for decoration and eating. But I agree that we believed they were hidden by the Easter Bunny and not the parents.

@bryan7938

2 жыл бұрын

Palm Sunday and Good Friday are my favourite. Very moving x from the UK

@gayleford8277

2 жыл бұрын

we always got palms for palm sunday too, made them into little crosses.

@karenkratzer7036

2 жыл бұрын

We hid our hard boiled eggs in the house as we lived in the city. Dad had to make sure how many we found and where they were hidden. I made the mistake of hiding plastic eggs the night before so the kids wouldn't see me when I had a house in the suburbs. Squirrels got a couple of eggs with the chocolate inside.

@FMKLatt

2 жыл бұрын

This exactly. Plastic eggs hidden. Marshmallow Peeps. Easter basket with a chocolate Easter bunny you bit on the ears first. Palms on Palm Sunday. We would color real Easter eggs on the Saturday and eat them over several days. Happy Easter to your family!

@katw41

2 жыл бұрын

@@karenkratzer7036 Yeah I can see why people would hide hard boiled eggs but I don't think my mom was that brave- God help you if one goes missing!

At school we made paper hats and had an Easter Parade. I always had a new dress and shoes, and maybe a hat and purse. My grandmother would send a sugar egg decorated with royal icing and a little diorama to peek at. My Gramma would help me dye the hard boiled eggs for the Easter egg hunt. I had the same basket every year with old shredded green crepe paper "grass". My Gramma would get out a special table decoration that was a branch painted and attached to a base; it was aqua and had blown out, painted and decorated eggs hanging from ribbons. It's a German tradition I think. I don't remember if the Easter egg hunt was before or after church. There was always a chocolate bunny to find, along with hard boiled eggs and foil wrapped chocolate ones. Easter dinner was ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, and Gramma's apricot pie for dessert. I didn't get toys or stuffed animals or plastic eggs. This was California in the 50-60's.

Comparing holiday traditions is such fun! Thanks for sharing and have a blessed Easter!🙏❤️

I grew up in Montreal, Canada and had a similar Easter experience as Luke's. Thank you for the nostalgic memories!

I grew up in Silver Spring, MD. We had a boutique gourmet ice cream and candy shop that had special mints shaped like chicks, maple sugar candies, and shop signature candy: soft "country" caramels. They were the delicacies of our baskets. Also, Cadbury eggs, mini chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies, malted milk eggs, jelly beans, and the decorated hard boiled eggs we made the night before. Our Easter hunt was not for eggs, but our entire basket. My mother was quite talented in hiding them. One year, it took me all day. It was in the laundry room under a shirt that was hanging among seasonal clothes. Another year, it was on top of a wall between floor joists in the basement. She was diabolical.

In New England, we blew out eggs and painted them. We had large chocolate bunnies, the Peeps (marshmallow chicks and bunnies), jelly beans, malted eggs, toys and gifts all on top of green paper grass in a lovely wicker basket. We also had a new Easter outfit that we wore to Easter Sunday church service. At church, we had an Easter egg hunt that included looking for colored hard cooked eggs, foil covered chocolate eggs and Cadbury eggs.

Growing up in Australia we had many British traditions as well as American traditions also. I remember my father would always mow the yard the week before Easter so that the grass had a week to dry out. My brother and I would then use the grass to line an old ice cream container so that we could leave it at the foot of our beds on Easter Saturday night for the Easter Bunny to fill during the night. It was always difficult to sleep for the excitement of waiting to see what he delivered. It would always be foil wrapped bunnies, a chicken and egg sized chocolates. We would then take said containers out to show Mum and Da and then they would give us a few more larger chocolate foil wrapped eggs and sometimes a sugar egg and a small soft toy. Lunch was always with my grandparents and they would bring more chocolate eggs and my grandmother would make a marshmallow rabbit family in pink for me and green for my brother. We would both then end the day in a sugar coma🐰🐥 Happy Easter ✝️

