{"id":1896,"date":"2011-03-09T20:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2012-10-18T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T13:42:14","slug":"fat-tuesday-and-semlor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/2011\/fat-tuesday-and-semlor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Tuesday and Semlor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fat Tuesday<\/a> surprised me. I had no idea it was a holiday. I heard a friend was baking some semlor<\/a>, but I thought he was just in the mood for baking. I had never tried one, it sounded like another typical Swedish godis<\/a>. But no! It was because it was Fat Tuesday!<\/p>\n

At first I thought my Swede was joking. What, a day to get fat?<\/p>\n

“Why are you celebrating it?”<\/p>\n

“Because it is Fat Tuesday.”<\/p>\n

“What is Fat Tuesday?”<\/p>\n

“The day you eat semlor.”<\/p>\n

“Why do you eat semlor?”<\/p>\n

“Because it is Fat Tuesday!”<\/p>\n

Arg! This conversation could have gone on and on. I gave up. I ate a semla. It was good.<\/p>\n

\"semlor\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Luckily a fellow Swedish Freak explained in her blog post<\/a> what Fat Tuesday was all about. It is that Christian holiday before Ash Wednesday. You know, the one Mardi Gras falls on? So that<\/em> is why Swedes eat semlor on Fat Tuesday. Some left over Christian tradition, and a perfect excuse to eat semlor. Ok!<\/p>\n

For those of you who want to make your own semlor at home, I stole my friend’s semlor recipe<\/a>! Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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