{"id":84026,"date":"2023-11-29T04:11:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/why-are-some-dutch-people-putting-pancakes-on-their-heads-today-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T04:11:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:11:23","slug":"why-are-some-dutch-people-putting-pancakes-on-their-heads-today-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/why-are-some-dutch-people-putting-pancakes-on-their-heads-today-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are some Dutch people putting pancakes on their heads today? | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A legend of monks with cold heads, an angel holding a golden frying pan and a fictional Sint Pannekoek. Yes, today is Dutch pancake day!<\/p>\n

While much of the world cooks their favourite sweet (and savoury, I guess) pancakes on Shrove Tuesday<\/strong> in the early months of the year, people in Rotterdam have a different tradition.<\/p>\n

Every year, on 29 November, a number of Netherlands<\/strong> residents put pancakes on their heads in a quirky celebration that has gained traction.<\/p>\n

Once the edible hat is in place, followers of the tradition say: “We wish you a happy and blessed Saint Pancake (Sint Pannekoek)!”<\/p>\n

So, how did we get there?<\/p>\n

The celebration was invented in 1986 in a cartoon by Dutch cartoonist Jan Kruis, in which a father comes home in the evening to find his family wearing pancakes on their heads.<\/p>\n

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Three decades later, Mr Kruis expanded the idea with The Gospel of Saint Pannekoek.<\/p>\n

In this piece, he tells the tale of 12th-century monks in a monastery celebrating a young monk’s birthday and eating pancakes – but there is only enough for one each.<\/p>\n

When the old abbott becomes cold, the young monk places his pancake upon the elder’s head.<\/p>\n

At this, an angel descends from heaven holding a golden frying pan and flips a pancake onto the young monk’s head.<\/p>\n

“The Lord has done us a miracle! We have a saint in our midst!” the others cry, and put their own pancakes on their heads.<\/p>\n

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To learn more about Sint Pannekoek, Sky News spoke to Dr Henriette Louwerse, a senior lecturer in Dutch at the University of Sheffield.<\/p>\n

“It is totally made up of course, but apparently it has gained some traction,” she told us.<\/p>\n

“I like the implicit criticism of ‘the holiness of traditions’. The tendency to suggest that if traditions change, a profound identity is somehow infringed.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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