On the Monday before Shrove Tuesday northern households dined on collops and eggs. Brockett said the older way was to serve the eggs on slices, or collops, of fried bread, but by his day bacon had taken the bread’s place.
Collops on fried bread
48 days before Easter · Northern England
No longer kept
the day before Shrove Tuesday, on which it is usual to have collops and eggs for dinner. The primitive custom was to regale with eggs on slices or collops of fried bread, which is now exchanged for bacon.
From Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, p. 77. Read the original
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