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[–] 12 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

Norway has some of the allegedly most unhinged word constructions via "cake". It had the modern meaning of a baked sweet, but also any sorta roundish cooked thing that is not sweet, and the old meaning of "any hard lumped mass".

So we have, in order of descending sanity:

  • Bløtkake - soft cake, sponge cake
  • Småkake - small cake, cookie
  • Kjøttkake - meat cake, ground meat patties
  • Fiskekake - fish cake, ground fish meat patties
  • Oljekake - oil cake, lump of mass left after pressing oil out of linseeds
  • Blodkake - blood cake, lump of dried blood
  • Morkake - mother cake, placenta
  • Kukake - cow cake, cow poop
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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    We have lehmakool (cow cake) in Estonian too and I found it absolutely hilarious as a kid reading some children's book. Might have been one of those Bullerby books by Astrid Lindgren, but I might also remember wrong

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