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If you weren’t aware, today isn’t formally known as Pancake Day. I know, I know, it’s a day all about pancakes. However, it’s ...

Watching fastanchts get made from start to finish at Emingee's, I was fairly certain the potato doughnuts wouldn't disappoint ...

A historic football game played since the 1100s has returned to the north of England this Shrove Tuesday. The Royal ...

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day is the traditional feast day before the Lent fast starts on Ash Wednesday. Today, ...

Retailers' experience shows that the tradition of eating pea soup on Shrove Tuesday remains strong among Estonians, with ...

Pictures of the hundred playing the Sedgefield Shrove Tuesday Ball Game this year, 2025. Hundreds today gathered on the village green of Sedgefield to participate in the centuries old tradition. Set ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

Lent is a period of 40 days which many Christians observe as a time of fasting, abstinence and penitence - here is everything ...

The season of Lent begins Wednesday, which makes Tuesday “Fat Tuesday” or “Shrove Tuesday.” For more than 100 years, and ...

Shrove Tuesday also known as Pancake Day is an historic and religious event in the UK, but what's the reason we celebrate it?

"Traditionally Shrove Tuesday ... was a day of celebration and a day to use up all the good things to eat before you went into a period of Lenten fasting where you weren't allowed all of the good ...