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[Other Sport] Shrove Tuesday
- Thread starter crodonilson
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Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Anybody who votes for anything other than lemon juice needs a stern talking to.
Knightsworld
Well-known member
Vanilla Ice Cream & Golden Syrup.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
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Your mum
- Aug 24, 2020
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Butter and marmite.
All other options are invalid.
All other options are invalid.
The pagan roots of Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday
Just like many of our other Christian-themed annual holidays and celebrations, the roots of Pancake Day lie in pre-Christian pagan times
www.history.co.uk
Marty McFly
Seagulls Over Canada
Bacon, banana, and maple syrup (sometimes blueberries too)!
I don't really like pancakes, so voted whiskey - on the grounds that I can just bin the pancake and drink that.
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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but also Butter and Sugar …. mmmmm,m
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
Correct answer.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Not on a Pancake.You don't fancy my pork, prawn and bean sprouts then? They were delicious
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Shredded chicken, spinach, béchamel, nutmeg, rolled up.
Sprinkled with parmesan, then under grill.
Sprinkled with parmesan, then under grill.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That article is confusing Imbolc which is always on February 2nd halfway between midwinter and Spring.The pagan roots of Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday
Just like many of our other Christian-themed annual holidays and celebrations, the roots of Pancake Day lie in pre-Christian pagan times
The Christian version is Candlemas or Chandeleur, when pancakes are also eaten because they look like the sun, and symbols the return of light.
It is nothing to do with Shrove Tuesday or Ash Wednesday which is movable. Lent is a time of preparation when people often fasted so used up their fat, flour and eggs. Mardi Gras - Fat Tuesday.
Nowadays, it’s just giving something up rather than fasting.
Christian and pagan holidays are interwined. Understandably, early Christians latched their holidays onto the traditions that were prevalent at the time. That's a much easier sell to would-be converts than telling them they have to ditch long-standing rituals and take up the Christian ones.
With that in mind, today I'll be sacrificing a goat and a dog before feasting them running through the streets naked.
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