How do you celebrate Mardi Gras in your neck of the woods?

Started by Savonarola, March 03, 2014, 09:23:48 PM

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Savonarola

March 03, 2014, 09:23:48 PM
In Detroit (and especially in my home town of Grand Rapids) Shrove Tuesday was Paczki Day; huge lines would form at the Polish bakeries in order to get authentic(ish) Paczkis.

At a former job one of our engineers was from Germany.  On Rosenmontag he brought in doughnuts for the office.

Here in Florida there's no Paczkis to be found ( :().  Instead they have King Cake; which I take it comes from New Orleans, but it's something that I thought was part of Latin American Three Kings Day, not Carnival. :unsure:

In any event how do you celebrate Carnival/Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras in your hometown?
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March 03, 2014, 09:27:02 PM
PANCAKE DAY! :w00t:
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Admiral Yi

#3
March 03, 2014, 09:32:56 PM
What the chinaman gentleman said.

Eddie Teach

#4
March 03, 2014, 09:36:32 PM
Haven't done anything for Mardi Gras in past 15 years or so. There's usually a parade where they throw out cheap beads somewhere.
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#6
March 03, 2014, 10:16:42 PM
This will be the year that I don't wonder why people have smudges of dirt on their faces. -_-
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#7
March 03, 2014, 10:17:35 PM
We spent the weekend down in Mobile getting hit on the face with beads thrown by drunks from cheap floats.  :lol: Also ate some good bbq.  :licklips:
Awesome weekend,  mardi gras in Mobile is still family friendly. Oh,  we only ate three king cakes.  :blush:
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Admiral Yi

#8
March 03, 2014, 10:20:49 PM
Are king cakes another word for funnel cakes?

garbon

#9
March 03, 2014, 10:23:27 PM
on google images they look rather funky.
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katmai

#10
March 03, 2014, 11:24:56 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 03, 2014, 10:20:49 PM
Are king cakes another word for funnel cakes?

No, and was surprised to see them for sale at my local Fred Meyers.
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sbr

#11
March 03, 2014, 11:31:27 PM
Quote from: katmai on March 03, 2014, 11:24:56 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 03, 2014, 10:20:49 PM
Are king cakes another word for funnel cakes?

No, and was surprised to see them for sale at my local Fred Meyers.

:wub:  I LOVE Fred Meyer.  I buy almost everything there, if they don't have it I figure I don't need it.  I have done 100% of my XMas shopping there the last 3 years.

Capetan Mihali

#12
March 04, 2014, 12:15:52 AM
I've enjoyed hitting the Shrove Tuesday pancake dinners from time to time.  Otherwise, never been much doing, except the sprinkling of ersatz New Orleans things, mainly in bars.  Probably nothing at all here in Yankeedom HQ.
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#13
March 04, 2014, 01:55:42 AM
Semla.
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#14
March 04, 2014, 02:19:59 AM
In Germany, carnival is mostly in the time between Thursday and Monday before Mardi Gras. I think by Mardi Gras, people are so hungover that they just can't celebrate anymore.
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