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Level 3 – Intermediate
Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras is a day of extravagant fun and festivities for Christians around the world. Traditionally, it is the last day for Christians to indulge and lead an extravagant lifestyle before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent, which lasts forty days, is a period of penance and fasting before Easter.
In the past, so as not to waste food, families would use up everything that wouldn’t keep for forty days. This included eggs, milk and fats and led to the tradition of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. Later, it became customary to hold pancake races on Shrove Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday is also a day of penitence when good Christians would go to church for confession. Back in 1445, a woman was cooking pancakes in her kitchen when she heard the church bell ringing the start of mass. She rushed out of her house and ran to church wearing her apron and carrying her frying pan. Since that time, pancake races have been held every year.
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