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Published: February 20th 2010
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Fat Tuesday Finale
Mardi Gras is French for Tuesday Fat, so technically you should only say Mardi Gras for the grand finale of Fat Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, but this is the south and close enough counts. Carnival is the technical term for the season leading up to Fat Tuesday, but I haven't heard carnival or Fat Tuesday used down here at all. Everything is Mardi Gras - Mardi Gras beads, Mard...
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Liz Howard
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great blog
Scott, Great blog really captured the essence of Mardi Gras and what goes on, are you sure your not a native? :-) YOU COULD PASS FOR ONE!