Only the Shadow Knows...
German Word of the Day: ๐๐ช๐ง๐ข๐๐ก๐ฉ๐๐๐ง (Groundhog)

๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐๐ป๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐: Tell us, O Great Clairvoyant Rodent - Will there be six more weeks of winter?
๐ฃ๐๐ป๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ฃ๐ต๐ถ๐น: Don't you people have calendars?
What does Groundhog Day have to do with a German Restaurant? Well, even though we don't serve groundhog (and don't have any plans to introduce Schnitzel a la Rodent to the menu), it interests us because it was the German immigrants who came to be known as Pennsylvania Dutch who brought with them the tradition that if on The Festival of ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐บ๐ฎ๐ (February 2) the weather were sunny, it foreboded a longer winter.

Having the ceremonial presentation of an animal who would predict the coming of spring by whether he saw his shadow on February 2nd dates back to a time when bears served as the prognosticating beast, which later became the badger, and then the groundhog. In Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch (Pennsylvania Dutch, which of course is derived from German, not Dutch), Groundhog Day is known as Grundsau dak, among other regional variants.
We don't know about you, but having six more weeks of winter (as Phil predicted this morning) sounds too good to us! 8 months of summer is better than 10. :)
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