Yes to the new Easter dress & shoes! ...and the Easter Bunny hid our Easter Baskets (ours had pastel-colored paper grass) filled with chocolate eggs, a solid chocolate bunny, marshmallow PEEPS, hand-decorated eggs, small presents, and the plastic eggs had $$ in them!! I remember having the Easter Egg hunt happening on the lawn and gardens of our church. A happy, exciting time for kids 🍬🐰🐤

At Easter, I could hardly wait for the baked ham with pineapple sauce! 82 years later I still enjoy the same thing!!!!! Happy Easter to you both and your family. Cheers!

Our plastic Easter eggs would be filled with a 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100. There would be like one 100, two 50s and multiple eggs with the other dollar amounts, you could only pick up a certain amount of plastic eggs, and if you looked in the egg they would make you sit out for the rest of the Easter a egg hunt, you had to wait and see what you got after the egg hunt was over. During the hunt there would be hard boiled eggs too.

@e.urbach7780

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You got *money* in your Easter eggs?!?! Wow, we only got jelly beans or those small individually-wrapped chocolate candy eggs (we also got a Cadbury creme egg, but not inside another Easter egg) in ours.

@ellenbrown579

2 жыл бұрын

What?? We got coins, candy or toys. My parents gave us a twenty and lower bills to put in plastic eggs for our kids.. wondering how much the tooth fairy gave you?! Do they have tooth fairy in England???

@chancemathews7057

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I got like five dollars or less from the tooth fairy, the money eggs were for the whole family cousins family friends etc… it wasn’t just for me and my sis. Our aunts, uncles, grandparents, and family friends whos kids participated put in what they could afford, if they couldn’t afford anything they didn’t have to put money into it, their kids could still participate. Family members who had more money usually put in more money…. Also if a kid got super lucky and got a lot their parents would usually make them give some money to a family member who got the least amount of money.

I enjoy these videos so very much! Thanks for sharing them!

I love Luke's sense of humor - always a little sarcastic to Julie's American experiences. Plastic, everything always bigger in the US, a brand name always manages to make its way in American traditions, etc. I've recently discovered your channels and am enjoying this so much :)

Ohioan here. For our easter we actually also blew out the egg and painted them or hard boiled and dipped them. We had plastic eggs that you opened up starting palm Sunday that told the story of the crucifixion and resurrection. New easter dresses (when I was young) was a must! In addition we always had our easter baskets with a variety of things, candy, books, etc. We topped it off by having brunch followed by an easter egg hunt which consisted of different brightly colored plastic eggs that had money, chocolate, and other candy in them.

Julie's Easter sounds like a pretty typical American Easter. In my family we always used all the hard boiled eggs to make deviled eggs to eat with our Easter ham dinner. We always give our daughters a book to read in their Easter Baskets as they love reading. As a kid I always got a giant chocolate Easter bunny in my Easter basket that sounds similar to Luke's giant chocolate egg. Fun hearing all the different traditions.

I loved your sweater, Julie! Beautiful ❤️! We always had new dresses, too, as long as my parents could afford it. We went to church every week also. Our church would put in an Easter production. Yes, we loved decorating eggs, too and then, to hide them along with the plastic eggs filled with candies and coins and maybe, $1 or so. Easter dinners with relatives were huge with us! We'd also get toys and candy in our baskets. Great memories!

They’re called Peeps. They are amazing when toasted over a campfire! The outside sugar forms a crusty layer and the inside is ooey gooey. Yum! The stuff in your basket is grass. Sometimes made from crinkled paper and sometimes it was made of plastic.

