Fat Tuesday

[xp_daredevil]

Pancakes this good at a church should be unholy.

Someone please roll me home.

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[xp_magik]

u got pancakes?????????

[xp_daredevil]

it's shrove Tuesday, of course I had pancakes. it's required

[xp_magik]

theres a holiday for PANCAKES???????

[xp_daredevil]

not quite.

Shrove Tuesday, aka Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras begins the Lent season, which culminates with Easter, the time Christ was crucified and rose from his tomb. Today then, is Ash Wednesday, the first official day of Lent. On Shrove Tuesday, you are supposed to use up your richer, fatter foods (such as flour, milk, butter etc) because you fast and give up something important during Lent.

Today, we'll burn last year's Lenten palms and I'll attend church and the priest will spread some of that ash on my forehead in the shape of a cross. I'll also fast and not eat meat today.

[xp_magik]

oh thats too complicated but what is fasting

[xp_daredevil]

Fasting generally means refraining from eating for a period of time.

This is done in different ways for different things, but in Catholicism, it means eating one normal meal and two smaller meals that together don't equal the normal meal. And no meat.

[xp_magik]

that is wild i would never choose to not eat sometimes the food is bad but eventually u get hungry enough to not care

[xp_daredevil]

it's not required depending on age, medical, etc.

[xp_magik]

dun wanna is a great reason

[xp_daredevil]

you're also not Catholic. or Christian? not sure.

[xp_magik]

no but u can bring ur ppl that smite demons if we ever have to go to limbo, see if theyre good at it.

pancakes r rly good tho

[xp_daredevil]

that's not really a very common skill anymore, but I'll see what I can do

pancakes are pretty good