Traditionally, hot chocolate has been associated with cold weather, winter, and dessert in the United States.

Traditionally a special ice machine is used to churn out the shaved ice used in the dessert, originally hand cranked but now more often motorized.

Traditionally ( and still in the north ), it is served with soups ( sopa in Spanish ) like posole and menudo ; today, sopaipillas are sometimes found stuffed ( like burritos ), and are almost universally served as a dessert with honey.

Traditionally, the opposition parties will sit in one row of seats, and the government party will sit in the other.

Traditionally, after the fifth dish of the dinner, the groom and bride and their families will approach each table to toast the guests.

Traditionally the artist then handed the work to a specialist cutter, who then uses sharp tools to carve away the parts of the block that will not receive ink.

Traditionally, science fiction fanzines were ( and many still are ) available for " the usual ," meaning that a sample issue will be mailed on request ; to receive further issues, a reader sends a " letter of comment " ( LoC ) about the fanzine to the editor.

Traditionally most, if not all, cabinet ministers will be members of the leader's own party who are elected to the lower house or are appointed to the upper house ; however this is not legally or constitutionally mandated.

Traditionally, Hopis are buried facing eastward in expectation of the Pahana who will come from that direction.

Traditionally the guillotines were manually operated by turning a large wheel some 150 times to raise or lower the gate ; since the locks have to be left empty this operation will always have to be done twice to pass through.

Traditionally, an Orthodox church will have a fresco or mosaic of the Last Judgment on the back ( western ) wall, ( see the 12th-century mosaic pictured at the top of this page ) so that the faithful, as they leave the services, are reminded that they will be judged by what they do during this earthly life.

Traditionally, bail is some form of property deposited or pledged to a court to persuade it to release a suspect from jail, on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail ( and possibly be brought up on charges of the crime of failure to appear ).

Traditionally, the scholarly and the intellectual classes were closely identified ; however, while an intellectual need not necessarily be actively involved in scholarship, he or she may have an academic background and will typically have an association with a profession.

Traditionally, a visitor to a Chinese home will be expected to sit down and drink tea while talking ; the Chinese consider having such visits while standing to be uncouth.

Traditionally betting has occurred between a customer and a bookmaker where the customer ' backs ' ( bets that an outcome will occur ) and the bookmaker ' lays ' ( bets that the outcome will not occur ).

Traditionally, they will propose some petty criminal about to end his sentence for pardon being granted to him, and he / she will be released following the tradition to which the pardon holds, usually during the Holy Week.

Traditionally, the narthex is where candles and prosphora will be sold for offering during Divine Services.

Traditionally many cards were simple black text on white stock ; today a professional business card will sometimes include one or more aspects of striking visual design.

Traditionally, an ocean liner for the transoceanic trade will be built to a higher standard than a typical cruise ship, including high freeboard and stronger plating to withstand rough seas and adverse conditions encountered in the open ocean, such as the North Atlantic.

Traditionally, the Orthodox will never cover the Gospel Book in leather — the skin of a dead animal — because the words of Christ are considered to be life-giving.

Traditionally, that something else was held to be evidential justification ; today it is usually held to be either justification and also some other condition, or else some other condition instead of justification, which will avoid the Gettier problem.

Traditionally 85 to 90 % of solid renal masses will turn out to be RCC but this number may be decreasing as renal masses are being found at smaller and smaller sizes with larger numbers of benign lesions.

Traditionally, compatibilists ( defenders of the compatibility of moral responsibility and determinism, like Alfred Ayer and Walter Terence Stace ) try to reject premise two, arguing that, properly understood, free will is not incompatible with determinism.

Traditionally, the level of care and skill which has to be demonstrated by a director has been framed largely with reference to the non-executive director.

Traditionally, the extinct family Viverravidae ( viverravids ) had been thought to be the earliest carnivorans, with fossil records first appearing in the Paleocene of North America about 60 mya, but recently described evidence from cranial morphology now places them outside the order Carnivora.

Traditionally, composting was to pile organic materials until the next planting season, at which time the materials would have decayed enough to be ready for use in the soil.

Traditionally, spices are used both whole and ground ; cooked or raw ; and they may be added at different times during the cooking process to produce different results.

Traditionally, liquid helium is used to cool the coils because it has a boiling point of around 4 K at ambient pressure, and cheap metallic superconductors can be used for the coil wiring.

Traditionally, the Dalai Lama is thought of as the latest reincarnation of a series of spiritual leaders who have chosen to be reborn in order to enlighten others.

) Traditionally, opposite sides of a die add up to seven, implying that the 1, 2 and 3 faces share a vertex ; these faces may be placed clockwise or counterclockwise about this vertex.

Traditionally, a pair of open iron scissors were placed on the chest of the recently deceased, and straws or twigs might be hidden among their clothes.

Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

Traditionally, the cultural transmission of folk music is through learning by ear, although notation may also be used.

Traditionally, a vessel flying under the courtesy flag of a specific nation, regardless of the vessel's country of registry, is considered to be operating under the law of her ' host ' nation.

Traditionally, in the weeks running up to the 5th, children made " guys "— effigies supposedly of Fawkes — usually made from old clothes stuffed with newspaper, and fitted with a grotesque mask, to be burnt on the 5 November bonfire.

Traditionally, the scale of a nation's economy could be evaluated by their productivity of sulfuric acid.

Traditionally, on IRC, anybody can own a channel or a nickname ; if no one is using it, it can be used by anyone who chooses to do so.

Traditionally, homosexuals have been considered to have chosen to engage in homosexual actions in order to spite God ( le-hach ' is ) or to be perverse.

Traditionally young people would be drawn into the world of work, and into groups of adults who would send the boys for a lefthanded screwdriver, or a pot of elbow grease, and so they'd be sent up in that way, but they would also learn about responsibilities, and learn a trade, and be defined by their skills.

Traditionally, simple carbohydrates were believed to be absorbed quickly, and therefore to raise blood-glucose levels more rapidly than complex carbohydrates.

Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

( Traditionally, it would be argued that if a word-initial aspirated were interchanged with the unaspirated in spot, native speakers of English would still hear the same words ; that is, the two sounds are perceived as " the same ".