Happy Pancake Day
Happy Pancake Day/Pancake Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday/Fettisdagen/Sprengidagur/Tłusty czwartek/Užgavėnės/Vastlapäev/Laskiainen.
From Wikipedia:
"In the Canadian province of Newfoundland, household objects are baked into the pancakes and served to family members. Rings, thimbles, thread, coins, and other objects all have meanings associated with them. The lucky one to find coins in their pancake will be rich, the finder of the ring will be the first married, and the finder of the thimble will be a seamstress or tailor. Children have great fun with the tradition, and often eat more than their fill of pancakes in search of a desired object."
They put choking hazards in their children's food! Just one of the many reasons I love living here. Never a dull moment.
posted by WrathofDawn at 2/28/2006 07:57:00 pm
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Who got to be the fisherman?
Actually, back in the day in Ontario, we used to have coins wrapped in wax paper baked into birthday cakes.
Um... not many any more...
Wrapped in wax paper? You Upper Canadians are so prissy!*
I asked my kids (who aren't little kiddies any more) if they wanted money and such in their pancakes. They opted for chocolate chips. Smart little critters.
*kidding.
I missed pancake day, as I was stuck in a snow storm (yeah, right, we got a whole 1cm of snow) in my car. I got beans on toast instead.
SD - Beans. Ick. Ugh. Bleurgh (TM).
We're getting another 20 cms tonight. Send help.
GW - Oh, GW. What do I keep telling you? If you don't stop it, you'll go blind.
Oh.
We got a light dusting of snow this afternoon.
"It's an ICE STORM!" screamed Mrs Duck, without a trace of irony.
SD - Did you run out and make snow angels?
GW - Oh! I wish. BTW - Don't get that stuff in your eyes... too late...
It was, actually, pellets of ice. Like an explosion in a polystyrene factory.
Not even enough to make yellow snow.
Gin & tonic. Mmmm....
czzugye - vw? or what GW says when he gets Durex in his peepers?
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