Can you speak any language/s

[yello]

Cool - cake and languages in the same thread.

So what's a Belgian bun called in Belgium then? And, no, it's not a joke. Or a Garibaldi in Italy?

 

[Arch]

Belgian bun in belgium (or something very like t) is apparently a Couque Suisse. A swiss bun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_bun

(I did have to google, I didn't know it. But I do know)

 

[Arch]

This, from Wiki, must be a joke, surely.... I can't breathe I'm laughing so much...

"The Garibaldi biscuit was named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general and leader of the fight to unify Italy, who made a popular visit to Tynemouth in England in 1854. It was here he accidentally sat on an Eccles Cake and 'invented' the biscuit."

 

[Arch]

Well, it seems the Garibaldi was indeed named after the Garibaldi after he visited Britain. But I can't find a mention of it in Italy.

http://www.englishteastore.com/garibaldi-biscuits.html

"This biscuit is named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general and leader in the fight to unify Italy. It was first manufactured by Peak Freans in 1861 after Garibaldi visited England."

One of my distant cousin ancestors had the middle name Garibaldi, about the same time I think...

 

[Andy in Sig]

Cool - cake and languages in the same thread.

So what's a Belgian bun called in Belgium then? And, no, it's not a joke. Or a Garibaldi in Italy?

Huisbun

or

le bun du maison?

(obviously depending on what bit of belgium you're in).

 

[Unkraut]

Well, it seems the Garibaldi was indeed named after the Garibaldi after he visited Britain. But I can't find a mention of it in Italy.

He wasn't of the House of Bourbon, by any chance?

 

[Unkraut]

Huisbun

or

le bun du maison?

(obviously depending on what bit of belgium you're in).

Don't forget the eastern cantons where they still speak German - except in McDonalds in Eupen, where I had to try to rustle up some French (je mange ici).

 

[yello]

It was here he accidentally sat on an Eccles Cake and 'invented' the biscuit.

He presumably flattened the Eccles cake? (Isn't Eccles a town, near Manchester?)

Anyways, it's kind of frightening to think what it might have been called!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

He presumably flattened the Eccles cake? (Isn't Eccles a town, near Manchester?)

Anyways, it's kind of frightening to think what it might have been called!

culo torta!!!!!

 

[yello]

culo torta!!!!!

arse biscuits to you mate

 

[yello]

actually, I like this game.... how about botty butter bikkies?

 

[longers]

actually, I like this game.... how about botty butter bikkies?

No ta, I've just had my tea

 

[threebikesmcginty]

arse biscuits to you mate