We hope to have a flipping great day

Sean O’Sullivan, Dragon’s Den

We hope to have a flipping great day
Tue, 12 Feb, 2013 - 00:00
Helen O’Callaghan

Will you make pancakes today?

The term, Pancake Tuesday, is entirely alien to me. In the US, we called it Fat Tuesday. People fatten up before Lent — the last splurge. I have no childhood recollection of Shrove Tuesday. We didn’t make pancakes.

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