A PSA and a poll about pancakes (46/365)

[white_hart]

For those who are utterly adrift in time and didn't happen to glance at their calendar just now while desperately seeking inspiration for a post, tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, aka Pancake Day for those of us in the UK (and anyone else who fancies pancakes).

Possibly I should have saved the poll for tomorrow, but I might be too busy eating pancakes then. Also, I want to steal your pancake ideas.

Poll #25296 Pancakes!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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What kind of pancakes do you have on Pancake Day?

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Thin crèpe-style pancakes
23 (59.0%)

Fluffy American-style pancakes
6 (15.4%)

I don't celebrate Pancake Day
4 (10.3%)

SEWIWEIC
6 (15.4%)

Sweet pancakes or savoury?

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Sweet
22 (56.4%)

Savoury
1 (2.6%)

Both!
16 (41.0%)

Do you give things up for Lent?

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Yes, and I celebrate Pancake Day
4 (10.5%)

Yes, but I don't celebrate Pancake Day
1 (2.6%)

No, but I do celebrate Pancake Day
27 (71.1%)

No, and I don't celebrate Pancake Day
6 (15.8%)

Feel free to tell me about your favourite way to eat pancakes in the comments.

Comments

[naraht]

I'm always fascinated by the flexibility of 'giving up'/'taking on' things for Lent that most of my British friends have. I was raised Greek Orthodox and the Lenten fast is pretty much prescribed: meat, eggs, dairy, wine and olive oil (with flexibility for health and circumstances, obviously). We only did that on Good Friday but still, we knew what it was we weren't doing.

Having said that, I'm not 'doing' Lent at all this year because I'm still exploring conversion to Judaism. So maybe I'm giving up Lent for Lent.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I only encountered British people talking about taking up something for Lent a few years ago (despite having lived in the UK for fifteen years now), it's really interesting to me. As a Roman Catholic child I knew Lent as a time when I had to both "fast" on Fridays and Ash Wednesday (no meat except fish and no snacks between meals) and give something up (which in my case was really just more fasting since I wasn't allowed to choose what I gave up and it was always candy).

[perennialanna]

The talk of taking things up for Lent is relatively new. Lent Books are ancient (required in the Rule of St Benedict).