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[Comrade P.]

#justslavicthings

Yep.
Not sure where you are from, Levi, but Maslenitsa is mostly celebrated in Orthodox slavic countries, like Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria. Because in fact it's just a christianity-adopted slavic pagan festival. So you have no chance to get covered in pancakes if you live in... Brazil. Or wherever else except mentioned countries. Don't regret it too much: it's fine and sunny in Brazil; and the endless monotonous pancakes really do make you weary.

You had mistakes (everything that is underlined was missing or incorrect). I corrected them.

You still did better than I on my sixth post. Have my advice - add english dictionary to your browsers' spell-check, it will underline grammatical mistakes. It is a very handy tool, I use it myself.

[Bumblebee]

Ha-ha! Feel jealous? And what if I tell you that at the end of the week we are going to cinder a huge straw statue of a winter-woman? And dance aroud its burning body? That is how brutal people greet spring!
(Not about food, sorry)

Also, Comrade P., I'm happy someone has read my sig. Now you should entertain me. And "yap" is how I really pronounce it. And I check things with yandex dictionary (yandex is Russian google), but it lied to me today.

[Comrade P.]

Huh. Yandex dictionary. Well, I do presume there was some disturbance in the Force, it doesn't usually do that.

Google kittens. That's usually entertaining enough - I don't know what's funny to you. Also, that is off thread topic.

[timferius]

What.  This sounds like the best week ever.  How have I never heard of that!

It's Shrove Tuesday, or pancake tuesday, in North America. It's a christian holiday marking the beginning of Lent (the season of fasting leading up to Easter). Traditionally celebrated with a pancake meal, symbolic of the traditional emptying out of the larder before lent began. I no longer follow any christian religions, but like hell I'm giving up an excuse for pancakes for dinner!

[Comrade P.]

I no longer follow any christian religions, but like hell I'm giving up an excuse for pancakes for dinner!

That is a very good point.

[Bumblebee]

I no longer follow any christian religions, but like hell I'm giving up an excuse for pancakes for dinner!

That is a very good point.

No. Pancakes for dinner don't need any excuses.

[Comrade P.]

I no longer follow any christian religions, but like hell I'm giving up an excuse for pancakes for dinner!

That is a very good point.

No. Pancakes for dinner don't need any excuses.

That is the best point.

[Sheb]

We have a pancake meal day for Candlemas in Belgium.

[Bohandas]

What.  This sounds like the best week ever.  How have I never heard of that!

It's Shrove Tuesday, or pancake tuesday, in North America. It's a christian holiday marking the beginning of Lent (the season of fasting leading up to Easter). Traditionally celebrated with a pancake meal, symbolic of the traditional emptying out of the larder before lent began. I no longer follow any christian religions, but like hell I'm giving up an excuse for pancakes for dinner!

I'm from North America and I've ususlly heard it called Mardi Gras (excpet in heavily hispanic areas where it may be Carnaval [sic] or Pennsylvania Dutch areas where it's Fastnacht Day {"donut day"})

EDIT:
It should be noted that I've never been outside the states, and thus only seen part of North America. But I've gotten the impression that Carnaval is the preferred term in latin america, presumably including Mexico, and as for Canade I would assume that French term Mardi Gras would at least be used in Quebec)

[Sappho]

"Fastnacht" is the German word for Carnival or Shrovetide. It literally translates to "almost night," though the verb "fasten" means the English "to fast" (as in to not eat), so it likely comes from that. It is hilarious to me that it gets called donut day in PA, but then, their language got so confused when they moved to America that they say "Dutch" instead of "Deutsch," so.

In Czech it's Masopust, which literally means something like "let go of meat." Interestingly, "půst" means "fast" (again, in the sense of "not eating") - must be linguistically related. Anyway, they don't have pancakes. There's a huge party with tons of meat, especially sausages. Everyone dresses in costumes like Carnival in most places... But I'm stuck in dumb ol' Scotland, so I had to miss it this year. : (

[Bohandas]

"Fastnacht" is the German word for Carnival or Shrovetide. It literally translates to "almost night," though the verb "fasten" means the English "to fast" (as in to not eat), so it likely comes from that. It is hilarious to me that it gets called donut day in PA,

that's because fastnacht is also the name of a type of donut.

EDIT:
There seem to be a  lot of german words that are also types of donuts (like in that old joke about JFK)

[scrdest]

"Fastnacht" is the German word for Carnival or Shrovetide. It literally translates to "almost night," though the verb "fasten" means the English "to fast" (as in to not eat), so it likely comes from that. It is hilarious to me that it gets called donut day in PA,

that's because fastnacht is also the name of a type of donut.

EDIT:
There seem to be a  lot of german words that are also types of donuts (like in that old joke about JFK)

Contractions. The same thing happened to Hamburgers in English. It's far more convenient to just say X instead of X's [Food] if it's clear you're talking about food anyway. If someone says that he ate a sub, you don't assume he consumed an undersea vehicle.

[Rose]

No, I consumed an underground train.

[Bohandas]

No, I consumed an underground train.

You're comfusing sub the sandwich, with subway the terriblensandwich restaurant.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I've got leftover steaks, anybody got any ideas of what to do with them for lunch?
(I had just normal steak for lunch yesterday so I want to do something different with them this time)