{"id":6837,"date":"2021-02-04T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/que-es-el-dijous-llarder-o-gras\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:59:28","slug":"what-is-fat-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/what-is-fat-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Fat Thursday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Campana-butifarra-de-huevo-300x269-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6826\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Thursday that marks the beginning of Carnival is known as Fat Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this is its common name, it is known by different names depending on the region:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cDijous gras\u201d (Catalonia).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Dijous de berenar\u201d (Valencia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cJueves merendero\u201d (Salamanca)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cJueves choricero\u201d (Aragon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These celebrations have in common the important role of gastronomy. In some places it is a tradition to get together with family and friends in the open air and eat omelette, boiled eggs, bacon, greaves, egg sausage\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The origin of this role in gastronomy lies in the fact that the period of Lent begins a few days later, when traditionally fasting and abstinence from meat consumption was carried out for 40 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Catalonia every year more and more kilos of egg butifarra are consumed and every year we are surprised by new flavours:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spinach egg butifarra sausage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Egg sausage with spring onions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Artichoke egg butifarra sausage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potato and onion egg butifarra sausage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Egg sausage with omelette and chorizo sausage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which one do you prefer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In your Moniberic shop you will find the traditional egg butifarra and other specialities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Butifarra-huevo-trompetas-muerte-400x500-240x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6830\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thursday that marks the beginning of Carnival is known as Fat Thursday. Although this is its common name, it is known by different names depending on the region: These celebrations have in common the important role of gastronomy. In some places it is a tradition to get together with family and friends in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moniberic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}