You perhaps know it as pancake day, but the day that falls before Ash Wednesday is really called Shrove Tuesday. It is the day on which people shrived, in order to prepare for the fasting that occurred during Lent. Shriving isn’t very common actability these days, but it meant eating up all the things in the cupboard that weren’t allowed to be eaten during Lent. One of the popular items made using these soon to be forbidden ingredients was pancakes, and thus in time the day became known a pancake day.
I must confess that I don’t really like pancakes, which may explain why we have such a limited offering of funny pancake day poems on the menu. If you don’t enjoy Pancake Day, Pancake Day, there’s only bread and water as an alternative.
Pancake Day Pancake Day
by Patrick
Pancake Day, Pancake Day
The pan’s getting hotter
The butter has melted
I’ve poured in the batter
Pancake Day, Pancake Day
The pancake is sizzling
A flick of the wrist
And its stuck to the ceiling
Pancake Day, Pancake Day
I’ve not seen mum crosser
So which did she call me
‘A champion tosser’
Oh, I hope I remembered to warn you that some adults will consider this poem rather rude!
