The time has come for one of the best days of spring – Pancake Day! But why on earth do we have a day to celebrate pancakes?
Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday, as it is also called) is celebrated 40 days before Easter Sunday, one of the most important days in the Christian calendar.
On Pancake Day we use all of the nice foods in the house, like eggs, butter and sugar, to make pancakes and then we eat very plain food for the next 40 days. One of the most popular pancake toppings in the UK is lemon with sugar, but you can have jam, Nutella, or even cheese!
An important tradition on Pancake Day is flipping the pancakes – you have to throw them up in the air and then try to catch them in the pan! It takes a bit of practice, but it’s good fun. Some towns even have a pancake race, where people have to run and flip pancakes at the same time!
You can see one of these races on Broad Street in Reading, from 12.30pm on Tuesday 5th March.
Come and join us for the Eurospeak Pancake parties this week –
Southampton – Tuesday 5th March, 1pm
Reading – Thursday 7th March, 4pm
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