I live in Australia. As a child our family did not go to church but our Easter celebrations started from Good Friday. We ate a special dinner on the Friday which always consisted of fish with vegetables on the side. Sunday we were sent to the backyard rabbit hutch where we found the foil covered eggs in the straw. I never questioned why a rabbit would deliver eggs???? My sister would make her stash last for months and it was sooo irritating to see them in the fridge after my were already eaten. As an adult and parent I began going to an Anglican Church where we receive the knotted palm frond on Palm Sunday and sometimes act out the triumphant entry into Jerusalem. For my children I never perpetuated the ‘bunny’ story. We went to church on Good Friday and resurrection Sunday. After church or sometimes before church we would give the children only a few chocolate eggs(I’m quite health conscious). We also painted blown out eggs, dyed eggs, made bonnets for a parade at school. My second husband is Swiss so he brought his own traditions to our family. We introduced a beautiful baked sponge type cake on the Friday moulded in the shape of a lamb. Our boys would delight in cutting off its head(gruesome I know) and then Sunday was hidden chocolate hunt or just presented after church. Now I am a grandparent and each of the families have their own version of festivities. Easter is as important to me as Christmas and I bought a new dress Julie to go to church this morning. I love you two. Your banter is so funny. 🙋‍♀️

I'm American who was born in 1970 and my mom was a seamstress. My mom made my sister and I a new dress every year plus many other dresses that she made, we got new shoes and a hat. We went to church and a few of the adults would hide the Easter eggs, some boiled and some plastic. After Sunday school we would go out and hunt the eggs. The plastic eggs would have candy or money in them. The plastic eggs were our prize eggs. We had Easter baskets with candy and a stuffed rabbit or chicken. When we got home my dad would have hidden the Easter eggs, my dad didn't go to church, we would eat dinner or lunch which ever you call it and then we would hunt our Easter eggs. I enjoy learning all the differences between the American culture and the British culture. I also learning the difference in words. I have a notebook that I write the way we say a word and beside it I put how you all say the word such as we say trunk where as you say boot. Absolutely love learning the British language and culture. My dream is to visit or even live in Britian.

New Easter dress and white patent leather Mary Jane shoes!

CONGRATULATIONS .. you have hit 100K!!! well done!

You both are so darn funny! Your Easter egg hunt discussion, including the egg salad put me into high gear laughter! However it goes for you, Happy Easter!! Just for you: 🌷🌷🐰🌷🌷

I absolutely love the way Julie and Luke compare UK to USA. The way they banter & cut up w/each other is delightful. Thank you for the the trip down memory lane & for the giggles. Hope the Montague family & everyone here has a great weekend and a wonderful Easter.🐰🥚🇬🇧🇺🇲

Being an American, I can relate to Julie’s traditions at Easter. Definitely had a blanket made out of wicker & the colored plastic hay inside it. Peeps marshmallow candy & chocolates 🍫 inside. Sometimes a small stuff animal & plastic eggs with more candy inside. My mom would get me a big chocolate bunny 🐰, which I ate the ears off first every year. We’d hide eggs around our house and my grandparents house so I had two Easter egg hunts 🐣 Afterwards we’d have a late lunch with ham, potatoes & other fixings. Found memories for sure 💜 Happy Easter to you all!

Love hearing the different easter traditions...i too have experienced two different easters throughout my life..in Australia and Italy..both very different but some things from Australia are a mixture of both Julies and Lukes.. thankyou for sharing 🐣 Happy easter to you both and everyone at Mapperton.

I live in Indiana U.S.A and we also blew the inside of the egg out! How interesting they also did that in England. The hard boiled dyed eggs were used for the hunt and of course the plastic ones filled filled with special treats. So much fun! Cant forget the Easter baskets! Loved listening to you both describe the differences between the two countries.

Easter for me growing up in the 70’s we had eggs that we blew the egg out of the middle and then we decorated them with felt tip pens. We then had soft scrambled egg on toast for breakfast. Afterwards our parents gave us a Cadbury’s egg filled with sweets or chocolate, then we would have roast lamb for Sunday lunch. We would get a chocolate orange from one set of grandparents with some money, and our other grandparents would buy us a giant chocolate egg which would be nestled in the top of a mug which would have something like a picture of a nursery rhyme on the front. To this day I still have a Jack and Jill mug which I keep at my parents house. Sadly my grandparents are no longer with us, but seeing that mug and eating roast dinner on Easter Sunday at my parents house brings back great memories.

