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Cake day: June 24th, 2024

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  • I want to answer honestly as well. I looked up the numbers, and we have 2 million wild boars in Germany. Germany has roughly the size of Montana.

    High estimates say, there are 9 Mio in the US, 3 Mio in Texas (twice as large as Germany). So the numbers are rooouuughly comparable, a little more swine here in DE.

    I guess, the feral hogs are really back to being wild nowadays despite stemming from domesticated pigs. So I will classify them as scary as a wild boar. Which they are, they are scary.

    How do we manage this? Each year about 600 000 boars are shot by professional hunters. The general population doesn’t need weapons for that. And the hunting rifles are bolt action or single action, not automatics.

    The main damage they cause is not to live and limb, but to property, namely crop fields. Our solution is, that each hunter is assigned a district and a number he must shoot. If the farmland in his area is damaged more than x% that is also his responsibility.




  • Yeah Pfannkuchen, Eierkuchen, Palatschinken, Plinsen, Flinzen, Crêpe (only on the christmas market) …

    Now please tell me how you call the smaller, thicker “American” pancakes.

    I call them Löffelkuchen (spoon cake) and we make them mostly with berries in the batter (black current or blueberry).


  • There are three weeks in spring - around April - when the trees start sprouting their leaves. And for three weeks the beech leaves have such an incredible light green before they turn darker.

    It’s so fragile, yet so vibrant. The sun shines through the leaves and illuminates them from the inside. It’s a bit milky or hazy but also unbelievably clear and honest. Going through a beech grove during that time feels like I’m in Lothlórien.










  • I don’t wanna get into a fight over this, but they do regulate dilution. At least where I’m from.

    It can only be called “juice” if it has got at least x% of juice in it. If it’s made from concentrate, it says so on the front.

    Companies mustn’t lie about the percentage of juice content and all ingredients are listed on the back in order of content.

    In the UK, there’s a sugar tax, so that’s another form of regulation.

    Customers may decide whether they want to buy 25% or 100% juice, but this competition only works because of the rules I listed.






  • The other commenters have already explained it diligently, but I wanted to hop on for something related.

    As a German speaker, it actually irritates me a little, that English doesn’t agglutinate. Let’s take the word “gum ball machine”.

    Which is it? It’s a machine. So are “gum” and “ball” descriptors of “machine”? Well no, they’re all nouns. But they’re not all subjects or objects of a sentence. They’re one subject together. But they’re not written together.

    If I had a red gum ball machine, is it a red machine made out of gum that produces balls? Ok, it can also be spelt gumball machine. But that’s still multiple words per concept.

    I like my nouns to be one word if it’s one thing and one subject.