the rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall
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my mother, who is cornish, even has this as a bumper sticker
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It's customary in South Africa to establish where someone you meet is from (if they say they are not local) and then to sincerely welcome them. 😊😊🇿🇦
There's a symbolic custom for financial luck. Not so in our town, but done in surrounding towns.
QuoteThe custom of washing purses dates back to the 15th century. With the end of the carnival on Ash Wednesday, not only was the hustle and bustle of the service staff over, but also the financial blessing. Because after the exuberant celebration, the wallets were usually empty.
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Quote from: zombie no.one on October 25, 2024, 06:36:58 AMthe rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall
Just flip the scones over?
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But that's how world wars get started, I guess.
^ fair point! guess it only applies if you eat them 'open'...
Quote from: Trevor on October 25, 2024, 08:28:31 AMIt's customary in South Africa to establish where someone you meet is from (if they say they are not local) and then to sincerely welcome them. 😊😊🇿🇦
nice to know, but not really that quirky unless I'm missing some aspect of it... do you do this whilst standing on your heads for example? :teddyr:
Quote from: claws on October 25, 2024, 09:32:34 AMThere's a symbolic custom for financial luck. Not so in our town, but done in surrounding towns.
QuoteThe custom of washing purses dates back to the 15th century. With the end of the carnival on Ash Wednesday, not only was the hustle and bustle of the service staff over, but also the financial blessing. Because after the exuberant celebration, the wallets were usually empty.
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haha that's great. never encountered this
Quote from: zombie no.one on October 25, 2024, 10:07:36 AM^ fair point! guess it only applies if you eat them 'open'...
Quote from: Trevor on October 25, 2024, 08:28:31 AMIt's customary in South Africa to establish where someone you meet is from (if they say they are not local) and then to sincerely welcome them. 😊😊🇿🇦
nice to know, but not really that quirky unless I'm missing some aspect of it... do you do this whilst standing on your heads for example? :teddyr:
We - or at least I - always toss them a pair of slightly used underpants as a welcome gift and then they leave. Quickly 😳😳😉😉
interesting tactic :bouncegiggle:
Zaragosa's annual 'running of the wasp'
http://youtu.be/j93eAMHO1iM?si=PEvKv46hz5NjnOTw
(possibly not true)
Quote from: zombie no.one on October 25, 2024, 06:36:58 AMthe rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall
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No idea what a scone is.
A few more of our local customs. This one is not really quirky, though.
QuoteRauhnäche (Rough Nights)
A candle in the window: an old custom during the 12 nights between Christmas and Epiphany. The "12 Rough Nights" represent one of the 12 months of the year and invite us to look back. But also to take a glimpse of what may come.
a weird one
QuoteFranconian customs: In the forest of the peppered girls
Every year on the fourth day of Christmas, December 28th, young men go from house to house, singing, dancing and "peppering" all the women. This custom only exists in a few Upper Franconian villages.
The so-called "peppering" is an old pagan fertility ritual that has survived to this day. For example, young men in costumes parade through the streets in the highlands of the Upper Franconian Forest. They visit around 150 houses one by one.
The women are then symbolically beaten - "peppered" or "fizzled" as they say in the Franconian Forest - with freshly cut and decorated fir branches.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on October 25, 2024, 08:36:52 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on October 25, 2024, 06:36:58 AMthe rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall
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No idea what a scone is.
a very basic kind of small bun / cake... quite bread-like in texture but firmer, and sweeter
Quote from: claws on October 25, 2024, 09:00:56 PMIn the forest of the peppered girls
there's the title of my giallo, if I ever make one!
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 25, 2024, 08:36:52 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on October 25, 2024, 06:36:58 AMthe rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall
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No idea what a scone is.
Like an American biscuit, but usually sweet.