Many celebrate today with rolled thin pancakes topped with caster sugar(powdered) a dash of lemon juice and a dollop of jelly or jam
Five Food Facts about Shrove Tuesday
1. Throughout Europe most people celebrate Shrove Tuesday with pancakes
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2. Pancakes are associated with the day before lent because it was a way to use up “rich foods” such as eggs, milk, & sugar, before the 40 days fast begins
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3. The word ‘shrove’ refers to an old English word shrive meaning ‘confess’
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4. Most people call today Mardi Gras, which in French means Fat Tuesday. Marking seven weeks before Easter Day.
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5. In Iceland they celebrate today with salted meats, fish, and peas. Known as Sprengidagur (Bursting Day)
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There’s no Pancake Tuesday in my country, Indonesia. It sounds good. It is simple and easy to make pancake, but its taste is so yummy…. I’m glad and honored you follow my blog. Thank you.
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your blog and all the comments about the pancake are awesome.
I like reading it.
Have you ever been to my country, Indonesia? We have a lot of food, including pancake too.
You should come here to our country and make a blog about its food 🙂
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Pancakes always win in my book ^_^
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(Fasching / Karneval is the whole festival period leading up to Shrove Tuesday)
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In Germany and Austria, there are Pfannkuchen for Fasching / Karneval. But although that means “pan cakes” literally, the Pfannkuchen are actually jelly doughnuts! Also known as “Krapfen” or “Berliner.”
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Pfannkuchen
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Love the name – Foodimentary! So glad I found your blog and also that you visited mine!
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I just love the way food and history interleave with each other. And luckily I have a wonderful gluten-free pancake recipe. I know it’s already Lent, so theoretically I should be giving something up, but since I gave up gluten in December I kind of feel like I gave at the office. Bring on the pancakes!
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Thanks for following my blog….your blog is awesome. It’s making me hungry 🙂
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It is called Maslenitsa in Russian. You are supposed to have fun, eat pancakes and ride a horse sled. Sounds like fun 🙂
http://int.rgo.ru/news/maslenitsa-pancake-week-from-beginning-to-end/
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YUMMY pancake day~ love it!
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I don’t know why, but I always eat the middle of the pancake first. The “crusts”, what there are not crusts, edges then, I savor or sometimes just abandon. Best I ever had was at The Egg & I in Estes Park, CO. It was called something like the flip flop flap jack. Nice post!
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I never heard of Pancake Tuesday until I moved to Northern Ireland. Being from Germany that was totally new to me. However, in my region people are not very religious, so that might be a reason.
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I will be expanding my blog very soon. I say, celebrate food every day. I think of these “days” are a great way to allow yourself one day a year to give in.
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I LOVE your blog but I’m drooling. Please tell me you have a healthy eating section because I would love to follow your blog. I am on a strict healthy eating plan for the past three months and just looking at your posts make me covet things I haven’t even thought about in months. Unless you want me to write a guest column??? Thanks for reading my blog, I will be writing a post about healthy eating shortly but I admit……I miss pancakes and other things too. Yum. Laurie @ hibernationnow
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OK, it’s American pancakes for Saturday breakfast. But mine are vegan and delish!
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had no idea a day had that many names! 🙂
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A friend at the gym told me she was going to serve pancakes at church and now I know why. Thanks for “enlightening” me about the pancake thing. You learn something new everyday blogging!
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I love pancake day and celebrate with thin rolled pancakes with freshly squeezed orange and plenty of sugar 🙂
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Ahh….pancakes. Quite interesting that there’s a lot of types of pancakes exist out there. But nothing beats the classic I guess.
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AMEM Kim
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Pancake day sounds like my kind of day! I could go for some of those delicious vanilla ones from Robouchons book…
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Pancakes were my families regular Sunday morning breakfast… I could eat many… many pancakes. That’s quite a delicious photo.
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We (swedes) celebrate Fettisdag, which as the french call it, translantes to Fat tuseday. We don’t eat pancakes, we eat something called Semla, which is a wheat and cardamum-bun, filled with either jam, or a sweet almondpaste topped with whipped cream!
http://katarinacarlsson.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/dsc_1006.jpg Don’t they look amazing?!
