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A 1907 letter to the editor of What to Eat, a Dutch (Netherlands) woman from Portland, Oregon claimed that "the term is understood to imply a German lunch," because "its name had retrograded from the German Deutsch." She argued that this occurred the same way that Americans colloquially said "Dutchman" meaning a German (Deutches) man.
"Going Dutch" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining
Dutch: hap: jam jam: slurp, klok klok klok: slik: English: chomp yum yum, nom nom slurp, glug gulp Estonian: amps näm näm, nämm nämm kull kull lonks Filipino: nam nam: lunók: tsuka tsuka: Finnish: rousk nam nam, nami nami klup French: miam, crounche miam miam glouglouglou gloups German: mampf mampf mampf, hamm hamm, mjam schlürf, gluck ...
As the Dutch Republic entered its Golden Age, lavish dishes became available to the wealthy middle class as well.The Dutch East India Company monopolised the trade in nutmeg, clove, mace and cinnamon, [15] provided in 1661 more than half of the refined sugar consumed in Europe, [16] and was the first to import coffee on a large scale to Europe, popularising the concept of coffee houses for the ...
Pennsylvania Dutch (a dialect of German) is widely spoken among them, both in daily life and religious settings. The Plain Dutch adhere strictly to their religious and community norms, emphasizing a strong cultural and religious identity with minimal integration into mainstream American culture.
While American tropes suggest ice cream as the proper food for the brokenhearted, the German term incorporates the word “speck,” which means pork fat. Kummerspeck, or grief bacon, is the ...
The German version is made from a yeast dough, deep fried, and coated or dusted in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar; they may be plain or filled with fruit jam. Pennsylvania Dutch fasnachts can often be potato doughnuts, and may be uncoated, dusted with table sugar, or powdered with confectioner's sugar.
A bizarre and relatively new tradition in the Netherlands has it that, every 29 November, Dutch families should sit down for dinner with a pancake on their heads in order to wish one another “a ...