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Yes, it's Jif/Cif lemon day!!!!
Going downstairs now to whip up the eggs.
I could inhale about 6 in a sitting easily.
Was watching the belly but I'm gonna leave it go til tomorrow and try lose a stone for Lent.
Sugar/ lemon galore.
None of that nutella crap.
strawberries and Ice-cream! Have it mixed waiting for me to return from work
Lemon and sugar (lots of both) for me too!
Mint Choc/chip Icecream for me. If they don't have that in Cafe Sol or Starbucks in harcourt st I'll have to settle for maple syrup till I get home
i with ya..you cant beat the old classics!Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Yes, St. Pancake's Day, a firm fixture in the Catholic Calendar. Originally French - St. Martin of Gras, patron saint of partying, he became known for his heavy make-up on his famed trip to Ireland in the 14th century, hence he is known as St. Pancake here and in other anglophonic nations. He is better known by the diminutised French name in the latinate countries, especially in South America, where they have huge festivals to celebrate his feast.
His influence in Ireland was profound: while St. Patrick banished the unlicenced snakes, St. Pancake banished sugar, flour, eggs and milk for 40 days and 40 nights. This was unpopular at first until it was discovered how he did it and that it would be perfectly acceptable for all of us to do the same.
He also is well remembered for introducing the lemon - a delicasy from the Isle de France - to Ireland too, as part compensation for the banishment of milk. A reference to this exists in Joyce's masterly work, Ulysses when Buck Mulligan, in the den of heresy that is his Sandycove Tower residence, on being offered lemon for his tea in the absence of milk, he splutters "None of your Paris fad! I want good Sandycove milk" - a literary trick to identify the trio even more as being outside the Pale of Catholic influence.
Sadly, St. Pancake's religious star has waned latterly, and the special mass ceremony on St. Pancake's Day, when the host was replaced with remarkably small pancake disappeared with the Latin mass under Vatican II. Once the fifth most important saint in the Irish Catholic Church (After Patrick, Bridget (or Biddy), the fella that went to Scotland, and Patrick again), after the downgrading of the Catholic Church, he now resides in the lowly rank of fourth most important saint in the Irish Catholic Church (After Patrick, Jacinta, and Derek Davis).
However, the ritual sacrifice of sugar, flour, eggs and milk continues in his name to this day, though like his great inspiration, Patrick, people seem to have forgotten the spiritual significance of this act, as can be seen in children's tupperware lunches the following Wednesday at schools throughout the land.
Let us take this opportunity to remember the spirit of St. Pancake, or Mar de Gras as our Spanish speaking colleagues would have it. Apply yourself wholeheartedly and whole stomachedly to his celebration - too much sugar and too much lemon will have to keep you going for the three or four days over which you will be thinking that it was a bad idea to have so many.
And remember, as Risteard said, none of that Nutella sh!te - St. Pancake would turn in his sugary grave.
That POTY award went to your head Bluebeard, you've changed......
:)
Yes, I have changed. Unfortunately, back.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
just realised I said you won a pot(t)y award aswell teehee.....God I'm slowly being driven demented in this job.....:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebeard
I think we should get a day off work for St. Pancake :)
Bluebeard have you ever considered writing a sit-com for RTE? Judging by the tripe they're putting on lately your particular brand of Comic Genius would leave the competition standing
I think any comedy writer worth their salt (And, I hasten to add, I don't esteem myself so highly) would rather drink a bucket of their own urine than to subject their work to the merciless tenders at RTÉ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
Indeed, based on what I have seen of late, a few may well have done so, seeing the amount of pure p!ss being spewed up on Irish screens of late. Damnit, I'll give it a go. I'll write to the man that owns RTÉ
Dear Arthur...
I've said before - there's a few on here couldn't do any worse and in certain cases would do a hell of a lot better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
Dear Bluebeard,
Your humour is slightly better than tripe.
Yours etc. etc.
BGR.
Anyway, today I'm jealous of Americans, as they get to have a 'Super Pancake Tuesday'
That's not what I meant (although reading over my post i can see how it could be construed) I meant that now would be a great time to get a foot in the door because obviously RTE have a drought in the "funny" comedy dept.Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
See, Im just naturally evil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
I read what is actually a very sincere & deserved compliment as one of the coolest put-downs I've ever read here.
Apologies to all concerned. :D
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Originally Posted by noby
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Originally Posted by Bondvillain
Needless to say, my ego is such that I took it as a compliment.
It must be said that it is far far funnier as a put-down. I now kind of wish it were:(
I know. I was trying to be "funny".Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
Back on topic, my friend just made me a thick pancake (the size of the pan) and put it on a plate without rolling or folding it.
He ate it with a knife and fork and claimed that loads of people make them that way.
Do most people here do it the normal way ie
1. make a thin pancake,
2. sugar and lemon,
3. roll it up,
4. sugar and lemon,
5. eat from your hands just like a fajita?
Please leave that to the experts like BluebeardQuote:
Originally Posted by noby