Stay closed on New Year’s Eve? This was not an option for Patrick Kooistra’s oliebollen stall, which could not open on Sundays in Feanwâlden. Then the entire santen stand moved across the municipal border to Quatrebras.
The lights of the stall can already be seen from afar and anyone who enters the AutoKoop site in Quatrebras will smell the typical oliebollen smell of New Year’s Day. The cars normally sold on this site are largely hidden from view by the oliebollen stand. On this day, they don’t sell cars here, but oliebollen, krentenbollen, apple fritters and apple fritters.
On the Friday evening before Christmas, the municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel received permission to sell its goods on Sundays in Quatrebras, says Rinske Nieuwenhuis, who runs the stall together with her husband Patrick. She is happy with the help she received from VVD municipal councilor Sjaak Hoekstra from Tytsjerksteradiel. On New Year’s Day he is one of the first to send her a message to wish her good luck.
Sunday rest
The story of the Kooistra begins in October when it becomes clear that the Dantumadiel community adheres to Sunday rest. Despite subsequent attempts by municipal politicians to change the situation one-off. The majority coalition remained firm and did not want to make exceptions. This means that the Kooistra stall, which has been located in the Plus supermarket in Feanwâlden for ten years, and the other oliebollen stalls in Dantumadiel cannot open.
“But we really won’t be sitting on the couch at home on New Year’s Day,” says Nieuwenhuis. “This is the day you do everything for. Best sales day in the last two and a half months we have been in Feanwâlden.” Nieuwenhuis does not comment on how much it will sell for. When the relocated stand opens at 9 in the morning, a good kilometer from the municipal border, it seems that Feanwâlden’s regular customers are showing solidarity. The first buyers almost all come from that country to purchase the delicacy at their local counter.
Carbide
“We knew it was good,” says Klara de Roos of Quatrebras, the bag of oliebollen steaming in her hands. She approached the stable with her children. He lives a few meters away, in Woudweg. “We only experience this because the cream is too thick.” Normally the family also buys the batter from Kooistra, but then in Feanwâlden. “It’s kind of funny that the issue hasn’t been resolved, but it’s a shame that it has to be the same thing.” De Roos points to the carbide shots heard from Feanwâlden. “Lana Karbid sjitte mei and this network.”
This also bothers Nieuwenhuis and the fact that in Feanwâlden they cannot open because they are seen as a shop, while the local snack bar can open. Almost all customers sympathize with her. Sjouke Reitsma from Feanwâlden is on his way to his father and stops by. She receives the bulbs in Feanwâlden every year. She calls the new location a good solution, but wherever the Kooistra were, she would still bring the oliebollen there. “Just out of solidarity.”
Nonsense
Mathilde Hommes from Feanwâlden also thinks so. “I’m here to support them.” She normally gathers in her village, but now she got on her bicycle. “I also exercise.” You call the whole issue of Sunday sales “nonsense”. Wigle Westerlaan of Feanwâlden calls her “narrow-minded.” She has to go to work and carries some bags with her for her work colleagues. Leeuwarden. Feanwâlden’s Johannes Broekens says he “understands the fan”. It’s weird and now it should be.”
Yet on Saturday the Kooistras had some customers at their usual location in Feanwâlden who had already come to pick up the New Year’s tradition because they didn’t want to shop on Sunday, says Nieuwenhuizen. At Quatrebras he is now also waiting for customers who normally wouldn’t come. This becomes evident when one of the early risers arrives. Gosse Wijma and his son Marten from Hurdegaryp always cook themselves, but this year they don’t feel like it. The Kooistra stall is a godsend. “You have my love.”
Organetto
Nieuwenhuis doesn’t know exactly what to expect. “It’s different than usual, but we are well prepared.” At half past six they were already at the stall, so the desserts are ready, the ovens are hot and the yeast, dough and custard are ready. During the day they will be accompanied by the sounds of Theun Zuiderveld from Feanwâlden’s accordion. This self-built organ “De Drie Appelflokken” was born out of solidarity. “We hear the same sounds as the fair,” says Kooistra, who is at the fair other months of the year.
The entire move was initiated by Feanwâldsters Douwe Kootstra and Oege Hiddema. “They decided to explore the boundaries of the municipality and find an alternative as close as possible,” explains Nieuwenhuis. This became the municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel in a location easily accessible to the residents of Feanwâlden. The sale continues until 5pm. Then they become cleaners for the Kooistra family. “By the end of the day, the dough reached the ceiling.” By 8pm they will be ready and set off for their hometown of Leeuwarden to literally spend New Year’s Eve.
2023-12-31 13:00:00
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