Happy Fat Tuesday
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| Tue, 02-24-2009 - 9:50am |
Happy Fat Tuesday- and for those who dont know ....
What is Fat Tuesday?
How did Mardi Gras begin?
Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the festival New Orleans, Louisiana, is famous for. "Gras" is French for fat and "Mardi" is French for Tuesday.
The annual festivities start on January 6, the Twelfth Night Feast of the Epiphany, when the three kings are supposed to have visited the Christ Child, and build to a climax on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, which always occurs on the day before Ash Wednesday. The parties and parades will continue until Lent begins at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday.
Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in New Orleans. It is scheduled to occur 46 days before Easter. Since the actual date Easter occurs on changes yearly, Mardi Gras can happen on any Tuesday between February 3 and March 9.
For two centuries it has been an annual event in New Orleans, except during the two World Wars.


New Orleanians don't need a reason to party, but hey, why not?
Tomorrow most of us will go to Mass & give up something for Lent, so tonight, we party!
And it's got to be a legal holiday--ya can't get a danged thing done, and police & ambulance services
LOL, but I can't throw away a bead, a cup or a doubloon....lol. I end up saving them. I finally got rid of our past 10+ years worth...lol. Okay, maybe not that much because I had donated a bunch to Aly's school and the school where I student-taught several years ago.
But I can't throw it away.
Hey, Deanna, what's up with that cake in your pic? That's not a king cake! ;o) I know, you just snagged a pic. Whoever did that, though....that looks like a blueberry coffee cake.
And Mardi Gras was actually started in France, but their celebration is nothing like New Orleans (unless they stole back..lol).
I know that.
LOL...you mean before y'all ate it, right? Who got the baby?
Girl, there was nothing wrong with those facts....those were the facts of the origin of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I just wanted to throw in that it started elsewhere as something a bit different.
Oh jackie did she cheated anyway she went "hunting" for it. It was tooo big for us to eat in one night. LOL so she had some for breakfast this morning also.