Shrove Tuesday
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Our boss is buying tons of pancake mix tomorrow and we're all having them for lunch. One of the lads managed 7 last year, I said I'm going to try to beat it. I will probably be horizontal, groaning and rubbing my belly this time tomorrow. I love pancakes though so I don't mind eating them until I'm sick.
Jem wrote: I will probably be horizontal, groaning and rubbing my belly this time on Friday night.
Dionne Warwick's Coke Habit wrote:
Jem wrote: I will probably be horizontal, groaning and rubbing my belly this time on Friday night.
Erm...but why would she be rubbing her belly???
Jem wrote: I call everybody a cunt
SHOCK! HOW DARE YOU!
I'm having NUTELLA on mine.OOOOOOOH! 
I'll probably start with a few savoury pancakes - cheese and ham, before moving onto dessert, strawberry jam and lime marmelade (in separate pancakes!)... Dead classy, me... 
Snorri xxx
Great isn't it - Rio gets a carnival, New Orleans gets Mardi Gras and we get to eat Pancakes.
Not fair 
LeggyD wrote: Great isn't it - Rio gets a carnival, New Orleans gets Mardi Gras and we get to eat Pancakes.
Not fair
But we have to make pancakes... WTF would we do with all the JIFF lemons otherwise?
Snorri xxx
LeggyD wrote: Great isn't it - Rio gets a carnival, New Orleans gets Mardi Gras and we get to eat Pancakes.
Not fair
Although we do have less chance of getting shot, to be fair.
Anyway, have you been outside recently? its fucking freezing. No weather for having a carnival!
Tim wrote: Pancakes have been cancelled this year chez oldmonkey.
erm...is that everywhere Tim, or just at yours?
Okay I think I understand now.... is this getting together for "pancakes" and seeing how many you can "eat" really a euphenism for some sort of yearly ritual group orgy which has origins dating back centuries from a Celtic fertility ceremony...? Cool 
pumped full of drugs wrote: Okay I think I understand now.... is this getting together for "pancakes" and seeing how many you can "eat" really a euphenism for some sort of yearly ritual group orgy which has origins dating back centuries from a Celtic fertility ceremony...? Cool
We would tell you...but then Jem would have to kill you...
pumped full of drugs wrote: Okay I think I understand now.... is this getting together for "pancakes" and seeing how many you can "eat" really a euphenism for some sort of yearly ritual group orgy which has origins dating back centuries from a Celtic fertility ceremony...? Cool
Unfortunately not, it's got something to do with Lent (a period of 40 days of fasting), which meant that all perishable goods were chucked out. Thus, left with the ingredients to make pancake batter...
Of course, the origins, like most religious festivals (shrove essentially refers to the absolution of sins), the original meaning is long since lost in time...
And not being religious, I couldn't care less anyway!
So, it's just Pancake Day nowaday!
Davy Crockett's Coonskin Cap wrote:
Tim wrote: Pancakes have been cancelled this year chez oldmonkey.
erm...is that everywhere Tim, or just at yours?
Well the expression chez oldmonkey means that the proceding statement pertained to his house.
Graciously, Tim is allowing us to make our own choices.
Despite this, I won't be having any. I suspect that my reasons are very similar to Tim's. Much as men like them, pancakes is women's work. All that tosssing is no job for a man on his own.
Not that kind of tossing anyway
pumped full of drugs wrote: Are Waffles acceptable?
no...it's called Pancake day for a reason...you know???
selling loads at work today,, lemon,,maple syrup, chocolate,, ice cream or cream to accompany £1.35 a portion yum ,yum.
its just the state of the nation
