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8Jun/09Off

The Official Turkish Sneezing Guide



Are you ready for the cold, flu, and allergy season in Turkey...?

When cold and flu season came around while I was growing up in the States, if a friend/family member sneezed, it was traditional for bystanders to say Bless you! or God Bless you! or Gesundheit! (The latter being used more frequently by German relatives on my mother's side.) If a friend/family member sneezed multiple times, we just kept repeating Bless you! or Gesundheit! And, about the only reply the sneezer might utter was a watery-eyed Thank you.

Where Peri was growing up in Turkey there was quite a different tradition for the same sneezing scenario when the cold and flu season struck. If someone sneezed in Peri's household, the most usual bystander response was

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