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> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked. I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.
by Mo3 4y ago
> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked.
I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.
- mikub 4y agoI think it's reffering to "Nichts wird so heiß gegessen wie es gekocht wird", which translates to "Nothing get's eaten as hot as it get's cooked.".
- LegitShady 4y agoExcept overnight oats
- qsi 4y agoSimilarly in Dutch, de soep wordt niet zo heet gegeten als ze wordt opgediend. In this case it's soup that's not eaten as hot as it is served.
- ethbr0 4y agoIs soup popular in Dutch cuisine? Honestly asking. Etymologies of aphorisms (especially multiple cultural ones) fascinate me.
- dtech 4y agoNot particularly popular, especially nowadays. "Snert", a thick pea soup with pork, is a classic winter dish though.
- galgalesh 4y agoIn Dutch-speaking Belgium, soup used to be a staple of our diet. Every meal started with soup when I was young.
- Mo3 4y agoEen Nederlander zegt tegen zijn vrouw: “Johanna, giet een liter water bij de soep, we hebben gasten!” (I'm German, but I live in the Netherlands. I absolutely love these jokes between you)
- jacquesm 4y ago'Ober, mijn bord is nat.' 'Dat is uw soep, m'neer.' 'Ober, deze soep smaakt naar afwaswater.' 'Hoe weet u dat, meneer?'
- Mo3 4y agoAhhhh, that. I only ever heard it being used in relation to imagining bad future events that turn out far better than expected.
- samstave 4y agoGerman is an interesting tongue... Einstürzende Neubauten - the band, but the word means "a new building thats always in disrepair" (or so I was told)
- Mo3 4y agoNah, it means "collapsing newly constructed buildings", lol. Einstürzend = collapsing Neubauten = made of "Neu"=new and "bauten"=buildings
- jhgb 4y agoIt's definitely a Czech idiom - "nic se nejí tak horké, jak se to uvaří". But apparently German has this, too: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/es_wird_nichts_so_hei%C3%9F_gegessen,_wie_es_gekocht_wird https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/es_wird_nichts_so_hei%C3%9F_g...
- Mo3 4y agoThat reminds me, I saw something similar on this Ukrainian music video about Bayraktar drones too. Timestamp 0:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVu_DeB4wo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVu_DeB4wo
- selimthegrim 4y agoIt appears the Russians are getting their soup warmed even hotter than the cooking temperature.
- Aaargh20318 4y agoDutch has something similar: “ de soep wordt nooit zo heet gegeten, als zij wordt opgediend” (The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served).
- kalimanzaro 4y ago"the headlines never get as hot on the plate as they did in the pan." --English speaker trying to make sense of it
- treeman79 4y agoIs that like the German Christmas Pickle tradition that no Germans have heard of? https://youtu.be/Sb0qu_RjQ6I https://youtu.be/Sb0qu_RjQ6I
- Mo3 4y agoThat was excruciating. Just like the "Oktoberfests" that take place in America. It's a shit-show.
- davrosthedalek 4y agoThey also tend to be in the wrong month.
- Mo3 4y agoDepends, when are they? The real Oktoberfest starts mid September. (Don’t ask.)
- davrosthedalek 4y agoWell, they often start in October instead of ending just at the start of it.