The ham part actually comes from flipping off the Jews! True story. The tradition of eating lamb around this time of year comes form the Paschal sacrifice at Passover (lamb was traditionally eaten at the Seder, but we don't sacrifice animals to our God anymore so now we just have a shankbone on the Seder plate due to the shortage of ritually killed lambs) and Christians retained it. Before Jews stopped sacrificing lambs but after Christianity was getting pretty well-established, there was a goyishe king (whose name I would have to look up) who started the custom of eating ham in order to differentiate his followers from the Jews (who obviously could not eat pork products). The tradition is retained to this day.

Of course, my dad likes to make ham for Easter, which I always ate with great relish, but then no one's ever accused me of being a good Jew.

P.S. My aunt came by today with Easter baskets for Emma and me and a whole bunch of goodies, including lunch, which she cooked for us because "of course you're too busy to cook with exams coming up" and some baked goods that we get to dive into tomorrow night when Passover's over. Woo! Easter rocks!