03 December 2008

No cake for nasty boys

It took a long time to deliberate and decide if I should post those photos here or not, they are somewhat worse than porn: more addictive, instantly triggering a body reaction (mouth watering, hunger), politically incorrect for diabetics and just cruel for those trying to preserve their body shape. But in the end I decided I am a nasty boy and went ahead, sugar coated in a cultural game idea.

When uploading the photos to the gallery I realised I don't know the English name for any of those cakes and I think it would be an interesting experiment to learn their name in English and any other languages, I believe some of them are quite straightforward and available in a lot of countries.

At this point I should acknowledge that I know the Romanian name only for some of them (savarină, amandină, mascotă, ecler) and that the majority of those names seems to have French origins.

Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakes (savarina)Sweets for everybody: cakes (amandina)Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakes (ecler)
Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakes (mini-tarta)Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakes
Sweets for everybody: cakes (mascota)Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakes (mini ecler)
Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cake
Sweets for everybody: cake
Sweets for everybody: fruits
Sweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: cakesSweets for everybody: candy bars


PS: I hope I have not ruined the day for that many of you with those photos... Or being nasty I am happy about that?
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2 comments:

  1. Kevin Kofler8:49 PM, December 03, 2008

    Ecler = éclair obviously. :-) I think savarină = savarin and amandină = amandine, not sure though. And mascotă doesn't seem to be of French origin, unless it comes from mascotte (mascot), but AFAIK that's not a cake.

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  2. nicu8:33 AM, December 04, 2008

    Yes, the French names are obvious, I was curious about English names... and "mascotă" *is* the romanian term Romanian for "mascotte" but is also a cake made form chocolate cream and chocolate icing, all chocolate, very tasty.

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