Comments on: The meaning of autumn

By: Joeri

Joeri — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 03:26:44 +0000

Jessica: luckily one of us knows the essentials of Austrian cooking :)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 23:12:23 +0000

One would more likely be asked “is that a zwetschkenknoedel in your pocket, or are you afraid of me?” ‘Cause they’re the size of baked plums, basically. Not so big. Plus they tend to ooze and dribble. So you’d have a small bulge of a thing leaving a dark wet spot on your pants. Not so sexy. ;D

By: Bauke

Bauke — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:26:07 +0000

ehm… right. Readibng two posts and then reacting might not be the best idea…

By: bauke

bauke — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:25:09 +0000

Dutch has a word for wrong way drivers too: “Spookrijder” (Ghost-driver)

Zwetschkenknoedel ranks up there with Schnitzel and Fernseehen…

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:17:17 +0000

Is that a zwetschenknoedel in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

By: miguel

miguel — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:06:09 +0000

wasn’t that a movie with michael keaton?

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:35:00 +0000

We had the zwetschenknoedelstory on tv last night. I like the ring of the word, btw. zwetschenknoedel zwetschenknoedel zwetschenknoedel zwetschenknoedel!

By: miguel

miguel — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:58:21 +0000

thank you so much for that link, jessica. that story was a teaser on the radio night before last here – you know, where they say, “more on the boy who called the police on his grandma’s zwetschenknoedel after this” and play another half-hour’s worth of lame music – and since Beta had been so tired the day before (from staying up late reading a juvenile fiction book) that she nearly fell asleep in her religion class (doesn’t everyone?) i finally said, look, if the zwetschenknoedel story doesn’t come on after this shakira song you have to hit the hay. and it didn’t come on, and i made her go to bed. so she was disappointed she didn’t get to hear about the zwetschenknoedel. when i told her this morning you’d sent the link, she was somewhat placated.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:09:22 +0000

etc. weird days in Austria:

Police were a little befuddled when a 4yr old tyke called in to report on his grandma’s zwetschkenknoedel .

I myself have not yet grown used to zwetschkenknoedel, but I married into an Austrian grandma having family so I have something of an appreciation… at least I’d never call 911 on them.