If you weren’t aware, today isn’t formally known as Pancake Day. I know, I know, it’s a day all about pancakes. However, it’s ...

Shrove Tuesday is a minor holiday at best these days. But turn the clock back, and there was a lot more than pancakes to ...

This made Shrove Tuesday the ideal occasion to indulge before fasting began. Pancakes were an effective and delicious way to use up surplus eggs, butter and milk. The history of Shrove Tuesday in ...

One Irish custom of the day was that any holly left over from Christmas should be saved for the fire to make the pancakes. As eating meat was to be banned for Lent, animals were slaughtered for a ...

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Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried ...

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day, will be celebrated on Tuesday, 4 March this year. The exact date moves every year ...

Pancake Day has been celebrated across the globe for centuries, but Scotland once practiced rather different traditions ...

From high-energy parades to colorful beads and masks, there are dozens of traditions involved in Mardi Gras, also known as ...

Fasnacht Day is an annual Pennsylvania Dutch celebration that falls on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

This week kicks off the period leading up to the Christian Easter celebrations. But while Easter is typically associated with ...

It takes place every year in the run up to Easter and has a long running religious history. When Shrove Tuesday occurs depends on the Lunar Calendar, which can make things a bit confusing. This ...