Mardi Gras vs. Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)

What will you choose to do the day before Lent?

Traditional celebration
Mardi Gras - Characterized by drinkin', smokin', carousin'...well, anyone seen an episode of COPS: New Orleans?

Shrove Tuesday - Characterized by eating as many pancakes as humanly possible.

Familiar mantras:
Mardi Gras - "SHOW YOUR..."

Shrove Tuesday - "I say, PASS the BLOODY SYRUP!"

Disturbing imagery
Mardi Gras - http://www.nola.com/mardigras/galleries/

Pancake day - http://www.pancakeday.com/pics2003.html

Aftermath
Mardi Gras - "My tongue is hairy...there's a buzzing noise in my head...and who the heck are YOU?!!?"

Shrove Tuesday - "I bloody can't breathe...there's a pound of batter mix expanding in my stomach...and who's hogging the loo?"

So many choices, so little time. Drink or 'cake? Pass out or pass gas? Or does anyone give a flippin' flapjack?

-'Playa
*** Edited 2/24/2004 2:38:34 PM UTC by CoastaPlaya***

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

not coaster related. I feel a closure here.

Don't forget the Polish folks with Paczkis! http://acweb.colum.edu/users/agunkel/homepage/paczki.html yum...Jelly doughnuts on steroids! I purchased three dozen for my office from my local Polish bakery!

Do they polka before or after dinner? Cuz that could get real interesting...

Not coaster related? I always put my bourbon on a coaster! And I'll take bourbon over pancakes any morning! ;)

"I go out at 3 o' clock for a quart of milk and come home to my son treating his body like an amusement park!" - Estelle Costanza

No no no....

Ask any good Pennsylvania Dutchman...

Today is Fasnacht Day.

Basically, a Fasnacht is similar to a donut, but is about 4x heavier (fried in lard).

To make this coaster related... I challenge anyone to eat more than three faschnacts and then go ride a coaster and NOT throw up.

"Yes... well... VICTORY IS MINE!"

Fried this, polka that...but I ask you, are there any greeting cards floating around the web for Fasnachts? I think not!

-'Playa

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

I don't know about you, but I'm spending today in New Orleans Square.

And Fantasyland, Frontierland, Adventureland, all in Disneyland---where they serve "mint juleps", perhaps the most vile disgusting anti-boysenberry-punch beverage on the planet. To atone for these julep-induced sins, I'll pay penance by power-riding Ghostrider on Ash Wednesday.

(It all comes back to parks...)

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I miss the old pancake threads :)

Real Cbuzz quote of the day - "The classes i take in collage are so mor adcanced then u could imagen. Dont talk about my emglihs" - Adamforce

Maybe it'd be wise to eat a heaping pile of pancakes so as to soak up all the drinkin'...

--Madison

Peabody said:
I miss the old pancake threads :)

I don't. ;)

I don't like my pancakes made of thread. I perfer batter and syrup.

But I'm so confused!

The greeting card site says it's September 29. 'Playa says it's October 27. This thread insinuates that it's the same day as Mardi Gras.

When IS Pancake Day?!

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According to http://www.pancakeday.com/ it's today, February 24, 2004

Being polish, I always eat paczkis today. Delicious. It's a tradition I look forward to.

-Mark
Never Has Gravity Been So Uplifting.

Hey, I'm Polish too! Too bad I'm on the Atkins....

Start the Kid's Revolution; the tyranny must end. Free Pancakes.

Damn it, I KNEW I should've actually gone to the dining hall for breakfast this morning!

Forgive me for not celebrating...I have to go hide my head in shame now...

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Nitro Dave: I was WRONG. There. I said it. I hope you're happy now! ;)

TTDTom: Atkins is whack. The Carbohydrate Addicts diet lets you scarf down the flapjacks and still lose the weight. I've sworn by it for six years and counting.

-'Playa

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

I know someone else who swears by it. ;)

"I go out at 3 o' clock for a quart of milk and come home to my son treating his body like an amusement park!" - Estelle Costanza

Is it okay to swear if it's not about a diet? Cause if it is, I swear too. ;)

Carbohydrate addicts diet, eh? I clearly remember a song from Kids in the Hall about liposuction. Which is??? Fat reduction.

Start the Kid's Revolution; the tyranny must end. Free Pancakes.