Egg rolling

04.04.2010 …

Par M. Mirza

Egg rolling, or an Easter egg roll

is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. The versions of this game vary from one country to another, and they are traditionnally played with hard-boiled decorated eggs.

Here's a photo of the White House Egg Rolling...

... in 1929 ! (1)

Click on the White^^ House in the background :

you'll get more details on the egg roll tradition.

By the way, an "egg roll" or a "pancake roll" is the Americans name of a "spring roll" : it is "a savoury Chinese pancake which is rolled up, filled with small pieces of vegetables and sometimes meat and fried" (from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online )

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(1) Picture from the Public Domain

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