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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Feb 5, 2008 11:20:46 GMT
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_aHCpZl4kOr Shrove Tuesday if you're traditional, old, or into God. 1) Are you making pancakes? And what do you put on them? 2) Are you giving owt up for lent? We had a pancake day rehearsal on sunday and, a word of warning, do not add pink food colouring to the mix as an experiment. The first one ended up looking like a placenta and another one got lots of folds in the middle so looked far to much like a vagina to be appetising.
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Post by mackenzie on Feb 5, 2008 11:28:59 GMT
I am taking a hiatus from Slim Fast for a day to eat pancakes. I'm mean I'm disciplined, but nobody is getting the way of me and pancakes.
I like mine with just lemon and sugar. I don't like all those new-fangled fillings.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Feb 5, 2008 11:38:53 GMT
Savoury fillings are quite wrong to me. So yes, lemon and sugare all the way. I did live off Apple and Cinnamon Crepes and Cider at Vfest in the summer though, which was a winning combination so I may try and re-enact that later.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2008 11:59:53 GMT
I totally forgot. I'm going to pop to the shop and buy the mix and lemon shiz and some other stuff to make them chocolatey and ace!
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Post by jetsetwilly on Feb 5, 2008 12:05:51 GMT
Aren't pancakes just brown paper with a squirt of Jif lemon?
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Post by Steven on Feb 5, 2008 12:11:13 GMT
I was shocked when an Betty Crocker advert on the telly told me it was Pancake Day today. It feels far too early. But then I suppose Easter's early this year too, which has just messed everything up, frankly.
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Post by Muinimula on Feb 5, 2008 12:30:45 GMT
Last year, I think I did savoury pancakes with chilli con carne, and then sweet ones with sugar, lemon, etc.
If you just missed Alesha cooking pancakes on This Morning, you missed out.
I'm giving up buying anything from M&S at Waterloo station. I spend far too much money on sandwiches/smoothies/wraps there.
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Post by Becky on Feb 5, 2008 12:31:03 GMT
I usually have syrup or lemon and sugar on my pancakes. I go crazy and have some for lunch and tea.
I'm not giving up anything for lent.
Its also Chinese New Year on Thursday and Kissing Friday this Friday. I'd never heard of Kissing Friday until the other day, but its apparently when guys can go around kissing people without fear of rejection (although pressumably the people being kissed need to know about this day in order for it to completely work). I will be celebrating Chinese New Year on Saturday with a mass take away (I'm talking about 100 people having a take away which comes in storage box size tubs!), Chinese and English karaoke and disco.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Feb 5, 2008 12:39:30 GMT
Kissing Friday? Are you sure some bloke hasn't invented this so he can get a quick snog with you Becky?
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Post by schmindie on Feb 5, 2008 12:56:00 GMT
I'm making pancakes later, but my pancakes are notoriously dodgy so they may not turn out well. I like lemon and sugar on mine, occasionally some Nutella, but nothing else. Mr Schmindie likes savory pancakes, so he can make his own, I'm not getting mixed up in any of that weirdness.
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Post by Becky on Feb 5, 2008 14:01:01 GMT
Kissing Friday? Are you sure some bloke hasn't invented this so he can get a quick snog with you Becky? I read it in a little magazine thing we got through the door. It said it was popular until the 1940s.
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Post by LoveMusic on Feb 5, 2008 15:55:22 GMT
I came home and Mama had made pancakes. I like mine with chocolate syrup.
I can't give up anything for Lent, i have willpower issues.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Feb 5, 2008 16:01:46 GMT
I am giving up chocolate and the following swear words which we have classified as being particular terrible: Fuck Cunt Shit Shite Twat Piss
Really I do have the mouth of a navvy, so it's time to change this. I am giving up two things in the belief that if i break one all will not be totally lost. Last year I tried to give up chocolate but after 4 days realised that I had never ever tried a Starbar.
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Post by Steven on Feb 5, 2008 16:18:18 GMT
I remember once giving up chocolate for Lent, and doing really well until I had about a week to go and someone absently offered me some of their chocolate in the cinema and I was so engrossed in the film that I took some without even realising what I was doing. It's the film's fault for being so good, whichever one it was. I am giving up the following swear words: Shit Does this mean you'll be changing the text under your avatar, or is that okay since it's really HM The Queen saying it?
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Feb 5, 2008 16:31:36 GMT
One year my Dad had succesfully given up chocolate for four weeks, until the ladies at work made him a chocolate cake for his birthday and he had to eat it so he didn't look like the rude old man he really is. I am giving up the following swear words: Shit Does this mean you'll be changing the text under your avatar, or is that okay since it's really HM The Queen saying it? Oh jizzbaps, how annoying. Actually it IS the Queen saying it, so it's allowed. I am going to have one sweary, chocolatey evening.
