Pancake day...Why?
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Bing said:Hunter said:Bing said:Stop at Sainsburys on the way home
Wish i could....im on Shetland working...FFFRRRREEEZZZZZIIIINNNNGGGGG
Wow - bummer. But on the plus side, what a beautiful place to be working
Beautiful???? lol...its usually wet and windy..not a tree on the place and iv not seen a decent car in the year iv been working here!!! On the plus side though...I work a three week on and then three weeks at home rotation...so i drive from Nottingham to Aberdeen in my Z and fly from there..so when i get of this island and back to Aberdeen..my little Z is waiting for a 450 mile drive home..and its never let me down.
don't you just love this forum, no subject untouched. do you think other car forum group's are discusing pancakesHunter said:PANCAKE DAY....Why do we have it/What is it?????
Pancake day, also know as Shrove (English version of the aribic word Shrive) tuesday and Mardi Gras (fat tuesday) is the last day of a religeous time called "Shrovetide". Shrovetide is the three days that preceed Ash Wedensday...which is the first day of Lent...which is a 40 day period of fasting. Fasting these days is just like being on a very strict diet. So traditionally from last Sunday until today people were supposed to "shrove" which means confess all their wrong doings and then on shrove tuesday (pancake day ) everyone was supposed to eat and drink as much as they could because they where gonna go hungry for the next 40 days.......the reason we eat pancakes today is that flour, eggs, fat and milk (the ingredients of pancakes) where the four main foods banned while fasting (dieting) for Lent. So their you go...eat loads today..its what your supposed to do!!!
what a great bunch of people