Carnival Season Has Started
By Anna
@LadyDuck (458233)
Switzerland
February 25, 2019 8:56am CST
For those who don't know, Carnival is a festive time before the Lent.
Carnival usually involves public celebrations, parades, street parties and other forms of entertainment.
People wear colorful costumes and masks and indulge in consumption of meat, and foods that will be no more allowed during Lent.
Most Swiss villages organize parties in front of the Town House, where local food is prepared and sold to the locals and tourists.
Among the most famous Carnival parades there is the one in Rio, Brazil, the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Carnival of Venice in Italy.
We use to make fried pastries to serve during Carnival season
Is Carnival celebrated where you live?
The photo are of past carnivals and the fried cheese balls that I made last Saturday.
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106 responses
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
25 Feb 19
I am not aware of any carnivals celebrated at this time of the year in my area or the rest of Canada. Maybe because it is still too cold to be wearing anything else but winter clothes.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
25 Feb 19
@1hopefulman They wear warm clothes under the costumes, because Carnival is always in winter, because the Lent is before Easter.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
26 Feb 19
@WiseGhots I think NEW ORLEANS JAZZ music is great
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
25 Feb 19
There is one in Goa I so wanted to attend but never have
Goa Carnival 2018 begins with display of colourful floats. The much awaited annual Goa Carnival has begun andthis year turned out to be a damp squib as tableaus devoid of novelty floatedthrough the spacious Miramar-Caranzalem Road for the first time. King
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
26 Feb 19
@sofssu That sleepy State wakes up during this time (lol)
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
25 Feb 19
We are a predominantly Catholic nation but for some reason we never caught up with carnival season but there are lots of festivities during lent itself but none of the merry making, a lot of fiestas are celebrated on the month of May honoring saints and martyrs. So fried cheese balls is traditional food for the season?
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck yes fasting and abstinence during lent is also practiced here by Catholics.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
25 Feb 19
Interesting to note that Philippines does not celebrate Carnival
@DianneN (246901)
• United States
25 Feb 19
I don't celebrate Lent, but do know about it. New Orleans celebrates it big time here in the US. I have the beads to prove it! 
. I've been to Rio de Janeiro and Venice, but missed the carnival celebrations. My husband bought me a mask in Venice which I've never worn. Perhaps I should wear it in the sun to keep from getting a sunburn.
Your cheeseballs look delicious!
. I've been to Rio de Janeiro and Venice, but missed the carnival celebrations. My husband bought me a mask in Venice which I've never worn. Perhaps I should wear it in the sun to keep from getting a sunburn.
Your cheeseballs look delicious!7 people like this
@VivaLaDani13 (60355)
• Perth, Australia
25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck That would be so much fun! We do have carnivals / festivals here and there. I love going to them to see what's around. Love looking through all the stalls.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60355)
• Perth, Australia
25 Feb 19
@WiseGhots What sort of carnivals do you have over there?
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@WiseGhots (14607)
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25 Feb 19
I hope Australia's Carnival be different from here, @VivaLaDani13.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 Feb 19
I have never been to Mardi Gras but I want to. This wouldn't be something I celebrated, atleast not like all the others. I don't take part in Lent, and actually, I wasn't aware that was the reason for the carnivals.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck I've had the fried pastry type things at the fair. The funnel cakes are delicious. It's a nice treat every once in awhile. I don't know if they have the "blooming onion" at carnivals, but those are good to. It's a very large onion that they've cut, breaded and fried.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
25 Feb 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum In the States I have tried both funnel cakes and blooming onion, very good.We do not have those here.
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
25 Feb 19
@playertwo that is too bad.So much fun
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
25 Feb 19
I have never heard of Lenten carnival in Tennessee
@Tampa_girl7 (49005)
• United States
25 Feb 19
There is Mardi Gras three hours south of us in New Orleans. 
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
26 Feb 19
@Tampa_girl7 It is a long time ago. I loved New Orleans, it's a great city.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49005)
• United States
26 Feb 19
@LadyDuck I lived in New Orleans for a short while when I was a child. The last time I was there was July 2005 to celebrate my wedding anniversary.
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@wolfgirl569 (95226)
• Marion, Ohio
25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck That is the party capitol here
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
25 Feb 19
Yes, saw a picture of the Venice carnival in my newspaper today and thought of you.
We had talked about it in a mask discussion.
Those cheesecakes look nice.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
25 Feb 19
@responsiveme Yes, cheeseballs are deep fried, they are not greasy.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck those costumes are very colourful.
Cheesballs were deep fried?
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@isweartokira (3465)
• United States
25 Feb 19
my grandmother used to live 15 minutes outside of New Orleans, so I've been lucky enough to experience Mardi Gras a few times, it is quite the spectacle!
those beignets in that picture look so delicious 
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
25 Feb 19
I have always missed it. Lots of people and crowds
@WiseGhots (14607)
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25 Feb 19
Yeah! Here, Carnival recives a massive attention... But I personally hate it. 
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@WiseGhots (14607)
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25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck Those are some of the reasons I do not like this party. 
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
25 Feb 19
@WiseGhots Exactly, then they make stupid pranks, better to stay home.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
26 Feb 19
We descendants of the Irish love good parties,,,,and music
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
25 Feb 19
We have a celebration called Fastelavn, directly translated the word means the night before the fast. When the Danes became protestants Fastelavn lost the original meaning. People no longer gave up meat, and Fastelavn became a celebration for children. They dress up in costumes and play different kinds games.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
25 Feb 19
@LadyDuck I loved this celebration when I was a child and I had many nice costumes, my mother made some of them herself. I think that she has the photos. One of my favorite costumes looked like a Christmas tree.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
26 Feb 19
@Porcospino I remember that had a gypsy costume and a sort of Snow Queen costume. That tale was popular when I was a kid, a lot before Disney made the cartoon.
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