COVID Will Not Win!!! Annual OT Pocking Eggs Thread

My youth was spent as a sheltered, semi-redneck on the Northshore. I had never heard of “pocking” or “knocking” eggs until I read about it here on the OT many years ago.

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In order to "knock eggs" two people will agree to knock, then one will hold a boiled egg with the small end up while the other taps on it with the small en d of his egg. One egg will crack. The person whose egg has cracked will then have to forfeit his egg to the winner. This custom is carried out in several Cajun communities throughout South Louisiana. In some areas the practice is referred to as "Pacques Pacques", which simply means "Easter Easter" in French, but is also a play on words because the sound of an egg tapping on another egg makes a sound like "poc".

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I kept waiting for someone to start a thread like they’ve done going way back but no threads appear. I felt like an outsider and didn’t want to be a cultural appropriator but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Tomorrow is Easter and COVID-19 has turned a lot of things upside down. I don’t want this OT tradition to die. I never did this as a kid; did you? Are eggs too precious to be decorated and knocked this year? I always thought that it was interesting because it was so normal to many posters here but foreign to me.

Enjoy your Easter!