Bunnies and Easter Eggs?

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*Somewhere roomy, tables have been laid out stacked with hard-boiled eggs, paints, vinegar dyes, glitter--all the normal egg painting odds and ends, plus some glue, lawn debris and tiny camo nets for those truly in the holiday spirit

Comments

[bluetilator]

What is the meaning of the eggs?

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There's a tradition here. People paint them and give them to children.

[bluetilator]

It sounds both strange and pointless. Do the eggs do anything?

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You can eat them.

[bluetilator]

Then why should I paint them? Does that make them more crunchy?

[screwfate]

Most people remove the shell.

[bluetilator]

Humans paint the shells covering the stillborn offspring of their fowl enemies, and give them to their own children who remove their shells before the ritual eating. How interesting.

[screwfate]

...Something like that.

*had not thought of it just that way*

I do not think most humans think of livestock as their enemies, though.

[bluetilator]

They think livestock are not fit to be their enemies, instead to be slaughtered at will? Yes, that makes sense to me.

[screwfate]

*not shocked by that, somehow*

...

*offers her a painted egg*

[bluetilator]

*takes*

*eats*

Tastes like chemicals.

[screwfate]

Does it?

[bluetilator]

Yes. The shell is not as crunchy as the shell of a robot cow.

[screwfate]

It would not be.