Humpday Triviola
A certain form of carving is said to have originated in Ireland hundreds of years ago. This traditional carving then was brought to America via Irish immigrants in the 19th century. To what do I refer?
Tom
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#2Potato Carving?
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I think I know this one, it's awfully chilly here this morning, mid twenties. I better turn up the heat while I think about how to answer this one.
glc
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Lovespoons?
just a guess
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#5Hint
Turnips
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Sounds like the craft practiced by Jack O'Lantern
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In Ireland, where Halloween began, the first jack-o'-lanterns weren't made of pumpkins. They were made out of rutabagas, potatoes, turnips, or even beets! There is an old Irish legend about a man named Stingy Jack who was too mean to get into heaven and had played too many tricks on the devil to go to hell. When he died, he had to walk the earth, carrying a lantern made out of a turnip with a burning coal inside. Stingy Jack became known as "Jack of the Lantern," or "Jack-o'-Lantern."
From this legend came the Irish tradition of placing jack-o'-lanterns made of turnips and other vegetables in windows or by doors on Halloween. The jack-o'-lanterns are meant to scare away Stingy Jack and all the other spirits that are said to walk the earth on that night. It wasn't until the tradition was brought to the United States by immigrants that pumpkins were used for jack-o'-lanterns.
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#8Re: ;-) Answer-We Southerners call them Rutabagers
or Rutabagas which may be a member of the potato family.