• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Then there was sthe Dutch PM who said to the American people that he fucks horses instead of saying breeds horses.

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      Luns: I fokk (breed) horses

      Kennedy: Pardon?

      Luns: Yes, paarden (horses)

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        7 hours ago

        That’s technically what he said, but a donut called krapfen is also very commonly called a Berliner. I am from Berlin (Ich komme aus Berlin) is the more common way to say it.

        So he wasn’t really wrong, so much as it was funny colloquially.

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          Actually there are many words for this specific German kind of donut. Krapfen is common, where I live it’s Kreppel. Since it’s arguably the Berlin way of pancake (Berliner Pfannkuchen), in Berlin it’s just called Pfannkuchen and in some spaces it’s called Berliner.