Getting Fat on a Tuesday

This is a quick post related to Fettisdagen or Fat Tuesday. To quote from Wikipedia, the article about Fat Tuesday said that "it is the last day before the Lenten fast, a tradition has developed of eating buns, called "fastlagsbullar", "fettisdagsbullar" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or "semla". The day is also called "White Tuesday" because the buns are made out of white flour."

I read somewhere that this day has a lot of celebrations and festivities, like the Mardi Gras in France. Well, well. We passed by ICA and saw this ginormous semla! It's actually a semla cake. I do not know why we bought it, but we just felt the need to. The placemat in the picture above is 10 inches by 10 inches. We do not know the exact diameter of the semla cake, but the size of the placemat ought to give you a clue.

Well, then. We will now start on a festivity of our own: finishing an entire semla cake! It ain't Mardi Gras, but it definitely is a White Tuesday Bun Celebration!