They are great ice-breakers and a way to better get to know other families. We average about five rendezvous a year. Shrove Tuesday - Shrove Tuesday is the English equivalent of Mardi Gras. Eggs, sugar and other foods that might focus believers minds on their stomachs rather than their salvation were to be used up and only plain fare be prepared during Lent. In some villages a very mild English replacement for the Mardi Gras parades is the pancake race.
People race from one end of the village to the other tossing pancakes in a skillet.