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

But now I’m really excited. Was just asking yesterday when it was pancake day!! I know I could have them any day I want but never do!!

for you it's Shrove Tuesday, for others it's pancake day, for others it's just Tuesday.

Stop getting wound up over inconsequential shit.

Always hated it. As a child it was the harbinger of fasting and no swearing and being good, and dying for chocolate and seeing purple doom and gloom in the church and so on for weeks on end. Horrible thing Lent was for me anyway.

We can have pancakes any day of the week, so this Christian event is hugely commercialised now so what do you do? Go out and buy flour, eggs, lemon juice, butter and sugar. And a pancake pan

Have a bloody pancake today and rebel!

Pancake Tuesday was our name for it. Irish background too.

To the vast majority it is not a religious holiday and they won’t be giving up anything for lent.

I grew up calling it Mardi Gras (not born or raised in the U.K.) and we didn’t have any religious aspect to it.

Just because you don’t say it doesn’t make it wrong.
I’ve called it Pancake Tuesday my whole life and we even sang a (now outdated and sexist, and not culinarily accurate) song in our Christian primary school:
Pancake Tuesday, mummy’s busy baking, we all love the pancakes that she’s making.

It doesn't matter in the slightest what you call it. Calling it Pancake Day instead of Shrove Tuesday doesn't change its significance.

It all means the same thing and most European countries celebrate that Tuesday by eating specific foods. In a lot of those countries - including ones with a far higher rate of religious observance than ours - it has a name related to food/eating. It's Fat Tuesday in France, Portugal and Scandinavia, Omelette Tuesday in Spain, Bursting Day in Iceland and in the German bits of Switzerland, Fat Belly Day.

Even the word 'Carnival' for Mardi Gras processions is food-related, as it comes from the Latin for meat, and signifies the last day people were allowed to eat meat before Lent.

Anyway - I'll be having pancakes and calling it 'Shrove Tuesday' instead of 'Pancake Day' isn't suddenly going to make me give a shit about Lent, which I've never observed in my entire life. HTH.

Flat squishness day!

Too good a joke not to bump!

Most definitely Pancake Day here

Lemon and sugar toppings only.

Why does one side of a pancake look delicious, and the other side looks awful?

Could never understand that, but maybe it's just me and my lack of pancake making skills.

Spain gets a bit of a raw deal 😂

Pancake Tuesday here - also Irish.
wasn’t the point that you make pancakes to use up all the food that you abstained from over Lent - butter, eggs etc.
The fasting was scrapped but the pancakes kept. Sounds good to me!

I bet the OP also throws a strop about saying 'Mother's Day' instead of 'Mothering Sunday' and calls Boxing Day 'St Stephen's Day'.

Pancake day in our house. And it was traditionally the day, butter & eggs were used up BEFORE the start of lent (on Ash Wednesday)

Ah, but the omelette is Tortilla Espanol, filled with spuds and onions. I'll have that any day over limp soggy pancakes thanks!

It's called tosser day in this house 🤷‍♀️
With everything going on in the world I find this absolutely batshit to be annoyed over 😳

So hang on op, you’re not even in the UK? Where do you live?

This thread is literally loads of us being introduced to this new 'Pancake Tuesday'

I agree OP, Pancake day or Shrove Tuesday are fine, but not Pancake Tuesday

Don't get me wrong, i like an oul Tortilla, but pancakes with lemon and sugar are lovely. And they really were a treat when i was a kid. I can almost hear my mam snorting "sure it's far from that you were raised" about tortillas 😂😂😂

We do - it's Pancake Tuesday here.

My mother who is deeply religious was bemoaning calling it pancake day instead of Shrove Tuesday and when I asked her what the actual fuck a Shrove even was she couldn’t tell me so I’m going to be smugger than a smug thing when I go back to her with an answer so thank you to a PP for that explanation.

Fat Tuesday is my favourite name for it.

Have never heard it called Pancake Tuesday. Pancake day is fine-I like pancakes and am not religious.

Ha this

I'm not sure I've ever heard it called Shrove Tuesday beyond school assemblies!

Mmmm pancakes. I've got maple syrup in the cupboard this year 🥞 😋 👌

No way I am calling anything else other than pancake day or fasting, at least it is for health issues.