How do you like your eggs?

I like mine red

Although many people use different colours to decorate eggs, the traditional colour is red. Armenian Orthodox still dye theirs the old way, by boiling them with red onion skins and vinegar. Most Greeks buy their dye from the supermarket. I got mine from a dodgy Russian shop in town.
After Resurrection Mass, people go home and eat Magiritsa (an egg lemon soup with lamb offal and lettuce, not for me), tsoureki (a fragrant bread) and eggs. Before the eggs are eaten, there is the traditional challenge of 'tsougrisma'. After choosing a winner, you hold the egg and tap it on your opponent's, saying 'Christos Anesti' (Christ is risen). Then, you turn it round to the other side and your opponent taps your egg this time, saying 'Alithos Anesti (He truly is risen). The one left with the unscathed egg wins!
On Easter Sunday, almost everybody has lamb (apart from those who have high cholesterol levels, they have goat usually). The lamb is either roasted on a spit, the neighbourhood bakery oven, or at home. Mine was cooked in the kitchen and was not whole. I wasn't tempted to spit roast an entire lamb on the balcony.
We also had tzatziki, salad, spanakopita (spinach pie) and cheese. I made a pan of chips cooked in olive oil too (this is because I am a Philistine) and it was all rather lovely. Fur has also eaten some almond halvas (a honey and sesame sweet). Foolhardy after so much food, in my opinion. I just hope it doesn't make him feel sick, but it's Easter afterall and another excuse to eat until stuffed.
Ah well, Christos Anesti and until next year.