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the last three or four days before the beginning of Lent. The
old names for these days were:    1. Egg Saturday - Shrove
Saturday    2. Quinquagesima Sunday - Shrove Sunday     The
fiftieth day before Easter    3. Collop Monday - Shrove Monday
Named after the traditional dish of the day: collops of bacon
served with eggs. (A collop is chunk or slice of meat or fat)
In addition to providing meat, the collops were also the source
of the fat for the following day's pancakes.    4. Pancake Day -
Shrove Tuesday     The