What is fat tuesday?

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Also, why do people need another excuse to get fat(er)?

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Also, why do people need another excuse to get fat(er)?

the day before upchuck wednesday?

:Q


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.

 

What is Fat Tuesday? Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the festival New Orleans, Louisiana,
is famous for. "Gras" is French for fat and "Mardi" is French for Tuesday.


Ooops, guyver01 beat me to it 🙂

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Roger
What is Fat Tuesday? Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the festival New Orleans, Louisiana,
is famous for. "Gras" is French for fat and "Mardi" is French for Tuesday.


Ooops, guyver01 beat me to it 🙂

yer getting slow old man 😉
😛

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Also, why do people need another excuse to get fat(er)?

the day before upchuck wednesday?

:Q


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.

BTW, "gros" is french for fat. I don't know where the "gras" came from.

 

yer getting slow old man

Only by a minute 😉

gros was changed to Gras by the French culture in Gumboland.

 

[TallBill]

about the only good thing in new orleans is the food

 

[ryzmah]

It's the day before the beginning of Lent (ash wednesday), which is traditionally a time for people to fast and give up sweets and other things. Because they were going to be doing that for the next month, it became a tradition to gorge before Lent started and now we have fat tuesday.

 

[Peetoeng]

Originally posted by: ryzmah
It's the day before the beginning of Lent (ash wednesday), which is traditionally a time for people to fast and give up sweets and other things. Because they were going to be doing that for the next month, it became a tradition to gorge before Lent started and now we have fat tuesday.

Ya....as if they are gonna observe lent

.

 

[ryzmah]

Originally posted by: Peetoeng

Originally posted by: ryzmah
It's the day before the beginning of Lent (ash wednesday), which is traditionally a time for people to fast and give up sweets and other things. Because they were going to be doing that for the next month, it became a tradition to gorge before Lent started and now we have fat tuesday.

Ya....as if they are gonna observe lent

.

That's where it came from - I never said that's why people celebrate it today.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It's a really big big party 'yall!

 

[SaltBoy]

All I know is that women get naked and beads are thrown at them...

 

[Stifko]

Today is Fat Tuesday ?

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: Stifko
Today is Fat Tuesday ?

Yeppers!