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

Is anyone religious any more?

Not many - unless there is a feast or a day off in it and then we'll all join in.

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grew up in canada and catholic. Pancakes are an excuse for maple syrup!!!! If Pancake Day is offensive I want a new name for ASH Wednesday !!!

Punctuation is also important.

Punctuation is very important.

Plenty of people enjoy a feast of pancakes on the day with no reference to region. DH and I are atheists. We care not one jot about Lent, or Easter 🙄

@AnnieSnap How can you not care about easter? All that chocolate.

In the religious sense 😂🤣

Just dropping by to say that I fell off my three legged stool while making pancakes on the griddle hanging over the turf fire. I swear the picture of the Sacred Heart was laughing. You know, the one beside President Kennedy. I had to bless myself from the holy water font my granny got in Lourdes.

And it's Thursday not Tuesday today. I woke up the gods.

Only if they are trying to get into a religious school.

I’m a catholic. We call it both pancake day and shrove Tuesday intermittently. It’s not something we worry about. It’s also Mardi Gras in some places - Fat Tuesday when all the fats were used up on cooking before lent too!!

It bothers me more when people want to ban Jesus from the celebration of Christmas and Easter to concentrate on presents and eggs so as not to offend the non Christian’s.

Every day's a school day, thank you @Spendonsend!

If OP is unhappy with the unchristian nature of it all, I'd happily take a rebrand as 'imbolc pancakes' if necessary 😋

As others have pointed out, Christianity was perfectly happy to hijack many of the existing pagan festivals (I'll have back Yule, and you can stick Christmas somewhere more probable in the calendar - no leader in palestine in their right mind would call a census requiring travel in December, especially 2000 years ago). Note also "Oestra" was an existing equinox festival!

If you could also have a word with all the grumpy Christians merrily stating that 'Santa' has nothing to do with Christmas & remind them that the kind acts & winter gifts of Saint (Ni)klaus where what kicked that off, that would be great too. Thanks 😇

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year

I've never heard it call pancake Tuesday lol either shrove Tuesday or pancake day

So if its not pancake Tuesday is it also not chocolate egg Sunday?

Just wait til you find out about Collop Monday.

And don't forget Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday. Sexagesima and Septuagesima Sundays were also part pre-lent preparations although Vatican 2 did get rid of these.

Lent was long enough without it starting on Septuagesima Sunday. That was 17 days of preparing for lent, then the 40 days of lent, plus the 4 extra sundays in lent. The nuns in school were definitely missing a trick there.

Disclaimer: I only found out about these from your link.

I’m an American Catholic - complete with sixteen years of Catholic school - and the terms Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day are completely unfamiliar to me. Here it’s either Mardi Gras or its English translation, Fat Tuesday.

Don’t know about the UK, but it does still have religious significance in the US, insofar as if you’re giving something up for Lent, Mardi Gras is your last chance to have it for forty days.

Pancake day in my house too sorry

We are Jewish and celebrate Christmas, in the non religious way. I wonder if we are meant to call it something else 🤔

It IS Mothering Sunday. Also Shrove Tuesday in my house, although we are cullinary heathens and use a crepe making gadget (so every one can have a turn making their own crepe or 3). I suppose you call Christmas day Gift Day?? 😅

I’m 70 and have always called it Pancake Tuesday . Yes, I know that it’s really Shrove Tuesday , then there’s Ash Wednesday and then lent and then Maunday Thursday followed by Good Friday and all of Easter . We learned about it in school when I was 5 . There is no harm in whatever you call it . I’m from Liverpool originally so maybe that has something to do with what you call it .

Where are all these people that call it Pancake Day living? Is that an American thing?

It's always been Pancake Tuesday in my world..

Because not everyone has the mental fortitude to fuck about making them from scratch.
Some people don't have eggs and flour in their cupboards all the time.
Some people only go to the shops when absolutly necessary.
Pancakes are so low on some people's shopping lists that the only way for them to be cooked is for the ready mix to be presented with a pleading face.

From what I gathered from many posters responses, most are in the UK since this is called Mumsnet.

Is everything an American thing to some posters if they’ve never heard of it outside their own environment?

If you're a Christian it is shrove Tuesday but for those who aren't it's pancake day 🤷‍♀️ can't get bothered about it tbh, it's a day that means different things to different people.