Talk:Kagemand

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The Danish Wikipedia page has a sentence on how this pastry is used at children's birthday parties, but my edit of the English language page with a direct English-language rendition of the original ("Der er tradition for at man starter med at skære halsen på kagemanden over, mens hele selskabet skriger højt.") was reverted and I was told that my edit amounted to vandalism. This IMO makes no sense. Okh123456 (talk) 13:11, 4 September 2018 (UTC)okh123456[reply]

Hi. I took the liberty to give your comment a section headline. RhinoMind (talk) 00:45, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relating to your comment, I would say that it is probably something written by people trying to pull an on-line prank or something. I am Danish and live in Denmark and have never heard about any tradition of that kind. It may be something teenagers do for fun, but not a real regular tradition I would say. The English Wikipedia is the best kept wiki of them all, because there are so many editors here as English is the international language of our times. The Danish wiki has very few editors and several of the pages there are in a poor state with lot of made up stuff as well. I wasn't the one reverting you though. RhinoMind (talk) 00:45, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It may be regional: I live on Fyn, most of my acquaintances live either here or in Jutland, and it's a very well-established tradition for children's birthdays here. My kids schoolmates had lots of birthday parties to which everybody in class was invited, and the cutting off of the cake man's/woman's head was a staple of those parties. By the age of 12 or so, that stopped. Okh123456 (talk) 06:29, 6 September 2018 (UTC)okh123456[reply]

Yes, maybe that explains it. There are several regional traditions across Denmark. For one thing it is customary to put whipped cream on brunsviger cakes in Northern Jutland, something that would make most people on Funen cringe. ([1], [2])

There is a need of proper sources on this to weed out the nonsense from the real thing. If there is some truth in it at all. RhinoMind (talk) 14:01, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've never seen a kagemand made of brunsviger. studenterbrød yes, chocolatecake yes, brownie yes, choux pastry yes but brunsviger no. I've lived everywhere in Denmark othrt than Funen and Bornholm and has a strong sense that the brunsviger kagemand is a Funen thing.83.93.31.22 (talk) 14:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the sentence in question, adding a topical source. Note the spike in readership for this article above. Andrew D. (talk) 21:24, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Funny thing is that 11 October is official "Day of Brunsviger" (Kagemand is made of Brunsviger cake). Just to let you know :-) [3] RhinoMind (talk) 17:38, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Still, as a Dane I have never heard of this "tradition" of screams and dismembering at all. But its a good story, so I am wondering if it's an urban myth. I've read other stories from writers who have talked to three people while making a stopover in Denmark and suddenly all Danes are ... or all Danes do ... and Denmark is like ... (insert optional crazy stuff, prejudice or stereotypical trait). RhinoMind (talk) 17:41, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]