Waffle day!

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Waffle day!
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Sun, 03-19-2006 - 10:56am

I saw a calendar this weekend that declares Saturday March 25th Waffle day!!


I don't know about you, but I'm craving waffles now! LOL

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Registered: 09-30-2005
In reply to: _rowan6_
Sun, 03-19-2006 - 11:49am

Drat!
All we're having is French toast!
Oh well,
Bon Appetite!

Ha

Hugs

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Registered: 12-16-2004
In reply to: _rowan6_
Sun, 03-19-2006 - 3:05pm

It is all ways

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Registered: 07-04-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 12:54am

I never knew and/or thought about March 25th being the date Mary got knocked up! (love that expression for Mary! ROFL!) I'm not very church learned, nor do I want to be...so I love what I hear from others.

Anyway, I'm going to make me some waffles this week..
The BF and I will be in Vienna on Saturday.. maybe I can eat waffles there...


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Registered: 07-04-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 7:01am
Thanks to Hannah, I got the bug to look up "Waffle day!! And here is some of what I came up with:


~Waffle Day, March 25th~


In Sweden, the feast of the Annunciation, Vårfrudagen, Our Lady’s Day, has come to be known as Våffeldagen, Waffle Day.


The celebration of this day is originally from the New Testament story in which the Archangel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she has been chosen to be the mother of Jesus, traditionally falls on March 25, nine months to the day before Christmas.
Traditionally, March 25 was also considered the first day of spring. This is a day to mark the change in seasons, even though it still is rather cold, the days are turning longer and longer and we are having this delicate 'våfflor', waffles, and 'frasvåfflor', sizzling waffles


In Sweden, waffles are usually served as a dessert, topped with different kinds of jam, and whipped cream.

Today, few Swedes still celebrate Vårfrudagen as a religious feast, but they do eat waffles on March 25, in large part thanks to electric waffle irons and commercial waffle mixes.


You can find a lot of Waffle recipies here

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Registered: 07-04-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 7:06am
And more:


TheWaffle Day Controversy

By Mr Breakfast


Riiinggg! Riiinggg!


On August 5, 2004, I received a call from a DJ in Vermont, "Hi Mr Breakfast. It's National Waffle Day today. I was hoping we could talk to you about it on the air".


Honk! I squeezed my nose. He had the date wrong and I had no game show-style wrong-answer buzzer.


It's understandable that the dates for Waffle Day might get confused. In fact, there are two very similar sounding holidays. International Waffle Day on March 25th and National (U.S.) Waffle Day on August 24th.


The mistaken August 5th date appears to have stemmed from a teacher's lesson plan about unique holidays. It was distributed widely over the internet and undoubtedly my DJ friend came across a later generation of this wrong information.


blah blah


A Quick Waffle History Lesson


13th Century A.C. - Ancient Greeks cook flat cakes between two
metal plates. These early waffles were called obleios and were
primarily savory in nature, prepared with cheeses and herbs.


1620 - The pilgrims bring Dutch "wafles" to America.

1735 - The word "waffle" - with two "f"s - appears in English print for the first time.



Late 1800's - Thomas Jefferson returns to the U.S. from France with a long handled, patterned waffle iron.


1869 - Cornelius Swarthout patents the first U.S. Waffle Iron.


1953 - Frank Dorsa's Eggo Frozen Waffles are sold in Supermarkets for the first time.


1964-65 - Brussels restaurateur Maurice Vermersch brings his
wife's Brussels Waffle recipe to the World's Fair in New York. The
fluffy yeast-infused waffle becomes a huge hit and becomes known as the
Belgium waffle.



Waffle Day - 100 days a year



Heck with it. Since the dates are screwed up anyway, we may as well celebrate waffles any day we want. Here are a 100 waffle recipes.
You and I can celebrate Waffle SEASON - over 3 months worth of waffles!
You see… we're breakfast buddies - the best buddies of all - united
under the puckered ridges of waffles - we can do whatever we want! And
since we ARE so close… could I borrow twenty dollars?


Honk!

Please quit squeezing your nose.


Happy Waffle Day


And more is added at the end of this site!

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-16-2004
In reply to: _rowan6_
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 7:56am

I will be making waffles and plenty of them too.


All I need to get fro milk and dairy free waffles are either ginger ale or fizzy water, you just

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 1:12pm
Never heard of that one! Have a wonderful trip to Vienna!!
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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 7:53pm

When you look at how many "leaders" have reset the calendar, and go back into Biblical history, you will see all the evidence pointing to the birth of Christ in April, which would pit waffle day in August as very likely.

hunk 'o, hunk 'o burnin' heartburn!

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Registered: 07-04-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Tue, 03-21-2006 - 8:13am
My dad has a waffle iron (and it is all metal) that is older than I am!! He got it from a garage sale just before I was born and has re-wired it a few times since then.. It makes awesome waffles and has tons of great memories attached to it!

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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: _rowan6_
Tue, 03-21-2006 - 7:02pm

Hey!!!

hunk 'o, hunk 'o burnin' heartburn!

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