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Reblogged this on Colby is Mega and commented:
LoL! 😀
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I celebrated pancake day yesterday for the first time. DELICIOUS! One of the best days of the year.
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Reblogged this on Mark Cowell and commented:
As a youngster I was baptised at various stages by three different Christian Churches (I assume now the the new one crosses out the old one, but as a child I just assumed I was a member of three clubs whose members were mostly horrible singers). The one thing that made being a Catholic and going to a Catholic school for a brief period bearable was Shrove Tuesday, though as an adult I’d completely forgotten about it un til I saw this post. Can all of us lapsed church goers pretend that today is Shrove Thursday instead?
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thanks! I can’t believe it myself. I’m so happy
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Funny…I was just reading this post today and didn’t know it was freshly pressed till just now.. Congratulations!
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What a beautiful stack of pancakes!! I can easily eat those for dinner and will do so through Lent on Fridays!! Great post!!
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Here in Naples it’s more like lasagna followed by fried dough strips (Chiacchiere\frappe) but now you’ve convinced me to try pancakes (and pretend we’re in Milan where the last day before lent falls official on Saturday). maybe with nutella?
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Reblogged this on Kiara Lane.
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My flatmate and I ate about a million pancakes for dinner for Pancake Day! Nutella and Sugar were hands down the best toppings 🙂 Best dinner I’ve had in a while I reckon!
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It’s only significance to me is that sometimes it’s reported in the news. Other than that I would not have a clue when it is. It’s a millions years since I last went to a church and like good friday it’s just another day when I’ll have cereal for brekky and meat for dinner LOL
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Congrats on making freshly pressed. PANCAKES FOR ALL!!! Please follow my blog ThisTrailerSucks.Com , THANKS!
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Hee, pancakes! This is an amazing little tidbit. I must confess, my idea of pancakes includes a powdered box mix…
Maybe I should try to make pancakes from scratch! That would be an adventure, I’m sure.
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Congrats on being Freshly Pressed! Love your blogs! 🙂
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I love your blog, ideas, and especially pancakes! they are my favorite….Cornmeal with crumbled bacon and real maple syrup. whole wheat with raspberries and dark chocolate, or pumpkin spice with homemade applesauce. Also for a great healthy orange waffle recipe come visit me @inkspiring19.com.
I am definitely following your blog from now on.
By the way, in answer to what holiday would we make up and what food would we celebrate with: For me it would be “Melting Pot Day” having everyone bring a dish of their own heritage to celebrate our diversity, and how well we can blend our own spice and flavors together…my dish would be Kale soup since I’m Portuguese.
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In Michigan we eat Paczki too! There’s a large Polish population in one of the towns outside of Detroit. Love them!
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Every day should be Pancake Day.
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I work for a newspaper and all these area churches send us information advertising their Shrove Tuesday pancake suppers. Thanks for shedding a little light on the connection between the pancakes and the “holiday.”
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LOL
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looks delishes we were discussing this holiday in french recently.
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If I can’t get fried donuts, pancakes will do.
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Yum. Either way, you win!
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English pancakes are thin and light. American pancakes are the thick ones. The pancakes that are thick in England are called griddle cakes, drop scones or Scotch pancakes, but our ‘pancakes’ are very much like crêpes.
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Pancake Day sounds good to me.
My husband is the cook in our family and Saturday mornings are when he likes to make a stack of cakes. He changes them up from regular plain cakes to wheat, buttermilk, nuts (either pecans or walnuts) with apple topping, or for a snack chocolate pancakes. You can never go wrong with pancakes.
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want … now 😉
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Paleo Pancakes for dinner it is! I’m always glad to have a reason to make pancakes…
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Reblogged this on finnegan2749.
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In Italy we call it “Martedi Grasso” (Fat Tuesday.). We don’t eat pancakes but we also have tipical food as Chiacchiere di carnevale, Castagnole and many kinds of biscuits =)
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In my part of Italy, we usually eat “Frittelle di riso” on Shrove Tuesday…and we call the day “Martedi’ grasso”.
