You might be familiar with Mardi Gras, but what about Bursting Day or Pancake Day? Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, which kicks off Lent. Shrove Tuesday is a day of feasting, indulging and eating fats and other perishable foods like eggs.
* In Iceland they celebrate Bursting Day, or "Sprengidagur," which means burst. People enjoy a filling meal of split pea soup and salted or smoked lamb on the day before the fasting period starts. The motto of the day, according to Iceland Review, is "Eat stew until you burst."
* In Olney, England, they celebrate Shrove Tuesday with the annual Shrovetide Pancake Race. Women dress up in traditional "housewife" costumes, cook pancakes, then race, with their pancakes to a church. For all of her hard work, the winning woman receives a kiss from the ringer of the Pancake Bell.
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St Stephen's UMC, in Delmar, is having a Shrove Tuesday Pancake/Sausage Dinner tonight from 4:30-7 and is being sponsered by the youth, Christ Connections. The cost is FREE but donations are certainly welcome to help with their projects throughout the year.
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