As kids here in Canada 🇨🇦we would dye eggs the week before Easter. Some we would hard boil for eating others we would blow and dye. The blown eggs could be given as gifts and also saved for decorations from year to year. The Easter Bunny arrived early Sunday morning, if it was nice weather he would hide your candy eggs outside in your yard. If weather wasn’t nice he would hide the candy eggs in the house. We also left our Easter basket outside our bedroom door, in the morning we would see what treats or toys the Easter Bunny had left us. Usually a large chocolate rabbit or the special Laura Secord chocolate egg with your name on it. We also might have new skipping ropes, colouring books, chapter books, bubble wands…etc We then had brunch with many of our family. Family tradition and getting together was very important to my mom. Even though she was widowed and on her own. Christmas Eve dinner and Easter brunch at her house was always open to family. Usually 20-25 people…..very fond memories 🐣🐰

This was so fun to watch! I’m from Central Illinois in America and can so relate to Julie’s experience, though I did learn to blow out an egg in elementary school. When I was a bit older, my favorite candy was a Cadbury egg (an import from England???). I also wore an Easter hat (bonnet) on Easter Sunday and a new pair of white shoes or sandals with my new Easter dress. We had an old wives tale in my area that if it rained on Easter Sunday, then it would rain for another 7 more Sundays. Thanks for sharing the memories!

Last day of school…we had an Easter Bonnet parade. Good Friday,..was Hot Cross Buns…the local baker would deliver them…still warm and a sticky top. Good Friday was fish so as a treat we might have fish and chips. Sunday..we had chocolate eggs…later we did egg hunting in the garden …hidden eggs in the garden. Sunday dinner with family …roast lamb ..and followed by a Christmas pudding because mum always made two at Christmas…. Simnel cake for tea…

Happy Easter!! Julie, that was plastic tinsel in Spring colours that lined the Easter basket. We had that in Canada as well, but we also had the cross made from palm fronds and all Cadbury treats, as we are part of the Commonwealth. New dress, white gloves and shoes for church. Sorry Luke, Terry's chocolate orange was not a favourite in our house...but the large Cadbury egg was!

We always got a kite and/or bubbles and/or sidewalk chalk in our baskets. Something you could play with outside.

I love these videos, for Easter we have an Easter egg hunt first thing in the morning and then we have a big lunch usually a leg of lamb.

We in the United States, received little crosses made out of palm reeds at church on Palm Sunday. This was the Episcopalian Church, the US version of the Church of England.

Growing up in the South, a new Easter dress each year was a must! We also had Easter egg hunts where we hunted the eggs we decorated. Easter lunch was also important with ham, and other yummies. 😊

I grew up near Chicago and my Easter was like Julie's. My sister and I got a pretty new dress, shoes, and a hat with ribbon streamers. My brothers got dress shirts, ties, pants and shoes. We hunted for decorated, hard boiled eggs in the morning before going to church but I don't remember there being plastic eggs (I was born in 1952 so they might not have been invented yet). There were a lot of Easter Lillies decorating the church and it smelled very sweet. Our Easter baskets had jelly beans, foil wrapped chocolate eggs, some coins which always sunk to the bottom of the basket, and a large chocolate bunny. They were all nestled in Easter grass that could be green, pink or yellow. The marshmallow candies you are talking about, Julie, are called Peeps. Nowadays they come in every shape and color and are sold for more holidays than just Easter. They've become an icon and people even make art with them. Too funny!