I’m in England at the moment, ..and I had pancakes here!!! 🙂
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Thanks for telling us about Pancake Day (and Sprengidagur!) Mardi Gras/Carnival is one of my favorite holidays and I did not know that it was known as Pancake Day in many places. Here’s some music to go along with whatever gastronomic delights you indulge in:
http://jukeboxdelirium.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/a-mardi-gras-party-playlist-my-love-affair-with-new-orleans-vol-2/
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Comments!
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Mardi Gras… C’est tout un programme… Mais chez nous c’est au moins une fois par mois pour le plus grand plaisir des petits et des grands. Dans mon enfance c’etait le menu du dimanche soir. Merci pour ce post .
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While living in the States, I had never heard of Pancake Day but fortunately I moved to the UK just in time to learn about this glorious day…
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Reblogged this on 1woman.
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Great blog John! I’m sure you’ll get lots of hits.
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your blog is so delicious 😛
visit the all new blog http://thepineappleworthy.wordpress.com
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One thing thats suprises me with Pancake Day is that the supermarket sector any every other advertise has not yet jumped on the “old” ram it down your throat tactic with adverts and all sorts of Pancake Day cars etc…
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In Sweden “Fat Tuesday” is dedicated to a specific pastry called “Semla”. It’s a sweet bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream. Just google Semla and you’ll see what I mean.
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Was this why my British boss was making both savory and sweet pancakes yesterday?
I have so much to learn about culture.
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Enjoyable facts–thanks for sharing them! Ah, yes–pancakes are among my favorite of foods, provided they’re drenched in real butter and real maple syrup!
And just a plug for my hometown–Mardi Gras in the United States was first celebrated in Mobile, Alabama–not New Orleans.
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I was aware of that but didn’t have time to pop by Morrisons!
Yum…!
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Hmm…. pancakes! 6am pancakes are best!
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Pancakes – so simple, but so awesome. Nothing like the smell of hot pancakes and cinnamon!
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wah sangat lezat sekali makanannya
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I made Breton Galettes…
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We have this fiest here in Ukraine, too. However, it is mostly related to our local heathen culture and religeon, more than to Christianity. We bake pan cakes or make varenici, else called pirogi with curd.
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Reblogged this on Humbugs & Handbags and commented:
Who doesn’t love pancakes?!
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I love the quark-lemon stuffed pancake!! It is simply the best after the chestnut cream filled ones…
Liked your blog!!!
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Thanks for the information. I had never heard this about the day before Lent!
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Hey lovely pancakes!! Loved the info too….
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Happpy pancake dayyy maybe ill make some of my own pancakes tooo.. mmmmmmm wish i could be in new orleans for mardi gras, idd love to dress up in beads and dance around ahhahahha
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supaa………….b!!!!
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Great blog! Lemon Ricotta Pancakes sound so amazing right now! Maybe a snack before midnight. 🙂
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This looks delicious. Thank you for sharing 😀
I will have to try this the next time I get some extra time on my hands.
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Thank goodness! That explains why my daughter wanted pancakes for dinner! I don’t really think she knew, she just wanted them. I’ll be blogging about how the heck did I let my kids talk me into taquitos and pancakes for dinner tonight! LOL! Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
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Happy Bursting Day!
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I love a good excuse to eat pancakes! Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
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OMG, those pancakes look so good. Thanks for giving me another reason to make some (as if I needed one!)
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They look delicious!!! will try them
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Let the party begin! I love Mardi Gras! I will go again one of these years!
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I’ll make any excuse to eat pancakes for an entire day. :p Around where I live, they used to have annual pancake festivals where they would serve various kinds of pancakes, as well as different flavors of syrup. Man was it ever good. 😀 But for the life of me, they stopped holding them, and I don’t know why. I’m very bitter about it still. XD
~ Wes B.
http://thereporterschair.wordpress.com
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Swedes eat fat tuesday buns like these: http://littlepotofgold.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/fat-tuesday-buns-semlor/
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Cool!
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Pancakes are not crepes, pancakes are thick and crepes are like very thin and light, like lace in a plate… It is yummy whatever ;-p
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Great post. Sweet & Simple. The way I like my pancakes. Today is Ash Wednesday in NZ. I had pancakes on Monday & today. Woops!
For Lent instead of giving up something, I have decided to eat what I like, the bad stuff in moderation & probably bake a little less of the sweet & fatty things.
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Yummm…pancakes.
