Mardi Gras From 2018

Mardi Gras is coming next month! Mardi Gras, also known as Shrove Tuesday is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of consuming rich, fatty foods in preparation for the Christian fasting season of Lent, during which the consumption of such foods is avoided.

The festival season varies from city to city. Some traditions, such as the one in New Orleans, Louisiana, consider Mardi Gras to stretch the entire period from Twelfth Night (the last night of Christmas which begins Epiphany) to Ash Wednesday. Others treat the final three-day period before Ash Wednesday as the Mardi Gras. Mardi As a celebration of life before the more-somber occasion of Ash Wednesday, it nearly always involves the use of masks and costumes by its participants, and the most popular celebratory colors are purple, green, and gold. In New Orleans, for example, these often take the shape of fairies, animals, people from myths, or various Medieval costumes as well as clowns and Indians.

It falls on March 4 this year and gives people one more night to party before the official start of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

Amaretto wanted to celebrate Mardi Gras in 2018! So from February 8, 2018 until February 23,2018 you could pick up your 2018 Mardi Gras Krewe of Amaretto at any Amaretto location! These specials came in traditional Mardi Gras colors of gold, purple and green.