To hate it being called pancake tuesday

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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

That comment from the northerner shows how far a united Ireland actually is. Your reply was perfect in the circumstances.

Mind you, I'm only half Irish by that definition. I like some trad light but hate the intense, everyone must be quiet variety. I love hurling but hate football.

Well practised on my nordy husband and in-laws!

<whispers> I don't like potatoes. Or tea.

We have even more in common than I thought. I hate potatoes and only drink "funny tea".

Maybe we should set up a support group 😁

Typing this with one hand, peppermint tea in the other

Should I ask when you all realised you could eat pancakes for tea ANY day of the year?

But they both taste better and are compulsory on Pancake Tuesday. Obviously.

It’s pancake day to us. We’re not religious. Christmas and Easter are not about religion either to us, it’s about family, friends, good food, chocolate and lots of presents!

I haven't yet accepted/ realised that. Growing up, pancakes were very definitely a once a year treat. I made American pancakes for breakfast a few times (maybe 4 in total) when dc were small, as a treat. And I would occasionally have a crêpe out somewhere on holiday. But there's still only one day a year when we would have pancakes as a meal at home, or two if French relatives are over (they have pancakes on 2nd February, for a different Catholic feast).

Haven't read the entire thread so don't know if I'm alone with this, but I come from the North of England and growing up, and ever since, everyone I know calls it Pancake Tuesday.

As a young teenager, rebelling against the Catholic Church, I used to make pancakes at random times. I generally only make them on pancake Tuesday now though. The whole standing at the cooker for hour or so, tossing them at dc who have them eaten before the next one is even turned and eating my own ones standing up, is just a bit too much excitement for me to do more than once a year.

It's the last day of good eating before you start fasting for Lent. In southern Italy they may a special lasagne using up all the meat etc. to eat on Shrove Tuesday.

As an aside they're not American pancakes, perfectly normal Scottish pancakes thanks as made by my Mum....

We might do something similar, thanks great suggestion , but kids prefer proper pancakes while prefer crepes myself .

I'm actually not sure am I misusing the term crepe. My pancakes are quite thin but not the barely there thinness of French crepes. However, they are nowhere near as thick as the American ones. I'm not sure really what they should be called.

I call it Pancake Day. Never heard of Pancake Tuesday. I don't see why it matters what people call it.

I also don't know why you had to mansplain what it signifies in the Christian tradition. I'm not Christian but learned all that in primary school.

Is OP a man? She refers to herself as a crazy cat lady.

Moseying in to say they do pancakes on candlemass in France! What's that all about?

Pancake day and shrove Tuesday I would say are interchangeable but I do make an effort to use both with my children so they value both terms.

I discovered my MIL has four crepe pans. My little eyes widened and we feasted.

I use the word mansplain in a gender-neutral way. IMO you don't need to be an actual man to mansplain, as demonstrated by the OP here!

I don't think you know what mansplaining is

Are they English ones then if they are similar to the French crepe?

To me, the English and French and the Scotch and American ones look similar.

I make the American and the Japanese ones for Pancake Day which are similar but with differences in texture and cooking methods.

I am not religious but was brought up catholic, well I went to catholic school anyway, so I know what it represents. But it is Pancake Tuesday to me. Not Pancake Day, never heard that.

Mansplaining is when men lecture/try to inform women on matters which woman can reliably be understood to have decent knowledge on. It's certainly not a gender neutral term. What the OP is doing is not mansplaining.

Woman explaining to another woman how something is = not mansplaining.

Man explaining to a woman how menopause works/feels = mansplaining

Pancake day in our house too. My DC wouldn’t know what shrove Tuesday meant. You do you.

This is hilariously ironic. The very model of mansplaining.

I didn't say it was 'a gender-neutral term'. I said I use it in a gender-neutral way. I know what the original definition is. I don't always cleave to that.
But don't worry, now it's been mansplained to me I'll hand myself in to the language police immediately.