Regardless of the age, Australians must have at least one of these traditional catering foods when celebrating a birthday:fairy bread, chocolate spiders, chocolate crackles, sherbet cones, and devon rolls. The most cherished among them is the fairy bread.
We celebrate the same way you probably would, with a party and cake! Although kids your age often have a special dessert instead of cake. Instead of cake, Australian children have "Fairy Bread" on their birthday. Fairy bread is white bread (like sandwich bread) spread with butter and has a ton of sprinkles on it.
A first birthday, turning 5, becoming a teenager at 13, and a 16th birthday are all important childhood milestones that usually involve a large party and an extra-special gift. Milestone birthdays for adults are typically their 18th birthday, 21st birthday, and then all those round number birthdays.
While many cultures developed birthday celebrations separately, the Egyptians were the first ones to get the party started. When Egyptian pharaohs were crowned gods, they were “birthed.” That means the first birthday celebration wasn't marking the birth of a human, but rather the birth of a god.
Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet, and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip, at Sydney Cove in New South Wales.
But it appears one of the biggest culture shocks Americans have when moving Down Under is how we sing Happy Birthday. And it's not because of our accents, but because we end it with “hip hip hooray” – and they just don't get it.
The most common birthday in Australia is September 17th! The least common birthday (you may have guessed it is) is Christmas Day, the 25th of December. If you are inclined to count leap years in the mix then the 29th February is the least common birthday, but only because they occur once every 4 years.
Festivities and holidays vary from one culture to the next, as do the traditions and forms of celebration that surround them. Birthdays, however, are considered an important event in most (although not all) cultures.
The first mentions of a birthday came from Ancient Egypt, where large celebrations were put on for the Pharaoh. These celebrations were coronation dates, symbolic of the Pharaoh's birth as a 'god. ' The first of these is said to have taken place somewhere around the year 3,000 B.C.E.
Russia. The Russians have an amazing gifting tradition for birthdays, where even the guests receive gifts from the person whose birthday it is.
December 25 (Christmas Day) is the least common birthday, while January 1 (New Year's Day) is the second least common. December 24 (Christmas Eve) also makes the list as the 3rd least common birthday while July 4 (Independence Day) is the 4th least common birthday.
What are the rarest birthdays? Surprisingly, none is in February. They cluster around holidays. December 25, January 1, December 24, July 4, January 2, December 26, November 27, November 23, November 25 and October 31st.
The rarest birthday of the 365 annual calendar days is Christmas day, Dec. 25. If your birthday is New Year's Day or Christmas Eve, you also have uncommon birthdays. Jan. 1 and Dec. 24 are just below Christmas on the list.
The most common tradition is to blow candles on a cake, cut the cake, decorate the venue with balloons, eat and be merry! Some of the countries that celebrate birthdays in different ways are as follows.
Typical Parties
Parties are typically decorated with balloons and streamers. A cake with candles is brought out, and the birthday person makes a wish before blowing out the candles. Giving the "key to the house" occurs when the person celebrating a birthday comes of age.
The idea that everyone should celebrate their birthday is, weirdly, not very old itself. Not until the 19th century—perhaps around 1860 or 1880—did middle-class Americans commonly do so, and not until the early 20th century were birthday celebrations a tradition nationwide.
In Bhutan, individual birthdays are not traditionally celebrated and many people don't know their actual birthdate. This is for two reasons – one, their calendar is different and doesn't tally with the Gregorian calendar and two, as a strong collectivist culture, individual birthdays aren't considered important.
Birthday celebrations are amongst the most important traditions for most families. Each family celebrates differently, strengthening the family's identity, while the habit of marking birthdays in one way or another crosses the divide of many different races and cultures.
The birthday cake tradition dates way back to the ancient Egyptians, with the celebration of their gods. Their coronation day was named as their 'birth' day. The Greeks later adopted this tradition and added a cake to the celebration.
Fairy bread is a three-ingredient dessert often served a children's birthday parties in Australia. It's made of bread, butter, and sprinkles, and Australians told Insider it's full of nostalgia.
In Australia, turning 21 means one is an adult. The tradition means giving the person turning 21 a key to their family's house.
If you're in Australia and you're working your golden birthday out you would write 6/3, sixth-day, third month. This makes your golden birthday your 63rd. In the U.S however you'd write 3/6, the third-month, sixth day, so you would celebrate your golden birthday 27 years earlier, at 36.