We eat a "dessert" exclusively pretty much at funerals, memorial services called κόλλυφα (koliva) & it's delicious. Is it super macabre that I like it? I mean it tastes so good. The only thing in the Cypriot version I don't like are the silver dragées.https://annauk1.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/making-koliva-step-by-step/ …
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Replying to @o_guest
Kollifa are super yummy and I love them too! I think it’s beautiful that they are sometimes associated with the rememberance of those who are gone, but kollifa are also given as offerings for the celebration of a loved one’s name day :)
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Replying to @linaprotopapa
I've never seen that in Cyprus ever. Where do you live in Cyprus? I'm from Nicosia.
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Replying to @o_guest
Interesting! I’m from Deryneia and my extended family certainly does it. I wonder if it’s more of a local tradition. I’ll look into it!
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Replying to @o_guest
It’s mentioned here (“γιορτή ή μνημόσυνο”):pic.twitter.com/arAabAHBpd
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Replying to @linaprotopapa
I really have never seen it for name days though. Is it perhaps "too traditional" for Nicosians? We do usually chocolate bars at school.
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Yes, I’m guessing it’s too old-school, too tradish & too much work for many today(& in past few decades), esp women who work. It involves preparing & taking kollifa (& prosforo) to church the evening before the name day to have it blessed & then offered, as w a mnimosino.
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Yup. I went to school in the early 90s to early 00s and we always had chocolate. I never had a name day so I never did any of this. 
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