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Other Topics => Completely Off-Topic => Topic started by: PIBby on June 23, 2003, 11:18:23 am
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Kuchen and Biscuits and ''Salt-Rising'' bread
So fattening, lol
'Cause apparently, they don't have those things in California. SOuthern California, atleast. And it's so depressing, yet shocking, that people have been deprived of stuff like this. I mean, not everyone may know whta stinky bread is, or what kuchens are, but BUSCUITS! Come oooon, people! I had some relatives come in from California (still no known relatives in New York, damn!) and it was Sunday, after Mass, and we were at my Gandmother's house, and there were my second, I guess cousins, and then other people who lived in California, and they had no idea what these things were! Tell me you guys know what they are . . .
That is all.
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yep, i know what they are
Amanda
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what is a kuchen?
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Kuchen (KOO-Kuh) is this little one thing. It's like a giant square (though sometimes circular) doughnut with stuff on it.
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you pronounce it incorrectly, CeCe
:P
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Nuh Uh! *pouts*
EVERYYYYYYONEEEEEE here pronounces it like that. :'(
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don't cry
I believe you
But it's still the wrong pronounciation
=P
Love ya just the same though.
:)
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Then how do you pronounce it?
But we've Englisized it! Like Jalepeno is Hal-Eh-Peen-Oh now, in America, not hal-eh-peen-yoh. :\
This is such a horrible tragedy. I am confused again. :\
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Kuchen..... (KOO-Kuh) lol: )
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KOO-KUH
Jesus. People take pride in confusing me.
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BUT why do you pronounce it like THAT? ; P
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Biscuits=COOKIE
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Biscuts are those things a batter puts on his bat while he's on deck ... or or those doughnuts?
Yep ... they're doughnuts.
I'm glad we cleared that up.
Christopher
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mmmm.....donuts.....
:)
tylor
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I had this debate with someone once .. sadly, so I had to do some research to clear it up .. hey .. I was curious =/
If you look at the definitions, biscuits are cookies and cookies are biscuits. It's just that americans use the word 'cookie' to describe what has now become the popular american cookie .. things, which are .. well .. more cookie like lol. But essentially (according to definitions) they are pretty much the same thing.
Is Kuchen not pronounced "Koo-Shun"? Although rather than a "sh" sound, it's more of a back of the throat sound and I don't know how to type that in english lol. My ex's family were german .. I've heard them say it as it was meant to be said =)
-- Matt
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Biscuts are those things a batter puts on his bat while he's on deck ... or or those doughnuts?
Yep ... they're doughnuts.
I'm glad we cleared that up.
Christopher
biscuits aren't doughnuts.
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Biscuts are those things a batter puts on his bat while he's on deck ... or or those doughnuts?
Yep ... they're doughnuts.
I'm glad we cleared that up.
Christopher
biscuits aren't doughnuts.
Okay .. time for some defining!
bis·cuit
n. pl. bis·cuits
1. A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
2. Chiefly British.
(a) A thin, crisp cracker.
(b) A cookie.
2. A pale brown.
3. pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque.
cook·ie also cook·y
n. pl. cook·ies
1. A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.
2. Slang. A person, usually of a specified kind: a lawyer who was a tough cookie.
3. Computer Science. A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.
So .. a biscuit is a cookie .. and a cookie is .. well .. a cookie ..
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It's not only a cookie....
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It's not only a cookie....
No but I'm sure any american looking at a biscuit would call it a cookie no? I think it's all down to differences in language. Maybe I'm wrong.
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It's not only a cookie....
No but I'm sure any american looking at a biscuit would call it a cookie no? I think it's all down to differences in language. Maybe I'm wrong.
no we'd call a cookie a cookie (though in England a biscuit is a cookie) a biscuit in America is another food prduct.
(http://www.biscuitville.com/images/2000photos/3biscuits550.jpg)
those are pictures with stuff in them.
(http://thumb1.image.altavista.com/image/182984425)
and i found that while searching for pictures.
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i know what a biscuit is... :lol:
but im confused about the other things... :?
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It's not only a cookie....
No but I'm sure any american looking at a biscuit would call it a cookie no? I think it's all down to differences in language. Maybe I'm wrong.
no we'd call a cookie a cookie (though in England a biscuit is a cookie) a biscuit in America is another food prduct.
(http://www.biscuitville.com/images/2000photos/3biscuits550.jpg)
those are pictures with things stuff in it.
(http://thumb1.image.altavista.com/image/182984425)
and i found that while searching for pictures.
yeah, biscuits are like different tasting bread(only slightly harder than bread[crunchy?])
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Oooooh! So biscuits are something totally different in America! I had no idea! =)
Thanks for the squirrel pic lol =D
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"Webster's got it wrong . . ."
It's definately Koo-Kuh. Not Kuh-Shun. Koo-Kuh.
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Biscuts are those things a batter puts on his bat while he's on deck ... or or those doughnuts?
Yep ... they're doughnuts.
I'm glad we cleared that up.
Christopher
biscuits aren't doughnuts.
Uh ... duh! I think I cleared that up there. Try reading before you post.
Christopher
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Biscuts are those things a batter puts on his bat while he's on deck ... or or those doughnuts?
Yep ... they're doughnuts.
I'm glad we cleared that up.
Christopher
biscuits aren't doughnuts.
Uh ... duh! I think I cleared that up there. Try reading before you post.
Christopher
i'm sorry, it must be where i come from or something, but usually saying they're something means that they're are something instead of they aren't something...my apology.
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Is Kuchen not pronounced "Koo-Shun"? Although rather than a "sh" sound, it's more of a back of the throat sound and I don't know how to type that in english lol.
