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m Added trivia about the number of semlor eaten in Sweden on this day each year.
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{{Infobox holiday
| holiday_name = Fettisdagen
| image = SemlaFlickr.jpg
| image_size = 388px
| caption = A typical [[semla]].
| date = In seventh week before [[Easter]], day before Ash Wednesday
| duration = 1 day
| frequency = Annual
| date{{LASTYEAR}} = {{Moveable date |holiday=Shrove Tuesday |year={{LASTYEAR}} |format=infobox}}
| date{{CURRENTYEAR}} = {{Moveable date |holiday=Shrove Tuesday |year={{CURRENTYEAR}} |format=infobox |cite=y}}
| date{{NEXTYEAR}} = {{Moveable date |holiday=Shrove Tuesday |year={{NEXTYEAR}} |format=infobox}}
| date{{NEXTYEAR|2}} = {{Moveable date |holiday=Shrove Tuesday |year={{NEXTYEAR|2}} |format=infobox}}
| observances =
| relatedto = [[Shrove Tuesday]]<br>[[Mardi Gras]]
}}

'''Fettisdagen''' (''Fat Tuesday'') is the [[Swedish language|Swedish]] name for the Tuesday after the [[Quinquagesima]] and the day between [[Shrove Monday]] and [[Ash Wednesday]]. Because it is the last day before the [[Lent]]en [[Fasting|fast]], a tradition has developed of eating buns, called "fastlagsbullar", "fettisdagsbullar" (Fat Tuesday Buns) or "[[semla]]".

Swedes eat an estimated six million semlor (the plural of semla) on this day each year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20200225/why-swedes-will-eat-221-tonnes-of-cream-today|title=Why Swedes will eat 221 tonnes of cream and six million buns today|last=|first=|date=|website=The Local Sweden|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref> The population of Sweden is just over 10 million.<ref>{{Citation|title=Demographics of Sweden|date=2020-02-21|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_Sweden&oldid=941844675|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref>

The day is called "[[Mardi Gras]]" in [[France]], "Carnaval" or "Vastenavond" in [[the Netherlands]], "[[Laskiainen]]" (or "fastlagstisdagen") in [[Finland]], "vastlapäev" in [[Estonia]], and "[[Fastelavn]]" in [[Denmark]]. In the [[United Kingdom|UK]] it is known as [[Shrove Tuesday]] or Pancake Day. In [[Iceland]], "Bolludagur" or fatty-day.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!| Year || Date
|-
|| 2005 || 8 February
|-
|| 2006 || 28 February
|-
|| 2007 || 20 February
|-
|| 2008 || 5 February
|-
|| 2009 || 24 February
|-
||2010 || 16 February
|-
|| 2011 || 8 March
|-
|| 2012 || 21 February
|-
|| 2013 || 12 February
|-
|| 2014 || 4 March
|-
|| 2015 || 17 February
|-
|| 2016 || 9 February
|-
|| 2017 || 28 February
|-
|| 2018 || 13 February
|-
|| 2019 || 5 March
|-
|| 2020 || 25 February
|}

==See also==
*[[Shrove Tuesday]]

==Sources==
<references />

[[Category:Protestant holy days]]
[[Category:Carnivals]]
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[[da:Hvide tirsdag]]
[[fr:Mardi Gras]]
[[no:Fetetirsdag]]
[[nn:Feittysdag]]
[[sv:Fettisdagen]]

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