Mardi Gras

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This thread is in direct contravention of the one-thread-a-day guideline we adopted but no one’s mentioned that it’s Pancake Tuesday!

The restaurant we went to at lunchtime only gave Mardi Gras (i.e. pancakes and ribbons, beeds, sacrificial animals etc.) the most scant attention so we are launching a crusade to the pancake house up the road some time this afternoon.

Have you had your pancake yet? What are you going to enjoy for the last time today as part of your Lenten sacrifice?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The Zulu parade just started up here (New Orleans), with Rex following soon after (the last two city parades in the Carnival season). I'm probably going to watch them on television, but having done it once, I've been avoiding the drunken-crowds-in-the-rain thing.

No pancakes yet. I wonder (totally not related to pancakes, but a breakfasty type thought) if the discount cigarette place is closed today for the holiday.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Mardi Gras? i'm used to calling it Shrove Tuesday...but what the hell is a Shrove? i forget

no pancakes for me probably, cant be bothered. does this mean its Ash Wednesday tomorrow then? aw, happy memories of Catholic mass at school, all of us queuing up to have the priest daub fag-ash on our foreheads thus saving us from eternal damnation - hurrah!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Paczkis are superior to pancakes in every respect.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Shrove is short for shrove-tide, "The period comprising Quinquagesima Sunday and the two following days, ‘Shrove’ Monday and Tuesday," and by itself it usually refers to "the merrymaking within." (Thank you, OED.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Who is the leader of the New Orleans parade this year? My sister was there last year and was delighted to find it was Nic Cage!

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

There are dozens of parades, but the one Nic Cage was marshalling was probably Orpheus or Bacchus, since they're the ones who go for celebrity marshals (Orpheus is Harry Connick Jr's krewe). Bacchus was Jon Lovitz this year, I think ... Orpheus was Travis Tritt (Steve Tyler and Joe Perry cancelled, the fun-hating bastards). Aaron Carter was the Grand Marshal of Endymion, and Edwin McCain did Pegasus.

Spike Lee is the "celebrity monarch" of Zulu, but I'm not sure what that means -- they haven't had a celebrity monarch in decades, and we still have a King and Queen of Zulu like usual (non-celebrity well-placed locals), so I suppose he just got a special float.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaron Carter was the Grand Marshal of Endymion

That's a beautiful thing.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I had friends over last night and did my pancakes then. Turned out nicely and I particularly recommend them with dark chocolate spread and banana

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, and Rex and Zulu ... the King of Rex, whose identity is concealed until the night before the parade, is always a local well-placed businessman, an insider from the Mardi Gras krewe upper-crust. His Queen is always a debutante connected to one of those families -- thirty or forty years younger than the King, which just seems odd. Zulu -- which originated as a black parody of the very-white Rex -- follows suit, but this year the King and Queen are married, which is atypical.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to be in New Orleans! Voodoo! Voodoo!

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I lived in Louisiana for a few years (albeit, Shreveport, up in the northern corner) and have never heard of this pancake thing. We would eat King Cakes though and my mom had a whole dresser full of little babies and beads and tokens and what-not. I miss it. :(

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no room for voodoo today! This is a city of 500,000 that swells to 2 million on Mardi Gras. It's crazy insane crazy. The most popular song on the radio right now is "Ain't No Place To Pee On Mardi Gras Day."

Oh and yeah, the pancake thing is unknown to me, too. I was just arbitrarily commenting on my lack of pancakes. We do king cakes (which more and more frequently are being sold out of season so tourists can have them), and get moon pies thrown at our heads, and drink a lot of hurricanes and forty-flavors-of-daiquiris.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i have about 40 people showing up at a local pancake joint to celebrate its goodness, jews athesits catholics buddhists protestants homosexuals heterosexuals bisexuals men women transgendered folks, its the fucking shrove tuesday UN

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

But how do you use up all your eggs before Lent starts then??

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

That was to Tep, obviously.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Use up our eggs? We don't, I guess. Do you give up eggs for Lent?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

pancake tuesday=shrove tuesday=fat tuesday?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Heathens! Heathens! Run for your lives!!

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

pancake tuesday=shrove tuesday=fat tuesday?

Well girls give up chocolate and sweets and things for lent so it is Fat Tuesday because it is the last fay you'll be fat for a while, see? Lent is all about sacrifices.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

if you were really religious you'd just get some virgins instead of all this messing about/posturing.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Paczkis are superior to pancakes in every respect.

Paczkis? I am intrigued! Somebody share details, please?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Enlightenment

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

if you were really religious you'd just get some virgins instead of all this messing about/posturing.

What I do off-line is my own business.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

*bows in acknowledgement* They look delicious, but there's no Polish place around here I can try. There's a Russian one, but I suspect Tad would think I was not honouring the fire if I went there. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm leaving New Orleans the day after tomorrow, just back in the hotel room to send a quick note to a client and then back out into the mix for the next 7 hours... Laissez les bon temps rouler, y'all!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the point, my american friends, of shrove tuesday, is to use up all the good stuff (eggs, jif lemon, golden syrup apparently...) that you are giving up for lent so it doesn't go off in the next 40 days (?) before easter.

this is what happens in my home village on pancake tuesday...

unlike every other shrove tuesday "football" game in the country we never had the blue peter cameras, as simon groom would have had his head stoved in by the hard lads if he got within 10 foot of the ball (NB this happened to everyone)

(aside: that piece is written by someone i went to school with, but i just googled (tm) it, small world etc...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

also meg is working late tonite, so asked if we could have pancakes tomorrow, but this seems terribly wrong...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

More love for New Orleans! More love for Mardi Gras! More love for voudoun and St Louis Cemetery 1 and the cathedral! Yeeeeah! Hurricanes!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Abraços e um bom carnaval a todos!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm ready! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/mardigras.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

oh ihops are giving away pancakes today!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I had a stranger wish me a good mardi gras yesterday, it was nice!

St Louis is home to the second largest mardi gras celebration in the states.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

happy mardi gras!

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:15 (seventeen years ago)

just got back!! as much as i (try to) get down to NOLA, I realized this was my first MG in like 8+ years. The weather was amazing and i think i should just move there.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

Happy mardi gras, ILX!

― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

in English the day is sometimes referred to as Shrove Tuesday, from the word shrive, meaning "confess.

You get fat, we have to confess ;_;

― watercooler challenge (ledge), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

the only fun part of carnival this year was watching a bunch of teenagers set a car on fire like 50 feet off the parade route. that was awesome (as it was not my car). nothing will ever compare to the first post-katrina carnival which was this intense almost-tourist-free fuck you to basically everyone.

― adam, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

I just found the plastic baby in my office's king cake. They've already told me I'm buying next year's cake; does this confer any other privileges?

― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:12 (eight years ago)

It would have been wise to get the plastic baby contractual rights and obligations in writing prior to cutting the cake.

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 18:21 (eight years ago)

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