Fat Tuesday

Fat Tuesday-- also referred to as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake day in Ireland, Australia and English speaking countries of the United Kingdom.

It is customary to eat pancakes on this day, because for centuries the English had feasts of flatcakes to use up their supplies of fat, butter and eggs before Lent.

The ringing of the church bells early on the morning of Shrove Tuesday became known as Pancake Bells.