OVER THE YEARS, chocolate has become integrally linked with Easter. Which is a little surprising, as the patron saint of chocolate makers is St Nicholas, AKA the big guy in a red suit with an aversion to driving a delivery van like every other courier.
I suppose that’s how Easter got its mascot in the Easter Bunny, based on a judgemental Lutheran Easter hare who has compiled the ‘naughty or nice’ list for German kids since the 17th century.
Easter eggs are a eggs, though, first in 19th-century France and Germany, once chocolate went from being drunk to eaten.
