Pancake Day.

[Strawberry5]

Happy Pancake Day.

[pixie374]

I forgot it was today... so may have to do it tomorrow. But we are having crispy duck, with pancakes. Does that count?

[rowanwitch]

Weight watchers version with Apple peach and cinnamon filling or thick proper ones with lemon and sugar?????? Or shall I just have both

[Arksided]

Shrove Tuesday today... blimey!

I'm sure they change the date each year... ;-)

Have a good toss of those pancakes Strawberry.... I have plenty of eggs but whats flour.

[retrocop]

Is it? Hated the damn things even as kid.

[marval]

I forgot it was, will have them another time.

[melv16]

I've heard that tonyav isn't allowed to make pancakes in his house.
Something to do with being a useless to55er:,-)

[sanmac]

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday) is a really, really big event in New Oleans, and they build up to it for days beforehand. Take a look at Bourbon Street...The costumes and the antics will get wilder as the day wears on. One of the many customs they have is flinging necklaces of beads at each other: https://www.earthcam.com/events/mardigras/?cam=catsmeow2

[sanmac]

https://www.earthcam.com/events/mardigras/?cam=bourbonstreet

[jno]

oh yes, and in Germany women go round cutting off men's ties. Goodness knows what that's all about.

[Tilly2]

[Arksided]

Lol melv. Seems agood man on here does MR.AV but funny.

samac, do Americans have a party if someone trips on a sidewalk over there? Seems to me any excuse will do.

[Arksided]

*sanmac, rather :-)

[sanmac]

Last night, this section of Bourbon Street was patrolled by NOPD, Louisiana State Police, and a posse of mounted police.

[Arksided]

Well you do like to party... carry on is all I can say... I'm not judging just wondering was all.

[sanmac]

Arksided, Nawlins is always up for a party, hence "The Big Easy".

[sanmac]

Later on this evening you'll see groups standing around holding up huge crosses, and other groups with signs saying things like "Believe In Jesus Or Burn In Hell"; "Ban Homo Marriages"; and so forth. Whereas close to them, you'll see people offering nipple-glossing...Crazy.

[anneasquith]

How could anyone just hate shrove Tuesday, ?

[Theland]

A successful pancake needs a good ***.

[Theland]

To $$ €R ^^^^

[zebo]

//oh yes, and in Germany women go round cutting off men's ties. Goodness knows what that's all about//

Altweiberfastnacht is what it's called, ties are cut off as an, err, symbolic gesture to demasculate men! OH lost no end of ties, he usually wore his oldest and most hideous though he once lost a beautiful silk one. Oddly enough there isn't an equivalent ceremony for the women, no great surprise there.

As far as pancakes go, I have seafood pancakes in a cheese sauce in the oven.