2006-12-16 23:59:47 · 7 answers · asked by jayebird 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Shrove Tuesday is the last day before lent, when people would go to church to confess their sins, repent and be forgiven before the fasting for Lent.
The tradition of eating pancakes is from the need to use up food which would spoil before the Lenten fast so there is that link with 'Fat Tuesday'.
2006-12-17 00:26:35 · answer #1 · answered by leekier 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The last three days before the beginning of Lent is known as Shrovetide. The old names for these days were:
Quinquagesima Sunday - Shrove Sunday
The fiftieth day before Easter
Collop Monday- Shrove Monday
Named after the traditional dish of the day: collops of bacon served with eggs. In addition to providing little meat, the collops were also the source of the fat for the following day's pancakes.
Pancake Day - Shrove Tuesday
The day on which all fats and cream had to be used up.
Shrovetide was celebrated with games, sports, dancing and other revelries. There were feasts to use up the food that could not be eaten during the Lenten fast. Football was played in the streets and Nickanan Night (as Shrove Monday evening was called in Cornwall) was a time for boys to run riot in the villages: hiding gates, taking off door knockers, and making off with anything that householders had forgotten to lock away.
2006-12-17 08:02:51 · answer #2 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
In French it is called Fat Tuesday. perhaps shrove is old English for fat.?
2006-12-17 08:02:02 · answer #3 · answered by soobee 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don' t exactly know to be honest, I think it may have some thing to do with Lent. !!
2006-12-19 20:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by Sierra One 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
look it up on wiki, can find almost anything there hunni
2006-12-17 08:01:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
research it up on google
2006-12-20 07:05:49 · answer #6 · answered by sunrisepoppycher 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
here you are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday
2006-12-17 08:07:09 · answer #7 · answered by dave a 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