[Northkeep] It’s Shrove Tuesday – watch out for pancakes and rampaging apprentices!

[Tina Michael]

Wearing my green purple and gold, wishing I had me a beignet and a cafe au
lait. Pining for a party.....
Happy Mardi Gras ya'll!
 Tina

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Melissa Long Blevins <
hlecalais at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> WooHoo, Hot cookware!
>
> Elisabeth
> (whohasbeenwithoutacomputerwaytolonglol)
>
>  If ifs and buts were candy and nuts,we would all have a Merry Christmas!
> Dr. Sheldon L. Cooper
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com>
> To: northkeep lists.ansteorra.org <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Tue, March 8, 2011 9:51:26 AM
> Subject: [Northkeep] It’s Shrove Tuesday – watch out for pancakes and
> rampaging
> apprentices!
>
>
>
> Apprentices, take note:  today is your day to run riot through the streets
> and
> consort with women of loose virtue!
>
> As anyone who has been to New Orleans during Mardi Gras has experienced,
> the day
> before the beginning of Lent is a time of indulgence, partying and, when
> taken
> to extremes, licentiousness, before getting down to the dour duty of Lenten
> restrictions.
>
> In medieval England, apprentices traditionally got a day of play, and as
> you
> might expect, things sometimes got out of hand.  Partying with prostitutes
> was
> apparently a favorite tradition in the cities.
>
> The day was also a last chance for dietary indulgence, as Lent required
> forbearance from animal products, which meant no meat, no cheese, no milk,
> no
> butter, no poultry, and no eggs from Ash Wednesday until Easter.
>  “Carnival” is
> the name for the day’s festivities in Italy and some other countries.
> “Carnival” is from “carne vale”, which means “farewell to meat.”  So,
> eating the
> foods that would become forbidden the next day is part of the celebration.
>
> In England, especially, pancakes and waffles were traditional Shrove
> Tuesday
> fare, to use up the milk, eggs, and butter you had on hand.  In England,
> Shrove
> Tuesday was known as a “half-holiday” for food purposes, and the dietary
> restrictions started at 11:00 am.  According to legend, a housewife was
> frantically making pancakes on a Shrove Tuesday morning, and hadn’t
> finished
> when the church bells started ringing at 11:00, and ran through the
> streets,
> still holding her griddle, to service.  Descending from this legend, local
> pancake races are still held in many English towns to this day.  The
> Buckinghamshire town of Olney has been holding pancake races since 1445!
>
> A version of sports March Madness also exploded on Shrove Tuesday, with
> massive
> village football (soccer) matches, called “football mobs” roving all over
> town,
> a practice dating back to the 12th century.
>
>
> So, English traditions include rowdiness, whoring, overeating, drinking,
> running
> through the streets with hot cookware, and out-of-control soccer.  And
> people
> say the English are dull.
>
> Kicking back eating a beignet and considering barbecue for lunch,
>
>
> Talana
>
>
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