In the North of England, at Eastertime, this traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other player's egg with their own. This is known as "egg tapping",
"egg dumping" or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last
intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. The annual egg jarping
world championship is held every year over Easter in Peterlee Cricket
Club. It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, and other
countries. They call it tucanje. In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken. In parts of Europe it is also called epper, presumably from the German name Opfer, meaning "offering" and in Greece it is known as tsougrisma. In South Louisiana this practice is called Pocking Eggs and is slightly different. The Louisiana Creoles hold that the winner eats the eggs of the losers in each round.
In the video, the eggs are also dyed a second time in food coloring
in order to add complex colors to the surface of the pace-eggs.
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