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

Yeah. Naughty just sounds a bit kinky and definitely should not be used to refer to children.

I totally agree. Tuesday is for Tacos.

Fine but only if you stop calling Saturnalia Christmas and Eostre Easter.

Except all of Ireland and Scotland...

Pancake Day for me.

Not religious at all but cherry pick the festivities that are to my advantage when it comes to indulgent food.

It definitely gets called Pancake Tuesday in Ireland and NI but you do hear shrove Tuesday quite a lot. Hearing “pancake day” in England always made me laugh, for some reason it feels like calling Christmas “present day” or Easter Sunday “chocolate egg day”.

Agree... pancakes that are too thick are horrible.
Thin ones , maybe 2.5mm tops, are delicious!
I could do with a pile of pancakes now... But got no eggs in.

I would call it pancake day but somehow miss it every year? I can't make a decent one to save my life either.

Enjoy your pancakes!

We're Catholic, attend mass every week, children go to a Catholic school... We still call it pancake day. I'm not sure I've ever been bothered in the slightest what people call it. My children know ash Wednesday is the start of lent 🤷🏼‍♀️

@OchonAgusOchonOh I'm from "West Brit Land" (I'll try not be offended since I know you ), Pancake Tuesday there too.

I do sometimes wonder about the many Catholic Irish grandparents of English posters on MN using "Southern Ireland", paddy etc - perhaps another example of someone having moved across the water and adopting the local lingo, or just being misremembered.

Also Irish so it's Pancake Tuesday. Never realised people in England called it Pancake Day until just now!
There's a reason for the pancakes as people have explained, so the name is not disconnected from religion.

I do and so do the majority of the people I hear talking about it….

I do all this as a Christian - agree it's great!

And I get to do all the other stuff too

Yeah sorry but to atheists it’s just pancake day

Why are atheists buying up all the pancake ingredients and ready made pancakes on pancake day? You can have them every day though out Lent anyway, leave them for the poor people who fast during Lent.

I've never heard anyone call it Pancake Tuesday.
Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday are all I've ever heard.
No one calls it Pancake Tuesday.

Re: the origins of it. I know but I don't care.

But UK isn't a religious Christian country so much as a pagan country wearing a culturally christian cunning disguise.

THIS! In spades!

I think it's time we accepted this country isn't mostly Christian any more. Most Brits are agnostic. The history of how Christianity was forced upon the people of Britain isn't a happy one.

The concept of Christian celebrations being hijacked by crepes & chocolate eggs is more than a tad ironic when you maybe consider that Jesus was born in October and 'Christmas' was rebranded to be about him because people across Europe refused to give up their Pagan winter celebrations and traditions.

Clearly this hijacking thing works both ways!

Oidhche Inide.
Irish language version. Means the initial night (of Lent).

Mmmm, pancakes. Nothing is funnier to me than the shops after work on Pancake Day, rammed with people last-minute buying eggs, flour, milk, golden syrup, lemons, and my favourite, ready-made shake-it-up pancake mix in a squirty bottle – really staying true to the day’s roots.

If we can't slag our friends, who can we slag?

Always one.

The most Irish sentiment of all!

I'm from Newcastle, have always called it pancake Tuesday.

If a religion is followed by most of a country for a long time, many of its associated traditions become culturally significant in their own right.

You can’t take these traditions back. Pancake day, Easter, and Christmas belong to everyone. They are part of the fabric of the UK 🤷‍♀️.

St. Pancake day.