Shrove Tuesday aka Pancake Day (laskiainen in Finnish, Mardi Gras in French) is a spring celebration that draws its origin from centuries old Christian and pagan traditions. In Catholic countries it precedes fasting. In Finland it is celebrated with downhill or ice sledging and meals with hernekeitto (green pea soup with ham) and laskiaispulla (sweet coffee bread filled with strawberry jam or almond paste and whipped cream).
Traditionally food should contain loads of fat, since it was believed to predict good luck with livestock (especially production of milk and pork). Downhill sledging was believed to affect length of flax (plant you make linen of).
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