To hate it being called pancake tuesday

[scrambledeggsandbeans]

Just that really, it's shrove Tuesday it is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting

Shrove Tuesday is not 'literally what the day is called' by most people.

In fairness though it is literally what it is called officially.

I love this story.

I’ve never heard it called Pancake Tuesday. Just Pancake Day.

Making fasting in Lent a "thing" was an example of making a virtue out of necessity. By the 2nd week of February, almost all the winter stores had been used up and nothing was growing yet, so Shrove Tuesday was a last binge with what was left before tightening your belt.

Pancake Day in our house...not Pancake Tuesday😉

@ColleenDonaghy haha thank you, I was proud of that one. Dad jokes are IN 😂😂

Pick your battles.

I'm a fairly hardcore committed Catholic. We do Lent big time. I'm part of a programme that has a four page list of what ascetical practices we're committed to during Lent. I don't have a problem with naming the day before Lent starts (which is not a religious feast day, just a traditional way to use up ingredients) for the food associated with it, and certainly not with the idea that people who will go nowhere near a confessional box to be shriven on that day (and possibly have no idea where the day comes from) nevertheless enjoy the food. I find feasting without fasting to be less fulfilling personally, but it's not something I want to impose on other people.

Crack on, heathens! Enjoy your pancakes! 😅

Officially 😂

In that case you have Chocolate Day at the beginning of Holy Week, the really solemn time of extra fasting leading up to Easter. Is that just to deliberately make it harder for the practising Christians around you? 😆

It IS in fact, Pancake Tuesday

Pancake day, sugar and lemon at the ready.

I have always called it Shrove Tuesday, but tbh I had no clue why, I only really associate it with eating pancakes. It's weird to "hate" people calling it Pancake Tuesday.

Tbh I am a Christian and call it pancake day. Ash Wednesday is more of a church thing - Shrove Tuesday is just the last day before Lent.

One of my favourite memes

Am pissed off I haven't even seen a pancake today

@Hayliebells I never said I hate people that call it pancake tuesday.
I don't hate anyone, that was a big reach 🤔

Lucky for you it's tuesday nest week 😁

@scrambledeggsandbeans if you read my post again, you'll realise that I didn't say it was weird to hate people who call in Pancake Tuesday, I'm not sure where you got that from, I didn't imply you said that at all. Did you mean to tag me, or someone else? I do think it's weird to hate people calling it Pancake Tuesday though, which is what you said in your OP. Maybe you thought I said it's weird to hate THE people calling it pancake Tuesday (which is not what I said).

I’m Catholic and fairly practising (can be cherry picking due to other things taking priority), and I don’t see a problem with shrove being pancake, lent being simply about someone doing something to further themselves/the world, Easter being about eggs. It’s just the way the world has gone and doesn’t stop anyone stepping into a church to say a prayer/listen about the meaning behind the holiday

I was raised in a very Catholic Irish house - a statue of Mary used to arrived for a week in May and we had to do the rosary every night! And we had to do lent property - apart from St Patrick's day of course 😆

Fairly sure we called it Pancake Tuesday (day if you prefer) not Shrove Tuesday.

Hayliebells · Today 19:09

I have always called it Shrove Tuesday, but tbh I had no clue why, I only really associate it with eating pancakes. It's weird to "hate" people calling it Pancake Tuesday

It’s pancake day. You’re being ridiculous

“Pancake Tuesdays a very happy day,
and if you don’t give us a holiday we’ll all run away.
where will we run?
down the lane!
to meet the Bobby with the big fat cane!”

Please tell me someone else remembers this song 😂

Shrove Day in our house.

@scrambledeggsandbeans "It's weird to hate people calling it Pancake day" is not the same as "it's weird to hate THE people calling it pancake day". The two sentences have different meanings. The first means it's weird to hate that people call it Pancake day, the second means it's weird to hate people who call it Pancake day.