Lent, which is (in theory) supposed to be "celebrated" by giving up the pleasures of food and donating the savings to charity, or church, begins with people using up all of such treats in one night. Which presumably means that at one point such treats were eggs, butter, sugar and a few other choice morsels. If we did the same today, the resultant... result would probably be lethal to all but the widest of arteries.
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