Posted by ViralSpiral (here)
Do you mean Spekulatius?Posted by Carmody (here)
And I'm eating those thin German/danish spice cookies, the ones that are about half way to a gingersnap. yum! German soul food.
They are actually of Dutch origin: speculaas
There are several interpretations for the origins of the name Speculaas. It may derive from Latin speculum, which means mirror, and refer to the fact that the images are cut as a mirrored bas-relief into a wooden stamp which is then used to decorate the Speculaas. Another explanation of the name refers to the Latin word speculator which, among other meanings, could also refer to a bishop or St Nicholas' epithet "he who sees everything". Specerij the Dutch word for spice is another possible origin.
They are trays yummy!!!!! With so many wonderful spices, they MUST be good for one
Huge winds blowing through the Alps. Had a bad/short night.....
Was thinking a lot about why people stay together. My folks (Dad a Sag/mom a Capi) have been married 53 years!
Was not always rosy and they do bicker a lot in their aging years, but for the most part they are still "friends", who enjoy each others company.
yes, exactly that cookie. My mother was born in Flensburg. Almost danish.....
I thought she was born in hamburg, but no, she was born in Flensburg. My grandmother walked out of wreckage the firestorms of hamburg, as the war ended. heavily pregnant. she said they hit a fork in the road and half the people leaving went east(ish) and half went west(ish) Those who went the wrong way were all killed by the Russians - About 50% of the people who walked out of the wreckage of Hamburg. The rest made it to places like flensburg.
It was there, in the third story of a mostly deserted house, that she gave birth to my mother, as the bells wrung for the first time, on the first strike, to signify the end of the war. May 5th, 1945, 8:15am. The REAL end of the war, when the interim government announced to the city of flensburg that..the given moment and time (and the record of the time) was the official notification and the end of the war itself.
Donitz was in control of the German government and he made the announcement formally at that exact time.
Fast forward to the year 2000, may the 5th (5th month, 5th day) exactly, to the hour, the grand cardinal cross in the heavens, was complete. This tells you that this time and date I speak of, that was 55 years, 5 months and 5 days earlier..was indeed the real and true moment in time that signified the end of the war in Europe. As stated, also my mother's birth moment.
OK, the power did not ripple or cut out when I said that. Power lines cross through all areas, so when you produce a temporal ripple/shift in your immediate vicinity, usually you get a power outage or ripple. You get a literal continuity issue occurring.
for example, when we had the whole Charles thing going on, those of us who were asked to vet it, had a private area to chat and speak. well, in that area, I spoke of my er, origins-clearly and plainly. The moment I hit the key to send that, the ripple or shift was big enough that the power to my house tried to go out three times in rapid sequence.






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