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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 18:59:13 GMT
I'd totally forgotten, don't have any ingredients and can't be bothered to go out and get any now. So this is the EF virtual pancake party..
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Post by elshobokshy on Feb 12, 2013 19:11:05 GMT
Bahh I don't intend to help, I'll just eat when it's finished! ;D
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 19:13:14 GMT
Hmmmph. You get the first of the batch then, which is always crap.
Do you do pancake day there? I know it's a Christian thing technically but it's become rather secular here .. I suspect that most people do not know it has a religious origin.
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Post by Shake on Feb 12, 2013 19:17:19 GMT
Do you do pancake day there? There's a day for pancakes? Guess I shouldn't be surprised, they have days for lots of things. |
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Post by Shake on Feb 12, 2013 19:17:40 GMT
I don't mind pancakes, but I prefer waffles.
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 19:18:32 GMT
Shake - it's Shrove Tuesday!
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Post by Shake on Feb 12, 2013 19:19:48 GMT
That doesn't mean very much to me. I know today better (and that only from the last decade or so) as Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday. But I'm still missing the connection to pancakes.
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Post by elshobokshy on Feb 12, 2013 19:19:53 GMT
It's as well my first time hearing of a pancake day  But if it's pancake, I don't mind eating!! ;D |
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 19:22:11 GMT
Shake - the idea was that poor people used up all their frivolous ingredients on the day before Lent started, because they were supposed to be living off simple foodstuffs during Lent. I gather that they'd just chuck anything at all into their pancakes
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Post by elshobokshy on Feb 12, 2013 19:27:00 GMT
But.. but.... I'm lazy  Pfft fine! What should I bring? |
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Post by Shake on Feb 12, 2013 19:27:07 GMT
Oh, that's right. I think I'd heard that before, but I'd forgotten it. Lent is one of those Christian traditions I dropped when I stopped believing. We still do Christmas and Easter, but those are largely secular holidays now.
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Post by tangent on Feb 12, 2013 19:29:36 GMT
"Historically, pancakes were made on Shrove Tuesday so that the last of the fatty and rich foods could be used up before Lent." - Wiki So, no more meat, eggs or dairy produce until Easter Sunday. |
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Post by Kye on Feb 12, 2013 19:30:48 GMT
My church is doing pancakes and I'll have to eat a couple even though it's not on my diet.  No one does pancakes here outside the church. It's only seen as a Christian thing. |
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 12, 2013 19:30:49 GMT
We had pancakes on the weekend. They were yummy. I forgot it was pancake day today though, until people brought it up. We had thai lime and coconut curry for dinner. yum!
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 19:30:55 GMT
Islam - bring maple syrup
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Post by elshobokshy on Feb 12, 2013 19:38:58 GMT
Maple what? I can bring apple |
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 19:46:23 GMT
maple syrup .. don't you know what that is? *Swoons*
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Post by elshobokshy on Feb 12, 2013 19:49:57 GMT
Never heard of that |
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2013 19:56:24 GMT
sweet stcky stuff that comes out of maple trees..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 20:26:43 GMT
Maple what? I can bring apple *boggles* To go through life without knowing maple syrup... We're doing pancakes tonight at home. With sage sausage and applesauce. And maple syrup! |
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Post by Kye on Feb 12, 2013 20:26:48 GMT
Yum yum! Remind me to bring you some when I come, Moose.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 20:27:46 GMT
You got some from the Great Maple Syrup Heist, didn't you, Kye!
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Post by Kye on Feb 12, 2013 20:28:12 GMT
Umm.... sure!
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Post by tangent on Feb 12, 2013 20:34:53 GMT
Maple what? I can bring apple *boggles* To go through life without knowing maple syrup... I was a lot older than elshobokshy before I learnt about Maple syrup. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 12, 2013 20:59:10 GMT
I don't like Maple Syrup... it tastes like trees! I make pancakes at random, but now I've been reminded (for the third time today) I will do some in a while (assuming I do not forget yet again). |
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Post by Karen on Feb 12, 2013 21:38:57 GMT
So, no more meat, eggs or dairy produce until Easter Sunday. You can have those things any Sunday in Lent: Sundays don't count. There are 40 days in Lent...do the math.  Since all Sundays—and not simply Easter Sunday—were days to celebrate Christ's Resurrection, Christians were forbidden to fast and do other forms of penance on those days. Therefore, when the Church expanded the period of fasting and prayer in preparation for Easter from a few days to 40 days (to mirror Christ's fasting in the desert, before He began His public ministry), Sundays could not be included in the count.
Thus, in order for Lent to include 40 days on which fasting could occur, it had to be expanded to six full weeks (with six days of fasting in each week) plus four extra days—Ash Wednesday and the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that follow it. Six times six is thirty-six, plus four equals forty. And that's how we arrive at the 40 days of Lent. |
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Post by jayme on Feb 12, 2013 23:56:08 GMT
That's so sad. We get Mardi Gras and all you get is pancakes. *empties liquor cabinet*
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Post by tangent on Feb 13, 2013 1:24:50 GMT
Thanks, Karen. Somewhere at the back of my mind, I think I knew that but it had been buried.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2013 7:00:54 GMT
I like pancakes, but I haven't eaten them in a long time.
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 13, 2013 9:15:32 GMT
I made some "interesting" pancakes last night. Using wholemeal flour was different! |
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But if it's pancake, I don't mind eating!! ;D
Pfft fine! What should I bring?
