Every December 12, the good people of Geneva, Switzerland celebrate their victory against the Savoy invaders who attacked their city the night of December the 12th, 1602. One of the ways that they repelled the invaders was very unusual. What was it?

Great temptation here to insult Swiss cooking

They used soup in some way?

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And why is their big day to celebrate people using soup as a weapon?

Yes, they used soup in some way. What way?

Good job, Mozart! My reference said the soup was poured onto invaders climbing the city's walls, but it comes out the same.

Yup. Swiss soup was only fit to be used on their enemies! (Incidentally, what do you call marzipan in the US ? The writer of mozart's link had to research it .It even looks as though she has never encountered the stuff )

Marzipan is marzipan, as far as I know.

Marzipan? And the link writer doesn't know about European parking, either. Scroll down and find that she is puzzled by a parked car with its wing mirrors folded in. Well,folding the mirror inwards is a good idea; it's less easy for a passing vehicle to hit the mirror in narrow European streets.It's common for something to pass so close that the wing mirror is hit and broken (though the instant case, both mirrors folded, suggests that a car jockey has earlier parked it in a hotel car park, where they park so tightly that you can't pass between vehicles without folding the mirrors )