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I know in England, some places do pancake races, where people run back and forth while tossing pancakes up in the air and trying not to drop them. Unfortunately, I never did participate when I lived there. It sounds like fun!
We might make french toast tomorrow instead, as my husband and I just baked fresh bread today.
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I am not a huge fan of pancakes, but my tastes are ever evolving and I wouldn’t mind trying this out for dessert tonight. I did have an amazing pancake souffle at a local restaurant this past week. Pancakes, berries, whip cream, and chopped nuts. So good.
Thank you for sharing your Shrove, Bursting, Fat knowledge. I only knew of today as Mardi Gras, but really enjoyed learning its other names.
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looks very delicious
http://www.batteries-world.co.uk
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Oh wow! I learnt French at school but never thought to make the connection between Mardi Gras and “Fat Tuesday”!
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Pancakes are my favorite!!
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Yum I love pancakes and Fat Tuesday!! Thanks for sharing!! Hey I’m new to blogging. Please swing by my blog and let me know what you think? Thanks!
www,amandamsherman.wordpress.com
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thanks for the info.. so that’s the reason why pancake day is trending on twitter.. well, gotta make some pancakes now!
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I live in PA and Faschnaut Day is a PA Dutch (German) way of celebrating for Shrove Tuesday. It has become common practice to eat any kind of donut on “Donut Day”. Years age I worked in a donut shop and Donut Day is quite the experience! Faschnauts don’t have holes so that “You’re luck doesn’t fall out when you eat them”. Silly maybe, but fun anyway!
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Oh my goodness! Such beautiful mouthwatering pancakes! Sweet torture of the Wolfie tastebuds!! Such big and wonderful pancakes you have posted! The pancake facts are very interesting too. I never knew those things about Shrove Tuesday. Lovely scrumptious post 😉
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I just love the facts here.
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Love the info and the pancakes look pretty good too! he he 🙂
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STOP LEAVING POSTS LIKE THESE! YOUR MAKING ME HUNGRY! those pancakes look great…
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I was introduced to pancakes when I moved to the States. I ate so many that I can’t eat them anymore now. Btw, how did you add the Pin It icon? I can’t figure out how to add it on my blog:(
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Of your 5 points about Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras for me – French Canadian – with plenty of home made maple syrup!), I love the last one! I think I will just say “Sprengidagur” all night!
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I love Mardi Gras. 🙂 In a lot of European countries it is referred to as Carnaval (such as the huge parade they do down in Rio de Janeiro). People dress up in costumes, there are parades, dancing, music etc. They don’t do the “pancake” tradition in Spain where I’m currently living, but in France they usually eat crepes (which I prefer over pancakes because they are thinner and lighter). The kids at the school I work at in Spain dressed up in costume, kind of like what we do in the US for Halloween.
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This made me hungry! ]:
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That is diabetically delicious. I want 50 of those before I am raptured, in a meal of other Apocalypse Cakes.
http://apocalypsecakes.com
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I call it… Wait, what? It’s Fat Tuesday? LOL.
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Yum! I feel as if I should make some pancakes for dinner tomorrow for some belated celebration.
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I found this very interesting. On a barely related note, we are having French Toast for dinner. Not quite pancakes, better really.
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We had very good pancakes today. I like the comment about “bursting day”.
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I had mine yum!
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Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! I have come to realize that I will NEVER have this honor bestowed upon me but I am so very glad that it has been bestowed upon someone who’s blog I read, follow, and actually like!
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Ah… pancakes…thin with crispy edges, lemon juice and castor sugar.. YUM! YUM !
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…getting out my pan, hmmmm…apples and cinnamon pancakes tonight !
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I never knew of this tradition until this year (I’m now doing a study term in the UK) and it’s fantastic. It should definitely be more well-known in Canada; what is all our maple syrup for anyways?
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Love this blog. Never knew that my birthday, Sept. 20, was dedicated to punch! Some people called today “Fastnacht Day.” I am sure I am not spelling this right. It was traditional to serve a pillowy donut, kind of like a New Orleans beignet.
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Thanks John for stopping at my Blog and becoming a follower. The pancake were lovely to.
