10 خرافات غريبة حول الغذاء 10 Odd Superstitions About Food

Superstitions can fill peoples lives with a
bit of innocent fun, but they can also be incredibly crippling. This
is a list of some of the more unusual superstitions that surround food.
Many of these superstitions derive from Great Britain, and therefore
ultimately found their way around the world through colonization.10Hollow Bread




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It was once (and perhaps still is) a superstition that if you found a
hole in a loaf of bread you cut, it symbolized a coffin and meant that
someone was soon to die. If a person found a loaf in this state, there
would be days of discussion to guess who it might be that would be
stricken down. Of course, these days we are less likely to cut our own
loaves of bread, so this one is likely to die into obscurity.
9Egg shells




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It was once a superstition that if you did not crush the ends of an
egg after eating it, a witch would gather the shells and use them to
craft a boat that she could use to sail out to sea to raise storms.
This is a very ancient superstition which seems to originate in the
1580s. If you shattered the end of the shell, it would create enough
holes to make it useless as a boat. We won’t even go into the logic of
how a full-sized human might be able to stand in an egg shell – that was
obviously not on the minds of our superstitious forebears.8Crossed Bread




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This innocent old superstition dictated that all loaves of bread must
be marked with a sign of the cross before baking. The idea was that
the cross would prevent the devil from sitting on the loaf – and thereby
prevent him from cursing or spoiling the bread. The upside to this
superstition is that bread rises much better in the oven when crossed –
though obviously not from the influence (or lack thereof) of the wicked
one.7Salt




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We all know of the superstition surrounding the spilling of salt, but
here is a slightly more unusual one. It used to be considered bad if
you helped another person to the salt – there was even a little phrase
that evolved from the superstition: “help to salt, help to sorry.” Salt
is such an important part of human life that it is no wonder that it
appears so frequently in the history of superstition.6Tea Rituals




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It used to be considered bad luck for two people to pour tea from the
same pot. In addition, if you left the lid off the teapot while
brewing tea, it was meant to mean that a stranger would visit soon.
There were even a series of small rituals you could perform to determine
the exact day, hour, and gender of the visitor by means of tapping the
wrist.




5Christmas Cake




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Superstitions surrounding Christmas are as numerous as Elizabeth
Taylor’s husbands. One such superstition says that all members of a
family must have a turn stirring the Christmas cake mixture or else bad
luck will befall them. Young unmarried girls were especially supposed
to have a turn – otherwise they would remain alone for another year.4Eggy Luck




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In many parts of Europe, farmers would take a fresh egg into the
fields in the hopes that it would bring a good healthy crop. Eggs were
also used to tell fortunes – two yolks would mean a marriage was coming
up soon, a black spot on a yolk was a bad omen – and an egg with no yolk
at all was just about as bad as you could get.3Garlic




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In Greece there is an ancient superstition called the Evil Eye. It
is believed that when someone gives you the evil eye, bad luck (usually
minor) will befall you. Now you may be wondering why this is on a food
superstitions list; the reason is that the way to prevent the evil eye
from affecting you is to carry around a piece of garlic. This is
unlikely to help you when you are having a night out looking for a date!2The Wishbone




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Before we all sit back on our laurels and laugh at the superstitions
around the world that would never afflict us; let us remember one of our
own most revered superstitions, the pulling of the wishbone. In
Western (especially American and British) tradition, two people use
their pinky finger to break the wishbone. The person who wins the
longest piece gets good luck and usually makes a wish. We may all say
we aren’t superstitious – but this is something we have all done at one
time or another which leads us to our last (and equally common)
superstition:1Wedding Rice




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Throwing rice at a wedding is such a common event that we don’t even
bat an eyelid when we see it happening. But what most of us don’t
realize is that this a very superstitious tradition with a very long
history. The throwing of rice is meant to bring prosperity, wealth, and
happiness to the couple. Frankly though, with the amount of money
people spend on weddings these days, it would be more useful to throw
wads of cash rather than rice.