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Didn´t even realize that this was an international thing. In Sweden it´s called Fat Tuesday (Fettisdagen) and is celebrated by eating "semlor" (singular "semla"). But yes, it´s apparently the last Tuesday before Lent. Which we don´t observe. Although maybe we´ll have fasting all year long if the current thing continues...
More embarassing stuff: I didn´t even realize that Fat Tuesday was movable rather than fixed (except in the sense that it must be a Tuesday). I assumed it was always something like the second Tuesday in February or whatever, so I began to wonder when the heck the "semlor" were supposed to show up at the pastry shop this year! Indeed, Fat Tuesday in March *is* late, bro.
Besides, the "semlor" were expensive and not very good either. What a schmucking week.
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