Re: Batch of Mirepoix

On 2025-02-19, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-02-19 8:33 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-19, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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Good Friday's big in Australia too. Not sure about the mainland, but
in Tasmania the two biggest holidays of the year were/are Christmas
Day and Good Friday. Good Friday isn't even a holiday in the
Netherlands.

 
A lot of school systems fold it into their "spring break".  For
a while the company I worked for had a Catholic CEO who made it
a holiday for us.  His successor stopped that and gave it to us
around one of the summer holidays (late May, early July, or
early September), resulting in a three-day weekend.  Most people
deemed that more useful.

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When I was a kid we had Easter vacation. We had Good Friday off and
working people had Easter Monday free. Students had the whole week off.
Somewhere along they way it changed. Easter is a long weekend and
students now have a March break instead of Easter.

When I was a kid, we got Good Friday off and no bones about it.  At
some later point, someone said, "What about the Jews?" and they
stopped calling it that.

Like Boxing Day, Easter Monday is not much of a thing.  Wikipedia
tells me it's observed in some cities in Michigan, but I've never
seen it.  Perhaps in old Hamtramck, when it was majority Polish.

Except for Thanksgiving and Christmas, most holidays are seen as
prime retailing opportunities.  Banks and the government are closed,
but pretty much everything else is open.

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Cindy Hamilton