The Inkling Volume 3
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3.France<br />
In France during ‘Mardi gras’ (or ‘fat<br />
tuesday’), you can obviously look out for<br />
plenty of the famous French crepes. Oh,<br />
and also a fat ox being paraded around the<br />
streets. Well, maybe nowadays the ox is a<br />
giant float, but the symbolism is still there;<br />
the ox is a massive reminder that you can't<br />
eat meat<br />
during Lent.<br />
So it's basically a big “Ha-Ha you can't eat<br />
meat for the next 40 days!” kind of thing. But<br />
nonetheless, massive celebrations are held,<br />
where people wear crazy masks, parade<br />
around, and eat plenty of food. Aslo, in the<br />
town of the Nice in France, the celebration<br />
lasts for 10 days!<br />
4.Poland<br />
You might be surprised, but in Poland the most<br />
popular dish during shrove tuesday is Herring!<br />
During ‘Sledziowka’, they also eat doughnuts<br />
and ‘faworki’ , or angel wings, which are deepfried<br />
ribbon shaped dough dusted with<br />
powdered sugar. Yum!<br />
5.Canada<br />
Finally, we go to Canada were Shrove<br />
Tuesday is called...Shrove Tuesday! <strong>The</strong><br />
canadian pancake day tradition may<br />
sound quite odd- in their pancakes they<br />
put all sorts of things, such as coins,<br />
pieces of string, wedding rings, thimbles<br />
and even nails! Make sure to take extra<br />
care when eating pancakes in Canada!<br />
Depending on what you find in your pancake says something about your<br />
future. For example, the coin promises wealth, the wedding ring promises<br />
marriage and the thimble says you will become a seamstress or tailor.<br />
So now you know some of the world's weird and wonderful pancake day<br />
traditions, feel free to try them out at home. Have a wonderful pancake day!
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