McDonald's Ireland is stepping in this Tuesday to offer customers across the country pancakes all day long for Pancake Tuesday.
For those who love the taste of pancakes but don't have a clue how to make them or are constantly burning the pan - the fast-food super chain have answered your prayers.
McDonald's 95 restaurants across the country will be selling pancakes with syrup for €3.40.
The delicious treats will be available from 5am right up until midnight where many customers will, of course, be starting Lent and abstaining from any treats until Easter.
A spokesperson for McDonald's Ireland said: "It's a day of kitchen nightmares across Ireland, but this Pancake Tuesday, Mcdonald's Ireland is stepping to the rescue and selling pancakes all day.
"From flipping disasters to burnt batter, make #PancakeFail a thing of the past and puck up three pancakes and syrup for €3.40 all day at our 95 restaurants across Ireland."
Why do we eat pancakes?
Pancakes are now forever associated with Shrove Tuesday as it is a sort of all-in-one way of using up some fatty foods before Lent.
In the past the ideas was for families to clear out their cupboards and remove the fattening foods (normally the tempting ones) so they aren't in their house during Lent.
Eggs, milk and sugar aren't traditionally eaten in fasting season, so need to be scoffed beforehand.
The actual tradition of mixing them up for pancakes is thought to come from a pagan ritual, but others say it is a Christian tradition - with each ingredient representing one of the four pillars of the faith. Eggs for creation, flour sustenance or the staff of life, salt for wholesomeness and milk for purity.
If you're wondering why we toss pancakes it looks like it's a tradition that dates back far longer than any of us have been around.
The pancake features in cook books as far back as 1439 and the idea of tossing them is almost as old.
"And every man and maide doe take their turne, And tosse their pancakes up for feare they burne." (Pasquil's Palin, 1619).
