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CALLING ALL KREWES!
GET READY TO PARTY!!
Tell two friends...who tell two friends...who tell two friends...
and so on and so on!!!!!!! EVERYONE IS WELCOME
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Mardi Gras Lingo
Mardi Gras, French for "Fat Tuesday," is the culmination of New Orleans' Carnival season, which begins on Jan.' 6, the Twelfth Night (the feast of the Epiphany). Fat Tuesday falls on the day before the penitential season of Lent, in which feasting is replaced by fasting.
A krewe is a carnival organization. The term was first coined by the Mistick Krewe of Comus in 1857. Many krewes select their names from Greek, Roman or Egyptian mythology.
Throws are trinkets tossed from parade floats in response to the cry, "Throw me something, mister!" Beads, plastic cups and aluminum doubloons are popular parade throws .
A King Cake is an oval-shaped, braided coffee
cake which is decorated with purple, green and gold-colored sugar
and has a plastic "baby" hidden inside. The person who
gets the slice containing the tiny doll is crowned "king"
and must host the next party. The king cake season opens on King's
Day, Jan. 6. The origin of the modern King Cake can be traced back
to the Middle Ages, when popular devotion during the Christmas season
turned to the Three Wise Men, or kings. In medieval times, a coin
was hidden inside the cake.
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