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Pancake Day
Celebrated on the day preceding Ash Wednesday, residents of the UK and other countries like to eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, as a final feast on ingredients such as sugar, fat and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally prohibited during Lent.
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