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Welcome Shrove Tuesday, last chance for all pious Christians to indulge in rich foods and other base pleasures before bidding Carne vale — farewell to the flesh. Christian or not, enjoy your favorite high-fat, high-calorie baked sweets (is it a coincidence that Girl Scout cookies are in season?), but keep in mind the sad fate of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden, who “died of digestion problems… after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off by fourteen helpings of hetvägg, the king’s favorite dessert.”
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Warren Terra
For anyone else wondering what “hetvägg” is, a dessert that’s literally to die for, a descriptive passage from Wikipedia:
R-Jud
It’s Pancake Day here. Savory ones for lunch (ricotta and spinach), crepes with strawberries and cream after dinner.
JoyfulA
Happy Fasnacht Day, everyone.
Here in Pennsylvania Dutch land, we don’t throw beads at the crowd or anything like that; we just eat the world’s best doughnuts, lots of them.
harlana
here’s your morning photo
you’re welcome!
Linda Featheringill
I read that Santorum said that global warming was impossible because the bible tells us so.
The phrase most people quote is from Genesis 9:11. In the King James Version of the bible, God is quoted as saying:
I personally don’t see how that precludes global warming. People have interpreted the bible to suit themselves for a long, long time and I can’t stop that.
ETA:
BTW, Happy Fat Tuesday, everyone!
R-Jud
@JoyfulA:
Oh man. I now have a super-specific craving I don’t have a chance in hell of satisfying.
harlana
your morning video!
Southern Beale
Indiana Republican claims the Girl Scouts are the “tactical arm” of Planned Parenthood, refuses to honor the groups’ 100th anniversary.
Can we just stop pretending that Republicans are sane?
Egg Berry
@Southern Beale: During the recent Cookie Drive, Girl Scouts were swarming the streets of my humble burg trying to shove RU-486 down the throats of our upstanding midwestern womenz.
Omnes Omnibus
@Southern Beale:
Way ahead of you there.
@Egg Berry: Those were Thin Mints. Easy mistake to make.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
@Southern Beale:
of course and the national cheerleading association, the universal cheerleading association, and americheer are the spiritual advisors of the “planned parenthood movement”.
those evil little skirts stole cheerleading from men back when men were busy fighting ww2. look at how the left mocked gw bush for being a cheerleader. he was merely engaging in healthy activity meant to keep the shameless harlots at bay.
HRA
@Warren Terra:
Thanks for the information. I always thought my Dad’s plain bun in warm milk was from his native land. Now I know it came from his 3 years in Germany on his way to the US.
@Southern Beale:
As a former Girl Scout leader I resent this idiocy more than I can describe without using explosive language. Then I must realize where the idiocy begins and how it has permeated our lives lately. It’s absolutely disgusting.
lamh35
Good morning and Happy Mardi Gras. Greetings from NOLA. Been here since Sunday. Weather was beautiful and expected to last throughout Mardi Gras day.
Haven’t gone to any parades, but please check out a picture of Maddie at her first parade. She had a blast I hear. She loves outside & being around people, unlike her godmother (me)!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/nellybell28/270e3e50.jpg
madmommy
Happy Mardi Gras from Loozianna! Sadly for me, the spousal unit and kidlets get to go to the parades while I have to go to work. The perils of working retail-no such thing as a holiday :(
Linda Featheringill
@lamh35:
Maddie is such a beauty!
dmsilev
@Southern Beale: How is that supposed to work? Are there roving Girl Scout snatch teams that grab unwary pregnant women and drag them to the nearest Planned Parenthood abortionarium?
Also, too, we haven’t yet heard of the strategic arm of Planned Parenthood. I’m guessing long-range bombers capable of dusting entire cities with AbortionDrugs ™.
Montysano
@lamh35: Maddie should be a Bead Magnet!
jibeaux
@Southern Beale: I said it last night, but I am dearly hoping that November 2012 leaves all men in office or running for office constantly fearful of pissing off American women, now and forever. We need to bring the 19th Amendment Hammer of Justice down on this bullshit.
jibeaux
@lamh35: Where’s my spoon?
jibeaux
@Southern Beale: He says he “did some research on the internet.” Whew! I’d hate to think he just, you know, pulled that out of his ass.
Villago Delenda Est
@Egg Berry:
I’m sure they were, coated in chocolate and mint. That you eat a sleeve at a time.
scav
@Southern Beale: Encouraging young tender uteri to wander the streets unsupervised by their natural lords, and furthermore under the ultimate aegis of the She Obama? ! the horrors.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
Santorum Blasts Obama During Cumming Rally
you know dead tree news is in bad shape when the headline editors are auditioning for online satire magazines.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
a post so nice it entered twice
Precious Roy
Carne vale—farewell to the flesh.
Folk etymology. The most accepted etymology of the word is from carne + levare (to lift or remove), but there’s a good argument that it is actually from carrus navalis (lit. naval cart), a float-like conveyance for transporting the cult image of Isis to the sea to bless the start of sailing season.
Amir Khalid
This has been noted here before, but I hope my fellow Juicitarians are following the daily streaming of songs from Wrecking Ball, the new Springsteen album, at Rolling Stone, Backstreets and the Guardian among other places. So far, the songs are as advertised: raw, angry folk-rockers with a populist, 99-percenter point of view. Track 3 is Shackled and Drawn:
Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going strong
Down here below we’re shackled and drawn
South of I-10
Happy Mardi Gras, y’all! Seems like a good time for a Mimosa.
Fwiffo
I wanted to chant about pączki but it triggered the spam net. :(
handsmile
@jibeaux: (#18)
Paul in KY
@lamh35: What a cute youngun. Hope she had a great time! Is her mount you?
chopper
but it’s only wafer thin!
Mnemosyne
Leaving the house early today so I can pick up the two (2) king cakes I ordered for the office. I only got one last year and some people are still bitching that they didn’t get their share, so this year I’m getting two. I didn’t have a chance to pick up the New Orleans coffee, though, since I was busy driving around town test-riding bicycles. (Yes, I realize that’s ironic.)
matryoshka
Just had a pączki and read another chapter of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, so as I scan the BJ threads, I can see that I’m all caught up already.
shortstop
Enjoyed that Balfa Bros. tune; Dewey Balfa was the shit. I would listen more to his kids’ group, Balfa Toujours, if Christine Balfa’s voice weren’t so grating. After one round of “Jeunes Filles de la Campagne,” I have to give up. I wish they’d do an instrumental-only release.
Bill Arnold
@Mnemosyne:
My wife made a diet (weight watchers) king cake Sunday for a kids birthday party. It was surprisingly good considering it was low fat. The birthday girl got the baby trinket, and everyone got a necklace. This is the northeast so we don’t know what a king cake should taste like anyway.