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Pancake day traditions around<br />
the world<br />
By Maxwell masters<br />
On thursday the 13th of February a highly<br />
anticipated celebration takes place. It's none other<br />
than PANCAKE DAY !That's right the day were we<br />
forget all diet plans and eat more than we probably<br />
should in a year. However some countries<br />
celebrate ‘pancake day’ in a much different way<br />
than we do. Here’s a list some of the surprising,<br />
wonderful and somewhat odd pancake day<br />
traditions around the world.<br />
1.Spain<br />
Spanish celebrations are much different to ours; on the thursday the week,<br />
before ash wednesday, a carnival is started known as ‘Jueves Lardero’ or<br />
‘Jolvelardero’. Shrove Tuesday (pancake<br />
day) is called ‘Dia de la tortilla’, which<br />
means ‘Day of the Omlette’! <strong>The</strong><br />
celebrations vary from town to town, but<br />
generally it's a day to use up all the meat<br />
and bread from your pantry and eat a<br />
meal as a community to prepare for lent.<br />
And of course, the main meal is an<br />
omelette!<br />
2.Denmark<br />
Danish People sure have a sweet tooth! <strong>The</strong>y<br />
celebrate on the first sunday before lent by eating<br />
these wonderful looking buns called ‘fastelavan’<br />
which are filled with whipped cream and jam.<br />
Moreover, the children dress up in any way they like,<br />
some pirates, some fairies, others cats; they play a<br />
game called hit the<br />
cat out the barrel,<br />
which used to entail<br />
smashing a barrel<br />
with a live cat inside until the cat got out.<br />
However, luckily there are no longer cats in<br />
the barrel, but rather sweets, making the<br />
barrel sort of like a piñata- few!
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