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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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 Posted - Feb 06 2005 : 12:21:08 PM
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Do any of you have Mardi Gras or Carnival celebrations in your communities? I have always wanted to go to New Orleans to enjoy the festivities. This bleak time of year is just right for a big, loud party! In SW Kansas is the one and only International Pancake Festival and Race. Housewives from Liberal, Kansas and Olney, England don their aprons and race each other while flipping pancakes on a skillet. This dates back to the 1400's in a village in England. It was brought to Kansas after WW2 because of a friendship between a US soldier and a British soldier from Olney. Here is a link on the history and some yummy pancake recipes!
www.pancakeday.com
http://allrecipes.com/advice/coll/all/articles/607P1.asp
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2005 : 1:45:23 PM
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Meadowlark, stick (no pun intended) with the pancake festival. Mardi Gras is crowded and kind of disgusting. I hope I do not offend any Louisianians out there, but I would not go near New Orleans in early February! Drunk people and lots of trash everywhere. Worse than Spring Break in Florida!
By the way, your pancake festival sounds hilarious! What fun to see people racing and flipping at the same time. Only prairie girls could do that!
jpbluesky
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Edited by - jpbluesky on Feb 06 2005 7:04:06 PM |
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2005 : 4:42:53 PM
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Well, if you want a really different "holiday" you'd have to come to W.NY - there are a lot of ethnic groups here, esp. Polish, Irish, Italian, German. We have no real Mardi Gras celebration, but we do have "punzki day" - the day before Ash Wednesday, which simply means you go stuff yourself with doughnuts before Lent! Sometimes it's the Sat. or Sun. before, with music esp. polkas. Then we have St. Joseph Day, during Lent, which is an Italian festival whereby many churches, etc. have a non-meat feast, often open to anyone for free or a modest donation. The Irish center has been having a Polish-Italian-Irish festival, with separate rooms with different food and music specific to each group. And last but not least, the day after Easter Sunday is "Dyngus Day' if you're Polish (or not), a day of music, food and general fun.
Cecelia
ce's farm
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