Margaret Suran > wrote:

> Cauliflower? You do not like Cauliflower? Cauliflower with buttered
> toasted breadcrumbs? Karfiol mit Semmelbroeseln?

Utterly inedible! Nauseating! The smell can be used in chemical
warfare.

> You just broke my
> heart.

Not possible, you being heartless. You are deceiving poor Marcel and
feeding him red cabbage instead of the beets he is pining for!

> Do you think that the word Karfiol could actually be a *******ization
> of the word Cauliflower? Just as Ringlotten was originally a
> mispronunciation of Reine Claude (plums)?

The Austrian "Karfiol" is derived from the Italian "cavolfiore",
literally "Kohlblume". In "German" German, it is "Blumenkohl", of
course.

> What is the German word for peanuts? Aschanti Nuesse?

Erdnüsse.

> And what is
> hominy?

There is no such thing here, thank gooodness. Else it would be
"geschälte, getrocknete Maiskerne"... ugh!

Bubba