LONDON (AP) — Participants wearing elaborate outfits that included a giant number two pencil, penguin, and strawberry costume dashed across a downtown London plaza while clutching frying pans during the city’s traditional annual pancake flipping race. The festive event marks the observance of Shrove Tuesday, commonly called Fat Tuesday, which represents the last day before Lent begins — the 40-day period of Christian fasting.
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