What symbolize the traditional food of shrove Tuesday is?

The lagana bread, halva, preserved fish roe, eaten on Clean Monday, they have their own story…
The Clean Monday, traditionally eat lagana but we know what it symbolizes?
The Clean Monday is the beginning of a very important period for the Orthodox Church, Lent, the preparation for the Passover, combined with fasting, foods and passions. So the first week of Lent is called Clean Week and gives the time to the believer to be cleansed and cleaned and prepared.
So the believer the Clean Monday, is fed with lagana bread to remember the help offered by God to the Israelites with the “unleavened bread” and led them in the Exodus from Egypt. The preparation is the same as the unleavened bread (i.e. without yeast) and this way starts the fasting of feed. On the inside pages of our forum you will find a recipe for the παρασκεύασετε your home.
Halva The usual halva in the form that we find in all of the Balkans and Turkey is a simple dessert. The most common preparation involves baking, semolina, which then give a spherical shape and the drool either with honey or with “molasses,” the syrup of grape grape. For the Greeks, halva is one of the fasting sweets and, in particular, the variant that is made with tahini and sold in the form of a cylinder and the parallelepiped. This type of halva is called Macedonian Halva. It is sold by weight and marketed, black, chocolate or nuts. The Greeks like to eat τοΜακεδονικό Halva with lemon juice and καννέλα, and which often accompany with a cool glass of retsina. However, there are at least five or six variations of halva in Greece.
Despite the fact that the halva is found in the whole of Greece, it seems that the ready and perhaps the origins of halva is Turkish. Cod roe cod roe is the word used by the Greeks referring to the grains of red caviar (eggs) coming from the cod or the carp, and which-like its cousins, the black caviar-the roe of tuna – considered to be one of the finest kinds of bottarga.
In commerce there are two kinds of fish roe. The white and the one with the deep pink color.
The white cod roe is considered to be qualitatively superior. The pinkish did for the first time, the appearance on the market in the 1950s, primarily because of a commercial ploy , as the producers believed, in a way, that a dish with color was more appealing than the tasteless white preparations.
With a few words, they began to add pigments. The success must have been lightning fast since, since then, the rosacea is the most common of preserved fish roe. Two are the main traditional recipes with fish roe. The most famous is the taramasalata. The rich επάλειμμα is considered to be the alpha and the omega in the table for Lent. Essentially, the taramasalata is a creamy, mashed επάλειμμα of roe that we have hit (preferably in a mortar) with boiled and peeled potatoes or bread. Add, then, alternately to the mixture of olive oil and lemon juice, depending on the required dosage. Usually, taramosalata made with potatoes more creamy, but the hard-core of the tradition insist that the only acceptable basis is the bread.