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Mardi= Tuesday Gras=Fat
I know. But which came first? Fat Tuesday seems an awkward English formation, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's the translation. And I'd be even less surprised to find out Lundi Gras was a back formation from the Tuesday, but would like to be more sure.
I thought we established that it was Paczki Day.
That's what the church calls it?
I was just looking up paczkis at the Chicago foodie website I occasionally visit, and I think I've found a source for them just down the street from where I'm going to pick up my glasses at lunchtime. I think I'll drive by there and see if they have any left that I can bring into work--this bakery is supposed to carry the rose-flavored filling, which is traditional along with prune, and I'd like to try one.
In Poland, Paczki Day is celebrated on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. It's in the US that it's celebrated on Fat Tuesday.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
I note that the UK was Catholic before it was Protestant, so I expect Fat Tuesday has been what it's called there for a long, long time.
Fat Tuesday also = Shrove Tuesday. That's what out church called it.
In Polish, it's "Tlusty czwartek."
No, I have NO idea how to pronounce it.
Also, the wikipedia page has been edited. Did someone here do it?
I think I like the Brit tradition of Shrove Tuesday - pancakes for supper tonight, maybe.
Fat Tuesday, the way I was taught, was the Annual Pig Out Day before Lent and Teh Fasting. Eat all of your favorite things before you offer it all up for the 40 days.
We didn't have to offer it all up, just whatever was a distraction from god or living a holy life. So, if you had a kind of obsession with- say going shopping- you'd quit that and spend that time thinking about how you and god could be better homies. If your thing, like mine, is scotch, every time you go to reach for a scotch, you contemplate your relationship with god instead.
A friend of mine who is a huge whisky drinker gives up Jameson every year and drinks beer instead.
I expect Fat Tuesday has been what it's called there for a long, long time.
Never heard it called that there once. In fact, the US was the first time I heard the day named in anything other than French. [eta: no, Shrove Tuesday is familiar...never put two and two together]
Lemme go google.
That's right! Pancake Day! I forgot!