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Well, I made waffles this morning. …With pancake mix. Does that count? 😉
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Haha I have had pancakes two days in a row. I am all pancaked out! Congrats on being freshly pressed 🙂
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oh my, I have just discovered you & what a FABULOUS blog you have. 🙂
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In Scandinavia it is not pancakes but cream buns with jam. Delicious either way! Love your blog!
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We call it Pancake Tuesday! Today we had Banana & Nutella pancakes, Bacon & Maple Syrup pancakes, Lemon & Sugar pancakes, Banana, Peanut Butter & Maple Syrup pancakes.. yum!
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Reblogged this on TwentyOne No Gluten and commented:
Pancake Day! Make some DELICIOUS gluten free pancakes!!
http://21nogluten.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/peanut-butter-apple-pie-spice-pancakes/
http://21nogluten.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/red-velvet-pancakes/
http://21nogluten.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/cakebatterpancakes/
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Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
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Oh hey it’s mardi gras, I completely forgot!
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Spent a lot of time fighting with people today over what it should be called – I’m a traditionalist, and a big fan of the Shrove, few chances to use that words in regular conversation usually!
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looks delicious, with pancakes you can never fail to make someone happy! http://madrilicious.com
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Reblogged this on Nate LaClaire’s Weblog and commented:
5 great facts about today!
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Middle Georgia isn’t New Orleans but you have inspired us- pancakes for everyone tonight!
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Reblogged this on TEES AND MORE and commented:
Mardi Gras
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I’ve just had my fill of pancakes. Fit to burst!
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I have never even thought of having a pancake with a salty garnish instead of sweet. This is a must try for me! So glad I stopped and I love to read otehr’s comments….this is why you do it! Yummy post…thanks to you both :o) Happy almost Spring!
When I waas growing up pancakes with powdered sugar and jelly were a dinner time staple for me and my sibilings. Memories 🙂
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Finns eat \Bulla and pea soup/ today!
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On the evening of Shrove Tuesday in the UK, I’ve had pancakes for Dinner – Mmmmm 😀
And we’re off on a Lent journey tomorrow.
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In Western PA, we eat Paczkis, which are filled donuts, but better! Probably a close cousin of the Faschnaut pastry!
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I enjoy pancakes although I admit I’m more of a waffle person, but these look amazing.
I’ll give you a tip: If you really want to take your pancakes (or waffles) up a notch try adding the zest of an orange in your batter.
Totally works with the powdered sugar and butter infused maple syrup.
Now I’m hungry:-)
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Now I’m hungry… Pancakes for dinner tonight!
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I didn’t even know this was a Pancake Day, but I had pancakes for breakfast nonetheless! AWESOME
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Love your blog! It’s so interesting! Definitely looking forward to future posts and ways to celebrate my days(:
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I’m from central Pennsylvania, and we celebrate Faschnaut Day. A faschnaut is like a donut, only better! I believe the tradition comes from German immigrants and their “fasching” parties (much like Mardi Gras). It’s great to see so many traditions with a common theme – indulgence!
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pancakes with chocolate and sliced bananas is best!
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Take one freshly made pancake (or crepe), add a handful of blueberries and a drizzle of maple syrup, then roll up and eat. Yum!
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Huh. This kind of explains why so many food blogs are doing pancakes lately…sort of…. they didn’t really mention mardi gras though….
Maybe everyone subliminally celebrates pancake Tuesday.
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In England it’s pancakes–but they’re pancakes are more like crepes.
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The sugar-and-lemon variety is a must! I’m about to introduce pancake day to a bunch of teenage girls I work with in the church youth group.
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on being*
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if you happen to be in Milano, Italy, dying for good pancakes…
“that’s bakery” via vigevano – MM2 Porta Genova
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Nice article, and congrats on by Freshly Pressed.
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Great post! I have some new fun facts to share!
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Congratulations!!! You got pressed!!!
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I celebrate each day with a dessert 😀 I don’t really care even if it is a simple vanilla ice cream 😀
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I cant believe I forgot pancake Tuesday… thanks for reminding me!
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In Sweden we celebrate with “semlor”.
