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It’s not Pancake Day!

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RosieandherMaw Tue 04-Mar-25 07:33:29

Any more than 25 December is Santa Claus Day, that movable date in March/April,Chocolate Egg Day or Hot Cross Bun month.
It’s Shrove Tuesday

Aldom Sat 08-Mar-25 09:26:16

grin Well, one needs ones girdle
after eating pancakes! grin

JamesandJon33 Sat 08-Mar-25 05:49:37

Girdle !!!😂😂

RSALLAN2002 Sat 08-Mar-25 05:24:16

I don't make pancakes since I lost my girdle.

Sheian62 Wed 05-Mar-25 21:23:13

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Tanjamaltija Wed 05-Mar-25 18:41:11

Just for the record, Pancake Day / Doughnut Day are the secular versions of Shrove [which means you have to go to confession and get your sins forgiven, i..e shriven] Tuesday. www.calendarpedia.com/when-is/images/pancake-day-2022.png

DeeDe Wed 05-Mar-25 18:39:06

Na It’s Pancake Day here,… but tbh I don’t give a toss 😗😂
Actually I might but if one lands on the floor it’s my husbands
😜😏😂😂

Tuskanini Wed 05-Mar-25 17:30:47

The Egyptian god Osiris has a resurrection story. The Norse god Odin impaled himself and hung on a tree for nine days, attaining knowledge, immortality and leadership of all the gods. You might conclude that Christianity hoovered up the best bits from all the earlier religions!

Nibbles44 Wed 05-Mar-25 17:04:18

Anyday is a day for making pancakes, & I can buy reduced price pancakes & hotXbuns in Scotland all year round.
Xmas is a season for us, not just the name of a certain day, Many balconies still have fairy lights on daily, it brightens up our bleak & rainy world.

AuntieE Wed 05-Mar-25 16:28:26

Well, it isn't Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday here, because in Denmark we eat sticky buns or cream filled ones on the Monday prior to Ash Wednesday. Pa ncakes are not traditionally connected to any holiday, here.

mokryna Wed 05-Mar-25 16:16:27

Forty day after Christmas, the 2nd February is called La Chandeleur, Candelmas in English and is when everyone eats pancakes in France. Not on Shrove Tuesday.

Missiseff Wed 05-Mar-25 16:03:20

Pancake Day for me, always has been

Caro41 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:07:33

Between the word be and in wrote “ abstemious “ but spell check cancelled it .

Caro41 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:05:53

Shrove Tuesday really comes from the verb to shrive or to be shriven . People made pancakes in order to use up all the left over food so that during Lent they could be in their eating habits with Lent finally culminating in the feast of Easter .
It is possible that Whitewavemark 2: has an interest in history without needing to “ scoff “ .

MickyD Wed 05-Mar-25 14:54:11

Completely agree 🥞

rowyn Wed 05-Mar-25 14:48:28

Just to ease my mood, whatever the day is: it's *Christians - not Christian's

mabon1 Wed 05-Mar-25 14:45:24

I agree with you totally, and followed by Ash Wednesday.

HettyBetty Wed 05-Mar-25 14:26:19

I'll call it why I like. No inclination whatsoever to bow down to the views of anyone else.

No time for Christianity or any other religion as it happens. No tolerance for random religious people telling me what I should do, believe or say.

It is referred to at all in our house it is Pancake Day. Not that we ever have milk or eggs in the house anyway.

Nanny27 Wed 05-Mar-25 14:06:52

Going back to the original topic of re-labelling Shrove Tuedday Pancake Day, I feel a bit sad when I hear children everywhere referring to Children in Need Day as Pudsey Day. It seems that the real sentiment of the day is lost on them

wibblywobblywobblebottom Wed 05-Mar-25 13:35:47

I hate pancakes.

grandMattie Wed 05-Mar-25 13:18:45

You will be amused that my pancakes went down extremely well in the church venue for the FAB cafe. The vicar ate 6 pancakes with great gusto and not a trace of remorse or thought for the privations of Lent…

Stella14 Wed 05-Mar-25 13:17:48

Not everyone is religious. To those of us who are not, it’s pancake day. - and yes, I know what shrove Tuesday etc is all about. I was raised Roman Catholic. Do enjoy your religion, but don’t push it on to others!

MrsMatt Wed 05-Mar-25 13:13:18

Depending on the households beliefs it can be Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. Always was and will be Pancake day in my house.

Naninka Wed 05-Mar-25 13:11:05

We had scampi, salad and chips. Each to their own! 😁

pascal30 Wed 05-Mar-25 13:03:01

OldFrill

Sago

Whitewavemark2

And before you waffle about Lent etc, bear in mind that Easter was pinched from other religions, so I have no trouble “pinching” pancake day from Christian’s,

Ouch!

So what other religion was the resurrection of Christ taken from?

You are astonishingly rude at times.

The pun obviously soared over your head.

Yes I thought it was amusing..

WhiteSwan63 Wed 05-Mar-25 12:55:38

Pancake day yesterday for DH and I consisted of 2 gluten free pancakes each then filled with sausage, bacon mushrooms and beans with a poached egg on top. Yummy!