It’s a tradition that goes back centuries and is celebrated all over Oxfordshire. Pancake Racing is as much a part of Shrove Tuesday as the sweet or savoury treats themselves.
In Wallingford, they've been doing a race in the town centre for the last 29 years which is organised by the Abingdon and Didcot Lions Club. Sponsored racers dress up in costumes and raise money which is shared between themselves and the Lions for the benefit of local people. Our reporter Mark Watson went along to see the fun.
The winner was landlord of the Cross Keys pub Bob Wyatt who was running to raise money for Crowmarsh Football Club. He's entered it for the last 3 years and won all three. Competition was tough though in the ten minute race with entrants having to flip their pancakes as they passed the judges in the town square.
Bob dressed in his football kit with a cowboy hat on was hotly pursued by a Frenchman in a green frog suit, a cook, a prisoner, Andy Pandy, people in pyjamas, young children and the oldest competitor Ivy Small dressed as a police woman, who is 75 years of age and has taken part in at least the last 10 races.
If you've got any pictures of your pancake races, past or present, email them to us at oxford.online@bbc.co.uk with a quick report or description and we'll add them to this page.
