The Dough Knows
The Dough Knows
[A series of Tumblr posts. The first shows a picture of ravioli, and reads: "This dish has another name - herrgottsb'scheisserle or 'Fool the Lord' - because of the story of how it first came about. One of the most popular theories is that the Cistercian monks of Maulbronn Monastery (hence the name Maultaschen) didn't want to go without meat during Lent observance. So they concealed the forbidden food from the sight of the Lord by enclosing it in pasta dough."
The next Tumblr quote post reads: "Ravioli Of Lying To God"
The final Tumblr quote post reads: "God: What are you eating? Cistercian Monk: chews faster"]
I love all these kind of stories. Pascal's Wager, Sin's Plate, this sneaky ravioli.
They all contend that you can trick god. The same god who is both omniscient and omnipotent.
I don't know if any of those are serious or just jests that became tradition but they are amusing.
Also, declaring a beaver a fish, so that it could be eaten during Lent. Funny little loopholes
Eat beaver and thine sin shall be forgiven, pretty sure that's what she said...
Religious people alive today do shit like this. Like Mormons "Soaking" and such.
The dish in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maultasche
The image description is quite offensive. This is not a ravioli, it's a Maultasche. You wouldn't call a burrito a dĂĽrĂĽm, would you?
Wait till an American shows up and calls it noodles
my partner refers to all pasta as "spaghetti" and it drives me up a wall
You wouldn’t call a burrito a dürüm, would you?
Is a dĂĽrĂĽm not a type of burrito? sure looks like it to me...
It's a case of "parallel evolution".
Burrito comes from the slang word used in Mexico to call a taco or corn tortilla, which can be traced back to 500 BC in Mesoamerica.
DĂĽrĂĽm comes from the Latin word durum, meaning a type of wheat artificially selected around 7000 BC in the Near East.
Since neither the Mediterranean cultures had corn, nor the American cultures had durum, it's just a case of "can make flour, add water, slap a thin layer on a flat stone, and heat it up".
In the present day, both can be made with wheat, and have similar fillings, except dürüm is filled with döner kebab meat which can't contain pig, but a burrito can contain anything.
If anything, it's the other way around
You don't need to know much German to tell that Herrgottb'scheisserie does not quite translate to "Fool the Lord".
Does "bullshit the Lord" work better?
Yeah. I am not a native speaker of either language though, is "shitting sb." something one might say?
Anyway, the etymology, as I understand it, is:
- Herr Gott/Herrgott: "Lord", or literally "Mr God", typical way German-speaking Christians address God
- bescheiĂźen: screw, bullshit
- -erie: French feminine noun ending, sometimes used as the English "-er"
So yeah, you could translate it as "thing to bullshit the Lord", or "Godbullshitter".
"Bescheissen" is not as vulgar as you might think, even if it contains Scheisse (shit).
A more literal translation would be "little Good Lords cheat". The "*le" at the end is a local (South German) dialect thing, a diminutive suffix meaning "little", just like "doggy" means "little dog".
Cistercian monks also had their own number cypher that looks pretty neat.
In the same class as poophole loophole
