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some of you are really gonna watch a movie made during the height of the cold war about an eastern european man on the other side of the iron curtain trying to survive in a world that alienates him while reconciling with the legacy of violence such survival will leave behind and the take you walk out with is "cool russian accent, but goncharov is a story about the american identity" just know that i am praying for your downfall
goncharov 1973 fanart
obsessed with this quote by Norma Larson in Family Ties: Essays on the Mafia in Film, 1993
Doctors explaining hysteria in 1846
hi, here’s a tag meme about something i’d really be interested to see people discuss. can you all tell me which food from your culture you would personally recommend to anyone who has never tried the cuisine before?
the tags on this post are such a delight. this is my favourite
Fumi Kaneko in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet 2021)
- photo by Andrej Uspenski
my toxic trait is that I refuse to refer to this as bread because I'm german
ok I get that this is also just a joke but I want it to be extremely clear for anyone who doesn't speak German that "this is toast bc you're gonna toast it" is the actual etymological explanation for why Germans call this toast and not bread. like this isn't just ppl going "I would only eat this toasted, therefore I call it toast" it's literally how this word works in the German language. like even Germans who eat this without toasting it would call this toast, that's just the word for it.
It also falls out of the narrower definition of bread (which generally looks like a bloomer but with more structural integrity). So you can only call it bread by using a qualifier, i.e. toasting bread, similar to other imported or novelty breads like naan bread (yes it means bread bread, I know) or banana bread. If you just say bread, people will not think of toasting bread because this is not what bread looks like in Germany.
Also, fun fact, I was really offended when I was served this 'bread' untoasted on a holiday in England. I thought they wanted to tell me to bugger off. Only later did I learn that Brits indeed eat this stuff untoasted. Except for one person who generally has weird eating habits, all Germans I know would never eat this type of 'bread' raw.
this toast äh post
So if y'all made a sandwich with it you'd still call it toast? Or do you use a different kind of bread for sandwiches?
Short answer: Yes. It's called toast regardless of what you do with it. (there is a product called "Sandwichtoast" which is just bigger slices and always white bread, whereas toast can come in all kinds of grains)
But most people would toast it anyway before doing anything with it, even making a sandwich.
However the traditional sandwich, as in two slices of toast with stuff in between isn't at all popular in Germany and if we eat a sandwich, it's usually made in one of these bad boys, so still toasted
Instead of sandwiches, we have "belegte Brötchen" and just bread. Depending on taste or convenience people sometimes eat bread sandwich-style with one slice at the top and one at the bottom, but we wouldn't really call it a sandwich.
Anyway here's a chart I made ages ago that might help:
this is a really interesting example of a phenomenon I have observed which is that English speakers generally seem to find it acceptable to refer to things by the umbrella term under which they belong
which isn't really something we do in german. for us, most things have their specific name.
another example of this is sandwich discourse.which is completely nonsensical to me. for me, a sandwich is two slices of toast bread, filled with cheese/cold cuts/condiments/some veggies. that's it. everything else is called something else. a burger? not a sandwich. the things you get at subway? not a sandwich.
while to engl speakers, "sandwich" seems to mean "baked good that has other foodstuff in it". so of course THEY would find it completely bonkers when I say that a burger is nor a sandwich :)
this is the spiritual successor of "they very much did murder Jesus"
you sent ballad to eurovision? boring song for people to fall asleep? oh! oh! disqualification! 1000 years of no participation for your country!
THIS IS WHAT EUROVISION IS ALL ABOUT!
Inside everyone there are two wolves.
The wolves:
So that’s why there is no toilet paper in the supermarket.
when you have daft punk tribute concert at 9 and have to go to the furry convention at 10
switzerland says fuck toxic masculinity and i agree but cant yall say that a little less boring
