Round and Round They Go

[tealin]

HAHAH! This is hilarious. Almost a week ago my sister and I were joking about renaming Danishes, and here, they've gone and done it!

I prefer our name, though ... 'Infidel Pastries' has such a better ring to it.

If, as quoted by Ronald Wright, 'Every time history repeats itself the price goes up,' would these be very expensive confections?

Comments

[delcj.livejournal.com]

i prefer Infidel Pastries as well. Roses of the Prophet Mohammed is nowhere near as snappy.
although i didn't know there was even a market for Danishes in Iran.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

According to the hundreds of Persian bakeries in my vicinity, I'd say they have a strong pastry tradition. Apparently the indigenous varieties use a lot of rosewater, though.

[miss-ida.livejournal.com]

lol we have much on the market. Arla (that now is boycottet in some of the saudi arabian lands because of the cartoons really weird they have nothing to with it at all) emports lurpack butter all over the world, milch, creme fraise etc.
but I didnt knew you could buy dansih pastries in Iran O.o

[just-curious.livejournal.com]

"Now, let me see. I'd like two cream horns, a sponge cake, three pieces of vanilla slice and two apple Roses of the Prophet Mohammed, thank you."

Apple Roses of the Prophet Mohammed. Try saying that five times fast!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Here's what I wonder:

Malaysia is a largely Muslim country. In Malay, to pluralise something, you say it twice. So, if you wanted two apple danishes, would you say 'Apple Rose of the Prophet Mohammed Apple Rose of the Prophet Mohammed'?

(Any thoughts on this, A²?)

Si, es verdad

[(Anonymous)]

To a point. For example, a man is tuan, many men is tuan-tuan (as in "ladies and gentlemen"). However, if you were to ask for a specific number of something, you would say in the case of two men, dua tuan.

How they would handle this case, I'm not sure, they would probably add "banyak" instead of double-stating the subject. Banyak means "many."

Malay is very cool. In Malaysia of old times (before the British) there was no ice. When ice showed up, the Malays needed a name for it, so they combined their words for water (ayer) and stone (batu) and came up with ayer batu. Batu is also the Malay word for "Mile" because the British put up mile stones on the major roads. These were literal stones with the mileage to the next town inscribed on them.

A²
P.S. The next part I'm going to audition for is Brutus in "Julius Caesar," just to see my moniker and that part in combination.

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

I like Infidel Pastries better too.

In a less amusing historical point of interest, back during WWII, we renamed Hamburgers and Sauerkraut to "Liberty Sausage" and "Liberty Cabbage" to spite the Germans.

Just saying.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Vimes In Space! (heehee)

Surely renaming sauerkraut 'Liberty Cabbage' would imply that liberty was fermented and sour? The affront to patriotism!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Exactly! How about implying that the Prophet Muhammed (or his roses) is flaky, sticky and edible? Now THERE'S respectful reverence! You'd think the hypocrisy here would be obvious to everyone...but then, there was a while when I seemed to be the only one around who thought that using terms like "Freedom Fries" was funny only in that it made the US look unbelievably petty and infantile.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[miss-ida.livejournal.com]

So funny that we got so much attention now on global plan, though it isnt in the better situations...

Roses of the prophet muhammed! LMAO!
and we danes uses to call these "danish pastries" FRIKADELLER so weird named and i really dont fancy these "roses" taste anyway ;D

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I thought Frikadellen were meatballs...

[miss-ida.livejournal.com]

LMAO my mistake because the pastries look like meatballs...

pastries is called VANDBAGGELSER

[miss-ida.livejournal.com]

ehm...now i arent sure again on these pastries are called...
i actually cant se what it is on the picture...i looks like 2 very different danish meals O.o

im so confused...

...

[(Anonymous)]

It's called WIENERBRØD in Denmark. Isn't it?

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

'Infidel Pastries' has a much better ring to it than 'Roses of the Prophet Mohammed'.

All through this row over cartoons, I've been thinking that Mohammed would have been horrified at what his followers were doing in his name.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, considering what various peoples have done in the name of their respective spiritual leaders, he oughtn't be surprised.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I found an interesting letter in the newspaper one day.

'Has anyone considered the irony of what the rioters seem to be saying? "Mohammed is not the leader of a violent and irrational religion and we'll blow up anyone who says he is"?'

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Cultural parellels should bring our countries together! Not tear them apart. America! Seize this moment.

Random Girard quote!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

From the Ideas series:

The fact that rivals often grow more alike with every new attempt to be different often causes them to intensify their conflict. But the more frantic the search for stable differences becomes, Girard says, the more aimless and undifferentiated the conflict actually grows. "Everything is symmetrical on both sides, the desire is absolutely the same. But the rivals have to think their relationship in terms of difference, and they do their best to differ from each other. And they cannot do it – because as soon as someone invents something to move differently, to be different from his opponent, the other does it too." Once conflict is underway, Girard says, it will tend to produce sameness on all sides. A single, inexorable logic will finally reduce everything to the same terms, while, at the same time, producing a phantasmagoria of apparent differences. The more alike the enemy becomes, the more different he will seem.

Woohoohoohoo! [runs away]

[ari-enchanted.livejournal.com]

w00t! So much more awesome than "Freedom Fries."

And yay for Ronald Wright!

[plottwist13.livejournal.com]

Does it strike anyone else as odd that drawing a cartoon of the Prophet is blasphemy, but naming a pastry after him is okay? 'Infidel Pastries' works much better. :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The pastry's not named after him, it's named after his ... roses.

That just sounds like a badly translated euphemism, doesn't it?

Re: ROSES!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

If we can't laugh about Muhammad's "roses", then the terrorists have already won.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

[snicker]