# It's Shrove Tuesday!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520 "2012-02-21T13:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/1 "2012-02-21T13:16:52Z")
As you child, we used to always have crepes served with lemon and sugar. This looks like an [interesting alternative](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_steve/4688652422/) Do you observe “Pancake Tuesday”? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/2 "2012-02-21T13:32:50Z")
Here in Chicago, it’s [Pączki Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%85czki)! Yummy, very rich doughnuts filled with fruit or other filling. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/3 "2012-02-21T13:58:47Z")
My office normally provides cereal, fruit, bagels, etc, for breakfast, but today they made us pancakes. It’s been a long time since I’ve had pancakes. Personally, I prefer waffles. Why is there no Waffle Day? Is it because nobody could decide on what day it should be? ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/4 "2012-02-22T03:22:36Z")
No, but I eat them often for dinner on Fridays during Lent! ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/5 "2012-02-22T03:49:41Z")
Funnily enough, we had crepes with lemon juice and sugar tonight for the first time. I’m going to make it a family tradition… even though my daughter gagged on hers then threw them on the floor. She’s eleven months old so it was cute. Even though it hurt my feelings a tiny bit. I mean, the kid eats lemon slices. What gives. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/6 "2012-02-22T03:57:20Z")
I was considering it, but I just made cookies last week, and I don’t feel like getting out the flour and mixer and such again so soon. So I just had hot dogs instead. One of the other grad students (a Russian) used to always throw a maslenitsa party, but she graduated a couple of years ago, and it’s a little harder to follow traditions alone. And I was a bit pleasantly surprised the first year we had it, to learn that Russia had very similar traditions to my Irish/German family. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/7 "2012-02-22T04:28:47Z")
Oh yes. I made pancakes and my daughter ate a huge pile with a selection of 12 jams, 2 curds, 2 syrups, honey and bananas. At least one of the pancakes had everything on it. I think nearly everyone I know I know in England at pancakes today, though it’s Pancake Day, not Pancake Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/8 "2012-02-22T13:51:20Z")
No pancakes - [Krapfen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29)! And Faschingsdienstag is the last day to eat them… so I ate two yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/9 "2012-02-22T14:37:06Z")
We made a batch of buttermilk pancakes and a batch of pumpkin pancakes, with fruit and bacon and real maple syrup. It was yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-shrove-tuesday/613520/10 "2012-02-22T15:51:15Z")
Shrove Tuesday is the day for a _[semla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla)_