Any dutch people Here

flying dutchmen · 12-29-2005, 10:16 AM

hehe. kweet eigenlijk helemaal niet of lunteren ver weg is. t klinkt alleen wel bekend... Rouveen, zegt dat je iets? Ergens tussen zwolle en meppel, naast Staphorst...

xxSparkOfLifexx · 12-29-2005, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Samine

hmmm... van die sneeuw is hier nog niet echt veel te merken... het is alleen verrekte koud geworden

In Rotterdam ook nog niet... soms dacht ik dat de "White Christmas" door een nederlander geschreven was

Samine · 01-01-2006, 12:43 PM

haha dat meen je niet!! Ken je de familie Timmer daar? (kweet niet of Rouveen groot is... ben niet zo vaak daar op visite...)

trouwens, nog een gezond, gelukkig, en gezegend 2006

(hmm... de sneeuw die hier gevallen was, is inmiddels weg door de regen

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Mathijs · 01-04-2006, 07:50 PM

Ik ben laatst nog lang lunteren gereden, in de trein naar Ede.

Dave H · 01-05-2006, 06:00 AM

I am not dutch, nor have I ever been to Holland, but I was born to dutch descendants in the very dutch part of western Michigan, USA. I was somehow fortunate to meet a 100% dutch girl from the very dutch area of central Wisconsin to marry and now we have a 100% dutch descended baby

I wish that my family had carried on more dutch traditions - they pretty died out with my grandparents (and they only kept a few to my understanding).

henkie · 01-26-2006, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave H

I am not dutch, nor have I ever been to Holland, but I was born to dutch descendants in the very dutch part of western Michigan, USA. I was somehow fortunate to meet a 100% dutch girl from the very dutch area of central Wisconsin to marry and now we have a 100% dutch descended baby

I wish that my family had carried on more dutch traditions - they pretty died out with my grandparents (and they only kept a few to my understanding).

Could you tell something more about these traditions? Which ones do you miss and which ones you still have? I sometimes think we ourselves are loosing a lot of these traditions. It's like people who have a dutch background but aren't living here (anymore), are more aware of these traditions than we do.
Just an example: in Holland we have this day we call 'St. Maarten', celebrated on Nov. 11. It's just like the American Halloween, children walking around with lights, collecting candy and stuff like that. The last couple of years it seems as if less children have 'St. Maarten' and Halloween becomes more and more popular. The same with Sinterklaas, celebrated Dec. 5 (or 6). It's a celebration where you give gifts to family/friends. More and more people skip Sinterklaas and do the whole gifts-thing at Christmas.
So, just out of curiosity, could you tell something more about dutch traditions outside Holland?

Dave H · 01-31-2006, 09:45 PM

I don't remember hearing of St Marteen, but I do remember learning about Sinterklaas as a small boy in school and from my grandparents telling me stories. Apparently my grandparents used to make some drink (I can't remember the name) that was brandy (maybe?) or some other whiskey mixed with raisins and it would sit in a jar above the fireplace for some time, and then on Christmas everyone would have drink of it. We also used to make something called, oh man, I'm going to mess this up - ole bolin? doughy balls with raisins coated in sugar or something like that. Honestly, I don't have too many memories because my parents didn't celebrate any type of traditions with us kids. I think it mostly ended when my great grandparents passed away and then my grandparents sort of stopped celebrating them and so on. I feel kind of sad, because my mom has a lot of stuff from my Grandma who passed away last year, but none of us really know anything about it. Stuff like little silver spoons with dutch sayings on them, and a collection of old tiles with dutch writing on them. Stuff like that. That's probably not very helpful, but it's what I got

Tell me some more about what your traditions.

henkie · 02-02-2006, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave H

I don't remember hearing of St Marteen, but I do remember learning about Sinterklaas as a small boy in school and from my grandparents telling me stories. Apparently my grandparents used to make some drink (I can't remember the name) that was brandy (maybe?) or some other whiskey mixed with raisins and it would sit in a jar above the fireplace for some time, and then on Christmas everyone would have drink of it.

To be honest, I don't know what this is. Maybe one of the other dutch people knows?

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We also used to make something called, oh man, I'm going to mess this up - ole bolin? doughy balls with raisins coated in sugar or something like that.

Yes! Oliebollen (oil balls, or oildimpling as my dictionary translates it). You're right, doughy balls with raisins or pieces of apple or bananas in it, although I prefer them 'natural'. Some powdered sugar to make it complete. People eat them on New Year's Eve.

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Honestly, I don't have too many memories because my parents didn't celebrate any type of traditions with us kids. I think it mostly ended when my great grandparents passed away and then my grandparents sort of stopped celebrating them and so on. I feel kind of sad, because my mom has a lot of stuff from my Grandma who passed away last year, but none of us really know anything about it. Stuff like little silver spoons with dutch sayings on them, and a collection of old tiles with dutch writing on them. Stuff like that. That's probably not very helpful, but it's what I got

I can understand you feel kind of sad when you see these things that are a part of your family's history but you don't have a picture what these thing are . If we can be helpful in any way (some translating/explanation of these saying or anything), please don't hesitate to say so.

Do you know what part of Holland your family came from?

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Tell me some more about what your traditions.

Well, besides wooden shoes, cheese and windmills? We've got the "Elfstedentocht" (Eleven-Cities Tour). It's a race and leisure tour of 200 km on skates held in Friesland, a region in the north. It's held very irregulary because it has to freeze for a longer period to close all the canals and lakes. Since 1907 there have been only 15 official once. On parts of the route where the ice isn't strong enough, the skaters step of the ice and walk on their skates until they can step on the ice again. It's called "klunen" in dutch. It's kind of funny to look at. Along the route there are hundreds of thousands of spectators. They try to stay warm by drinking a lot of "beerenburg", a frisian alcoholic drink made by adding herbs to jenever.
Also in the cold is the traditional "New Year's Day dive in the North Sea". For some reason I can't understand people jump into the pretty cold North Sea and afterwards they eat "erwtensoep" or "snert", which is a kind of pea-soup. That I do understand because I really like it, especially when it's cold.

There is "Koninginnedag", the day our Queen celebrates her birthday. Also, on the third tuesday in September, we have "Prinsjesdag". I guess you can compare this more or less with the american State of the union. And on the 5th of May we celebrate the end of WW2. And on that very same day I celebrate my birthday, which is a very nice tradition too

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flying dutchmen · 02-16-2006, 02:36 PM

[QUOTE=henkie]To be honest, I don't know what this is. Maybe one of the other dutch people knows?

Brandy mixed with raisins.... I think that's what we call 'boerenjongens'. I never ate it. Probabely the elder generation eats it more often than the modern generation. There's also 'boerenjongens'-ice, but I dont like raisins...

flying dutchmen · 02-16-2006, 02:39 PM

Ennuh.. St. Maarten, is that a really dutch tradition? I guess its rather 'catholic' than dutch...

henkie · 02-16-2006, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by henkie

To be honest, I don't know what this is. Maybe one of the other dutch people knows?

Brandy mixed with raisins.... I think that's what we call 'boerenjongens'. I never ate it. Probabely the elder generation eats it more often than the modern generation. There's also 'boerenjongens'-ice, but I dont like raisins...

You could be right there. I only know 'boerenjongens'-ice but it could be a drink too.

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Originally Posted by flying dutchmen

Ennuh.. St. Maarten, is that a really dutch tradition? I guess its rather 'catholic' than dutch...

Well, I'm living in Groningen, which is not a really catholic region of Holland. And St. Maarten is quite popular here. But I looked it up. You can read more about it:
in english
en in het nederlands