Krewes started throwing small trinkets. In addition, millions of cups, stuffed animals, plastic cups, small toys and even bags and toy coins known as "doubloons"are decorated with krewe logos and thrown to parade-watchers. Mardi Gras around the world In Ireland, Australia, and Canada, Mardi Gras is known as "Pancake Tuesday", while in Britain it is popularly known as "Pancake Day". In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the week before Ash Wednesday is called "shrovetide", ending on Shrove Tuesday. Other cities famous for Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Barranquilla, Colombia, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico and New Orleans, Louisiana andUnited States. Thanks for listening! J
parties. It's one of the favourite holidays. 8) SOME ENGLISH TRADITIONS In England, Shrove Tuesday is the day for pancakes. The popular name for Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Day. The most common form of celebration in the old days was the all-over-town ball game or tug-of-war. Today the only custom that is consistently observed throughout Britain pancake eating. But here and there some of other customs, too, still survive. Among these pancake races, the pancake fight, and Shrovetide [Shrovetide=Shrove Tuesday=vastlapäev] football are the best known. The most famous pancake race takes place at only, Buckinghamshire. The pancake bell is rung to competitors. Only women can take part in the race, and they must wear an apron and head-covering. The course is over a distance of 15 yards, during which the pancake must be tossed three times. At Westminster school in London, before dinner there's the pancake fight. Shrovetide football has few rules and the
has also been given to the Greek and Roman games of episkyros and Harpastum respectively. The latter is particularly interesting as a game played on a rectangular grass surface with a ball roughly equivalent to a softball today. Medieval football Despite some signs of the game we love today in the Ancient World, the true development of football came in Medieval Britain by and large, although there are signs of equivalents across Europe (the majority of which were exported). Known as Shrovetide football or Medieval football, the inception point has been claimed as the 3rd century after the defeat of the Romans, but the practice itself was first recorded in the 9th century as part of the Historia Britonum (you can see one or two of the surviving engravings of medieval football at the British Museum). Typically played during the annual Carnival, the other tag of `mob football' gives you a sense of what it was actually like to be involved in such games. Held between
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