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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • At the beginning of the early modern period, you had two classes: peasants and aristocrats.

    IDK, I think that’s a bit of an oversimplification. Not everyone was either an aristocrat or a peasant, there were also tradespeople, craftsmen, innkeepers, merchants, traders, bankers, and of course the clergy (who would often wield enormous power themselves, even over the aristocrats, because they generally had to give their blessing to whatever the rulers decided to do).

    None of these really fit neatly into the peasant/aristocrat dichotomy (except perhaps for the clergy), but I suppose one could lump the rest of them all in together and call them middle class (or townsfolk). Not all of them were rich, of course (in fact, many were probably not), but some of them did quite well for themselves.







  • Honestly, I’ve seen that more often in higher end sushi (i.e. sit-down restaurant) than in the cheap kind (i.e. grocery store takeout). Or perhaps it’s a bell curve, where the center consists of “this is expensive enough already, let’s not waste food by throwing parts of it away”.

    I think ultimately, it really comes down to presentation. Cutting the roll after frying it exposes the center, which makes it look colorful and appetizing. If you battered and fried the pieces individually, they’d simply be brown on all sides and look like oversized pickle chips. It basically makes every piece into a (double) end piece.









  • Oh, okay then. Thanks for the praise, I was literally just being lazy.

    Technically, there are two different ch-sounds (in standard German, that is). One is softer and more akin to hissing, like in Milch, and one is sharper, like in brauchen.

    If we’re sticking with the Spanish comparison, you could say the first one is kinda like Juan, and the second like José, though I guess that also depends a lot on the dialect. I don’t really know much Spanish tbh, so it could also be more like the difference between Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish. Basically what I’m saying is that the way j is pronounced in Spanish is the closest equivalent to how ch is pronounced in German that I could think of.

    IDK if there are any specific rules, but which one is correct seems to be mostly based on the accompanying vowel.

    A, O, U all generally use the harsher one: Bach, Buch, doch, Koch, Drache, Fluch

    I and E generally seem to use the softer one: ich, dich, Blech, Pech

    HTH