Shrove Tuesday? Pancake Tuesday? Well, in France, Sweden and Brazil it is known as "Fat Tuesday" or "Grease Tuesday". Mardi Gras is the French name for Pancake Tuesday and comes from the Parisians' ancient tradition of parading a fat ox through the nation's capital, while the Brazilians call it Terca-feira gorda, and the Swedes Fettisdagen. In Iceland, the day is known as Sprengidgaur - which literally translates as "bursting day". Interestingly though, in Italy the day is refered to as Carnivale - which is derived from the Latin, "goodbye to the flesh".
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Shrove Tuesday? Pancake Tuesday? Well, in France, Sweden and Brazil it is known as "Fat Tuesday" or "Grease Tuesday". Mardi Gras is the French name for Pancake Tuesday and comes from the Parisians' ancient tradition of parading a fat ox through the nation's capital, while the Brazilians call it Terca-feira gorda, and the Swedes Fettisdagen. In Iceland, the day is known as Sprengidgaur - which literally translates as "bursting day". Interestingly though, in Italy the day is refered to as Carnivale - which is derived from the Latin, "goodbye to the flesh".