A tradition is that when you turn 25 without being married you’re covered in cinnamon. When you turn 30 without being married you’re covered in pepper.
What is there to explain? It’s a silly tradition like all silly traditions. It would be like explaining the American weirdness of pardoning a turkey on thanksgiving or rolling cheesewheels in England
you give a pepper grinder to people that turns 30 without being married, the thing with covering people in pepper or cinnamon as never been a tradition and is also quite painful and mean imho.
Also, I’d like to add that this tradition is mostly practiced in some parts of the country (mostly Jutland) and is not a countrywide phenomenon.
Back in the day it was very dangerous to travel to the far east for spices, so the Hanseatic League only send unmarried men. I guess they didn’t want to end up with a lot of widows and children’s to take care of. Because of this, men who turned 30 without being married ,were called “pepper ~journeyman”.
At some point in the early / mid 20th century people started giving a pepper mill as a present for the 30th birthday. Later, especially in Jutland, they started giving huge pepper millioner made of barrels or the like. Treble in the late 1980’ies / early 1990’ies some in Jutland also started to throw cinnamon on me turning 25.
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A tradition is that when you turn 25 without being married you’re covered in cinnamon. When you turn 30 without being married you’re covered in pepper.
What is there to explain? It’s a silly tradition like all silly traditions. It would be like explaining the American weirdness of pardoning a turkey on thanksgiving or rolling cheesewheels in England
this is why [https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebersvend](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebersvend) (sorry no english version)
you give a pepper grinder to people that turns 30 without being married, the thing with covering people in pepper or cinnamon as never been a tradition and is also quite painful and mean imho.
Also, I’d like to add that this tradition is mostly practiced in some parts of the country (mostly Jutland) and is not a countrywide phenomenon.
Back in the day it was very dangerous to travel to the far east for spices, so the Hanseatic League only send unmarried men. I guess they didn’t want to end up with a lot of widows and children’s to take care of. Because of this, men who turned 30 without being married ,were called “pepper ~journeyman”.
At some point in the early / mid 20th century people started giving a pepper mill as a present for the 30th birthday. Later, especially in Jutland, they started giving huge pepper millioner made of barrels or the like. Treble in the late 1980’ies / early 1990’ies some in Jutland also started to throw cinnamon on me turning 25.