Something just felt 'right' about you devouring truffles (the fungus).
Why do people keep thinking I'm élitist?
At the risk of encouraging a WagonWall, no I do not.
Well truffles as mentioned are a kind of cake. Their dough is largely based on other cakes (i.e. these cakes are culling and dissecting other cakes and then using the remains of the culled and dissected cakes to feed themselves.
). What you do is that you take some Danish pastry and some chocolate cake and completely crumple/mush it. Then you add loads of rum to soak down the dough. Think you also add some other things, though not certain. And then you make the truffles. Depending on how much Danish pastry/chocolate cake you use the colour of them will differ---similarly the consistency and the taste will depend on exactly which cakes you cannibalise for the dough and in what proportions. Hence why no two never will be the same---even in the same batch there'll be differences, albeit small ones compared to between batches.
I personally prefer when the pastry used had some jam in it.
They're a popular treat here and for instance at Aarhus University when the canteen makes truffles they'll be sold out really fast. And then you'll have everybody eating truffles at lectures.
For some reason after this comment I was imagining the lyrics of Wonderwall redone so that it was "WagonWall" instead.
Would you exchange anything else than that word?
@Wagonlitz
I was invited, or goaded, into attending an acamedic conference on translation. Among the presenters was a translator of Denmark's leading feminist, anti-capitalist poet.
Your women poets have a rather vulgar choice of lexicon these days.
What was the name of this poet?
And what do you mean by vulgar? Just that it was unusual for American tastes (but not for European/Nordic ones) or actually vulgar?
And Danish women have for at least half a century been leading in the liberation of women---remember that for instance we were quite early to legalise banned topic and that we were the first country to legalise porn (and possibly the only one ever to legalise all porn
). Similarly prostitution has been completely legal for ages (albeit some would argue that's anti women).
Though some women, especially on the left, are quite liberal with regard to talking about things like their period. Think that might be what you experienced. Also I've never figured out whether it's just a long standing "joke" or some women actually do it (though at least some have advocated it IIRC), but there's a term here called free bleeding which essentially is women refraining from using tampons/period binds and instead just letting the blood bleed freely... Apparently it should be liberating in some sense---I frankly just consider it disgusting. Though as mentioned I don't know if there's actually women following it (and I'm not particularly interested in finding out).
Did you hear the translated poems?
And the Danish-born translator was very excited that weed is now legal in DC and was curious if I knew where to get it. I could only disappoint her.
Sounds like she's an Ø voter... She probably has been in pusher street (actual street name in Christiania, which is an autonomous part of Copenhagen) many times. Fortunately pusher street has finally been shut down recently---after over 40 years of shut down attempts by police and politicians (police would come in with chainsaw and mow down everything in sight just for pushers to be back the next day). The reason for the shut down was very tragic though. It happened due to a very very violent episode where a pusher shot a cop in the head and also hit a civilian (in the leg IIRC); think he might even have hit a second cop to make this mass shooting even bigger. Everybody survived fortunately.
And the audience was excited to learn about hygge, which she considers "coziness and alcohol ".
Alcohol can be a part of it, but it's far from required. And coziness needn't be included. So what she mentioned needn't be involved.
She was just significantly simplifying when explaining it---I wouldn't have simplified so fiercely though, but instead done a more exhaustive explanation.
Did you mention you already had a quite deep knowledge of the subject?
