Hello French Charmed readers, and happy Mardi Gras! I'm sure you all know that we should eat, drink and be merry this week. But do you even know how this tradition started? Yeah, yeah, bring on the booze, who cares, right? (Im with ya!) But for those of you interested, here it is in a nutshell: Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday) first came to America back when France was trying to claim the Louisiane Territory (now Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) in the late 1600s. The first settlers from France celebrated this French Catholic tradition of eating fatty foods before Lent, and we caught on and started celebrating with them when the party was moved from a small town along the Mississippi River to New Orleans in 1718! And now for the moment you've been waiting for: Cheers dears! oxox, Chelle
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