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Show Danes Eat Doughnuts, Toss Broken Crockery What the Wassail is to Scotland! on New Year's Eve, coffee and doughnuts are to Denmark. The Danes also observe an unique crockery tossing tradition in connection con-nection with their doughnuts and coffee. Every piece of crockery which comes to grief during the year is saved for tossing against the doors of friends and neighbors on New Year's Eve in anticipation of being invited in for doughnuts and coffee. The old calendar sign for the winter solstice was a circle with a dot in the center, representing the wheel of the sun. Could it be that the doughnut has come to represent repre-sent the circle and the dot well, there is a hole in the doughnutl |