Wednesday is ‘Ash Wednesday’, the start of the forty day or fasting. According to our tradition you get a black cross on the forehead. Then they are better off the channel.
There it is Tuesday Shrove Tuesday. And then everyone eats pancakes. Themselves in the church. Candidate members for the choir of the Salisbury cathedral already practiced on Monday by throwing the pancakes. The photos prove: In addition to being tasty, that is also very pleasant. On a fasting evening they make pancakes again in the house of the dean. To then enjoy them. And then switch to our tradition: burn palm branches and then that black cross.
It is striking that more is happening with pancakes in Salisbury. For example, the pancake race takes place on Tuesday, whereby runners have to run as quickly as possible while they keep throwing pancakes from their pan. If you keep that up for 30 to 45 minutes – the average time that winners travel – then you have a chance to win the gold pancake pan. The best dressed runner also receives a pan as a gift.