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Languages are fun. In Turkish, Bisküvi (Biscuit): https://www.akakce.com/biskuvi/en-ucuz-ulker-potibor-800-gr-fiyati,470262378.html https://www.akakce.com/bisk
by egeozcan 4y ago
Languages are fun. In Turkish,
Bisküvi (Biscuit): https://www.akakce.com/biskuvi/en-ucuz-ulker-potibor-800-gr-fiyati,470262378.html https://www.akakce.com/biskuvi/en-ucuz-ulker-potibor-800-gr-...
In German,
Kekse: https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/4360170_-trekking-kekse-125-g-trek-n-eat.html https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/4360170...
Again in Turkish,
Kek: https://www.akakce.com/kek/en-ucuz-balocco-panettone-500-gr-fiyati,1475930177.html https://www.akakce.com/kek/en-ucuz-balocco-panettone-500-gr-...
But if it's a wet cake, then, "Pasta": https://www.carrefoursa.com/pastalar/c/1289 https://www.carrefoursa.com/pastalar/c/1289
What you consider to be pasta is "makarna": https://www.carrefoursa.com/pastalar/c/1289 https://www.carrefoursa.com/pastalar/c/1289
So, makarna/Macaroni is normally considered to be a sort of pasta, but in French there is,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
I love this madness :)
- pilsetnieks 4y agoThere's not just macarons but also macaroons which are a completely different type of cookie/biscuit.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoIn UK we have French macarons, but also macaroons ... which are one of two distinct types of biscuit, both with the same name -- one made of almond and one made of coconut, although the latter is more like a flat cake.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoAnd in France they also have Macron to make matters even more complicated :)
- djbusby 4y agoThose both in USA too, same spelling.
- DonaldFisk 4y agoThere are also Scottish macaroons, which are covered in chocolate and desiccated coconut: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scottish+macaroons&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scottish+macaroons&t=h_&iax=images...
- daanlo 4y agoFun fact(1): The German word Kekse is a Germanization of the term "cakes". Although a biscuit isn't exactly a cake :) (1) - At least I think it's funny :)
- rhplus 4y agoThe term “cookie” literally means “little cake” from the Dutch “koekje”. The term “biscuit” comes from the French for “twice cooked (cake)”.
- mnw21cam 4y ago> ... a biscuit isn't exactly a cake... Certainly not. By law. Biscuits are luxury goods, and as such are taxed appropriately, whereas cakes are essential food items, and have a lower tax rate. This culminated in a VAT tribunal in 1991 [0] where the makers of Jaffa Cakes argued that said items were cakes not biscuits, in order to get the lower tax rate. One of the winning arguments was that cakes go stale, while biscuits go soft. I think this could count as precedent for a proper legal definition of the difference between cakes and biscuits. (Of course, American-style cookies aren't biscuits either by this definition.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Legal_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Legal_status
- slim 4y agothis is an underrated comment that explains the difference between cookie and biscuit in an unambiguous way
- heurisko 4y agoBiscuit - "twice baked" in French.
- periheli0n 4y agoThat would then be „Zwieback“ in German, which refers to a kind of crispy mildly sweet bread that children get fed when they are ill :)
- maxnoe 4y agoOr Doppelback, a break type
- oblio 4y agoThis is one of those facepalm moments :-))
- dividedbyzero 4y agoGerman also has Biskuit, but it's used for a kind of dough used to make cake sponges.
- folkrav 4y agoWe (French speakers) call macaroni macaroni though. Although there is also the term "coudes", meaning "elbows".
- egeozcan 4y agoAha! Well, I got fooled by Wikipedia, which links to the French page "macaron" from the English Macaron page as its translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron After I did follow the link, I saw my mistake :)