Easter egg

The idea was invented in a northeastern Scottish takeaway as a sequel to the extremely popular deep-fried Mars Bar. Club Med operates resorts in the U.S., Mexico, The Caribbean, South America, Europe, Southern Asia and Australia. Deep-fried chocolate Easter eggs are sold around Easter time in Scottish fish and chips shops. It was started in 1950 by former Belgian water polo champion, Gérard Blitz. When boiling hard-cooked eggs for Easter, a nice tan colour can be achieved by boiling the eggs with onion skin. The unique feature of Club Med is that the GOs and GMs play, dine, drink, and dance together every day and night. This may also be a contest to see who can collect the most eggs. The resort is known internally as The Village.

An Easter egg hunt is a common festive activity, where eggs are hidden outdoors (or indoors if in bad weather) for children to run around and find. Members are referred to as 'GMs', or gentils membres. The most well-known egg roll is done at the White House. Club Med staff are called 'GOs', or gentils organisateurs. In the U.S., such an Easter egg roll (unrelated to an eggroll) is often done on flat ground, pushed along with a spoon. (The "American Zone" of villages is now all inclusive for alcohol and snacks.). A tradition exists in some parts of Britain of rolling painted eggs down steep hills on Easter Sunday. However, certain items such as alcoholic beverages require the use of beads or tickets as a form of payment.

There are many other decoration techniques and numerous traditions of giving them as a token of friendship, love or good wishes. This includes lodging, food, use of facilities, sports activities, games, and shows. A 27-foot (9 m) sculpture of a pisanka stands in Vegreville, Alberta. Each resort provides an extensive list of services and activities all in one single package. The celebrated Fabergé workshops created exquisite jewelled Easter eggs for the Russian Imperial Court. Club Med (short for Club Méditerranée) is a French corporation of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world, usually in highly exotic locations. A batik-like decorating process known as pisanka produces intricate, brilliantly-colored eggs.

Easter eggs are a widely popular symbol of new life in Poland and other Slavic countries' folk traditions. One would have been forced to hard boil the eggs that the chickens produced so as not to waste food, and for this reason the Spanish dish hornazo (traditionally eaten on and around Easter) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient. Likewise, in Eastern Christianity, both meat and dairy were prohibited during the fast, and eggs were seen as "dairy" (a foodstuff that could be taken from an animal without shedding its blood). In the West, eggs were seen as "meat", which would have been forbidden during Lent.

Easter egg origin stories abound — one has an emperor claiming that the Resurrection was as likely as eggs turning red (see Mary Magdalene); more prosaically the Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lent. The Jewish tradition may have come from earlier Roman Spring feasts. The Passover Seder service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new life and the Temple service in Jerusalem.
Decorated eggs are much older than Easter, and both eggs and rabbits are age-old fertility symbols.

These are often hidden, supposedly by the Easter Bunny, for children to find on Easter morning. The ubiquitous jelly egg or jellybean is made from sugar-coated pectin candy. Some are delicately constructed of spun sugar and pastry decoration techniques. Candy Easter eggs can be any form of confectionery such as hollow chocolate eggs wrapped in brightly-colored foil.

The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute eggs made from chocolate, or plastic eggs filled with candy such as jellybeans. Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday.