20 eighth of february, in two thousand and 17 will be shrove tuesday. This is the day when we like to eat pancakes. Lent is the traditional christian period of fasting. Fasting means when you go without food,. basically, you sort of don't eat. That's fasting. So lent is the traditional period for fasting, and it's supposed to last for forty ays. But nowadays, even if people are not religious, many, many people still make and eat pancakes on this day.