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A Sunday Tradition in Samsun A Sunday Tradition

in Samsun

Every city has its own classics into pide bread. Depending on start waiting with trays in your
and habits that have become the number of customers at hands and cardboard boxes to
traditions. People living in that the bakery, sometimes waiting put the cooked and ready pides.
city adopt these habits without in line for hours is a challenge People were not surprised at
even realizing it and pass them before the pide is ready. all by this small crowd that
on to future generations. There formed in the bakery early in
is such a habit of people of In the past, the number of the morning. People who
Samsun that reminds them bakeries in the neighborhoods couldn't get together on
their childhood. were few, so a reservation was weekdays
made from the bakery the day would have
Pide with minced meat, made before. Early in the morning, the the sweetest
specially in neighborhood father or the child of the house conversations
bakeries in Samsun on Sunday would go to the bakery, with in these bakery
mornings, is a weekend classic trays and containers filled with queues. At home,
for Samsun locals. All family minced meat fried with onions. the rush to brew tea
members gather on that While the filling of the pide was would begin. When
Sunday morning, chatting over delivered to the baker, how the pide arrive
freshly brewed hot tea and the pide was requested to be home, it
covered mincemeat pide is a cooked was described in detail was waited
different experience. Samsun to the baker. Then
locals call "covered pide with you would
minced meat" simply as
"kıymalı" (short form of telling
"with minced meat" in Turkish).

You shouldn't underestimate
the preparation of pide;
the labor involved in this
process is the labor of
the whole family.
The mother
of the house
carefully prepares
the filling for the pide
on Saturday evening.
Usually, the father of
the house or one of the
children takes the prepared
pide fillings to the bakery early
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