What is Shove Tuesday?
Shove Tuesday refers to the day before the center of Ash and it is the last day before the start of the Lent. Although the word "Shove" comes from the same base as Shrive or Shriven , which means repentance or repentance, this day is usually not associated with repentance. Instead, it is usually a day for great and cloth celebrations that will use the cooking of ingredients to produce treatment that many will give up over the Lent.
There are different names for Tuesdays in different cultures. In the US and Latin American countries it is better known as Mardi Gras. Celebrations are often extreme and many indulge in many decorative delicacies, watching carnival shows, or just go to the streets in the joyful atmosphere of the party. Pancakes are used and eaten with sweet icing that use luxury ingredients such as eggs and flour that could give up during the Lent. Somehow Gras, many people who do not look for a fasting time, join the celebrations because they are simply entertaining. Women carry that oneKé pancakes in the pans and have to race to the finish, turn cakes as they go. The winner is the first at the finish line with pancakes that is not burned.
other places have various traditions that include special foods on this day. For example, in Sweden, the day is known as Tuesday Tuesday, and it is a tradition that people eat pastries called semes , which is full of cream. Pennsylvania of the Dutch and people in countries such as Lithuania, Germany, Austria and Slovenia are indulging in donuts on this day.
The key to the celebration of the style is to indulge in - it's not a calorie day. In the past, it was jokingly people well prepared for fasting on Wednesday Ash because the day before they ate or got drunk.
The date of Tuesday Shrove changes annually. It is basically 47 days before Easter, which falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon in the spring or March equinox. In the eastern Orthodox churches in theY celebrates a different day than those who follow the Easter date set by the Gregorian calendar. As a result, the Greeks or some in the former countries of the Soviet Union can celebrate this day about a week before most of the other European, Latin American and North American countries do.