Happy Shrove Tuesday -Pancake Day

I hope everyone is busy making pancakes, thinking about pancakes, buying pancakes or making pancakes. :-)

We had some lovely fluffy ones this morning with maple syrup and bacon. :-)  Normally I am a flat pancake/crepe person, but today I decided to crank up the baking powder.... lovely!


Here are some links to the history and all pancake goodness...

So let's sing, " Tippety-Tippety-tin; Give me a pancake and I'll come in.
Tippety-tippety-toe, Give me a pancake and then I'll go."

http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/pancakeday.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/shrove.html

YUM!  I love any excuse to have pancakes

... or not being able to GET any pancakes - syrup especially - because EVERYONE is SOLD OUT 

However...
Isn't it... ironic... ?
Isn't the concept of 'Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day' all about the Catholics having to get RID of all their flour, eggs, etc.?
Yet all the adverts say "HAVE YOU STOCKED UP FOR PANCAKE DAY?"

Hmmm. 

... or not being able to GET any pancakes - syrup especially - because EVERYONE is SOLD OUT

However...
Isn't it... ironic... ?
Isn't the concept of 'Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day' all about the Catholics having to get RID of all their flour, eggs, etc.?
Yet all the adverts say "HAVE YOU STOCKED UP FOR PANCAKE DAY?"

Hmmm.

ROFL

Jon has gone out and bought all our stuff for Pancake Day. yay!

... or not being able to GET any pancakes - syrup especially - because EVERYONE is SOLD OUT 

Sacrilege!! You don't use syrup on pancake day!!! 

Sacrilege!! You don't use syrup on pancake day!!!

Unless you're American.  Syrup on EVERYTHING. Bacon.. mmmm.... eggs.... mmmm.... pancakes... mmmmmmmmmmmmm.  (I'm all hyped up just thinking of it)


Good recipes, in case anyone is unsure as to what kind of pancakes to have, can be found here: http://allrecipes.com/pancake.asp

Isn't it... ironic... ?

And BTW, does anyone else have the Alanis Morrissette song in their head? Thank you very much, Elizabeth.

And BTW, does anyone else have the Alanis Morrissette song in their head? Thank you very much, Elizabeth.

Good god, I am sorry for that.

Sacrilege!! You don't use syrup on pancake day!!!

But see, that's the beauty of being pagan.  I can do anything I damn well please as long as I'm not harming people deliberately. 
Maybe I'll go dance naked under a full moon with a bottle of syrup in my hand... you know, to... celebrate the... maple tree... SEE?!  I just created another pagan holiday. 

(NB - I did have pancakes with AUNT JEMIMA SYRUP this past weekend... so do not mourn for me.)

Just went down to the town centre to watch the Annual Pancake Race across the town bridge!    12 people in funny costumes running across the bridge in the freezing cold with a frying pan and flipping pancakes as they run!  lol.....another memory I will cherish from my time in this country! 

Just went down to the town centre to watch the Annual Pancake Race across the town bridge!    12 people in funny costumes running across the bridge in the freezing cold with a frying pan and flipping pancakes as they run!  lol.....another memory I will cherish from my time in this country! 

That's awesome!!