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If Spätzle are dumplings, then so are gnocchi. Fight me!

• brirec 6y ago
  Both are dumplings.
• 082349872349872 6y ago
  TFA has gnocchi and matzo balls, so I think spätzle ought to be admissible as 0-dumplings (where a filled dumpling is a 1-dumpling). Proper dumplings would then be those dumplings with at least one layer of filling. Are there any 2-dumplings or higher, the dumpling equivalent of turducken? (future work: classification of dumplings with handles, immersions of Klein Dumplings in cooking oil, ...)
  • Scarblac 6y ago
    In the North of the Netherlands, there exists the _eierbal_ - a hard boiled egg, with a layer of ragout, and then a crust. Then deep fried. I love that I can mention it and be on topic on HN. I now live in the middle of the country and miss it.
• dmurray 6y ago
  How about lasagne?
  • raywu 6y ago
    Oh for sure. Lasagnas are deconstructed dumplings in disguise.
    • Agathos 6y ago
      How thick does the breading have to be before fried chicken is a dumpling?
      • raywu 6y ago
        That’s an amazing concept. If samosa is a dumpling we can make fried chicken dumplings work