I never knew there was so many terms to call one day. Pancake Day. Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. Paczki Day. Parts of metropolitan Detroit's cities have large Polish communities so they celebrate Paczki with doughnuts. American pancakes are often made with some raising agent like baking powder so I stuck to making what we know as pancakes in the UK for my pancake day!
Whatever you name yesterday it's now the countdown to Easter. Which means sweet goodies. Not being raised as a child in the USA means getting the chance to try what American children get as their Easter candy. Much to Joe's great delight when he shouted "omg you never grew up with Peeps!" in the middle of the store at the weekend. Thus started the huge multi wide store search for said goodies which he came home with on Monday night!
Peeps are marshmallow sweets covered in a huge amount of sugar and insane colouring in pink, purple, yellow or blue and are shaped as Easter chicks. They would probably be banned in the UK due to said sugar and colouring content [as many American goodies like Mountain Dew use to be] but oh my they are good! Oh so sweet and sickly, but oh so tasty!
Joe also signed us up for some Girl Scout cookies. I'm not sure if a similar project exists in the UK but the Girl Scout Cookie Program allows young women the chance to develop financial, organisation and money management skills all through raising funds for the Girl Scouts whilst selling cookies. As a result it's America's largest girl led business. We got four different boxes - thin mints, samoas, savannah smiles [lemon cookies] and tagalons [peanut butter patties]. I think it's a great course to support and we get tasty goodies out of it!
It doesn't look like we'll be giving up goodies or chocolate for lent! Are you giving up anything for lent? Also a big thank you for all the support from yesterdays post, sorry if I was being a bit melodramatic but it helped just typing it all out - that and buying things on clearance in JoAnns!