“Collop Monday: pancake Tuesday: fruttis Wednesday, an hey for Thursday afternooin.”
‘Provincial Words in use at Wakefield’, collected by William Stott Banks, 1865.
‘COLLOP MONDAY, day before Shrove Tuesday.’, wrote W. S. Banks in 1865, ‘Children had a custom, and in some places have yet, of giving their School teacher bacon collops and eggs on this day. People thought no luck would attend them all the year if they did not dine on bacon collops this day.’