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--- On Sun, 5/8/11, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: >Maybe you thought about food, when you connected your language with a >region. I would like to find a translation for "Spätzle" or "Knöpfle". Indeed -- food and recipes were a very hot topic many years ago (maybe 8 or 10!) I believe on Conlang. We determined some common foods in Kemr, one famous of which is kes tostus -- a savory dish consisting of a melted cheese sauce served over toasted bread. This is not the limp-wristed fondue nonsense you get on the Continent, but good hearty pub food. Regional varieties certainly exist with varying spices / herbs / other ingredients like ales or mustards used to create the sauce. The bread should be hearty fresh baked wheat, not store boughten unless it can't be helped. Kes tostus is the Kerno name for the dish; and I'm sure there is a similar Brithenig name. It simply means "toasted cheese" and *here* is known as Welsh Rarebit (or more properly, caws pobi). The (bloody) Saxons are famous for calling it "Welsh Rabbit", though I can assure you, no rabbits were harmed in the construction of this dish. Unless you order one of the more avant garde versions, which do sometimes involve various meats, eggs and unwholesome combinations of vegetables layerd on top. Spatzle, to me, looks like pancit noodles -- the thicker egg noodles, not the thin rice noodles. The knopfle looks a lot like gnocchi. Egg noodles, both broad and thin, seem to be staples in Pennsylvania Dutch cookery. Yumminess go leor! I don't know a whole lot about the foods of the Italic speakers in the World. In the Uttermost West, I'm sure the foods of ordinary Rumen are typically Mediterranean in nature. Pharaoh probably enjoys some of the fancier traditional dishes involving parrot tongues and mice thighs, though. The Rumnians in the Eastlands are quite fond of seafood, so their food is probably more like coastal Spanish or French. I know they have a particular taste for whale; though I'm not sure if it's the huge ocean going beasties or the much smaller land whales that is meant. Either way, whale hunting is a dangerous proposition. Huge whales out in the ocean can easily dash a typical ship to smithereens; and the land whales are terribly fierce predators. They rarely venture too far inland, but they will happily snatch a wayward child or dog or pig within a few tens of yards of the shore. There are also long, slender whales that sometimes swim into bays and deeper rivermouths -- they will stealthily pick an unwary fisherman right up out of his canoe and drag him down below. Padraic