Today is Pancake Day
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
… and that makes me happy.
I have no idea how widespread this is, but I know in my family we eat tons of pancakes topped with raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, whipped cream, and of course copious amounts of maple syrup. Honestly, I don’t know how anybody else can eat pancakes without maple syrup. No, Aunt Jemima doesn’t count. That’s sacrilege.
I guess there’s some religious significance… something about using up the foods you aren’t allowed to eat during lent. For us its an excuse for eating sweet sweet pancakes for supper. In fact a while back we decided we liked doing it so much we now have Pancake Day three or four times a year.
If only I still had my mom to cook for me… Mom’s pancakes kick my pancakes out the window.
