Dyngus Day and Polish Buffet!

Wed, Apr 8, 2009 - 4:00pm

  • Wed 4/8, 4:00pm

A traditional Polish holiday but with a bedlam twist.  Twisted twist.

Jim Bueche’s fantabulous POLISH BUFFET & Happy Hour starts at 4p

Read more about the Polish fertility & flirting ritual of SMYNGUS DINGUS below… and look forward to the twisting…

In Poland, traditionally, early in the morning boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their head and strike them about the legs with long thin twigs or switches made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches.

Later the focus shifted to the courting aspect of the ritual, and young unmarried girls were the only acceptable targets. A boy would sneak into the bedroom of the particular girl he fancied and awaken her by completely drenching her with multiple buckets of water. Politics played an important role in proceedings, and often the boy would get access to the house only by arrangement with the girl’s mother.

Throughout the day, girls would find themselves the victims of drenchings and leg-whippings, and a daughter who was not targeted for such activities was generally considered to be beznadziejna (hopeless) in this very coupling-oriented environment.  Now, in modern day, It is quite common for girls to attack boys just as fiercely as the boys traditionally attacked the girls

(all information here provided by wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday)