Yay Pancake day

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:35 pm

Or Shrove Tuesday if you're being proper

Everyone had their fill of pancakes?

It was my friends birthday as well today so we had pancakes with candles in them

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:14 pm

It's my birthday today too! I didn't have pancakes though I had french toast.

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:30 pm

Since when was there an offical pancake day? Man...It's been a long long time since I last had pancakes...

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:03 pm

wtf is Pancake day? It's Fausnaught day

Retromaster · Post by **Retromaster** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:16 pm

pancake day....

...never heard of it.

WTF is pancake day?

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:20 pm

Retromaster wrote:pancake day.... ...never heard of it.

WTF is pancake day?

british mardi gras pretty much. except since they dont have such a "lets go get wasted" attitude like the mass of the american population does they just eat pancakes

Mageslayer · Post by **Mageslayer** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:54 pm

Hm... I had no clue. Incidentally I had some waffles this morning. That's close enough for me.

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:43 pm

Its supposed to be a christian holiday called Shrove Tuesday, it signifies either the end or the start of lent (i forget which)

Its not really a major holiday anywhere near on the scale of mardi gras its just an excuse to eat pancakes really

its not even a national holiday, although it usually falls in the february half term break

EDIT: its just before Lent, it was historically the using up of all the rich ingredients like eggs, milk, sugar and flour before lent where you ate "plain" stuff

Mageslayer · Post by **Mageslayer** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:50 pm

Harshboy wrote:wtf is Pancake day? It's Fausnaught day

Heh, I missed that comment. I would have known what was going on if you'd called it by that name.

benol · Post by **benol** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:37 am

Wow. And I thought Pancake Day was invented by IHOP all this time.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:31 am

I hear it more called as fa Tuesday, Its the Tuesday before Ash Wensday. The first day of the lent'on season. And over this season your supposed to eat bland food and stuff. So you eat all your good food on that day. No one does anything with it anymore, accept use it as a ploy to go out to eat. Damn my dad being a pastor has rubbed some off this mindless facts onto me.

nitro2k01 · Post by **nitro2k01** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:53 am

In Sweden it was the day of the semla.

dj-spuddy · Post by **dj-spuddy** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:09 pm

Pancake days rules, I make pancakes every year. Last year I made a guide to make the perfect pancakes my way. It can be viewed here on my blog if anyone who missed there fill of this great food on tuesday -

http://arcade-fan.blogspot.com/2006/04/ ... cakes.html

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:07 pm

Ah yes, my mum's a bit of a church history buff so when I was six I remember eating my weight in home made donuts

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:16 pm

i went to pancake day at IHOP
free pancakes rocks