i called christine this morning, and she was not having a good monday. bad things all around for her. if you happen to see or talk to her, please try to cheer her up. bad things including driving down the street and having somebody open a cab door into the side of her very nice audi (i can’t remember the number of the audi, but i do know it’s dark blue), taking off the side mirror and generally smashing up the door.
plus more bad stuff.
anyway, this afternoon she called me, sounding slightly better, but she called to say that SWISS IS NOT A LANGUAGE. IN SWITZERLAND IT’S EITHER GERMAN OR FRENCH.
i had some time just now to look up “Frisches Schweizer Güggeli” and at first it just translated as “fresh swiss guggeli” which i must admit wasn’t too helpful. but then i did at least a minute’s more searching online and found out that guggeli is chicken, more precisely, “Guggeli (Small chicken) with Emmental cheese (Swiss): it is a speciality of Bern’s region, where a 600 to 800 grams chicken is called “guggeli “.”
if you’re interested, here’s more food info about Switzerland:
“The Swiss cuisine is famous for its variety of cheeses and its chocolate desserts.
Cheeses:
Appenzell: cow milk cheese, strong and sophisticated, it can be served as an appetizer with paprika sprinkled on top and with a slice of pineapple or as a starter (Appenzell Salad with ham).
The Emmental cheese: Obwald’s cheese cake (it is the speciality of central Switzerland which is similar to the quiche Lorraine in France. It can be served with a salad or not and it constitutes a light meal.
The Swiss cheese: the wine-growers Rösti is a traditional dish made of Swiss cheese. This dish is prepared with slices of bacon, potatoes and Swiss cheese on top.
Sbrinz: This cheese has of the body and the character of central Switzerland.
Guggeli (Small chicken) with Emmental cheese (Swiss): it is a speciality of Bern’s region, where a 600 to 800 grams chicken is called “guggeli “.
The real Swiss fondue: not to mix up with the Savoyard fondue. In Switzerland, the Fribourg fondue is made with only one cheese: the Fribourg vacherin cheese .
Röstis: sort of pancakes made with either cooked or raw potatoes. Ex: Rösti of Uri, of Zurich, made of glaronese or appenzell.
Chocolate soufflé
Chocolate fondue: This fondue is generally served with sliced fruits. The cool fruits coated with warm chocolate makes a tasteful harmony and a mix of a very pleasant taste in the mouth.
Food-related taboos
There are no culinary taboos in Switzerland.”
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good to know. cheese and chocolate, why aren’t we going THERE for our honeymoon?
hawaii will be great. we can go to europe next year.
ok, here’s one little thing about the languages spoken in switzerland:
“Official languages: German (a Swiss-German dialect is spoken by 64% of the population), French (19%), Italian (8%) and romance (0.6%).
Business language: English, German, French and Italian.”
yeah, we only have one language here. and our chocolate isn’t anywhere near as good.
that’s all for now. please try to cheer christine up.
ok then,
monday evening grace.