I ate pancakes at the Village Inn yesterday. Does that count?
PO's Son,
Is the Cafe Du Monde located on Decatur? I can't recall. Great beignets(doughnuts) there. I just had the lait (milk) with mine because I don't like coffee.
In protest of my JW upbringing ...
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Will Power
Whoa - no wonder you never got to eat pancakes !
Shrove Tuesday a.k.a. Pancake Tuesday
In Scotland, before the Lent fasting begins, the fat and flour are used up today by making pancakes. Remember pancakes are good for dinner, too.
What is Fat Tuesday?
Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the festival New Orleans, Louisiana, is famous for. "Gras" is French for fat and "Mardi" is French for Tuesday.
The annual festivities start on January 6, the Twelfth Night Feast of the Epiphany, when the three kings are supposed to have visited the Christ Child, and build to a climax on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, which always occurs on the day before Ash Wednesday. The parties and parades will continue until Lent begins at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday.
Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in New Orleans. It is scheduled to occur 46 days before Easter. Since the actual date Easter occurs on changes yearly, Mardi Gras can happen on any Tuesday between February 3 and March 9.
For two centuries it has been an annual event in New Orleans, except during the two World Wars.
Did You Know?
On Bourbon street in New Orleans, store owners coat poles and columns with vaseline to keep wild and rowdy revelers from climbing them (and perhaps falling) -
mtbatoon
So New Orleans gets the most famous street party in the world and I get fried batter. Sod it I'm putting extra lemon juice on mine to make up for it.