In Poland, drunks switch from turpentine to aftershave for Lent and for the frist few days of Lent one can notice many 'No Parking' curbs with illegally parked cars occasioned by the copious gutterside vomiting having removed the paint.
In parts of Utah, even those parts where you can actually find liquor, drinking rates actually decrease on Shrove Tuesday since the locals find reasons to visit relatives in Louisiana.
In California, we celebrate 'Phat Tuesday' by doing bong hits out of exceptionally colorful bongs. See also, 'Phat Monday', 'Phat Wednesday', 'Phat Thursday', etc...
In Roswell, NM, the pancake races are conducted using special titanium alloy saucers which are a delicacy amongst aliens from the Canis Major dwarf galaxy.
In parts of Italy, people have been known to drink a combination of olive oil, grappa, and cinzano, and balsamic vinegar for martedì grasso, but they're mostly just 'friends'* of mine who do that.
*These guys I met at the train station in Bergamo once.
What do you, your family, and friends do for Shrove Tuesday?
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Bless you, M. White. Were it not for you I should never have known about the quaint Italian custom of quaffing emetics for Shrove Tuesday. I should have thought they would have saved that business for the following day, as I do.
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
If casually knocking the heads from the shoulders of those who are unable to quote Robert Creeley's homage to bollards upon 7th and Figueroa and then booting said heads lustily into the baying mob whilst yelling "you = idiots" is wrong then I don't want to be right.
― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Tuesday is not shrove in any way, shape or form. I don’t know why people keep going on about it being shrove when it just isn’t. These days we’re all enlightened mature people who don’t buy any of this silly old-fashioned nonsense about Tuesday’s alleged shrove-ness, are we not? If anyone says to you that Tuesday is shrove you must come straight to me or your mother and tell us about it so we can alert the authorities.
― Rex (Rex), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Alas a Tuesday, once shriven, can't be unshruv.
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link