It reminds me how many different words for bread and pastry are in the other languages and dialects. In Russian there's famous difference between 'батон' (baton

It reminds me how many different words for bread and pastry are in the other languages and dialects. In Russian there's famous difference between 'батон' (baton) in Moscow and 'булка' (bulka) and St.Petersburg, but there's also 'шаньга' (shan'ga) to the east of Volga, which would be called 'лепешка' (lepyoshka) in central Russia, and there are lots of others, all sorts of pirogi (pirozhok, belyash, rasstegai, karavai, sochnik, vatrushka...). As Russians say, bread is the head of everything. In German there are so many varieties of 'brötchen', that it probably can be used instead of GPS for identifying your location. Schrippe, Semmel, Weck and so on, and this should not be a surprise: after all, it is bread that is the main course of German cuisine from Baltic coast to Rhine. Germany has the biggest variety of bread in the world. The coolest part of it is that this diversity will never cease to exist because of the internet and all of the technology disruptions. People may move from one place to another, bringing their own words and meanings, or share a recipe online under the name that would feel unfamiliar or unusual to a local, but in the end they will always go to the local bakery and buy a bulka or a schrippe, as proud Pitertsy or Berliners.