Gauntlets

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Spit stretching (also: Sausage Soup driving or -Go) was a battle hard in the Upper Palatinate , and the precise execution of place was different place.

In the barren, poor areas of the Upper Palatinate, days when the peasants slaughtered became festive days. The neighboring farmers provided each other with meat and sausage on slaughter days . Traditionally, slaughter took place before Christmas.

In the evening, the boys from the villages went to the farm in which the slaughter had been carried out in disguise, stuck a spear (this consisted of a long wooden stick with prongs) through the window, on which a note with sayings such as the following was often attached was:

We heard you had a battle
And made quite large sausages.
We ask gentlemen and women:
Give us your sow too.

or:

I'm called ghert,
you houts a big pig
Me walln niat vül,
I'm not quite
for me only the stick
between the head and on the tail.

The farmers then hung meat and sausage on the spit so that the boys could take part in the feast.

More modest skewers contented themselves with the sausage soup (or stock soup), which was eaten for a few days after the slaughter and sausage. A bowl was attached to the skewer so that the farmer's wife could scoop up the soup. Since there was of course less interest in the liquid part of the sausage soup, the bowl was often replaced by a sieve.

Even at wedding celebrations, the gauntlet was common in the inns.

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