Ok so i know people may be fed up with pancake questions but i searched and no one has asked this. Plus i've just had my pancakes and it's got me curious!
So i know the reason behind pancake day (shrove tuesday) and I know why we make pancakes etc. And I know it's celebrated in the UK, Ireland and Aussie-land.
But I hear it's not common in the US? Does anyone historically know if there is a reason for this or if it just didn't 'catch on'?
I'm curious because it's basically a Christian thing and I figure in the US there is a pretty big majority of Christians. I know other coutries celebrate something similar but not the US? (I know about Mardi Gras too)
I'd also like to hear to if you are from the US and do celebrate (also if you do, whether you eat 'american style' pancakes or some more similar to the ones we in the UK eat). That'd be interesting to.
2007-02-20 07:18:41 · 3 answers · asked by Shanti76 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
your answer lays here
http://www.pancakeparlour.com/Annual_Events/Shrove/shrove.html
the U.S. NO LONGER celebrates it, as it was seen as an imposition of the British Crown on the Pilgrim Fathers, who rejected it out of hand as 'paganistic'
2007-02-20 09:20:09 · answer #1 · answered by The old man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tuesday earlier Ash Wednesday is termed Shrove Tuesday. many human beings do eat pancakes in this present day. I absolutely have also heard it observed as fat Tuesday. i imagine because Lent became upon them, they ate extra heavy foodstuff to carry them over. ( per chance extra symbolically than some thing else)
2016-12-04 10:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't even know there was a pancake day!
2007-02-20 09:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sanura Ivid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