Shrove Tuesday, (the day before Ash Wednesday) marks the beginning of the 40-day Lenten fasting period when the faithful were forbidden by the church to consume meat, butter, eggs or milk. However, if a family had a store of these foods they all would go bad by the time the fast ended on Easter Sunday. What to do?
Solution: use up the milk, butter and eggs no later than Shrove Tuesday. And so, with the addition of a little flour, the solution quickly presented itself in... pancakes. And lots of 'em.
And if you can't sit down to a plate of pancakes, then faschnauts (donuts) are great with a cup of coffee.
Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Day and Mardi Gras) is the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Shrove Tuesday is observed mainly in English speaking countries, especially Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States but is also observed in the Philippines and Germany. Shrove Tuesday is linked to Easter, so its date changes on an annual basis.
In most traditions the day is known for the eating of pancakes before the start of Lent. Pancakes are eaten as they are made out of the main foods available, sugar, fat, flour and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally restricted during the ritual fasting associated with Lent.
Pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent because they were a way to use up rich foodstuffs such as eggs, milk, and sugar, before the fasting season of the 40 days of Lent. The liturgical fasting emphasized eating plainer food and refraining from food that would give pleasure: In many cultures, this means no meat, dairy, or eggs.
In Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand among Anglicans, Lutherans, some other Protestant denominations, including ethnic British communities, as well as Catholics, this day is also known as Pancake Tuesday, as it is customary to eat pancakes.
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I have no idea! I am a Christian and we don't do anything with pancakes on Easter. Maybe it's a family tradition to eat pancakes. Or maybe the Jews make them unleven and eat them at Passover during easter.
In the UK it is called Shrove Tuesday. (Shrove comes from an old word for confession.) It is the day before Lent when people used to fast and give up various foods. Making pancakes used up the eggs etc. that would be forbidden.
Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the last day before the period which Christians call Lent. It is traditional on this day to eat pancakes.
Pancake day, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday and Fat Tuesday and other celebrations are held at the beginning of Lent by members of various Catholic and Protestant churches. Traditionally, people used up the last of the eggs, lard and flour before Lent.
Pancakes are eaten on the Tuesday preceding Lent because they allowed people to use up rich foodstuffs such as eggs, milk, and sugar, fasting for 40 days of Lent. The fasting involves eating plainer food and not eating pleasureable food: In many areas this means no meat, dairy, or eggs. Information comes from Wikipedia.com
Because they're delicious. Also, because of Shrove Tuesday (AKA Pancake Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, etc.) which is the day that goes before Ash Wednesday, better known as the start of Lent. In English traditions, people ate a lot of pancakes before Lent because of the foods they're made out of (sugar, flour, fat, eggs, etc.), which people weren't allowed to eat during the Lent-fasting.
I would expect people from all cultures to eat pancakes, however there is no guarantee that everyone does.
Before during lent the people couldn't eat any meat at all.
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Mardi gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the final celebration before Lent.
People aged 14 or older are not allowed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent.