Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. It is celebrated in English-speaking countries like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada. On this day many people eat pancakes: thin, flat cakes made in a pan.
Pancake Day is always on a Tuesday 40 days before Easter when people often give up or stop eating (or try to!) things that are bad for them like chocolate or fast food. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. Traditionally, during Lent, people didn’t eat rich foods like butter and eggs, so to use them up they made pancakes from these ingredients on Shrove Tuesday.
Another fun tradition on Pancake Day in the UK is pancake racing. People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss (throw) the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan several times. In some pancake races people dress up in fancy dress costumes. If you drop the pancake you have to start again!
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