Tamer activities include musical acts, a pancake breakfast and beer tents with local brews.
That would be followed by a good meal at a diner or pancake house.
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And in home kitchens, there was a revival of potato mashing and pancake flipping.
Between mouthfuls of syrup-soaked pancake, Dalyne Gaede laments that he can no longer find work.
After mingling with the cultured crowd, fuel up with a galette (buckwheat pancake) at Le Galichon.
Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday to the traditionalists, is a last hurrah before the austerity of a pancake-free Lent.
Mr. GARDNER: Do you put applesauce or sour cream on your potato pancake?
The take-up of loans by companies remains flatter than a very flat pancake.
Scene Partner 1: We see Mabel is wearing a syrup-stained name tag with a picture of a pancake stack.
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In China, Microsoft's search engine Bing sounds like "illness" or "pancake" when spoken in local dialects, depending on the tone.
The Delta may be as flat as a pancake, but its musical history is as rich as the soil itself.
In New Hampshire, it's "cranberry almond caramel pancakes, " says Cyndi Cobb, who is competing in a national pancake flip-off in Durham, N.
Will the results be as absurd, to quote a popular book for kids this age, as giving a pig a pancake?
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In addition to watching cowboys and cattle, there will be live country music events around the city and free pancake breakfasts to boot.
"Soul Pancake is really an expression of who I am as a human being, " said the actor, a member of the Baha'i faith.
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The floors of the twin towers lie stacked one on top of the other, the result of the "pancake effect" when the towers collapsed.
Cartwright made his Test debut in the fourth Test against Australia in 1964, taking 2 for 118 on a pancake flat Old Trafford pitch.
Wilson said Soul Pancake has evolved into a media-production company that is launching a YouTube channel and creating programming for Oprah Winfrey's TV network.
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If I were to plan a trip again, I would prefer to do more 'hands-on' tours, like the lantern making and rice pancake making in Hoi An.
And when decadent parades sweep European and American streets for Mardi Gras, Ukrainians stand by their forefathers munching on pancakes during the Pancake Week celebrations.
Hanukkah has always been this "potato pancake holiday" in my house.
"I'm not going to open a pancake restaurant, " he said, laughing.
It was a question he faced repeatedly Monday, when Bauer also faced the embarrassment of accidentally falling off a stage during a pancake 'flip-off' campaign event.
Yet in his parallel universe, Mr Kim boasted of the variety of beef, pork, goose and turkey available to the privileged customers of the pancake shop.
Annual events include the Orinda Film Festival, the California Shakespeare Theater and an annual daylong 4th of July celebration that kicks off with a pancake breakfast.
All were done in case his crew would have to pull away from a tornado and use well-maintained roads that wouldn't turn into "pancake batter" in rain.
And yet, when just one such benefit was disclosed to ardent opponents of health care, they flipped their point of view like a pancake on the skillet.
From being famous in the specialised world of surfing, and a local hero with his picture in Uncle Bill's Pancake House, Joe Wolfson became a national celebrity.
But that is why, in the end, the pancake flips onto a plate ready for serving in a pool of warm maple syrup, and it looks just right.
Michelle Croich is attending the pancake contest from Rye, N.
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