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Shrove Tuesday

Sláinte! Flipping Over Pancake Tuesday

By Edythe Preet, Columnist
February / March 2018

January 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Once the winter holiday feasting frenzy ends, hundreds of ads bombard us with ways to lose weight. There is certainly a time to count calories, but then there is Fat Tuesday. Dieters beware. The two will never go together any better than oil and water. As the final day before Lent, Fat Tuesday has for almost two-thousand years been cause to consume high-calorie, … [Read more...] about Sláinte! Flipping Over Pancake Tuesday

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