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Originally Posted by haku
That would be Mardi Gras, similar to Halloween (costumes, candy, food and drinks) without the morbid fascination for death, lol, there are generally carnivals organized around Mardi Gras.
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i was thinking it was too but turns out this is actually an old german catholic tradition called fastelavn (here anyway, not sure about germany) - basically it used to be something about a religious fast.. might have something to do with shrovetide/shrove monday/quinquagesima..