<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Bill Kendrick <<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:54:03PM -0400, Jack Smith wrote:<br>
> I described takoyaki to your mother and she said something like "oh yeah,<br>
> ebleskuer". Turns out the Danes have been making something similar with<br>
> the same kind of pan forever. Aebleskiver.<br>
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</div>Woah, I had a friend in school (think: 1984, 1985) who's mom made those as<br>
some kind of international day, and _recently_ I remembered them and<br>
was trying to remember what they were called.<br>
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Cue X-files music.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Oh, it's even more X-files than you think. First, I didn't mean to send this to NBLUG, only to my daughters, so how did it get to you just when you needed it? Second, how did it get to ME when I needed it? I was just over in Japan and ate takoyaki. I was all over Google and couldn't find anyplace to buy a takoyaki pan. I hunted around the oriental stores near home, no pan. Then a commercial on TV is selling the fool thing (to make "puff pancakes") and my daughter who works at Walgreens says "oh yeah, we have those things and I can use my discount'! Go figure.<br>
<br>-- <br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.