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Some linguistic context: gombóc means "dumpling" in Hungarian, and gömböc itself is a less commonly used name for head cheese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hea
by rob74 5y ago
Some linguistic context: gombóc means "dumpling" in Hungarian, and gömböc itself is a less commonly used name for head cheese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese), which is traditionally filled into the pig's stomach and therefore also has a round-ish shape.
- kaba0 5y agoThere is also a Hungarian folk tale titled “little gömböc” where a poor family gets hungry and the father sends their daughter up to the attic to bring down the head cheese, but instead the latter eats the girl. After she disappears the father sends the other 2 girls, then his wife, then himself all of them disappearing into the ever-expending stomach of the not-so-little Gömböc, which at this point get so heavy that it falls onto the ground and rolls out the house, eating everyone in its way, including the whole village. Fortunately the boy whose job is to keep/check on pigs (don’t know the English word) has a knife in his pocket, cuts the Gömböc out from the inside and the whole village escapes in LIFO order. “And they lived happily ever after or something like that”
- bbotond 5y agoYouTube link for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnAbMhMeHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnAbMhMeHs I had nightmares after watching this as a kid.
- jrochkind1 5y ago> whose job is to keep/check on pigs (don’t know the English word) "swineherd" but it's an uncommon/archaic word in at least American English, and most people would just say what you said.
- zgiber 5y ago“in LIFO order” - made my lunch break