Mardi Gras History - A Great Celebration
To learn more Mardi Gras History, listed are several articles on the celebration, floats, doubloons, colors and even history of the King Cake.
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Mardi Gras Celebration - Festivities Of The Carnival Season Mardi Gras Colors - An Insider's Guide Mardi Gras Throws - Highly Prized Mardi Gras Souvenirs Mardi Gras Floats - Spectacular Holiday Parades Mardi Gras King Cake - The Royal Tradition of the King Cake Continues Mardi Gras Doubloons - Throw Me Something Mister!
Mardi Gras means "Fat Tuesday". It is the actual Mardi Gras Day and the culmination of the Carnival Season.
Although some people find the purple, green and gold colors pleasing enough to wear at any time of the year, Carnival time is when everyone puts their "Mardi Gras Colors" on.
Each year thousands of people attend parades wanting to catch Mardi Gras throws. There are always a wide assortment of fun items like plastic beads, toys and other trinkets that are thrown from the floats.
Mardi Gras Floats are like a Hollywood extravaganza. These floats are enormous constructions that can cost more than $700,000 to build.
A Mardi Gras King Cake is made from braids of rich, cinnamon flavored dough that is shaped into an oval before being baked. It is as much a part of the tradition as the parades.
Mardi Gras doubloons are the detailed and brightly colored coins are tossed from the parade floats down to the excited crowds hollering "Throw me something Mister!"
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