Shrove Tuesday

Whats everyone having in their pancakes then?

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.

Its all in the preparing of the batter Jeff.

Shit I didn't realise what I'd posted!!! Pervs!

I call everybody a cunt

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

Lemon and sugar for me!

Jem, you're just so normal...

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!

Probably fuck all, unless the hotel in Telford serves 'em! :p

Ah well...

Pancakes have been cancelled this year chez oldmonkey.

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

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

Are Waffles acceptable?

Waffles have no place in a free society...

Snorri xxx

Yer right Snorri! Pancakes everyday!

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

...which is strange as he works in a clothes shop.

Dionne Warwick's Coke Habit wrote: ...which is strange as he works in a clothes shop.

I thought it was a sex shop..

No nood to add salt to the batter then

d.w.c.h wrote"he works in a clothes shop"

gazman wrote"thought it was a sex shop"

next

thought i was mistaken

Pancakes, cos it's shrove tuesday?

Once you're a grown up you can eat them any day of the year.

Nick King wrote: Probably fuck all, unless the hotel in Telford serves 'em! :p

Ah well...

Well, since I missed my train, I'll now be making pancakes tonight on my new(ish) pancake machine tonight.

Will be one of the first Shrove Tuesdays I've actually had pancakes on for a number of years!

Malcolm McDowell's Tattered Foreskin wrote: erm...syrup?!?!

Syrup??.... not chewy globdules of manfat,Jeff? Strange for you.. I'll be having a birra syrup and lemon

Nick King wrote:

Nick King wrote: Probably fuck all, unless the hotel in Telford serves 'em! :p

Ah well...

Well, since I missed my train, I'll now be making pancakes tonight on my new(ish) pancake machine tonight.

Will be one of the first Shrove Tuesdays I've actually had pancakes on for a number of years!

pancake machine? they aren't exactly hard to make nick!

hibster wrote:

Nick King wrote:

Nick King wrote: Probably fuck all, unless the hotel in Telford serves 'em! :p

Ah well...

Well, since I missed my train, I'll now be making pancakes tonight on my new(ish) pancake machine tonight.

Will be one of the first Shrove Tuesdays I've actually had pancakes on for a number of years!

pancake machine? they aren't exactly hard to make nick!

True - this one makes 6 at once, though (Tefal shite) - pour the batter on, turn them over, and then indulge in sugar and lemon!

Malcolm McDowell's Tattered Foreskin wrote:

Nick King wrote:

Nick King wrote: Probably fuck all, unless the hotel in Telford serves 'em! :p

Ah well...

Well, since I missed my train, I'll now be making pancakes tonight on my new(ish) pancake machine tonight.

Will be one of the first Shrove Tuesdays I've actually had pancakes on for a number of years!

Mr. King, making pancakes is a womans work...I know, because I read it on NOOL!!!

I know - couldn't get out of it - it was my brother's birthday meal, and I had to be seen to be doing *something* to help...