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

@OchonAgusOchonOh

Well it doesn't prove your point does it because you said the Irish times call it pancake Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday.

I'm not sure what your point is exactly either, lots of Irish call it pancake day, most people I know call it that.

You implied I must be a 'West Brit' to call it pancake day which is a derogatory term, like you're trying to make out you're more 'Irish' if you call it pancake Tuesday 😂😂

Your point is offensive and unnecessary, just because a fellow Irish person corrected you and say that lots of people call it that here.

I wonder how many people know why we eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.

I don't go for this Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday modern rubbish. It should still be Lupercalia - a festival of feasting, drinking, and carnal behaviour dating back before the common era, that, like many ancient festivals, the Roman Church Christianised (stole) and put in their own calendar.

You can call it what you like. We can call it what we like. Nobody actually gets hurt.

It’s a day where we eat pancakes of all sorts no other meaning to us . It’s carnaval in other countries . Don’t care about the rest at all

I just generally ignore this day unless I have the children or grandchildren to entertain. Absolutely hate pancakes 🤢

Can’t believe I had to read 10 pages before someone quoted this.
Ive been saying Pancake Tuesday my whole life! I grew up in England but in a very Irish catholic family and area. I now live somewhere where catholics either cultural or practicing are very thin on the ground. I can only imagine people are cringing at the weirdness of me and my children who I have passed this on to.

No, it was Shrove Tuesday. For the majority of people it's Pancake Day. Most people don't even know when Lent is let alone know what it is or care. I understand your disappointment though if it's something important to your faith but most people aren't Christians.
We have similar debates around Xmas. For most people it's a celebration at the end of the year and more about Santa, family, food and fun...a modern Yuletide. Not many people feel its about Christ.
You do your own Christisny thing then brace yourself for Easter. Good Friday is just a BH for most and Sunday is Easter Egg Day I'm afraid.

NOOOOOO!!!! 😱

I grew up in a very Methodist village in which Halloween was a big no no but always heard people say pancake day.

It's hard to believe that Catholics are more uptight now than they were in the 1960s.

It’s Mardi Gras where I live but it was Pancake Tuesday when I was a child in England.

I'm Mexican-American (my parents are Mexican) and grew up on the border with Mexico. We celebrated "Carnaval". It's essentially a five-day massive party with drinking, dancing and food. It starts this Friday, February 9th and continues to Tuesday, February 13th. We call that day, "Martes de Carnaval" and really have the most fun and it ends with going to Mass at the Catholic Church for "Ash Wednesday".

I currently live in Houston and the Island of Galveston has "Mardi Gras". The celebrations are similar to what I experienced growing up with five days of celebrations but the really fun day is Tuesday with street parties, parades, lots of beads and eating gold, purple and green King's cake.

I am not going to lie, when I moved to England and was told that there were no parties, no parades and no beads but "Pancake Day", I was bitterly disappointed.

Any day can be a pancake day.

Ok, Jesus.
Chill. We'll see you on Easter Sunday.
rolls eyes

Do you also get annoyed by Boxing Day OP?

I'm Catholic and always call it Pancake Day. At school we called it Shrove Tuesday, and because we had to go to confession.

It was also our last day for eating chocolates and sweets as over Lent we'd put any given to us into a biscuit tin and have a massive amount saved by the time Easter Sunday arrived.

I also remember being taught about Spy Wednesday at school (it goes by other names) but not many people have heard of it, at least in my experience.

Most of Europe calls it 'Fat Tuesday' in whichever language the speak.

It's the only day I won't make pancakes. I'm a rebel.

I think it’s the season of ‘Goodbye to meat’ (carne vale) looking ahead to Lenten abstinence.

I always thought the pancakes were to prepare for the giving up of things/ fasting in lent

So feast Shrove Tuesday then ready for Ash Wednesday
It's both I guess I call it Shrove Tuesday

I think that's because some of these days around Lent & Easter (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Ash Wednesday ...) are actual liturgical names for the day whereas others (Maundy Thursday, Shrove Tuesday, Spy Wednesday) come from Catholic culture and tradition more generally but don't appear in church services or any official texts. So the latter are more flexible and not everyone knows them, even within Catholic circles.

Pancake day already ????

Blimey, that crèped up on us

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