Its Pancake Day Today. But Why Do We Have It?!
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Answers: This is a random question i know. But ive always known to have pancake day. But ive never known why.
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Today is Shrove Tuesday the day before the start of Lent; lent is a part of the Christian church's preparation for Easter and was traditionally a time of fasting and abstinence. Pancakes were eaten on this day to use up the food that were forbidden during Lent such as butter eggs and milk, so that these items were then gone so they couldn't tempt people to eat stuff they weren't supposed to. Nowadays people tend to give up some luxury during lent such as chocolate but in centuries past the fast was much stricter and more important to people.
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Its all down to using up fresh ingredients before Len, namely the eggs and the fat. Lent was a time of fasting - so wouldn't use them!
Sal UK is right.
Incidentally, the name Shrove Tuesday comes from the old practice of confessing sins on this day & being shrived (or shrove), which means absolved.
its so you can use up all your rich naughty ingredients before lent as you are only allowed to eat plain foods
The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs may be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, and sugar are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes and doughnuts were therefore an efficient way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself
The word shrove is a past tense of the English verb "shrive," which means to obtain absolution for one's sins by confessing and doing penance Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the shriving (confession) that Anglo-Saxon Christians were expected to receive immediately before Lent
Its an old tradition, it was meant to use up all the sweet things in the house, sugar, chocolate etc. so there would be no tempting things in the house as people took giving things up for lent very seriuosly back then!
Personally I do it because I like pancakes :).
Traditionally it's a time when richer foods that may spoil - eggs, milk would be used up before people would begin fasting (usually eating plain foods) for lent (the 40 days- not including Sundays) that lead up to Easter.
Fasting is part of Lent. Traditionally, in Europe, all the foods that can't be eaten during Lent are used up the last day before Ash Wednesday. This day is also known as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Eggs and butter and lard are taboo during Lent, and would go bad over the 40 days. Hence the pancakes. Waste not, want not.
Take a look at this schools website it explains it very well.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/...
In a nutshell Christians used to use up all the eggs and fat and cook them to make pancakes the day before lent because they would go off over lent. The fast to represent the temptations of Jesus by the Devil.
It's because most everyone who made a New Year's Resolution to lose 10 pounds has now accomplished that feat, and to celebrate they feel the need to eat lots of empty calories -- hence -- Pancake Day!
Nah, not really -- just joshin' with ya!
try this link below should give you all you need.
because pancakes are bloody lovely. and when your a kid your mum will never say yes to pancakes for dinner as they arnt healthy, but today is a different story! kids all around the world are rejoycing! oh hang on apparently its something to do with religion. rubbish! its for the kids
We have it because today is shrove Tuesday, on the Christian calendar it is the day before the beginning of lent. WHERE the 40 days and 40 nights of ''fasting'' adhere, and we use up all fresh ingredients to prevent the temptation of certain things.. Also, usually a Christian uses this time during lent to do something different, or stop doing something as a way to show the leading temptation of Christ when he was tempted by the Devil in the desert. AND the Wednesday after Shrove Tuesday is Ash Wednesday, where ashes are put on people's foreheads.. (Maybe only in Catholicism.. [kinda unsure])
Today is actually Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Starting tomorrow members of certain Christian denominations (mostly Catholic and Anglican) do without meat, fat and some other things as a partial fast from now until Easter.
The custom of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday arose in the UK countries as a way to use up butter that would otherwise have to be thrown out. In other countries different foods are traditional - like donuts in Germany.
It's Shrove Tuesday. In the Catholic calendar (and I think most Christian churches but they don't really do it), they had a day to get rid of all the eggs and stuff in the house before they went on their diet for Lent. Lent lasted until easter when they were allowed to eat normally again.
it is calebrating the independence of usa