# It's Pancake Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057 "2003-03-04T19:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/1 "2003-03-04T19:21:34Z")
I learned today that your poor, poor people in the US do not celebrate Pancake Day. Oh, how I pity you. You see, on Shrove Tuesday you’re meant to be getting ready for lent in order to make yourself holy for the sky pixie. Getting rid of the eggs and the milk and so on. What’s perfect for this? Pancakes! So today is Pancake Day. Shops stock up on sugar and lemon juice. Dad tosses the pancakes and gets the obligatory comedy pancake-on-ceiling moment. It’s glorious. I favour the traditional lemon juice and sprinkled sugar pancake. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/2 "2003-03-04T19:22:56Z")
Oh dear. Obviously, this is meant to go in MPSIMS. Not the Pit. Fucking pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/3 "2003-03-04T19:26:19Z")
That’s okay. We get Mardi Gras. You can have your pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![glarGH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@glarGH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glarGH)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/4 "2003-03-04T19:29:23Z")
DAMMIT!! I WANT PANCAKES RIGHT NOW!! ARRRGH!! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/5 "2003-03-04T19:38:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*I learned today that your poor, poor people in the US do not celebrate Pancake Day. Oh, how I pity you. > > You see, on Shrove Tuesday you’re meant to be getting ready for lent in order to make yourself holy for the sky pixie. Getting rid of the eggs and the milk and so on. What’s perfect for this? Pancakes! So today is Pancake Day. Shops stock up on sugar and lemon juice. Dad tosses the pancakes and gets the obligatory comedy pancake-on-ceiling moment. It’s glorious\*\* Pancake Day! That would explain the promo I saw for free pancakes at IHOP. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/6 "2003-03-04T19:43:39Z")
Yeah well, here in the US we have pancakes whenever we want, hell, I make them every Sunday for me and my son. And as for what should go on top of them? Just plain old maple syrup. Maybe some butter. Sugar and lemon juice indeed. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/7 "2003-03-04T19:44:34Z")
You can’t have eggs and milk during lent? I thought it was just no meat on Fridays, and even that I thought was going by the wayside. Sheesh. Where the hell were my godparents? Does Catholic baptism mean nothing these days??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/8 "2003-03-04T19:45:04Z")
You have to _wait_ for a special occassion for Pancakes? I pity _you_! BTW, several organizaitons, for example the Kiwanis and many Methodist Mens groups, frequently have Pancake Breakfasts as fund raisers. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/9 "2003-03-04T19:47:01Z")
When come back, bring panc. . . Hey! who threw that? ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/10 "2003-03-04T19:57:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by glarGH \* > \*\*DAMMIT!! > > I WANT PANCAKES RIGHT NOW!! > > ARRRGH!! \*\* GlarGH, thank you. You made me smile on an unbelievably shitty day, by just being your reliable old quaking-with-fury self. God help us if you ever break the chain and escape The Pit, but for now, thank you. LC ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/11 "2003-03-04T20:14:49Z")
There’s a diner accross the street from my apartment that has an amazing deal on the weekends. You can get two eggs (any style), bacon, ham or saussages, and pancakes, belgian waffle or french toast, complete with toast and as much OJ and coffee as you want, all for $10. I have pancakes every damn weekend. So nyah. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/12 "2003-03-04T20:24:26Z")
Geez, **friedo** , you need to move to the South. I can get that at Waffle House for 5 bucks, 24/7. And you get grits. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/13 "2003-03-04T20:25:06Z")
I think any holiday which is celebrated by eating a great deal of a nice kind of food is A-OK. Even better if it’s original religious meaning is forgotten in the gluttony! Pancakes all around! … can we start a Grilled Cheese Sandwich day? I nominate my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/14 "2003-03-04T20:31:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by glarGH \* > \*\*DAMMIT!! > > I WANT PANCAKES RIGHT NOW!! > > ARRRGH!! \*\* :eek: Double-order of pancakes and extra syrup [sub]in _plastic bottles_[/sub] for table 3! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/15 "2003-03-04T20:31:24Z")
My husband would be VERY upset if he could only eat his favorite sandwich one day a year. And I’m moving this to MPSIMS, if the hamsters will co-operate. Lynn ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/16 "2003-03-04T20:35:03Z")
What’s worse is that English pancakes aren’t proper pannies at all. They’re more like crepes. You guys only eat 'em once a year and you don’t even make 'em right? Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/17 "2003-03-04T20:53:33Z")
**Francesca** , It turns out we’re civilized after all! It’s Pancake Day in Liberal, Kansas!! [http://www.pancakeday.com/](http://www.pancakeday.com/) “It seems impossible that the friendly little competition between Liberal, Kansas and Olney, England, with women running down the streets of each town flipping pancakes, has lasted so long. It is still the only race of its kind on the planet. But on Shrove Tuesday this year at 11:55 a.m., the race goes on again, with the overall score standing at 28 wins for Liberal and 24 for Olney. In 1980 the score didn’t count, because a media truck blocked the finish line in Olney.” ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/18 "2003-03-04T20:54:16Z")
Hear in lovely, freezing, SE Michigan we have a better & much more fattening tradition thanks to the wonderful Polish influence of Hamtramck. [PACZKI DAY](http://acweb.colum.edu/users/agunkel/homepage/paczki.html) 😃😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/19 "2003-03-04T20:56:02Z")
Maybe the Anglican sky pixie doesn’t like eggs or milk. It’s a fine tradition, but it seems to pale compared to Fastnacht, Fasching, Mardi Gras, Rosen Montag and all those other events where the objective seems to be to clear the larder of alcoholic beverages (and maybe “preservatives”\*). Meant in the Latin language group, not English, sense of the word ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/20 "2003-03-04T20:57:14Z")
You don’t put eggs in your pancakes? -lv [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057.md?page=2)