Oh I forgot that I started this thread!
So many interesting responses... Where do I begin to respond...
What is this? Searched for pictures and got a bunch of pictures of people fighting. Please explain more!
Great list! I love all those things myself, very much. We have the same traditions in Sweden. Not "banya" though, but all the other things.
Nobody else in Western Europe that I know of, picks mushrooms and berries, but I think they do it in Poland too.
Pancakes with caviar!!!! (ahead of Lent) I knew about the pancakes of course, but I didn't know about the caviar! What a nice tradition!!
Hm... I associate that with French people and central Europeans.... But I wouldn't know.