How about Fat Pancakes!

Being Canadian and now living in the states, I do get the odd look when I go in search of pancakes on this 'Fat Tuesday' We grew up knowing this day as "Pancake Tuesday' also called Shrove Tueday.

Shroving is a ancient British custom in which children sang or recited poetry in exchange for food or money.


A popular shroving rhyme went like this:

Knock, knock, the pan's hot
And we are coming a-shroving
For a piece of pancake
Or a piece of bacon
Or a piece of truckle* cheese
Of your own making.

I may not be singing for my pancakes....but yummy.

Not sure how pancakes, religion and Mardi Gras celebrations with boobie flashes all relate together, but to each their own.