Collop Monday : 20 February

Collop Monday is the two days before Ash Wednesday. Slices of meat are used up, usually along with eggs for breakfast, before Lent begins

Also known as Rose Monday, Shrove Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday. Hall is shortened version of "nallow", meaning "holy."

In Cornwall, England, it is called "Peasen Monday." Pea Soup is served instead.
Collop comes from a Norse word, meaning a "slice of meat".

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