Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Celebrations

The Fat Tuesday as the name denotes - brings you a license to indulge in gourmet eating and drinking. You get to eat the yummy King cakes, friendly beer, delicious beignets similar to dough-nuts and many more yummy stuff that you can take.

The event is extra-ordinarily popular and people come with their families in Harlequin masquerade costumes, Jester, Peacock and other costumes, dressed for the extravaganza of Mardi Gras carnival. According to the traditions, everyone ought to wear vivid costumes to the parades, and you definitely don't want to be the single one, left out in the carnival or the odd man in the parade in civilian clothes.

Mardi Gras has a colorful history throughout its life span and continues to dazzle the many locations of US and UK. Folks just love the February month's Fat Tuesday celebrations; it is a means to escape from the stress filled life and other worries of waving economy. In fact, Mardi Gras is long been celebrated in United States from Texas to Florida and now even in other parts of the country of the nation. Brazil and Australia being the locations for big celebrations which also caters for the jobs and it really means big for local business companies.

Mardi Gras is not localized anymore; it has become instrumental in a way of life for people in the family business and communities supplying Mardi Gras merchandize. Many families have a chain of Mardi Gras party supply stores. The bottom line is; it caters for small industries and is a big tourist business as well.

Mardi Gras is a boost to tourism that draws more than one million visitors pouring into just one location of US. There are many carnivals that observe each Mardi Gras season, attracting even bigger crowds; flocking carnivals in grandeur, pomp and show. The New Orleans is having a complete makeover with the krewe preparations and the carnival mesmerizing the crowd like never before.

People who have been to the carnival know by experience the outrageous crowd waiting for freebies. The crowd as estimated in 2012 can draw thousands of tourists and they continue to pour as the festivities and parade continue to become more popular.