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Bun Day
February 13th, 2021
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Monday is Bun Day here in Iceland. Bollur, the buns of the day,
are sort of like cream puffs. Folks get jams and whipped cream and
mix them together and stuff the buns to overflowing, then smother
them in chocolate sauce. It's a healthy time!
There's also a super-duper Icelandic tradition with bun day that
many parents choose to not teach their kids. Early on Monday
morning children in the know will wake up early, sneak into their
parents' bedroom and WHACK WHACK WHACK them in their bed with
sticks! However many whacks they get in before the parents get up
is how many buns they get. Lovely!
Following Bun Day is a sort of Fat Tuesday-like holiday that
involves gorging yourself on all sorts of special foods that are
terrible for you. I forget the name of that one, but it's nice
too.
Finally we get to Ash Wednesday. Here in Iceland Ash Wednesday is
the costume & candy holiday. Halloween is a relatively recent
phenomenon here and not very popular mostly because they already
have most of those traditions at the start of lent. Kids dress up
in all sorts of costumes, go to school that way, and then later go
around begging for candy. But here they don't go to individual
homes and say "trick or treat". Instead they go to businesses and
sing songs for their treats! If you head downtown to Reykjavik on
Wednesday you'll see this in full swing. It's really cute and so
strange to see bank-branded popcorn bags and the like.
Needless to say the next 3 days are pretty much party-time for the
kids. No school work will get done and that's a joy in itself.
Everyone is going to be on a crazy sugar rush. Good for them. :)
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