Thank you Julie and Luke sharing your childhood memories of Easter! I remember receiving a "hollow chocolate easter bunny" in a Easter basket which was hid somewhere in the house on Easter Day. Always wore an "Easter bonnet" decorated with artificial flowers for church.

Delightful! I enjoy seeing my American culture through the eyes of a Brit! Having been born in the 40s, with a southern mother and a northern father whose parents came here from Europe, my traditions have a mixture of both of your traditions. Loved the solid chocolate bunnies in my Easter basket. (PS some of us did know how to blow out the contents of the egg before decorating them. That I learned from my southern mother.)

We used to have Easter baskets in Ohio with "grass" filling and hard boiled eggs we had decorated. We would also have plastic eggs with candy, marshmallow Peeps or money in them that was left by the Easter Bunny. Sometimes we got a stuffed animal bunny and we would watch "Peter Cottontail" on TV. There may also have been a Peanuts special with the Easter Beagle (Snoopy) if I remember correctly. We had a local candy company that made chocolate covered marshmallow eggs and those were awseom too! We went to church and we also got new dresses for the occasion or my Mom would make something new for us because she could sew. For dinner we had ham. For my kids we would have an egg hunt in the yard with a golden egg. Whoever found it would win the prize which was usually more candy, a video or a gift card as my kids got older. Kids don't get new outfits for church any more for some reason, but we still have ham for Easter dinner.

As Catholics on Palm Sunday, we would get palms which the kids would weave into crosses. Our kids looked every year for the big chocolate bunny so they could eat the ears off. That’s about they ate. I grew up with an English mom and an American dad, so some crossed traditions. Happy Easter or Frohe Oster! (We’re living in Deutschland currently). Watching Here comes Peter cottontail on tv was an annual tradition with our kids. Oh and yes new Easter outfits! And bonnets.

In Canada we have a blend of both England and the US when it comes to Easter. In my family we got an Easter basket with a chocolate bunny and a stuffed animal and Easter candy. We would take that basket and have an Easter egg hunt with hidden chocolate/candy eggs and those marshmallow chicks. We would have some of those plastic eggs but they would be filled with jelly beans not toys. We would also have prize candies that you hoped to get but your older siblings usually got them. My sister was 7 years older so the egg hunt resulted in alot of tears on my end and my sister would be forced to give me some of her candy. Our grandparents would always give us those massive chocolate eggs that came in fancy wrapping. The Easter bunny was definitely the one hiding the eggs and giving the gifts. We would also blow out raw eggs and paint them leading up to Easter and hang them in our windows every year. We would have an early Easter dinner with family, some grandparents would go to church in the morning but we never did (I was raised in the 90s for context). We would still get dressed up nice for dinner with family. That's usually when we got big Easter eggs from our grandparents.

Easter in the US was a commencement of season change ushered in via religion and later on consumerism (toys). Palm Sunday was just as important to receive your palm and keep it until next year when you got a new one. As an American growing up in the late 60’s, early 70’s I remember the white plastic whiffle ball and yellow plastic bat set being sold at Easter time, the rubber ball attached to the wooden paddle, the sponge rubber balls for hand ball, yo-yo’s, lemon twister that went around your ankle and you hop skipped around it,hula hoops, giant plastic straw with powder candy in it, candy beaded necklaces, pogo sticks, chalk for sidewalk hop scotch, jumping rope, all signs Spring had arrived in the US and it was time to come out and play again. You always got new crayola crayons with an Easter coloring book, those small golden reading books, a top spinner, jax and a ball. Easter stuffed animal and chocolate Easter bunny, costume jewelry. Also, like everyone on here, Easter dress, coat, white gloves, new white stockings for under your dress, easter hat and white patent leather shoes and a small straw pocketbook or white one. Really enjoyed watching this episode! Thank you Julie and Luke you guys are a hoot!!

Chocolate eggs covered in colorful foil. Hot cross buns and scrambled eggs for brunch. Leg of lamb and asparagus for Easter evening dinner. Wow, the memories! We dyed the hardboiled eggs with a special dye and then they were hidden in the house... had to get the exact count to avoid finding one weeks or months later!

