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A trust fall for children, except you hit it with a stick.
means A decorated container filled with candy or small gifts, hung up and broken open with a stick as part of a celebration.
from From Spanish piñata, meaning 'pot' or 'jug,' tracing back to Italian pignatta, a cooking pot shaped like a pine cone (pigna). The tradition likely reached Spain from Italy, then crossed to Mexico with Spanish colonizers, where it merged with existing Indigenous celebratory customs into the candy-filled, stick-smashed form known today.
- origin
- Marco Polo brought the idea from China
- religious roots
- seven spikes once symbolized the deadly sins
- design flaw
- blindfolds kids, hands them weapons, calls it a party
- economics
- candy inside costs less than the piñata itself