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Who here celebrates Mardi Gras but doesn't observe Lent?

Feb 21, 2012 3:04 PM

I am one of the many folks who like to party on Fat Tuesday, but don't observe Lent, which Mardi Gras heralds. How do you celebrate Mardi Gras? We are having a huge breakfast here at the office, I baked peach bread pudding with amaretto sauce, other people are bringing muffalettas, red beans and rice, jambalaya and red velvet cake, along with traditional breakfast stuff like eggs, pancakes and donuts. At lunchtime we'll be going to a community center that's hosting a party downtown. I don't drink so I don't party in that way, but my friends and I usually go out to dinner on Mardi Gras. But I have to work late, I have what's going to be a pretty explosive meeting tonight, so there will be no evening festivities for me. I am totally weighted down with beads this morning, as we regularly vacation in New Orleans and I keep adding to my collection.

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Wheres your place? I wanna come..

videowallart videowallart
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LOL. City Hall, El Paso, Texas.

moondrake moondrake
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if you consider throwing 3-cent plastic beads at women willing to show me boobers as "celebrating mardi gras", then yes, I celebrate mardi gras.

kamikazeken kamikazeken
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Paczkis!

secretagentman02 secretagentman02
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From personal experience (I lived in southern Louisiana until Katrina) I'd guess about 90% of the people who celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans don't observe Lent. My husband is a Catholic and doesn't, though to be fair, a huge majority of the people who skip the Lent part probably don't know it exists.

foolsdance foolsdance
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@foolsdance: I live in a predominantly Hispanic, Catholic city, so I would guess our ratios are reversed. Maybe 10% of the people who observe Lent celebrated Mardi Gras. I expect to see a lot of ashy foreheads today.

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