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

Simple solution - Pancake Tuesday.

You're right! I left out a syllable.

Agnostic here - I call it both pancake day and shrove Tuesday depending on how it falls out of my mouth ... I can't be bothered with getting het up about observing any religious festivals in a traditional / religious setting but doesn't bother me if more religious people do - I do get annoyed when people get snarky though at people who chose to observe theee days as tradition rather than religious - so YABU in my opinion

I reaĺly am shocked it's not common parlance in the UK tbh. Genuinely like! How did i miss that?

It's Carnival Tuesday, thank you very much.

It was shrove Tuesday when I was growing up but I call it pancake day now!!!

I've no time to be fasting and I buy the stuff I need for the day I'm not cleaning out the cupboard using the old stuff so it defeats the purpose anyway

Thanks to a commercial many years ago, it’s Jif lemon day in our house.

Pancake Tuesday just makes more sense, as it was originally Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday).

You're joking aren't you, with all the collection baskets going round the church? Loads of money to be made.

It’s pancake day, it’s pancake day, it’s ppp pancake day

Me either! And I’ve lived in London for 15 years…mind blown.

All this time I’ve been referring to it as Pancake Tuesday have people been thinking it’s weird and just not saying anything? My own English husband has never commented on it.

Yep, the tester pancake.

Pancake Tuesday for us as well in Ireland. It was the only day of the year that we had pancakes when I was young so I used to gorge myself 😆 And it was butter, Jif lemon and sugar on them. Some jam instead if you were being fancy but never chocolate spread or Nutella.

This is so wrong!

You can’t have American pancakes on pancake day!

I knew about haitch, gotten, Mummy/Many for adults, Halloween, Santa/Santa but who knew Pancake Tuesday was Irish! Another one for the list. OP my grandparents would be well over 100 by now and they said Pancake Tuesday. Just as you think you can't learn any more on MN!

Amazing. This deserves far more credit than it received.

This!

My very Catholic Irish granny called it Pancake Day

I prefer a dropped scone anyway.

Either Pancake day or Shrove Tuesday, not pancake Tuesday.

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We’re religion-free. We like pancakes. We have pancake day. I know the tradition behind it but it’s changed as society has changed, which is what happens with traditions. Christians are free to call it Shrove Tuesday and mark the start of Lent, and anyone else is free just to enjoy pancake day. That shouldn’t affect Christians.

@KreedKafer I do call it st Stephens day because that's what it is

Pancake day? I've NEVER heard anyone call it "pancake tuesday" that sounds wanky