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Remember the “Great Pumpkin?”
Cartoon-strip characters in Charles Schulz’s long-running (70 years!) Peanuts celebrated Hallowe’en in a singular way: a visit to children by “The Great Pumpkin.” See below links for more on the strip and on the “Great Pumpkin.”
Besides “cute” and humorous situations for the hapless Charlie Brown and friends, it seemed to me a slightly cynical take on American Thanksgiving and Santa Clause Christmas. Especially loveable was the recurring story line of the “Easter Beagle,” a.k.a. Snoopy (Charlie Brown’s pet beagle). See below link for more on the Easter Beagle.
How is this a chicken-and-egg story? Funny you should ask.
Pity Snoopy and Charlie Brown the dilemma of an Easter egg hunt in 2025. Eggs are in very short supply in the U.S. these days. As I understand it, millions of laying hens have been destroyed because of bird flu. Aside from the cost of the epidemic to egg farmers, the cost of eggs (as much as $8 per dozen) means they are out of reach for such frivolousness as traditionally crafted at Easter time. See below link to a news story on bird flu.
What to do. What to do.
Well, trust American ingenuity and resilience once more. Easter potatoes! Potatoes come in smallish sizes, right? They’re somewhat egg-shaped, right? They’re good for you. Why not decorate potatoes? Heck, why not train Snoopy to dig them up – that’s win-win. Link below to a news story on Easter potatoes.
Happy Easter everyone – if that’s your thing.
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Link to Wikipedia article on Peanuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts
Link to Wikipedia on the “Great Pumpkin”:
Link to Wikipedia on the “Easter Beagle”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_Easter_Beagle,_Charlie_Brown
Link to news item on so-called bird flue (H5N1) : https://tinyurl.com/42nj5hfu
Link to news story on “Easter potatoes” (for real!): https://tinyurl.com/4kk5zetm
