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[marycrawford]

Happy Sinterklaas to all!

I got a chocolate letter in my shoe this morning, which means I have been good and will not be taken back to Spain in a big burlap sack. (A pity, really - it's 22C in Sevilla right now, and sunny.)

Now I'm going to see if the marzipan has gone on sale yet. Mmmm. My favorite kind of Sinterklaas marzipan is not the little marzipan figurines, fun as those are, but the giant pink and white marzipan pigs, about the size of a real wee piglet. I love how you can ask for 'a slice of the pig', almost as if you're at a butcher's. It's wonderfully surreal.

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[mythdefied.livejournal.com]

Marzipan is always good. I love it when it's on a small piece of chocolate.

But for the American-clueless amongst us: burlap sack?

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's the sack that Sinterklaas takes along from Spain that has all the presents in it - and when he goes back, if you've been really bad, he takes you. This never sounded like a terrible punishment to me...