I have a post about it at http://bitterfia.wordpress.com
🙂
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LOVE hearing facts such as this …interesting! Now only if more places offered GLUTEN FREE or BUCKWHEAT pancakes (Myself w/Celiac Disease) life would be GRAND! 🙂
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Never Knew Mardi Gras was the same day as Pancake Tuesday
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There’s a Mardi Gras Quiz going on if anyone fancies it:
http://littlesniffypig.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/mardi-gras-quiz/
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I forgot it was Pancake Tuesday (it’s official name in Ireland, and yet we are considered creative)!!!!!!!!!!!!! Off to get some batter, some chocolate and some strawberries – not our official way of doing it but BETTER. Dribble….
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I adore Pancakes and I can eat enormus chunks of it. Definately on my list for one of those laid back mornings. Congrats on being Freshly Pressesd.
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Congrats on Freshly Pressed 🙂 Those pancakes look delicious.
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Hungry.
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Today is also referred to as Carnevale in Italy!
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i am digging your daily food history! very interesting!
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Thanx for an interesting post! We’ve been flippin’ our pancakes down here in Spain… and are looking ahead to lent which means spinach pies and ‘caracoles’ (snails).
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Yum! Looks so good!
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Yes, more pancakes to make you fat on Fat Tuesday. Bring on the maple syrup
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awesome I love pancakes, so that will be dinner tonight!
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I love the fact that in Iceland they call it “Bursting Day”. Very appropriate.
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I had always wondered!
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It’s totally Pancake Day! (though for the Brits they look more like crepes). Looking forward to pancakes with lemon and sugar tonight for ma tea. A little bit of home in Texas
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I didn’t know about Shrove Tuesday. Thanks for the lesson! Funnily enough, my daughter had International day for Girl Scouts and her troop chose Sweden, so I made dozens of Swedish pancakes – aka super think pancakes on Saturday. They were good!
We also had some good N’Awlins fare- Muffaletta sandwiches and Beignets. We’ll eat tonight, and tomorrow we’ll start paring down. Oy… That’s going to be hard! 🙂
http://troismommy.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/why-i-stop-firefighters-on-the-street/
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I have been putting the Fat in Fat Tuesday by eating my chocolate chip banana cake all day!
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed and thanks for the fun facts!
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My mouth is watering looking at that photo. Can you come over and whip me up a batch? Kthanxbai.
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I only wish I had read this post BEFORE my children went to school today. Oh well…perhaps it’s “breakfast for dinner” night tonight! 🙂
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I’m definitely about to get on that! Your blog is great, I always learn something that I never knew before!
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I am definitely hungry either way! lol
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Since I found Gluten-free Bisquick, pancakes can once again be on my plate to enjoy!
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This is my first time on your blog and how convinient… I’ve been CRAVING pancakes and real maple syrup for so long (my current location has put a end to maple syrup unless I want to pay $30 for 12oz.). Great post.
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Any excuse for a pancake…I’m in!
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In South Africa pancakes are not like those in the picture.. We call those flap jacks. Oh, and pancakes in Afrikaans is called “pannekoek”
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I have never heard it called Shrove Tuesday. Interesting. I think I need some pancakes today!
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I think I must make pancakes this evening!
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Reblogged this on Meals on Wheels.
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Pancakes?
I thought Mardi Gras was all about drunk chicks exposing their breasts, and being filmed for Girls Gone Wild…? Or is that what the Louisiana Tourism Agency would have me believe?
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Any reason to have pancakes is a good day!
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This is the most appealing Mardi Gras photo I’ve seen in a long time. Guess that shows where my priorities lie. Love the excuse to have pancakes! I think I’ll make them for lunch. Have to go work out first.
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Agree! King Cake season ends on Fat Tuesday. Down here, Lent signals Crayfish and oysters are at their freshest.
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hi there, it is not pancakes… it is crepes, with this accent on the first e : ^. Delicious !!!
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I call it King cake Day!
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Great fact about shrove! We’ve long debated where that came from. I wonder where the art of pancake tossing came from?
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I love pancake day! Sometimes we have pancakes with bolognese sauce for main course then pancakes with sugar and lemon for dessert – a real pancake extravaganza!
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I will make some pancakes tomorrow morning for breakfast. It will be my first time to make some on my own. Unfortunately, I have to rely on the pre-mixed kind in the mean time. Happy Pancake Day! 🙂
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