Monday Morning Pancake Club

[Boomer Cycles]

Pics from today’s MPCC with Team DRocks, Dismal, Fast Friendly Guy (aka Dave) & GB…

That which unites us…

Fast Friendly Guy brought his turkey, too

The ugly aftermath

[KLizotte]

The things people do for fun out in the suburbs :rolleyes:

[Boomer Cycles]

@KLizotte 128055 wrote:

The things people do for fun out in the suburbs :rolleyes:

Do they not believe that pancakes are fun in DC?

[Rockford10]

Reminder of Pancakes and other Coffee Clubs! A great way to get in some additional miles (maybe?) and meet folks during the week. Mike’s Deli in Falls Church is steps off the WOD and has the cheapest coffee around. I hear this Monday is Consularrider’s last for a while.

Mike’s Deli, Mondays, from about 7:30 to 8:30.

[Tania]

Is Mike’s still opening at 7:30? Trying to guess what time they’ll actually open this Monday (MLK day).

[Dickie]

@Tania 131896 wrote:

Is Mike’s still opening at 7:30? Trying to guess what time they’ll actually open this Monday (MLK day).

There’s really no telling… probably best to call on Sunday and confirm.

[consularrider]

So of course you wait until I leave town again to worry about attending! 😡 :confused: Must be some kind of “work” thing. :rolleyes:

[KayakCyndi]

@Tania 131896 wrote:

Is Mike’s still opening at 7:30? Trying to guess what time they’ll actually open this Monday (MLK day).

Usually yes. But that said, they have a tendency to either open late, or not open at all, on Holidays. Definitely call.

[Tania]

@consularrider 131912 wrote:

So of course you wait until I leave town again to worry about attending! 😡 :confused: Must be some kind of “work” thing. :rolleyes:

Hey buster — you’re in charge of booking your flights, not me. If it were up to ME, you would have left NEXT Tuesday since this Monday is a holiday for some and I am able to attend MMPC.

[ginacico]

@Tania 131896 wrote:

Trying to guess what time they’ll actually open this Monday (MLK day).

Answer: 8:30 AM, though nobody knew that in advance. We circled around in the cold for awhile, then saw someone inside doing prep; Steve O sweet-talked her into letting us sit inside for 10 minutes before they started taking orders. Great food, cheap coffee, unpredictable holiday hours.

MLK @ Mike’s participants: ginacico, DismalScientist, GB, Steve O, rcannon100. FFG and someone else (beard, face mask?) had tried earlier and given up.

[Dickie]

@ginacico 132525 wrote:

Answer: 8:30 AM, though nobody knew that in advance. We circled around in the cold for awhile, then saw someone inside doing prep; Steve O sweet-talked her into letting us sit inside for 10 minutes before they started taking orders. Great food, cheap coffee, unpredictable holiday hours.

MLK @ Mike’s participants: ginacico, DismalScientist, GB, Steve O, rcannon100. FFG and someone else (beard, face mask?) had tried earlier and given up.

Did a spin-by around 7:45….lights off not a sole in site…. could have used the coffee just to pour on my feet!

[Steve O]

If you’re going tomorrow, you’ll have the first chance to post a TAG from Boomer’s pic.

[consularrider]

This year Ukraine will celebrate Masleni-tsa (Pancake week) on the week of March 7-13.

Mass folk festivities devoted to Maslenitsa will be held in all Ukrainian cities. It is Ukraine’s one of the most picturesque and cheerful holiday, which is traditionally accompanied by songs, dances and large-scale feasts.

This vivid one-week holiday is known since pagan times: in old times it symbol-ized winter send-off and spring welcome. During a week, people said good-bye to winter, organizing mass festivities with all thinkable funs, and performed ceremonies, ensuring fertility. The holiday always end-ed with burning a straw effigy of winter, which symbolized destruction of the old outdated world and making place for a new one.

Later, with establishment of Christianity in

the Rus, eastern Slavs named the holiday as Maslenitsa (literally: ‘of butter’). The reason for this was that the Christians were not allowed to eat meat in the last week before Lent, which co-occurred with pagan ceremony of winter send-off and spring welcome, but there was no ban on eggs and dairy products, including butter. For the same reason the main Maslenitsa’s food are pancakes: they are made and eat-en during seven days.

Ukrainians organize feasts with tasty dish-es and drinks, visit relatives, friends and acquaintances during the whole week. Holiday week ends on Sunday, which is the last day of the Maslenitsa cycle. On this day the most large-scale folk festivities take place and the main rite is held: burning down a straw effigy of winter.

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[DismalScientist]

I wonder what Sheriff Biddle’s reaction would be if we lit up an effigy in front of the 7-11.:rolleyes:

[ShawnoftheDread]

“All thinkable funs” is my new favorite saying.

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