Shrove Tuesday is Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) in France and falls the day before Lent (Ash Wednesday, when repentence is shown). Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Day, supposedly the last day you can eat forbidden things fat butter eggs ect. before Lent starts. We also have Maunday Thursday, a tradition when the reigning Monarch hands out alms to the poor, called maunday money. Leading to Easter Sunday, when the children are given Chocolate Easter eggs. As a child during the War there was no chocolate, we had ordinary boiled eggs that had been boiled in coloured dye red blue pink etc.