Packerl artificial honey
In a podcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk (“read Heimat”), Alexander Metz describes what he experienced in Cham during his post-war childhood. It takes the listener back to a time that seems very strange today. This also applies to the diet of the time, which was characterized by simplicity and lack. The dishes had names such as pounded milk, Semmelschmarrn and Zwulsuppe (Riebele soup). “I particularly liked a hot milk with honey that I broke into a bread roll,” says Metz. Back then, honey was a golden brown synthetic honey that was available in cube form in general stores. It was melted over the fire and kept in a mason jar. From this time comes the saying: “I am beinand like a pack of artificial honey!” This is what those who were sick and felt weak said. Artificial honey is now called invert sugar cream. The flavored mass just looks like a bee honey. It was once used as a substitute for real honey. And it is used to make gingerbread and baked goods.
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The astrophysicist Suzanna Randall was recently a guest on the BR show “Ringlstetter”. Because she soon wants to be the first German woman to fly to the ISS space station, she is preparing for it with so-called parabolic flights. She experiences weightlessness several times in a row for 20 seconds each time. “The coolest feeling in the world,” as Randall emphasized. Ringlstetter’s assistant Caro Matzko said she once had the chance of a parabolic flight, but she couldn’t, because: “I would write like that!” Most people nowadays use the verb puke for this biological process; the gentlemen say they throw up or they vomit. In a beer country like Bavaria, the verb schpeiben (spew, spew) is also popular. What the former Wiesn host Wiggerl Hagn told the SZ years ago was very informative: “If someone goes five loops in the Löwenbräuzelt after fish on a stick, two beers, roasted almonds and a chicken and then scrapes, they say: the chicken was bad.” As a rule, such a troubled person is asked: “Guat looking, host gschpiem?”