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Old Mar 13, 2018, 07:48 AM
ArcheM ArcheM is offline
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A piece of German trivia that I've just learned - there's a tradition that a snack around 11 am sometimes contains beer or more often, as in the region Ostfriesland - tea. And incidentally, Ostfriesland turns out to be the region with the highest consumption of tea per person worldwide. Their specialty is tea with sour cream (Sahne, if I'm not mistranslating), which isn't mixed in but put in as a whole teaspoon, coloring the taste in a gradation towards the bottom. Also, Ostfriesland is one of the regions with the highest proportion of Low German speakers (or Platt, as its usually called) and in Ostfriesland Platt the High German verb "müssen" is "möten", which appear also to be some local nickname for the 11 am tea time... Or in some other way associated, it's my best guess after trying way too long to figure out what those guys said.
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