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Shrove Tuesday traditions vary around the world. Pancakes are not the only the only food consumed. There are things like paczki (jam filled doughnuts) and other food items that contained things like fat and sugar that you were about to give up for Lent. And we won’t even get into Carnival or Mardi Gras. That’s a whole other thing. But pancakes have mostly been the thing around here.
But Newfoundland and Cape Breton had to come up with something different. You hide things in your pancakes to predict the future. A penny means you’ll be poor, a dime indicates future wealth, wedding band means you’re next to marry, a nail or a screw indicates you will marry a carpenter, a button means you’ll marry a tailor.
What they don’t say is that putting these things in your pancakes and not finding them could mean a future trip to a doctor. Or perhaps a dentist, to fix that broken tooth.
I’ve never been a big fan or things hidden in food, but some are. You may want to ask before tucking into those pancakes. Swallowing a nail doesn’t sound like much fun.