Happy Easter to everyone at Mapperton !

Our Easter traditions in the US, of course church and egg hunts. Since my children were young and now with our 10 grandchildren everyone gets together to color and decorate eggs. We also have an Easter egg hunt with the plastic eggs filled with money and candy. Our kids always got an Easter basket full of goodies and now they do the same foe their children.

In my childhood in Chicago, Palm Sunday we would get palm leaves from church. We too made a huge deal about getting our Easter dresses, which usually came with a matching Easter coat and we'd get Easter bonnets too! The dresses and bonnets weren't really a thing once we became teenagers. We always wore our new Easter outfits to church! My entire childhood and even into my teens I would get an Easter basket, which was filled during the night by the Easter Bunny! Our baskets usually had the same types of candy, including "Peeps," Fannie May chocolate cream eggs, jelly beans and usually a chocolate bunny and colored hardboiled Easter eggs. Also, there would be some sort of small toy, a stuffed bunny maybe. Something that would fit into the basket. And dinner would usually be with extended family and would include ham and lots of side dishes . My mother used to make a lamb cake every year too! I moved from Chicago to Ireland 5 1/2 years ago and the Irish do the huge chocolate eggs too! As a parent, I really like the exchange of eggs because it's so much easier than filling an Easter basket! As for brands, Cadbury seems to the be main brand here. Happy Easter! ✝️ 🐰 🐣

Our growing up sounds virtually identical to Julie’s. The Easter Bunny came at night (like Santa) and in the morning, we would run out of our rooms and straight to our Easter baskets, which were filled with green plastic grass, a large chocolate bunny, some other candy, small toys and plastic eggs also filled with candy (EB likes sugar). We would have an Easter egg hunt, my older brother would try to find all the eggs and leave me virtually none, but we were happy and yes, in our new clothes. We did pretty much the same for our own kids, but less candy, maybe a book, Barbie, Polly Pocket or other small doll for our daughter’s basket and Pokémon cards or something related to sports for our son’s. Our kids searched for eggs filled with candy, coins and small bills. Hubs and I would count the eggs before we hid them so we knew how many there were to find and none would be left behind. When the kids were very young we would slyly suggest to look here or there but as they got older and they knew we were the EB (shhh), it became just fun. We would say, “There’s two more out there!” and they would keep looking. Both generations always dyed eggs a day or two before and we always had family gatherings on Easter Sunday with ham and side dishes. Daughter is almost 25 now and still gets a basket because she still lives at home. She just gets better stuff in it! Also, we were more cultural Christians back then, now we are followers of Christ so Easter is much more meaningful. Church is a must for us both Good Friday evening and Easter Sunday morning. ❤️

American here. We always get a miniature palm cross at church on Palm Sunday. I was raised Episcopalian which is basically the Anglican church in America. I think the traditions really depend on the denomination. The children also bring their garden flowers to church for the purpose of "flowering the cross." The children bring their flowers up to the front of the church where a wooden cross with holes all over it has been placed. The flowers are then put into the holes and the cross becomes filled with flowers. As an adult it always makes me cry to see it -

I love Easter! All those eggs and the hunt too! We had peek-a-boo eggs made by one candy company (See’s). Oh the dresses and shoes and gloves too! I got a palm leaf (not the cross ❤️). What a lovely episode (and thank you for my picture)

On Easter morning we would have to hunt around for our baskets, which would contain only Easter candy and maybe a flowered headband (or a tie, for my brother) to go with our Easter outfits. The decorated hard- boiled eggs were safely kept in the refrigerator until use.

The plastic Easter grass that lined the baskets. My poor mom would be vacuuming that up for days after Easter. Easter blessings to you all.

This was great and not near long enough. I love you both! Hooray for the Easter bunny!