BS: How can we approve of the strudel?

Subject: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: *daylia*
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 09:24 AM

Googling to improve on my strudel a moment ago, I typed in "strudel", hit "images" and lo and behold look what came up!
This this and this.

Now maybe I have strudel stuck in my noodle, but I'm still confused. Dug out the ole Websters and it says "Strudel --- from Middle High German meaning whirlpool."

Whirlpool? What, pray tell, does a whirlpool have to do with a strudel?!? Maybe those High Germans were the ones with strudel on the noodle! Worse yet, how can we ever approve of the strudel, now that all has been revealed?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 09:33 AM

We could call them Corryvreckan
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 09:42 AM

lashings of clotted cream... clotted cream will make almost ANY situation better.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 09:53 AM

I grew up in the Milwaukee area, and I definitely approve of the strudel.
Ya, you betcha!
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 10:05 AM

Strudel cannot be improved upon. They are perfect as is. Besides, strudels are magic. As proof, I offer the case of the German woman I once lived next door to. She made yard long strudels in a 2 foot square oven. See what I mean?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 10:07 AM

Were they baked 2' square and then extrudeled to make them longer?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 10:35 AM

Clotted Cream - yea
but appfle strudel doesn't need it - I do.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 10:40 AM

A strudel crust is most often folded such that it resembles a whirlpool. Served in a bowl of milk, and eaten from the centre, well, it just looks like a whirlpool.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 10:44 AM

What about the pineapple ring the whipped cream and the cherry?
Or maybe that's a different joke!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 12:50 PM

" exSTRUDLED"???? Giok! Go to your room! (Then come back and collect your prize!)

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: autolycus
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 02:27 PM

A case of the exstrudled muddle?

A case I could do with.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: *daylia*
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM

A strudel crust is most often folded such that it resembles a whirlpool. Served in a bowl of milk, and eaten from the centre, well, it just looks like a whirlpool.

Ok   *whew*   this sounds so much more approvable. Thanks gnu, I'll check it out schnell!

Or rather, as soon as certain images of 'clotted cream' quit lashing round'n'round the ole noodle. It's just a difference in local vernacular I know, but the only substance that 'clots' in my neck of the woods is ... is .... oh never mind      


*gulp*

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: number 6
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 03:51 PM

How to improve the strudel ... put better apples in them ... now where do you find better apples these days?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:00 PM

F*ck the strudel. If you want to really make your mark, it's noodles that count.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:47 PM

Ewwwwwww. Remind me never to eat strudel at Little Hawk's house...

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 04:58 PM

I'm just harassing Daylia, because she's my friend. ;-) Actually, strudel can be very good.

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 06:39 PM

Clotted cream is just really really thick cream.... so thick it has to be scraped off the spoon and wouldn't pour if you paid it....

Brought rise to a rather splendid saying of the 1980's - The Tories, cream of society..... rich, thick and full of clots.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:05 PM

blood clots?

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: *daylia*
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 06:54 AM

Oh   I see   I get the "lashings" bit now   We get "lashed" by "Tory clots" here in Canada too!

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 08:23 AM

The photos in the link show the original and still most common meaning in German. We mostly would combine 'Strudel' with a word designating what's in there when we mean the edible 'Strudel'. "Do you like 'Strudel'" would be a kind of unanswerable question in German. I for instance like it with apples as a dessert but not as a main meal, I like it with minced meat as a main meal but not as a dessert, I hate it at all times with cabbage. So it always would be apple-strudel, cabbage-strudel etc. Only in a context with no ambiguity we would use the simple word, like when saying "Would you like one more slice of strudel".

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: *daylia*
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 10:13 AM

Thanks, Wolfgang! I agree about the cabbage too - don't like cooked cabbage in any way shape or form. Raw is much better.

Now here's a really 'far out' strudel --- Die "Whirlpool galaxy" oder Strudel-Nebel, M51 (images courtesy of the Hubble)

Subject: RE: BS: How can we approve of the strudel?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 10:28 AM

I see Zaphod Beeblebrox's home planet gets a plug in one of them piccies.
G