Lent and the Fast: Giving It Up?
Fasnachts are in all the Lancaster County ads these days. If you aren’t familiar with fasnachts, you’re not from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Fasnachts are the fried donuts sold on Shrove (or Fat) Tuesday so you can eat up before the deprivation of Lent starts on Ash Wednesday. The local grocery store even adds a fasnacht