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Shrove Tuesday

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  • Pancake Day - love them

    Votes: 8 66.7%

  • Bancake Day - hideous floppy bits of fried chicken period

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • always pancake day, I'm American ;)

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • I don't belittle religious holidays with commercial frivolity

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Total voters
    12
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As a pious bunch, I'm sure we're all emptying our cupboards in time for Lent and producing pancakes out of the culinary detritus.

So, how many of you are partaking in this pre-religious festival extravaganza?
 
I went to my local Chinese at lunchtime and put an even tastier edge on proceedings with crispy duck pancakes! ^_^
 
^ WIN

We`re having them after dinner tonight, to be honest I might just boycott dinner all together tonight. The lemon juice is ready for tonight's taste buds explosion.
 
Because I'm a bit wrong, I just went to the American sweet shop and bought American pancake mix, because pancakes are delicious in any way, shape or form but there's are BETTER. If ever I'm in America I make sure I have their pancakes for breakfast every day because I love them so much. And IHOP <3 Omg I wish those existed over here <//3 Makes me sad.

Anyway, PANCAAAAAAAAAKES!
 
Pancake day?

That's crêped up on us this year!

Hurrr.

Anyway, I'm going to have pancakes on any other other day because I'm an athiest. Take that, Jesus.
 
Oooohhhh, yes please! More bland, fried batter that I could eat on any other day if I wanted to, which I don't, over here please!

Though it does always remind me of Maid Marian and her Merry Men, which is a good thing.

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I have pancakes all the time, not just on designated days :p

Today is actually considered Paczi day today. I've seen signs for pancake day, but we focus more on paczi which are incredibly fattening pastries with delicious filling. <3
 
I usually use it as an excuse to have American pancakes.

**** British pancakes.

Gotta be crepes, or proper fat american pancakes. Mmmm.

Not the British ****.

Lemon? **** off.

EDIT: What DO pancakes have to do with Jesus, anyway?

Oooh Lent starts tomorrow. So... What, pancakes are supposed to be an epic treat?

Wtf? Why not something epic?
 
^Surely you know the answer to that Joey....

It's basically the beginning of Lent, the fasting period until Easter to symbolise when Jesus wandered in the desert without food or water for 40 days and 40 nights.

Pancakes happen because you're meant to get rid/use up all the perishables in your house, historically this was eggs, milk and flour. Mix together and fry, voila, le pancake.

It's not meant to be ooh a delicious treat to celebrate Jesus XD
 
American pancakes are ok, smothered in maple syrup, but I prefer the British variety. Thin and crisp at the edges, drenched in lemon and a little sugar. I make American style sometimes (we call them drop scones)
 
What the **** is pancake day?
It's Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras or Faschings Dienstag or Carnival, which is all about getting :xcensoredx:ed up & not about eating :xcensoredx:ing pancakes. :roll:

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^ This was my logic with pancake day... A Catholic style "do whatever the **** you want then say sorry" by having a sweet treat before abstaining from it... I wasn't saying it was to celebrate Jesus, not that it's any less retarded.

If it was about using up perishables in a time when people gave a **** about lent, then surely you'd just not buy so many **** eggs when lent was upcoming? Then I was like, hang on, you cant not eat for 40 **** days anyway. What is the traditional way in which Christians fast? Because I was under the impression it was just giving up a luxury, not giving up eating entirely. Is it the same as when Muslims fast? *wikis*

...Abstaining from milk and meat. Oh well that explains the eggs and milk after all. But I still think my logic is more relevant to today's society, hence the way it's observed in the US.

That's not really fasting, though... Abstaining from milk, eggs or some other specific. Christianity is so half arsed.
 
It used to be don't eat all day then you have one big meal in the evening with your family, but now it's like 'lol, I'm going to give up sex!'

I agree that it's stupid. But, pancakes =]
 
I don't know if it's correct, but I thought that lent was originally a fast (like Jordan says, you eat together in the evening but go without food all day) similar to the Islamic fast at Ede. Now people just seem to use it as an excuse to give up chocolate!

One of my friends lived in the US for a year and realised no one there celebrated Shrove Tuesday with pancakes - once her friends tasted them though, she was hauled around from house to house cooking batches for everyone to try :D
 
East Coast(er) General said:
What the **** is pancake day?
It's Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras or Faschings Dienstag or Carnival, which is all about getting :xcensoredx:ed up & not about eating :xcensoredx:ing pancakes. :roll:
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I meant to make it clearer in my original post, but got distracted. It's not celebrated in the US, hence the "every day is pancake day" option for the Americans :)

nadroJ said:
^Surely you know the answer to that Joey....

It's basically the beginning of Lent, the fasting period until Easter to symbolise when Jesus wandered in the desert without food or water for 40 days and 40 nights.

Pancakes happen because you're meant to get rid/use up all the perishables in your house, historically this was eggs, milk and flour. Mix together and fry, voila, le pancake.

It's not meant to be ooh a delicious treat to celebrate Jesus XD
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I think it's actually a very late tradition. Chickens (and eggs) weren't used as food items for a long time, I think we're talking early/mid medieval times but I can't be arsed doing too much research as it's all a load of cobblers anyway.

Medieval and subsequent Tudor, Stuart, etc upper classes had exceptionally extravagant diets. The idea of eating vegetables, plain fish, etc was akin to fasting for them. Obviously in the days before Asda, buying and using food stuffs wasn't quite the same as it is nowadays ;)
 
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