Time for Rosca!
Today, most Mexicans celebrate the “Día de los Reyes Magos”, which loosely translates to “Three Kings Day“. Kids get their “Christmas” gifts today, in line with the Bible’s tale of the baby Jésus and the Three Kings. More importantly (for the grown-up atheists among us), there’s also delicious cake to be had - it’s called rosca and is a kind of sweet bread with dried fruit and a little bit of rum in it.
Maru’s mom makes this cake every year, and this year Maru decided for the first time to try her hand at making her own. She turned out five totally awesome roscas, of which we’ve only managed to consume two so far - with a little help from our friends.
Further, in the tradition there are kid-shaped little plastic toys hidden in the Rosca. The one that finds a kid-toy has to bring something to a reunion on Feb. 2
Did you do that?
In Spain is called «Roscón de reyes» but we don’t have to bring anything the 2nd of Feb.
Jeduan: We didn’t have any plastic babies to put in there (we’d forgotten all about it), but we were thinking about an atheist theme for next year, like plastic apes or dinosaur bones
FYI: 7th of January is celebrated as Christmas by greek orthodox christians. Which is obviously closer to the truth, as 25th of December was chosen to bring Christmas into line with the pagan winter festival.