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Post by coxy1979 on Feb 5, 2008 16:57:59 GMT
I'm giving up melancholy for Lent.
And I'm having an omlette tonight - which is a sort of a pancake innit?
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Post by Rad on Feb 5, 2008 17:02:30 GMT
I'm having cheese (and possibly onion) pancakes and lemon and sugar ones.
I am giving up alcohol for Lent, except on my birthday.
FACT! The Sundays in Lent don't count as Lent so you can return to chocolate and swearing and misery for the day.
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Post by [james] on Feb 5, 2008 17:03:21 GMT
Please add this to your list! It made me picture the most obscene rolls ever made. My housemate has made pancakes for all of us (and even some soy ones for our fussy lactose intolerent housemate). He's officially lovely. Can I take something up for Lent instead? I've always wondered what being a meth addict would be like.
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Post by Rad on Feb 5, 2008 17:05:42 GMT
James: Lots of Christians do indeed take up something for Lent. It's usually a discipline though, like exercising or reading the Bible a bit more or something. Not sure meth addict is in the spirit of things.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2008 19:54:13 GMT
I had pancakes with strawberries and a chocice. It was LOVELY.
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Post by Muinimula on Feb 6, 2008 0:05:54 GMT
FACT! The Sundays in Lent don't count as Lent so you can return to chocolate and swearing and misery for the day. See, while that is true (the Sundays aren't included in the 40 days), it pretty much negates "giving something up" if you can have it every seventh day. A woman I knew at church used to give up alcohol except on Sundays and St Patrick's Day, which is hardly a test of will power, is it? I went down the complicated pancake route this evening. Savoury: pesto, ham, cheese & roasted peppers. Sweet: mashed banana, honey, cinnamon and yoghurt.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Feb 6, 2008 10:56:40 GMT
FACT! The Sundays in Lent don't count as Lent so you can return to chocolate and swearing and misery for the day. See, while that is true (the Sundays aren't included in the 40 days), it pretty much negates "giving something up" if you can have it every seventh day. A woman I knew at church used to give up alcohol except on Sundays and St Patrick's Day, which is hardly a test of will power, is it? A mate of mine is giving up alcohol apart from on Sundays. However, she's swapping her Sundays for another day of the week when she wants to drink. I've not sworn for 10 hours and 57 minutes. This is a runaway success.
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Post by Rad on Feb 6, 2008 12:11:12 GMT
FACT! The Sundays in Lent don't count as Lent so you can return to chocolate and swearing and misery for the day. See, while that is true (the Sundays aren't included in the 40 days), it pretty much negates "giving something up" if you can have it every seventh day. A woman I knew at church used to give up alcohol except on Sundays and St Patrick's Day, which is hardly a test of will power, is it? . The reasoning behind it was that Sunday celebrates the resurrection and therefore the early-ish church figured there couldn't be fasting on Sunday because of its symbolism - all Sundays should be a day of celebration and feasting etc. It's linked to Jesus' comment about fasting and why his diciples didn't fast - he said they would fast when he'd gone, but how could they fast when he was there? The other six days represent the wilderness etc but Sunday represents Jesus' presence. Fasting for Lent isn't about testing your will power per se, it's about saying no to desires like Jesus did in the desert - it's more about disciplining yourself than rigid regulation. I know people use it as a will power test now, but that's the original intent. Of course missing out the Sundays means you're giving something up for a whole 46 days, so you can feel ultra-sumg if you manage it (which obviously is not very Christian and all, what with smuggery being the opposite of humility etc.) Also the Sunday break is quite practical, I imagine. Earlier Christians often used to fast food in general, which is dangerous for a long period of time, so the Sunday would break that up and give them some sustenance. Wow, I never thought my previous job would come in handy here. I had some pear, cinnamon and sugar pancakes as well as cheese and lemon/sugar ones. They weren't all that.
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Post by LoveMusic on Feb 6, 2008 14:10:23 GMT
I had pancakes for breakfast. Not very fat-fightery of me, but i ate them watching teeny-tiny girls on ANTM so i felt the guilt.
I know exactly what i could give up for Lent, stuff like diet coke, sweets, swearing, Wikipedia and fan fiction. The problem is, i really don't want to.
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Post by al on Feb 6, 2008 14:24:44 GMT
Savoury: pesto, ham, cheese & roasted peppers. This sounds like the absolute nuts. Pancake Day round at Muinimula's next year, everyone? Was out last night so I'm doing pancakes tonight, which I know sort of defeats the purpose, but still. I'm giving up muffins for Lent though, which I know sounds pretty lame but I do eat stupid amounts of them, so Jesus should be most proud.
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