Kanelbullens day is the one of all the year’s theme days that actually received proper spin. But what is it that made that just kanelbullens day become so välfirad and well-known?
Kanelbullens day is celebrated on 4 October. Arkivbild.
On October 4, fira kanelbullens day. According to Jonas Engman, ethnologist at the Nordic museum, there is a strong tendency that all sorts of people and groups, which sometimes have a political or ideological agenda, appointing certain days to anything. But no one has been able to achieve as great popularity as kanelbullens standard-bearer.
” Kanelbullens day is a brilliant exception. Where have you managed to link it to a notion of the traditional and food, ” says Jonas Engman.
The little ” success he believes is linked to that Sweden is now in a process where we search for a new national identity. And in that search we look like backward in time to a romanticized image of the past and the farming community.
– The romantic ideas are extremely strong, even in the political sphere. It is not just the parties it is linked to, but it is something that has to do with the fact that we are negotiating about the national experience that we are swedes. This, in turn, is linked to globalization and migration that challenges much of the 1800′s, and 1900-century view of national identity, ” says Jonas Engman.
During the Almedalen political week in the summer, spoke the party leaders of the Swedish values shall apply in Sweden. In the search for what is just Swedish values and national identity takes hold of the many tag in something that is perceived as traditionally, for example, a cinnamon bun, and clinging to it.
” cinnamon bun pops up as a traditional symbol. “Look, we have something that we think is traditional, there is something that we think we are,” says Jonas Engman.
the Facts: Kanelbullens day
Kanelbullens day is celebrated on 4 October.
the Day was instituted by the Hembakningsrådet 1999 as “a tribute to our most beloved bun, and to those who bake”.
cinnamon bun, also called kanelsnäcka, is a pastry of sweetened vetedeg that are rolled, covered with butter, sugar and cinnamon and then rolled and cut into discs which are baked in the oven. Snurrorna garnished often with granulated sugar before they are baked.
Source: Hembakningsrådet and Ne.see.
the Facts: the Year is full of theme days
Almost all days of the year is unclaimed by any theme. Here are a few examples of theme days 2016:
15 January: Tulpanens day
February 28: International musarmsdagen
march 18: Bussförarens day
april 21: Terrakottakrukans day
23 may: International sköldpaddsdagen
7 June: Punk day
July 13: Paltdagen
August 16: Tell a joke day
10 september: World deaf
October 4: Kanelbullens day but also International vodkadagen
november 8: Infraservicedagen
11 december: the tango’s day
Source: theme days.see
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