28 March 2011

Maultaschen vs Stulle

After years of playing travian, I'm now thinking of quitting. The last version relies too heavily on gold spending, much more than the versions before. And there's also this problem with the customer service... not that I'm in the habit of spending that much gold, or at all, actually.

So I'm looking for a new browser game to play.
A couple of days ago I found an interesting one called MiraMagia, which is still in beta phase and only in German version, another game by Travian Games GmbH.

IMO, once it goes international, it would make a big competitor to those games in facebook. It's pretty and colourful, user-friendly, easy to learn and it has integrated chat windows for different functions/regions such as the village chat, the valley chat (a valley consists of hundreds villages), private chat, support chat, general chat and off-topic.



Last night I was chatting with one of my neighbours around midnight when we both got hungry. We went to make something to eat, got back to chat and asked each other what we got.

NB: So what do you have there?
Me: maultaschen in broth
NB: What?
Me: ... maultaschen soup?
NB: yes

So I thought that was that and started asking what he had, but he asked me again what maultaschen in broth is. I thought *how dumb can this guy be?*

Me: maultaschen in hot water with stock, salt and pepper
NB: XD
NB: MAULTASCHEN?

By then I was laughing madly, I didn't realize that that's what he's wondering about. I've known this word since forever! Okay, since I've been living here. He's German and he's asking me about a german word?

But apparently Maultaschen are only known in south Germany.
Tasche means a bag or a pocket, and Taschen is the plural form. It is also used to describe a sort of pastry with filling both sweet or savoury.
Maul is the slang for mouth. So it can be very confusing for people who's never heard of it. :D

So I copied part of the article in wikipedia for him.

Me: You've just learned something new :D
Me: So, what do you have there?
NB: Yeah
NB: Stulle
Me: err... never heard of it
NB: YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF STULLE?
*rolls eyes* *who was it who's just asked me about Maul-bloody-taschen?*

While he's trying to explain what a Stulle is, I read the entry in the wikipedia.

Me: Oh, so you're from Berlin
NB: ... yeah...

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