# 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:** 2
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/21 "2003-03-04T20:57:15Z")
I just realized the link has a recipe that only lists prune & cherry flavors. :eek: 😕 The most popular are raspberry, lemon and custard. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/22 "2003-03-04T20:58:28Z")
> [@](#): > > I learned today that your poor, poor people in the US do not celebrate Pancake Day. Oh, how I pity you. Yet another thing that makes me glad to be an American, the Constituitional right to eat Pancakes whenever I want to. Without the Govermment regulating when I can can cannot eat my 'cakes, Where I don’t have to live in fear of Jack-booted(FlapJack-Booted?) soldiers taking notes and reporting on my pancake eating lifestyle. Og bless American, land of the freedom of the pancake! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/23 "2003-03-04T21:24:45Z")
I love Shrove Tuesday, at home. The local Anglican (Church of England) church would have a Pancake Supper and talent contest every year. We never won, but it was always a great time. No pancakes for me this year - Dave doesn’t like them and I can’t eat 'em on my diet. ---
**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, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/24 "2003-03-04T21:28:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*… Dave doesn’t like them … \*\* Well, that’s just Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/25 "2003-03-04T21:37:07Z")
Well, I’m not Church of England, I’m Episcopalian(the American version of COA). And tonight we are having a Shrove Tuesday celebration, with pancakes and sausage as the main attraction. Except that as I write freezing sleet is coming down and it seems lots of meetings and businesses are closing down early for the day. I’m not sure of the protocol for postponing something like this. I’d planned to do serious damage to the sausages, as I give up meat for Lent. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/26 "2003-03-04T21:51:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Well, that’s just Weird. \*\* This is news? I don’t know what the Episcopalian Church is called in Canada, perhaps it and the Anglican Church are one and the same? ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/27 "2003-03-04T23:42:26Z")
Maybe no pancake day, but here in PA we have Fastnacht day. We get donuts instead of pancakes. Gotta love the PA Dutch! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/28 "2003-03-05T00:04:57Z")
Dangit, I’m an Episcopalian (American version of the COE), and I never _heard_ of “Pancake Day.” I think it’s just another absurd English observance. Like “Guy Fawke’s Day.” Some whacko tries to blow up _your freakin’ Parliment_ and you make a celebration out of it? You people are weird. Let’s compare and contrast English and American food-related holidays. England - pancakes America - turkey with all the trimmings Somewhere along the way the poor English people got shafted. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/29 "2003-03-05T01:20:09Z")
Hey, **little\*bit** , what kind of Paczki did you have today? I had strawberry with powdered suger. Not the lame kind with just jelly-like filling either, but with real slices of strawberry in the filling. mmmmmmmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![xenothrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7ab992/32.png) [@xenothrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenothrope)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/30 "2003-03-05T01:30:00Z")
hmmm, plastic beads and boobies vs. pancakes… now that a FAIR fight… -x out ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/32 "2003-03-05T02:08:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by akennett \* > \*\*Maybe no pancake day, but here in PA we have Fastnacht day. We get donuts instead of pancakes. Gotta love the PA Dutch! \*\* All right! Someone else knows Fastnachts! I managed to pick one up at the venerable Maple Donuts chain in York, PA over the weekend. At Weis Markets, you could even have them brought out to your car! And, in totally unrelated news, I see that our old sockpuppet/troll **The Hamburglar** is back in town. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/33 "2003-03-05T02:10:26Z")
Well, I just finished my second Paczki (cream-filled) of the night. There’s one left in the box in the kitchen. I can hear it’s siren call, but I will be firm…two is my limit…I will save the other for tomorrow. Who the hell am I kidding? Even money says it’ll be gone in the next hour. ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/34 "2003-03-05T02:11:51Z")
I’m in Canada, and my mom has always made pancakes for dinner on Pancake Tuesday. We’re far from religious, but it’s just what we’ve always done. Tonight, me and the SO had pancakes with syrup, strawberries, and bananas, and some breakfast sausage for dinner. Soooooo nummy! ---
**Author:** ![snac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/35 "2003-03-05T02:25:01Z")
American here; our church, also Episcopal, has a longstanding tradition of Shrove Tuesday pancake suppers. Just came back from it a couple hours ago. Not that we don’t eat pancakes lots of other times too… ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/36 "2003-03-05T02:29:28Z")
We went to Denny’s for dinner so I could have pancakes. I had them, Dave had a t-bone, and Matthew had chicken nuggets. So much for tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/37 "2003-03-05T02:41:21Z")
I’m Episcopalian or Anglican, depending on who I’m talking to, and I’m sitting here with a belly full of pancakes and ham cooked by my old church’s Men’s Club, with more pancakes in the fridge for breakfast tomorrow. **ShibbOleth** , I’ve got to agree with you. With all the fine old Catholic traditions we kept when we broke away, why on earth did we give up Mardi Gras for pancakes? 😃 Ah well. This thread just confirms that this Anglo-American hybrid would be right at home in Canada. Oh, as for the difference between “Episcopalian” and “Anglican”, my understanding is that during the American Revolution, because the Americans didn’t want to be identified with anything English, the church changed its name to “Episcopal” from “Church of England.” Then again, this is just hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt and a few extra pancakes. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/38 "2003-03-05T03:23:10Z")
Actually, it wasn’t so much the church in America not wanting to be identified with England as the other way around. When the Revolution was over and Loyalist bishops left the former colonies, there were some difficulties, as the English church would not consecrate bishops for the Americans. The latter, to preserve the continuity of what is, I think, called apostolic tradition, did an end run around the Church of England and had a bishop(s) in Scotland consecrate Samuel Seabury. See [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/timeline/11ecusa.html](http://justus.anglican.org/resources/timeline/11ecusa.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/39 "2003-03-05T03:28:38Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by little_bit \* > \*\*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) > > 😃😃😃😃😃 \*\* I had a coworker ask about these today. Being the transplant to SE Michigan I am, I registered only confusion. Now I kinda wish someone had brought them into work. They sound deliciously horrible. ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/40 "2003-03-05T05:53:58Z")
Why are you people obsessed with pancakes? Today is Fastnauht Day…or day of the donut. Donuts…ummm, fried up and covered in sugary glaze. Drroooooollll. I love Fastnauht day. Yup, I live in PA. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/41 "2003-03-05T08:54:41Z")
**ghandi** , I’m familiar with Donut Day, and I keep the tradition alive out here in LA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057.md?page=3)