International Lifestyle Magazine Issue 54 | Page 63

PA N C A K E H E AV E N
ALAN COXON

Question: What do Pancakes, and Carnivals have in common?
Answer: Everything!

these two elements have been combined
For centuriesaround the streets! of the world with most of and
celebrated
many parts
the
action taking place in

Historically across Britain, “pancake
races” were once held in villages
and towns. The tradition is said to
have originated when a housewife
from Olney, Buckinghamshire, was
so busy making pancakes that she
forgot the time, until she heard the
church bells ringing for the service.
She raced out of the house and raced
to church forgetting she was still
carrying her frying pan and pancake.
Today in some locations across
the UK people still run through

the streets tossing pancakes into
the air and catching them in the
pan whilst running. All this brings
back memories, as I once had the
pleasure of being invited to compete
in a pancake race against a few
Clergy and the Bishop for a charity
event at Worcestershire Cathedral.
Alas much scull duggery and macho
competitiveness saw me being
bought down onto the flagstone
flooring of the Cathedral with only a
pancake toss away from the winning
post.

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