Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020

[Bohemia 1,411]

Just now, hckosice said:

I've always been fascinated by how the French can have dinner so late when I was in Nimes.

 

7-8pm late? Come on

[heywoodu 15,141]

Dinner break - Part 2

 

The second dinner option is more of a fast-food kind of dish, we're certain everyone knows the basic fries. They do come in a decent set of varieties of course, everyone present will have some of their liking. The main thing is in the snacks that come with the fries, starting off with the frikandel - sort of a minced-meat hot dog, the modern version of which has been around since roughly World War II. Second is the kaassoufflé, a simple snack: cheese inside a thin doughy wrap, was has been breaded to get a crust and then deep-fried. Take care, the cheese is burning hot! The kroket, known in English as croquette, has more of an international ring to it, although in the Netherlands the real ones are filled with serveral kinds of meat...very much like the inside of bitterballen, and so again, be careful when biting into one!

 

Fries with a frikandel...

 

...although one can just as well go with a kaassouflé or two!

There's a wide variety of desserts people eat in the Netherlands, most of which seems fairly international, think about icecream and the likes. In everyday life, a more common thing is called 'vla', a dairy product and something that's been made and developed for many centuries. There's a whole host of flavours for vla, vanilla and chocolate are by far the most common ones and you'll find cartons containing both in the supermarket: one side is yellow, the other brown and the combination is absolutely excellent...even better with a good serving of whipped cream on top! Fun fact: vla used to come in bottles, and since it's quite thick, it was hard to get everything out of it. The Dutch aren't known to be greedy for no reason, so a special tool was invented: the flessenschraper (bottle scraper) or flessenlikker (bottle licker), to get every last bit out of it. Vla is nowadays mostly sold in cartons, but this tool can still be used to get stuff out of bottles any time!

 

A 'vlaflip', which often contains at the very least vla and yoghurt and generally a good amount of syrup and whipped cream...one can top it off with some fruit and/or hagelslag. Some people like to mix it all together, others take a straw and go up and down, making sure they've got a bit of everything all the time

We close of the musical proceedings of the break with a fitting song, and one of the best Dutch songs ever: Avond ('Evening') by Boudewijn de Groot, born in present-day Jakarta in a Japanese camp, where his mother died within a year. He eventually made his way to the Netherlands and became a succesful singer. In 1973 the song Avond was written by De Groot's songwriter Lennaert Nijgh for his then-wife Anja. Two decades and a divorce later, it was De Groot who married Anja, he rewrote and recorded the song for her.

 

Avond didn't become a hit at all, but he played it live so often it became more and more popular, and nowadays is often very high in the all-time Top 2000. The song is about someone singing to his loved one, how everything is fine - sure, outside it's stormy and dark, but inside it's warm and light and good. "I know your deepest fear, but I believe in you and me", and who cares what the world throws at us? "If the sun shines, we go for a walk after breakfast, if it rains, we go back to bed, waking up slowly for hours."

 

 

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

5 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So you guys sleep by 8pm? 

Since it's the weekend and I don't have to work tomorrow I'll probably be awake until 2 am

 

 

[mrv86 3,138]

I’ll try to be on time to post my votes.

 

But again, faulty Internet company, so if I’m not here I’ll relu on @heywoodu

[Fly_like_a_don 1,090]

My friends in Delhi have terrible eating schedule. Breakfast at 12pm, lunch at 5pm and dinner at 11.30pm-1am

[Cobi 981]

In Spain it's 2-3 lunch and 9-10 dinner. 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,090]

Just now, OlympicIRL said:

Since it's the weekend and I don't have to work I'll probably be awake until 2 am

That's nice but won't you be hungry till then

[Griff88 1,952]

Ah bitterballen, reminds me during cooking class at high school where the teacher corrected my notebook where I wrote "butterballen" since I'm very sure the dish isn't bitter at all

[hckošice 14,825]

1 minute ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So you guys sleep by 8pm? 

well no.

 

difficult to explain, the Slavs usually have dinner sooner than the rest of the world, mainly because it is dark sooner outside , but later we still eat something here and ther snacks or so, but really about only some light food. well, to explain it, Evening and night here belong to alcohol rather than dinner.

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

2 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

That's nice but won't you be hungry till then

Sure, I'll eat later again when I'm hungry. Snack with tea or a light supper. But it's not like there are rules