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

My late father disliked the parish priest back in Ireland. So on Ash Wednesday he would gather us all up in a line (4 of us) and stick his thumb at the back of the cold fireplace to get some old ash, and give us all the "Blessed Ashes" there and then before school.

The nuns would then think we had all been up at the crack of dawn, gone to the church, got the ashes, and then went to school. Far From It.

I miss him so much.

Every day is pancake day in our house!!! We can't get enough of them. Sugar and lemon is my weakness.

Who calls it pancake Tuesday? It's Shrove Tuesday or pancake day.

Oíche surely? Or is that an old spelling?

Ive never heard of Pancake Tuesday. Ive heard of pancake day but never used it.
The boys school didn’t either.
We ve only ever used Shrove Tuesday.

I suppose a lot of people are not religious and wouldn’t know what Shrove Tuesday is anyway.

With us it’s a feast, including pancakes then Lent where you give up something etc.

I just call it Tuesday

I was on a zoom meeting recently. In the middle of me talking, I suddenly remembered the immersion had been on since early morning and we were now mid afternoon.

I yelled "The immersion", jumped up and ran upstairs to turn it off. Thankfully all on the call were Irish and sufficiently old enough to understand the emergency I was facing.

Mothering Sunday is about going back to your mother church, it's not about mums if you're Christian.

As we're atheists here, it's pancake day, and mother's day about mums.

If you don't like non christians celebrating christian festivals then you need to make sure that you don't celebrate the non christian elements. So for Christmas you need to stop giving gifts, having nice food, decorating your houses with greenery and celebrating with others as that's Saturnalia which was celebrated before christianity was invented.

Its pancake day in our house and comes 40 days before chocolate day.

Same reason we dont call Boxing Day St Stephens Day. For a lot of people who are not religious, the pancakes are the important part of the day, not the meaning, fasting etc etc.

Love this. I hated getting ashes so as kids we sometimes did our own from the ashes in the fireplace.

I remember an advert in the 90’s when Shrove Tuesday was Jif lemon day!

To you.

Do you mind Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday?

It's pancake Tuesday in my part of the world, I've never heard if 'pancake day'. We aren't religious so we don't do lent.

We aren't Christian. We just enjoy celebrating.... pancakes. So we do.

@TiredCatLady I love Mardi gras and every Tuesday is fat Tuesday
(I'm also a tired cat lady 🐈‍⬛)

You can eat pancakes any day.

Yep. You can also have birthday cake when it's not your birthday and Christmas pudding in August. It's not the same though.

It's Shrove Tuesday. It doesn't matter if you're Christian or not, that's literally what the day is called. Christmas and Easter haven't been bastardised to Present and Chocolate Egg Day have they?

Jif Lemon Day 😀

^^This.

Thank goodness they renamed the cleaning product to Cif!

I'm not from a religious family really, but school and my grandparents would call it Shrove Tuesday so we called it both that and Pancake Day and I still would now, interchangeably. I can see that advertisers would want people to know it's on a Tuesday soon hence Pancake Tuesday, it makes you think oh is that soon then, which Tuesday?

I agree with the Catholic up thread who says to worry about more important things.

Same here.

I'm a practising Christian and call it Shrove Tuesday, but it doesn't bother me what other people call it.

I dare say there are Druids who are still miffed that we have annexed Christmas and Easter, though I don't know what they were originally called. Winter and Spring Solstices, possibly, tough the name "Easter" comes from the goddess "Oestre", I believe.

😂😂😂Me too.

It's called Shrove Tuesday, pancake Tuesday, pancake day, Mardi gras. Probably other things.

I know it's a crazy concept, but the same thing can have different names in different cultures, and no one culture is right.

It's Shrove Tuesday. It doesn't matter if you're Christian or not, that's literally what the day is called. Christmas and Easter haven't been bastardised to Present and Chocolate Egg Day have they?

Losing (or rather, lost) battle there, I'm afraid. It seems the majority call it Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday. Most of the few people who still call it Shrove Tuesday don't even know what the name means . Shrove Tuesday is not 'literally what the day is called' by most people.

I was brought up catholic and called it both shrove Tuesday and pancake day. But not sure why anyone non-religious would call it shrove Tuesday.

This!