Momona Pōʻalua, 2019

Nearly every year we and thousands of others celebrate Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) by eating pancakes. In Hawaii people chow down on malasadas. From 2007:

Leonard's truck at Koko Head Marina Shopping Center.

Leonard's [Bakery]'s founders came up with the idea of malasada day several years ago.

"The reason they ate all the malasadas was it used to be cooked in animal fat," said [manager Darlene] Young. So with the animal fat, they could pig out or eat a lot of meat to substitute before they went into the lent."

...They say they make about triple the amount they do on any other day.

To be fair, every day seems to be Malasada Day in Hawaii.