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Richard: For this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're talking about Easter egg customs.

Jackie: Yes, and the first Easter egg custom has to be the giving of chocolate eggs. Now, Richard, as a child you got chocolate eggs, didn't you?

Richard: Oh, definitely. Normally in a big box and often they contained sweeties inside, the... the chocolate egg.

Jackie: Chocolate buttons.

Richard: Chocolate buttons or...

Jackie: ...sometimes there are even smaller, little chocolate eggs as well. Those are fun.

Richard: ...or smarties. Things like that.

Jackie: And what many people in the UK look forward to between Christmas and Easter is the sale of Cadbury's creme eggs.

Richard: [laughs] Very, very, sweet.

Jackie: But fantastic, lovely chocolate on the outside with white and yellow inside so it looks just like an egg when you open it.

Richard: Mmm, very sweet.

Jackie: Mmm, very nice. Um... it's not just chocolate eggs though, Richard. Normal eggs, chickens' eggs, hard-boiled eggs er... are very popular. Especially um... egg decorating and painting of eggs.

Richard: Yes, they often have competitions, don't they, for children to decorate their eggs.

Jackie: Mmm, I remember um... decorating an egg as a child and making them lots of different colours. My father painted um... eggs before we cooked them so when we had them in the morning we'd have little faces or... or things on the eggs and that was always fun.

Richard: And afterwards, after the decorating, then, egg rolling.

Jackie: What do you mean by egg rolling?

Richard: Well, in a village somewhere in England, you have a hill maybe and you get to the top of the hill, roll your eggs down and the first egg to the bottom wins a prize. Very simple but it's been going on for hundreds of years. Usually... usually on Easter Monday, I think.

Jackie: Okay. So they can be... they can be the decorated eggs but they can also be the chocolate eggs as well?

Richard: Normally the hard-boiled eggs that have been decorated.

Jackie: And the other thing um... to do with Easter eggs, Richard, as well, is Easter egg hunting.

Richard: Yes, my parents used to hide a number of Easter eggs around the house and the garden and then the children had to go out and find them.

Jackie: Always very exciting finding an egg hidden under a bush somewhere.

Richard: [laughs] And then eating it if it's a chocolate one. So there's four things we do with Easter eggs but I'm afraid the best thing has got to be eating the chocolate ones.