Matt is right
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But he's RIGHT! That's what BASSEBALL BAT Doughnut Rings are!
I'm confuesed though
Donut--Doughnut?
I had a little clearing up to do there
:o
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I'm still on the Kuchen pronunciation thing. It is DEFINATELY >>koo-kuh<<.
Sadie says I pronounce it correctly. So does Jackie. And we (three kings of orient) are right. Yes we are.
Doughnut spelled doughnut is the correct way, because . . . technically it's a dough nut, although it's more of an ''O,'' rather than a nut. Yeah. BUt, commercially, it's donut, 'cause it cost less to print it than spelling it fully and correctly.
That is all.
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But he's RIGHT! That's what Doughnut Rings are!
I'm confuesed though
Donut--Doughnut?
In the south Doughnut rings are doughnuts...I am not confused.
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I'm still on the Kuchen pronunciation thing. It is DEFINATELY >>koo-kuh<<.
Sadie says I pronounce it correctly. So does Jackie. And we (three kings of orient) are right. Yes we are.
Oh, yes but ofcourse you are right
I guess you had German in school for five years too, and I guess you know how to pronounce it better than Germans themselves.
It's ok, CeCe
I believe you, I really do
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I'm still on the Kuchen pronunciation thing. It is DEFINATELY >>koo-kuh<<.
Sadie says I pronounce it correctly. So does Jackie. And we (three kings of orient) are right. Yes we are.
Oh, yes but ofcourse you are right
I guess you had German in school for five years too, and I guess you know how to pronounce it better than Germans themselves.
It's ok, CeCe
I believe you, I really do
Good job, Si ;)
Bwahaha!
No, it's just . . . yeah. That's how we pronounce it. That's how everyone around HERE pronounces it. You and Matt pronounce it like that 'cause you're European. We don't live in Europe. I'm sorry, we don't.
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Good job?
(http://www.angelfire.com/magic/thissle/ty.gif)
Uhm, yeah
So, bc I do not live in the States, I should just pronounce everything in Dutch, even if it's written in English...?
Do you think you would understand me if I did that while talking to you?
I don't think it's an excuse to pronounce words incorrectly if you're not from that particular country.........
[edit]And, doughnuts, donuts
*sigh
I like those...[/edit]
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(http://www.krispykreme.com/images/smallglazes.jpg)
^^^ a Doughnut
http://www.krispykreme.com/varieties.html
and other doughnuts
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I'm still on the Kuchen pronunciation thing. It is DEFINATELY >>koo-kuh<<.
Sadie says I pronounce it correctly. So does Jackie. And we (three kings of orient) are right. Yes we are.
Doughnut spelled doughnut is the correct way, because . . . technically it's a dough nut, although it's more of an ''O,'' rather than a nut. Yeah. BUt, commercially, it's donut, 'cause it cost less to print it than spelling it fully and correctly.
That is all.
Maybe they should call them DoughO's! =)
But .. um .. koo-kuh .. that's just not right =)
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I'm still on the Kuchen pronunciation thing. It is DEFINATELY >>koo-kuh<<.
But .. um .. koo-kuh .. that's just not right =)
You and I know, Matt (plus everybody else in the world except CeCe and her two friends)
;)
:P
lol
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I'm still on the Kuchen pronunciation thing. It is DEFINATELY >>koo-kuh<<.
But .. um .. koo-kuh .. that's just not right =)
You and I know, Matt (plus everybody else in the world except CeCe and her two friends)
;)
:P
lol
lol. Well I think I know mainly because my ex girlfriend's family have a German origin and her nan used to randomly talk German all the time. I just remember how she pronounced it .. which has got to be the right way.
Interestingly, on the flipside .. although Television was originally a french word, us Brits pronounce it in our own way .. same with a load of other words like badminton and .. erm .. others I don't remember.
I guess this is what happens when a foreign word gets incorporated into a language because it's commonly used.
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How you pronounce things differs depending upon where you're from.
See, I exlpained to Matt how people in ENgland (some people, anyway) pronounce TERRITORY ''Tair-ih-tree" rather than the way Americans pronounce it: ''Tair-ih-tor-ree.'' So yes, word pronunciation definately depend on where you've grown up and where your speech skills have developed.
EDIT: And it's not just Cece and to of her friends that pronounce it like that. It's anyone that lives in or around Cece's nighborhood, including the bakery people. :\
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lmfao
ok, you are right
you are absolutely right, I believe you
You're right!!!
YOU'RE R I G H T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
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lmfao
ok, you are right
you are absolutely right, I believe you
You're right!!!
YOU'RE R I G H T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
lmao .. something tells me Si no longer cares =)
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Nope
I do not
if you want to pronounce it the right way, and the right way being the way people from that particular country pronounce it, then don't say the way you pronounce it is the way everybody THERE pronounces it that way
*sigh
I'm outtie, It'll toch niet tot je botte kop kunnen doordringen...
:)
Lata
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I'm outtie, It'll toch niet tot je botte kop kunnen doordringen...
and if you can pronounce that correctly you win a green paper clip! =)
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I'm outtie, It'll toch niet tot je botte kop kunnen doordringen...
and if you can pronounce that correctly you win a green paper clip! =)
HEY! I already WON the green paper clip!
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I'm outtie, It'll toch niet tot je botte kop kunnen doordringen...
and if you can pronounce that correctly you win a green paper clip! =)
HEY! I already WON the green paper clip!
Well I guess you'd win another, in which case you can start making a green paper clip chain, which is just .. well .. beyond the hope of most mortals.