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What is the autumnal feast based around in the UK ? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there some sort of fall holiday that I am ignorant of for the English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Manx, Picts, Italian*, et cetera, to gather and chow with the family over the harvest ?

* i've hears some people in the UK say that their family can traced to the Roman invasion so I count them as Italian.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Harvest festivals are universal (at least in ag cultures), but I have to say that calling someone Italian because they can trace an ancestor back to the Roman invasion is a unique approach to ethnography.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sometimes conclusions need more than a leap.

Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I will not provide a link because discovery is its own delight, but thank you for that reference and I encourage everyone to go ahead and search that phrase.