Candy stores are selling marzipan pigs (and lots of them) around this time of the year. I learned that the pig is a symbol for prosperity. In fact, a German idiom "ich habe Schwein gehabt" ("I have had a pig") actually means "I was lucky." So getting a good-luck pig for the household is a new year tradition in Germany. We didn't get
one for our flat, as it is unlikely that any good-luck pig has the power to reverse the (mis)fortunes in our retirement investments.
Good luck in 2009!
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