Many of us will be gorging on pancakes today as the result of an interesting cultural evolution. The Tuesday before Ash Wednesday is alternately known as Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, and Mardis Gras. In the Commonwealth countries and Ireland, it is even called Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day. Christians have a knack for taking secular objects and turning them into symbols that point to God, and we can even do that with a pancake. The pancake is said to symbolize the Christian