Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/04/2025
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location
Founders Hall at UUFSD

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Mardi Gras, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday”, reflecting the practice of the last night of consuming rich, fatty foods in preparation for the Christian fasting season of Lent, during which the consumption of such foods is avoided.

Shrove Tuesday originated during the Middle Ages. As in contemporary times, food items like meats, fats, eggs, milk, and fish were regarded as restricted during Lent. To keep such food from being wasted, many families would have big feasts on Shrive Tuesday in order to consume those items that would spoil during the next forty days.

In countries such as the United Kingdom, Mardi Gras is more usually known as Pancake Day or (traditionally) Shrove Tuesday, derived from the word shrive, meaning “to administer the sacrament of confession to; to absolve”.

Mardi Gras starts at 5:00 on March 4, 2025, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito, Solana Beach. This is a Family Event, So come, get some beads, a mask, drink a Hurricane or two, eat some pancakes, Jambalaya, Red beans and Rice, Beignets, Boudin Balls, and find the baby in the King Cake.