Ok, I'm going to tell the barmbrack story that features @trasinscneach and her partner (who I don't think is on twitter?) First, let me just say, they're the cutest couple.

For those not in Ireland, let me introduce you to brack. During Halloween, it's bakes with a small ring in it. Traditionally, there were other things too, but yeah, in the store, you can buy bread with a foreign object baked into it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmbrack#Halloween_tradition

Supposed to mean you marry within the year. Ok, got it?

Good.

Now, @trasinscneach's partner isn't from here, and it's around Halloween and they're visiting me up in the country from Dublin, so yeah, I have to get some brack for her.

So, we kinda explain the whole thing and she's like "Wait. You put a metal ring in bread? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?" To us, this seems normal. To her, it seems like a choking hazard.

I'm cutting up the loaf to toast, making a big deal about NOT wanting that ring. Sure enough, what do I get? The fucking ring.

I pull it out and she wants to look at it. So I hand it over.

Now, let me preface this bit by saying, I love my pals, especially @trasinscneach. She's the same kind of prankster asshole I am. When our greek pal who never even saw a yorkshire pudding got a roast with one at the pub...

She played along, dead straight faced, as I went with my long bullshit story about it being yorkshire pudding day and it's a little bread hat you had to stick on your head and recite the yorkshire pudding poem (we got pictures of her doing it. Fucking glorious.)

So, I turn around, and here is the partner slipping the ring onto @trasinscneach's hand. I gasp. "Um. You do know that means me and her are married now, right?"

"WAIT, WOT?"

"Yeah. It's tradition."

She looks over to the gf and she nods.

TBF, a country that puts a choking hazard in bread could surely having such a tradition. What would she know, we're all weirdos here who put fucking rings in bread.

Anyhow, we keep it up for a while "I mean, she's my wife now. Thanks I guess." and then finally let her in on it.

BUT, to this day, I still call her a homewrecking bitch for stealing my wife and I still call @trasinscneach my ex wife which REALLY confuses people who don't know this story.