Pancakes

In France and other parts of the world, Pancake Day is known as 'Mardi Gras' which means 'Fat Tuesday'.

There are other celebrations on Pancake Day and one of them is Pancake races, which supposedly started way back in 1445 (a very, very, very long time ago!).

According to legend, a woman in Buckinghamshire is said to have been caught out by the sound of the church bells ringing for service before she had finished making her pancake.

Her solution, the story goes, was to run from her home to her local church service still carrying her frying pan, flipping the pancake in it to prevent it burning in the still-hot pan.