Who would think a holiday named Fat Tuesday is a religious holiday?
Mardi Gras is French and translates to Fat Tuesday. It is the last day to feast before the fasting of lent. That's why it is always 43 days before Easter.
When I look up gras French to English, the translation says bold, but as an adjective it is fatty, greasy and oily. So it could be Greasy Tuesday or Oily Tuesday. I like Fat Tuesday a lot better, but shouldn't it be Fatty Tuesday?
Another tradition of Mardi Gras's meaning comes from Frenchtoday.com:“Mardi Gras” comes from the tradition of using up all the food before Lent begins. And another translation: "Gras is also what we use to say “bold” as in font type."
There are a lot of Mardi Gras in Europe and all of them have the same name which translates to Fat Tuesday.
For the rest of us, Shrove Monday is the day before Fat tuesday - it is the day of pancakes. I guess we missed that yesterday.
New Orleans has a big festival - the schedule seems to go from January till after today. It is HERE. Why did the chicken cross the road during Mardi Gras?
To get to the other parade!
Here's a print from 2018 that I named Carnival. | 
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