Each year on February 2 is what French people call 'La Chandeleur' - Candlemas in English - or the day when a whole country eats crepes!u003cbr/u003eIt is a tradition, and most French families will eat French crepes for the occasion.u003cbr/u003eNo one knows for sure why crepes are associated with a once-religious holiday, but there are a few hypotheses.u003cbr/u003eIt is possible that crepes - essentially large and thin u003ca href=u0022https://www.sweetashoney.co/sugar-free-pancakes/u0022u003epancakesu003c/au003e - symbolize a round, yellow sun coming back after the winter.u003cbr/u003eAnother possibility is that it's around that time that winter wheat harvests happen. If flour was made in too large batches, making crepes was a way to use it.u003cbr/u003eIt is such a deeply rooted tradition that I still make crepes on that day even though I moved to New Zealand years ago. The tradition says that we must eat them only after 8 pm.