[MR] Cloven Fruit

[Jennifer Dobyns]

I don't think anyone did post about this.  Since we're about the same  
vintage, it'd be interesting (to me) to see what the custom was, in  
your experience.

And I, too, remember cloven fruits being passed around in my youthful  
days when the majority of people were single, and germs weren't  
nearly as much of an issue.  The funniest example was a cloved  
grape.  Single use cloven fruit  *g*

  A cloved orange was in someone's hands at last Twelfth Night feast,  
but if it was making the rounds, I didn't notice it.

Genevieve

On Apr 7, 2009, at 4:10 PM, jbrmm266 at aol.com wrote:

> Did anyone actually give a description of how it was done?? If so,  
> I overlooked it.? But as I was around during the heyday of the  
> custom, I figure I'm in an excellent position to explain it if no- 
> one else has.
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