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

What? People like the pancakes and the chocolate eggs but aren't too fussed on the fasting in between and the religion, how odd?

All of the Christians I know love a pancake on… that day.

Never even heard the term Pancake Tuesday? 🤔
Agree that it is wrong but until I read this thread I had never heard it referred to as such.

Cannot imagine getting het up about something like this.

Shrovesday. 🥞😜

I'm in Ireland, always advertised as Pancake Tuesday here.

Pancake Day here cos we aren’t religious

But i agree with a pp, it’s either referred to as Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday. Never heard Pancake Tuesday.

Haha this has made me laugh. I think Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day are pretty interchangeable unless you are super religious or very traditional. I've never heard anyone say Pancake Tuesday. And FWIW my non-religious kids know about Lent / fasting or at least giving something up / Easter story and the tradition of using things up before lent. I quite often forget about pancakes on this particular day because I don't like them..and I don't particularly like "days". Probably have PDA. Or am miserable fucker. I do like chocolate. So I don't forget Easter Sunday. Each to their own.

Only if you are a Christian. The term is to make it apply to everyone. You don't have to be a particular religion to enjoy pancakes for dinner once a year. You can call it shrove if you want?

Rubbishy Catholic here . I observe Lent. I say Pancake Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday. I love pancakes . Sweet, wee Scottish wans with loads of butter . My husband has the weird English thin ones with lemon juice and my children will eat all of them ! Don't worry about it ! It's just a name !

I don't know what a shrove is?

This is soundtrack to it, whatever you call it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0wAMr3V5lN4

Is it any different to calling it Mardi Gras?

It's P P P P P P P P Pancake day.

Who calls it Pancake Tuesday? It’s always been pancake day

Don't forget the Jif lemon on pancake day ... 🤣

I've never heard it called 'Pancake Tuesday', normally just 'Pancake Day' and rarely 'Shrove Tuesday'. Most people where I live (England) aren't Christians and don't do (religious) fasting. Keeping the cultural traditions we like from the religions we no longer believe in is pretty much the norm throughout human history, isn't it? I'm all for it tbh!

I eat the chocolate eggs, flip the pancakes, buy the presents, eat the food and drink the booze! Being an atheist is GREAT!

Well the pancakes are the important part.

Shrove is the past tense of shrive, it's a verb, not a noun @NoCloudsAllowed

Pancake day and Easter Bunnies birthday in our house 😂

I've never heard it called 'Pancake Tuesday'! I've always referred to it as 'Pancake Day' or 'Shrove Tuesday'.
I wonder if it is demographic? I've always lived in London/South East.

"I don't know what a shrove is?"

I bet even most Christians don't know what 'shrove' means.

It' an adjective, past tense of 'shrive', like 'shriven'.

Christians traditionally would go to church on Shrove Tuesday to confess their sins and be absolved or be shriven, before Lent.. A Catholic thing.

It’s Pancake Day (one of the best days of the year), nothing to do with Lent in our house.

I understood the pancake tradition being due to using up flour, eggs etc on Shrove Tuesday, before the fasting started on Ash Wednesday. That's what my mum told me anyway and it makes sense I think.