{"id":1893,"date":"2011-03-09T20:18:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/?page_id=1893"},"modified":"2018-01-27T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:43:53","slug":"fat-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/holiday\/fat-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
| Fat Tuesday<\/a> | Waffle Day<\/a> | Easter<\/a> | Walpurgis Night<\/a> | Mother’s Day<\/a> |<\/h5>\n
| Midsummer<\/a> | Halloween<\/a> | Lucia<\/a> | Christmas<\/a> |<\/h5>\n

\"semlor\"Fat Tuesday, or Fettisdag is a traditional holiday in Sweden<\/a>. And not because they are necessarily Christian (which is where Fat Tuesday comes from, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, where a Christian fasting begins.) But because Swedes love their godis<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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So while Swedes will not necessarily fast on Wednesday, they will enjoy fat Tuesday, and the semlor<\/a> traditionally baked and eaten on this day.<\/p>\n

That is about all Swedes do on Fat Tuesday. Eat semlor.<\/p>\n

Usually, you can start seeing the semlor season as soon as Christmas is over.\u00a0 That is, early January.<\/p>\n

Fat Tuesday is the day where you are allowed to eat semlor all day.\u00a0 Some Swedes will even put it in a bowl and pour milk on top of a fresh semlor.\u00a0 Why not.<\/p>\n

If you would like to have your own Fat Tuesday, you can find a recipe for the Swedish semlor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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| Fat Tuesday | Waffle Day | Easter | Walpurgis Night | Mother’s Day | | Midsummer | Halloween | Lucia | Christmas | Fat Tuesday, or Fettisdag is a traditional holiday in Sweden. And not because they are necessarily Christian (which is where Fat Tuesday comes from, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, where a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":344,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[554,555,556,549,551,548,557,552,553,550,558],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7652,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1893\/revisions\/7652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}