As many know, the term grasso (fat) in reference the two days of Carnival, Tuesday and Thursday, indicates a period in which particularly nutritious foods, sweets, or fats were consumed. This is because the period of the sette giorni grassi (seven ‘fat’ days) precede and end with the martedì grasso (‘fat’ tuesday, also known as Shrove Tuesday) and the period of Lent where one should devote themselves to purification and leaner foods.
The sette giorni grassi thus became an opportunity to empty pantries of these foods in preparation for the period of forty days before Easter.
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